so I made the mistake of venturing into a right winger twitter and see something like
“just shoot them, real bullets if necessary that’ll make them stop” “democrats are pure evil” blah blah blah. Yeah I’d say they’re ready to go full civil war.
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I thought that happened in Minnesota unless it happened in 2 places
Looks like Leeroy Jenkins broke ranks and the others had to follow.
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tulsa metro is 991k, okc metro is 1.4 ish.
tulsa is more red than okc in the fact that okc elected Horn at least.
also probably fort worth is another large Red metro.
They were pretty willing to beat the shit out of white people in Chicago '68. They probably just underestimated what deplorables would tolerate in Selma. Turns out it’s the wrong kind of white people protesting and they deserve to get beat and die too.
Perhaps Kent State was a rubicon moment back then. They were all white. Two were women. From the names, maybe no Jews. A couple names maybe.
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That seems almost fake. The two laughs that come from the two cops, the high titterry giggle, and the heh heh heh of the symbol cop, sound like two comic relief bully characters from a kids sitcom.
Like, those laughs are Bulk and Skull to a T. Who in real life is this cartoonishly evil?
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What’s different is social media. You don’t like the way CNN is presenting things? Well, before cable it wasn’t any different. So, basically no one saw those things. One of the most unforgettable things I’ve ever seen was a cop hitting a young white woman in the head with a baton and her covered in blood. That happened a few feet from me in 1985 or 1986.
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Title update suggestion: The murder of George Floyd by the coward Derek Chauvin
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As I am sure I have pointed out before, one of the goals of protests is to provide a target for the oppressors to over-react against or to make them look impotent when they fail to act.
You want your protesters to either be willing martyrs or fools who didn’t realize what they were getting into because you’re asking them to be human targets. And if you can find ways to provoke the oppressors off-camera, then switch the cameras on when they retaliate, that is golden.
Maybe this makes me sound cynical, but I’ve studied human psychology and political behavior too much to believe in kumbaya and people power.
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CA NG on the way to LA County.
But Kent State was certainly a kind of a major turning point in public opinion, right? It’s a historic moment when the war machine crossed the Rubicon; we all remember it precisely because they went too far. For a long time, no one really cared about firehouses and dogs being turned on black protestors or Jewish freedom riders being murdered. But you shoot some white college students and suddenly American pays attention. Now they’ve gone too far. We have pop music anthems about the Kent State murders, no one on pop radio sings about the Freedom Riders.
I think we’re seeing this right now. Comfortable middle-class white people see cops beating up elderly white people and suddenly they become uncomfortable with the things the cops are up to.
Nah, Chauvin murdered him
Maybe they’ll care about old dude with a cane. But they absolutely do not care about millennials getting pummeled or killed.
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Sad part is, MAGA chuds have more in common with black people than they ever will with the establishment. And the failure to recognize this has been the establishment’s most brilliant feat
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If the Dow keeps rising then I’ll be forced to conclude that riots are good for the economy and I’ll have no choice but to support the arson and looting.
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All the cleanup and rebuilding jobs!
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I think the major turning point was the Tet Offensive. Immediately afterwards, there was a short rally-around-the-troops effect, but then opposition to the war started steadily climbing and support for the war was underwater in 1968, leading to LBJ’s resignation, although the war continued for years. I think there was a short-lived dip in opposition to the war in May 1970 that interrupted the continuous upward climb of anti-war sentiment, but that was a temporary effect.
Ryan Theriot jersey would be the most elite piece of kit you could have as a protester right now.
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Dude. you don’t think the cops realize the cameras are on as they literally run people over with their cars and bark orders while shooting pellets at innocent people on their porches? THAT’S THE FUCKING SCARY PART!