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OccultHawk 06-10-2020 09:51 AM

Once the riots turned into demonstrations and became about reform instead of revolution all was lost. American cannot be reformed.

OccultHawk 06-10-2020 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2122282)
what were ya expecting

I wasn’t expecting anything but I was hoping for a class/race related civil war

I thought maybe the military would let loose and kill thousands or switch sides

I wasn’t expecting it but I also wasn’t expecting it to be appropriated to another reinforcement of the status quo so easily. The government did a great job of arresting people instead of killing them and reclaiming the perception battle. Like it or not, Trump got his law and order. In the same way we said yes it’s ok for covid to kill as many people as it can the economic show must go on we also said yes to the continuation of the 400 year winning streak of white capitalism against brown liberation.

If George Floyd had been arrested peacefully his life would be just as ruined. What was he looking forward to? A life of slavish subservience to a power structure that never forgives. His death was brutal to watch but had it gone smoothly the suffocation would’ve lasted thirty more years.

The Batlord 06-10-2020 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2122308)
I wasn’t expecting anything but I was hoping for a class/race related civil war

I thought maybe the military would let loose and kill thousands or switch sides

I wasn’t expecting it but I also wasn’t expecting it to be appropriated to another reinforcement of the status quo so easily. The government did a great job of arresting people instead of killing them and reclaiming the perception battle. Like it or not, Trump got his law and order. In the same way we said yes it’s ok for covid to kill as many people as it can the economic show must go on we also said yes to the continuation of the 400 year winning streak of white capitalism against brown liberation.

If George Floyd had been arrested peacefully his life would be just as ruined. What was he looking forward to? A life of slavish subservience to a power structure that never forgives. His death was brutal to watch but had it gone smoothly the suffocation would’ve lasted thirty more years.

I mean the riots and protests were never going to amount to much without real upheaval to feed them into becoming something more but Trump's dip**** handling of them widened the polarization gap just that little bit more than it already would have. There still needs to be a real massacre somewhere for it to amount to anything more than just another blip on the civil rights radar but the police did not actually do a great job. They just did the job everyone expected more or less, those expectations depending of course on who you're asking.

OccultHawk 06-10-2020 02:48 PM

Windows of opportunity are very far and few between. Persistence and perseverance don’t add up. There’s no such thing as progress. It’s winner take all.

The Batlord 06-10-2020 02:56 PM

It's not about persistence and perseverance. It's about demarcating the sides of the culture war until the middle breaks and there's real war in the streets. This was a blip but every blip helps.

OccultHawk 06-10-2020 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2122317)
It's not about persistence and perseverance. It's about demarcating the sides of the culture war until the middle breaks and there's real war in the streets. This was a blip but every blip helps.

I hope so.

OccultHawk 06-10-2020 10:29 PM

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D.C. Guard members, typically deployed to help after hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters, say they feel demoralized and exhausted. More than 60 percent are people of color, and one soldier said he and some fellow troops were so ashamed in taking part against the protests that they have kept it from family members.
“Typically, as the D.C. National Guard, we are viewed as the heroes,” said another soldier, First Lt. Malik Jenkins-Bey, 42, who was the acting commander of the 273rd Military Police Company during the first days of the protests. But last week was different, he said.
“It’s a very tough conversation to have when a soldier turns to me and they’re saying, ‘Hey sir, you know my cousin was up there yelling at me, that was my neighbor, my best friend from high school,’” said Lieutenant Jenkins-Bey, who is African-American.
NYTimes

If they had switched sides...

That’s everything

jwb 06-11-2020 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2122308)
I wasn’t expecting anything but I was hoping for a class/race related civil war

I thought maybe the military would let loose and kill thousands or switch sides

I wasn’t expecting it but I also wasn’t expecting it to be appropriated to another reinforcement of the status quo so easily. The government did a great job of arresting people instead of killing them and reclaiming the perception battle. Like it or not, Trump got his law and order. In the same way we said yes it’s ok for covid to kill as many people as it can the economic show must go on we also said yes to the continuation of the 400 year winning streak of white capitalism against brown liberation.

If George Floyd had been arrested peacefully his life would be just as ruined. What was he looking forward to? A life of slavish subservience to a power structure that never forgives. His death was brutal to watch but had it gone smoothly the suffocation would’ve lasted thirty more years.

How many bricks did you throw?

It's easy to volunteer other people to get their skulls cracked or get arrested for the sake of your revolutionary fantasy.

OccultHawk 06-11-2020 01:50 PM

It's also easy to volunteer other people to get their skulls cracked or get arrested for the sake of your status quo fantasy.

jwb 06-11-2020 02:05 PM

I'm not advocating anything, nice deflection though.

Bottom line is if you want a war so bad then do something about it instead of whining that the protests are too peaceful. It's very typical of larpy white online socialists that you just want minorites to do the dirty work of burning down their own neighborhoods so you can fap to a revolution that isn't actually happening.

