I guess I needed to use the sarcasm font.
Still loves Mattis and everything that he’s about and that Trump only just needs to keep his mouth shut and stay off Twitter. Failed to recognize that Mattis was critizing Trump for his policies, not just his language. The mental gymnastics was too much for me to handle.
Also, didn’t you check your 401k today? It’s only down a tiny bit from earlier this year. And also don’t you know that not even close to 1% of cops are bad at their job. “My only concern when I vote is for my money”.
This 40% of America.
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I watched this thanks. I learned a few things. I don’t think it makes a compelling argument for literally not having police. It does make a good case for dramatically reducing their power and scope of inquiry and replacing it with metal health and social work professionals.
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https://twitter.com/ryanmartin/status/1269350160095731712
It also feels like the hottest day of the year here if that matters.
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https://twitter.com/ryanmartin/status/1269351862748282883
All races and sex strongly representing today. Unbelievable movement.
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One thing I have been thinking about without really being able to fully come to a conclusion is whether or not peaceful protest is actually better than what we saw last weekend.
I want the answer to be peaceful protest is better but I wonder if it just makes it easier for people to ignore. You even see it in this thread where the posting is something entirely different than what it was last weekend. Last weekend we were all riveted to the scenes. This weekend there have hardly been any posts about the protests.
It makes me wonder. If we are actually wanting to accomplish something is this really the way to do it? And to be clear I am not necessarily talking about burning cities down so much as do something to meaningfully inconvenience the powers that be and their supporters. These protests have been moving to me. The couple hours I spent doing it here was moving to me. But at some point the millions protesting want large scale change. I am struggling to see how this accomplishes that.
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DC protests kicking off. Hope we get the one million numbers.
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Reposting @Danspartans post in the Trump thread of the pilly protests. Hoping to get this thread back on track and about the protests and police brutality
https://twitter.com/bradfordpearson/status/1269337799523733504?s=21
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@moderators can we move whatever cuse and JT are talking about to a separate thread? This thread has been really useful as a news aggregator and it’s getting swamped.
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PeachyRider live. Personally I find her kinda annoying sometimes but shes down there with the people capturing some good stuff right now.
Lots of people giving out gloves, masks, water, sunscreen. Also lots more people today.
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Looks like there was a BLM protest after all. About 300 people protested for a couple of hours before walking to the American embassy.
This was the end of the protest at the American embassy.
The protest was escorted by police and went on without incident. The organizers were apparently pretty adamant about not rioting or being violent at the very beginning.
Regrettably, I didn’t go since the Facebook organizer stated that it was canceled. Instead, I tried to fix my refrigerator (and failed).
Pretty likely there won’t be another. 
Here’s an article about it
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I find that very hard to believe. 7/h is like 800 a month after taxes. Unless rent there is $200 a month or something thats not enough. You should be able to have a decent car, pay your bills, and have money left over to spend on yourself if you’re working a full time job.
I get your overall point and maybe agree to some extent, but no way is 7/h a living wage anywhere in America. A living wage doesn’t mean enough to literally not starve to death. It means you’re able to live with dignity and respect and aren’t always on the brink of complete collapse if you get a car repair bill.
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Anyone else get super annoyed at streamers when everyone takes a knee and they just stand there filming everyone?
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$2 billion budget. Massive overtime cheating. Makes perfect sense.
Not really. I just look at it as they are giving view of the situation to the people watching.
Well if beating up protestors is considered overtime work then certainly beating up your wife is too.
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