Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jul 29 2020 03:21pm)

My basic assumption is the following: a lot of those white suburbanites who are trending Democratic in the era of Trump are appalled and disgusted by his crude and on the nose messaging, by his brazen appeals to the people's inner bigot. But if push really comes to shove, when they are asked to follow up their virtue signalling with actuals actions and sacrifice which would have a tangible impact on their own lives, they would back down. My assumption is that a ton of them are "faux woke" and would put on a MAGA-hat in a heartbeat if they felt like the others were genuinely coming for their privilege and wealth (and not just the privilege and opportunity of uneducated rednecks from which the upscale suburbanites want to distinguish themselves anyway).

So if the social unrest in the country came to a point where it looks like the government might really lose control, where it looks like a real possibility that some sort of revolution upends the order and hierarchy of the American society, they would revert back into police-loving law and order voters.

Quote (excellence @ Jul 30 2020 09:00am)

https://media.thedonald.win/post/sI93kfqf.png

wasn’t police having bodycams a critical component of police reforms recently or was that so last decade?

Quote (bogie160 @ 30 Jul 2020 15:46)

That was when the police were committing abusive, illegal acts and a responsible public demanded video evidence to establish the facts.

Now that it's far-left radicals committing crimes, video evidence has lost some of its shine.

Quote (fender @ Jul 30 2020 08:19am)

'far-left radicals' like this one?

https://i.imgur.com/45U9mBd.jpeg

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53579099

Quote (fender @ Jul 30 2020 10:19am)

'far-left radicals' like this one?

https://i.imgur.com/45U9mBd.jpeg

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53579099

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jul 30 2020 08:46am)

What exactly does this prove?

So the tens of thousands of other videos showing BLM supporters or Antifa destroying shit should be just thrown out the window because there was one white guy smashing the auto zone who maybe was false flagging?

Quote (ofthevoid @ 30 Jul 2020 16:46)

What exactly does this prove?

So the tens of thousands of other videos showing BLM supporters or Antifa destroying shit should be just thrown out the window because there was one white guy smashing the auto zone who maybe was false flagging?

Quote (SBD @ 30 Jul 2020 16:41)

That person is an extremist and should be detained. Extremist isn't really the word. Deranged psychopath maybe. The article also says he was a catalyst which they seem to imply is why the auto zone was set on fire.

I'm a big believer in free thought and controlling my own actions. Would you start vandalizing things because you saw another doing it?

Lots of people in the wrong on all sides. People are shit regardless of political alignments. Group think is a thing and it impacts people regardless of where they fall on the spectrum.

Quote (fender @ Jul 30 2020 10:57am)

'tens of thousands' may be the times you've seen the same pictures (of ukrainian protests most likely) on FOX news, but it's certainly not the number of actual incidents that can be attributed to the overwhelmingly peaceful BLM movement, the people that you fascists have determined your 'adversaries':

https://i.imgur.com/eS6sdnL.png

tons of agent provocateurs / white nationalists / boogaloos trying to escalate situations in order to justify trump's fascist crackdown though. acting like this is the one and only person is preposterous. you know what there are ACTUALLY hundreds, if not thousands of documented incidents of? police attacking / arresting / killing peaceful citizens exercising their constitutional rights:

https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266751520055459847

and that's just ONE thread meticulously documenting those incidents...

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jul 30 2020 07:46am)

What exactly does this prove?

So the tens of thousands of other videos showing BLM supporters or Antifa destroying shit should be just thrown out the window because there was one white guy smashing the auto zone who maybe was false flagging?