Police Murder George Floyd Then Riot Nationwide (Links to Streams in OP)

[ChrisV]

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1298812640173719553

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1298812939227394051

Who knows.

[anon38180840]

One of my best friends is a sports reporter. He has tweeted in support of players taking a stand with BLM, protesting for equality, etc. His editor has threatened to fire him if he gets political on Twitter again. He just tweeted his support of the Bucks, Lakers, Clippers, etc.

He makes about $50K, has a wife and daughter, his wife’s currently out of work, and he’s not anywhere near rich enough for them to be financially safe if he gets laid off.

I’m so fucking proud of him to have the guts to stand up for what’s right.

[ChrisV]

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1298819646997401600

[Coasterbrad]

The NBA deserves a lot of credit for their leadership this year. First to shut down in March which probably saved a lot of lives outside the NBA, first to create a successful bubble, and now this boycott. I was never much of a basketball fan, but they’ve got my respect and I’ll probably tune in more whenever they do play again.

[bigt2k4]

The NFL needs to follow suit

[ViridianDreams]

@champ

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1298774196026322946?s=19

I know it’s not worth getting upset about but fuck this

At least he’s finally admitting it’s about order and not the law, so that’s progress, I guess.

[simplicitus]

@bigt2k4

The NFL needs to follow suit

There are many reasons the NFL will not follow suit, eg, shorter careers, lower salaries, whiter, more conservative players, owners have more power, etc.

[bigt2k4]

I know there are, but hopefully 20 or so guys on a team decide to do it and then the rest don’t want to be scabs and follow suit.

[simplicitus]

I see the NFL as a haven for brain injured evangelicals (players, coaches, and owners).

[simplicitus]

Rog is almost certainly Brett Kavanaugh’s separated twin, minus the (limited) brains.

[dlk9s]

Shams is normally a very good reporter, but I call bullshit on this. There’s no way Udonis Haslem is still playing.

[kre8tive]

@LikeClockwork

Tucker Carlson deserves to die

Tucker Carlson is one of the people that deserves to be warehoused where he can no longer poison the minds of the susceptible. He is the posterboy for cancer to our society.

[Trolly]

@Vict0ar

sorry to be doomer but no. this is good. and its admirable for the players and the support is nice to see. but its still ultimately performative.

Performative? It’s a damned labor strike, stop being a stick in the mud for once.

[Cactus]

@NotBruceZ

Black people are seen as less useful commodities; they don’t contribute as much to elites increasing their wealth, in terms of both absolute and relative wealth. R

I’m not sure I agree with this. Black people seem to be an invaluable commodity for the Democratic establishment who actively keep the culture wars alive and well hoping no one will notice while they rob the plebs blind. The ONLY thing they got going for them is paying shallow lip service to the plight of Black people and minorities to placate gullible liberals and convince them that a piece of shit ticket like Biden/Harris our are saviors

@NotBruceZ

Well…fuck their economy.

I was thinking more about doctors and essential service workers who save and keep people alive. But sure… I’ll go without just about any else and certainly any convenience to show solidarity

@NotBruceZ

A general strike threatens their wealth. A strong enough threat can force the elites to compromise and give up some of their wealth and power to save the rest of it. That threat is greatest when essential workers take part in the strike and cause problems for key sectors of the economy.

This is spot on

[Cactus]

@Vict0ar

sorry to be doomer but no. this is good. and its admirable for the players and the support is nice to see. but its still ultimately performative.

THIS… is what you call performance art

[Cactus]

It certainly has the power to generate awareness. And awareness is what creates change. It’s the POSTSEASON! People just got their sports back. Can you think of a better way to grab national attention than sports teams striking at this moment and in a playoff game no less with teams from another sport doing the same? Who’s not talking about this?

[Jalfrezi]

Just got up to see this (no idea if my pony overslept too):

Tucker Carlson defends actions of teen charged in killings of Kenosha protesters

On his TV show Carlson – who has a long record of making racist and inflammatory statements, triggering an advertising boycott – said that Rittenhouse’s actions were understandable given the violence and property damage in the city.

“Kenosha has devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge of the city abandoned it. People in charge from the governor of Wisconsin on down refused to enforce the law. They stood back and they watched Kenosha burn,” Carlson said.

He then added: “So are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?”

[6ix]

@Vict0ar

@Riverman

Feels like a real turning point.

sorry to be doomer but no. this is good. and its admirable for the players and the support is nice to see. but its still ultimately performative.

almost the whole entire everything is performative

[6ix]

even the condemnation of the police and the vigilante terrorists for defending property is taking on a weird histrionic edge, somehow forgetting that the legacy of slavery and institutional racism is largely about stolen unreparated wealth and access denial to resources

they’re not even pretending to try to thread that needle

[6ix]

i’ll just quote myself from this thread but beyond that not try to ruin anybody with my pessimism

@6ix

Why do you think the whole band only starts playing when a black person is killed ?

The years before I started playing poker I helped a friend research a book about wrongful arrests, convictions and/or sentencings. Nobody gives a fuck. Forget privileged white people, do you know hard it was to teach an average lower-middle-class urban black person to say “what were they convicted for” instead of “what did they do”? Jon Burge And Crew tortured dudes in the basements of police stations to get them to confess to murders. Nobody gave a fuck, and nobody can remember or ever knew the victims’ names.

However, when the whole world is forced to watch a snuff film that’s when delicate sensibilities are offended and polite society declares the whole affair a bridge too far, and the performative white generalized guilt and the performative black survivor’s guilt cum victimhood fetishization breaks the levees. But they don’t want anything to fundamentally change, they just don’t want to watch snuff films.

Put another way: One black person getting killed by police is one too many, but, the chances of an interaction resulting in a killing is astronomically low. What is very fucking far from astronomically low is a wrongful arrest, car impounding, ticket, that ruins your month or year or life. Motherfucking PTSD. The catch is that if the narrative is framed as “black men are getting killed by police worse than hypermegacovidfluaids” and then, conveniently, reality shows that it’s actually relatively rare, people have a built-in excuse to think everything is fine when it’s very much not fucking fine .