WWWP 06-11-2020 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2122433)
Bottom line is if you want a war so bad then do something about it instead of whining that the protests are too peaceful. It's very typical of larpy white online socialists that you just want minorites to do the dirty work of burning down their own neighborhoods so you can fap to a revolution that isn't actually happening.

https://media.giphy.com/media/fvT2lZ...jmVs/giphy.gif

OccultHawk 06-11-2020 03:51 PM

Can’t win em all

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.was...outputType=amp

This CHAZ thing is pretty exciting

OccultHawk 06-11-2020 08:01 PM

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Twitter has suspended more than 23,000 accounts it says were linked to the Chinese Communist Party and covertly spreading propaganda to undermine pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and counter criticism of Beijing’s handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak that grew to a global pandemic.
yet trump carries on constantly

unbelievable

Glad I never had an account - ****ing shameful.

The Batlord 06-11-2020 08:06 PM

$10 says OH is a Chinese bot. And not a very good one.

Lucem Ferre 06-11-2020 08:07 PM

They fact checked him once and he threw a temper tantrum threatening to write legislation about it.

Trump, not OH.

OccultHawk 06-11-2020 08:13 PM

https://i.postimg.cc/Y0trRqr8/1-EF16...9-E3-FEA04.png

100% accurate

The Batlord 06-11-2020 08:27 PM

Damn it, Trump, why you gotta dump the pan?

Lucem Ferre 06-11-2020 08:47 PM

He can dump deez nutz in his mouth.

The Batlord 06-11-2020 08:47 PM

You know what, it's actually starting to make a lot more sense. OH is a right wing redneck who doesn't believe in Christianity, but you can't be a right wing redneck without a religion. OH believes in China and communism as a savior who will take him out of this sinner world because the idea of all these countries that don't give a **** whether he lives or dies as simply too much for him to take just as much as a world without god is too much for a Christian to take, so he desperately latches on to China in the same way Evangelicals latch on to Jesus just so they don't have to deal with the real world.

Lucem Ferre 06-11-2020 09:01 PM

Oh wow, that's so interesting.

You have a very handsome smile, Charles.

Anteater 06-11-2020 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2122471)
You know what, it's actually starting to make a lot more sense. OH is a right wing redneck who doesn't believe in Christianity, but you can't be a right wing redneck without a religion. OH believes in China and communism as a savior who will take him out of this sinner world because the idea of all these countries that don't give a **** whether he lives or dies as simply too much for him to take just as much as a world without god is too much for a Christian to take, so he desperately latches on to China in the same way Evangelicals latch on to Jesus just so they don't have to deal with the real world.

I thought he just liked the totalitarianism and the Muslims being put in concentration camps. It's not like he ate at Panda Express one day and had a Eureka moment about the Communist Party.

WWWP 06-12-2020 12:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2122471)
You know what, it's actually starting to make a lot more sense. OH is a right wing redneck who doesn't believe in Christianity, but you can't be a right wing redneck without a religion. OH believes in China and communism as a savior who will take him out of this sinner world because the idea of all these countries that don't give a **** whether he lives or dies as simply too much for him to take just as much as a world without god is too much for a Christian to take, so he desperately latches on to China in the same way Evangelicals latch on to Jesus just so they don't have to deal with the real world.

But how long until China becomes old news and he moves on to worship a new idol? He just needs 1) scapegoat and 2) a nemesis. It's the hatred that fuels him.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2122474)
Oh wow, that's so interesting.

You have a very handsome smile, Charles.

He really does!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2122478)
I thought he just liked the totalitarianism and the Muslims being put in concentration camps. It's not like he ate at Panda Express one day and had a Eureka moment about the Communist Party.

Lol. I think it's all just for the attention and approval of elph.

Lucem Ferre 06-12-2020 11:04 AM

A documentary about how California prisons are targeting women of color and forcing them to sterilize.

Norg 06-12-2020 11:49 AM

man **** bout to pop off in that seattle zone

OccultHawk 06-12-2020 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2122526)
OH is my ride or die

You too bro

WWWP 06-12-2020 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2122528)
man **** bout to pop off in that seattle zone

you mean the FREEDOM zone?

The Batlord 06-12-2020 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2122524)

****ing awesome.

Lucem Ferre 06-12-2020 02:08 PM

https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net...4f&oe=5F09EEC2

OccultHawk 06-12-2020 02:25 PM

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/sta...le1975951.html


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Darren_Rainey

Florida is on another level when it comes to evil.

jwb 06-12-2020 02:50 PM

Florida prisons are especially ****ed even by prison standards from what I've heard.

WWWP 06-12-2020 02:53 PM

Jesus ****.

OccultHawk 06-12-2020 03:06 PM

Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam have surrendered their second amendment rights.

Anteater 06-12-2020 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2122528)
man **** bout to pop off in that seattle zone

Plot twist: Soros isn't the mastermind - it was Phil Collins all along. He's been planning this for 30+ years.


Lucem Ferre 06-12-2020 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2122567)
Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam have surrendered their second amendment rights.

They take away their guns but let Bugs Bunny wrap Elmer Fudd in dynamite like a ****ing terrorist.

Jihadda be kidding me.

OccultHawk 06-14-2020 12:34 AM

Atlanta protestors stopped traffic and burned down a Wendy’s tonight

Norg 06-14-2020 01:17 AM

off topic but genesis was badass musically

The Batlord 06-14-2020 02:51 AM

Now that's news I can't believe.

OccultHawk 06-14-2020 05:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2122751)
off topic but genesis was badass musically

Church

The Batlord 06-14-2020 06:21 AM

You're making it very hard tobe your friend right now .

OccultHawk 06-14-2020 06:27 AM

Do you have the day off?


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