America riots after Police kill unarmed Black Man

[Slavakino]

I'm a bit nauseated right now. Rioters beat the shit out of a guy in Dallas and he didn't look good at all. Fucking hell.

Jesus christ.

[Novus America]

I do not know about that. My suburban county is actually quite well run. Not just controlled by one party.
Whereas the city is just mired in the same rut of the same corrupt machine politics.
The county is the area seeing progress and improvement. Not the city.

And you know I actually like having drivable roads and not getting robbed or shot.
Sure self serving perhaps but again the city never changes anyways.

You are making sweeping generalizations about cities and it seems you have a genuine hatred for all them

That was directed at Baltimore specifically, not all cities. Some are better than others. I never said all were as bad off as Baltimore.
But a lot do have the same problem of machine politics and people hating the people the elect and re elect.

[Kanadorika]

I'm a bit nauseated right now. Rioters beat the shit out of a guy in Dallas and he didn't look good at all. Fucking hell.

Jesus christ.

Supposedly he pulled out a bow and arrow and fired it at a crowd

EDIT: nevermind, the friend in taking to who is there is talking about something in Utah

[Brunswick-upon-Raritan]

Lol, yes, the legal barriers against third parties that exist are all imaginary.

Even the Tea Party understood that, but not Libertarians I suppose.

More or less. Legal barriers may dissipate if Americans realized that they were not stuck with a binary choice.

I mean it's fine to want to remove legal barriers such as third party registration requirements, it's just not the most pragmatic way to achieve a lot of urgent legislation. There are third parties that successfully do things at the local and regional level, but they're still working with the two parties and pulling a lot of the same levers.

[Maichuko]

Jesus christ.

Supposedly he pulled out a bow and arrow and fired it at a crowd

Different guy this one was in Dallas.

[Gig em Aggies]

Jesus christ.

Supposedly he pulled out a bow and arrow and fired it at a crowd

that still doesn't mean they beat the shit out of him. If they weren't there to cause chaos in the first place then he would have no need for bows & arrows or swords to defend himself.

[Novus America]

Well I cannot do much else in politics. I have not power to exert. True bargaining requires leverage. Which I do not have.

Why don’t you run yourself

Eh I do not think I have much a chance. I might try but most likely that is not likely to get anywhere.

[Liriena]

Made a meme out of this, inb4 someone gets offended (Image)

...well that's embarrassing.

[Gig em Aggies]

Why don’t you run yourself

Eh I do not think I have much a chance. I might try but most likely that is not likely to get anywhere.

you may not like him but people thought trump never had a chance but look he is the POTUS now so don't count yourself out there Novus

[Constaniana]

Well looks like the Dallas rioters might have just killed someone (not sure if the victim survived). Won't link the video, as it is very graphic (or can I link it?), but it is essentially 7-10 rioters (mostly black) wailing on a lone white guy (some of them hit him with rocks and skateboard). They eventually leave and the victim is left motionless and there is a lot of blood.

Background story seems to be that victim attempted to defend a store with a sword or baton.

Thanks for the info. I've been watching ABC's coverage of this for over an hour now, and they haven't said anything about Dallas. They've mostly been going back and forth between L.A and local coverage of D.C.

[Brunswick-upon-Raritan]

Greetings from south suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul, well it's been a (relatively) quiet night in Lake Woebegon, 4100 cops, troopers and National Guard are on the scene dispersing crowds, arresting sundry journalists and largely preventing the post-curfew demonstrations and fires seen over the last several nights. Gov. Walz set to hold another presser at 10:30 pm local. Major freeways through the Twin Cities are shut down and local officials are calling possible military police reinforcement another option -- if the Governor requests it. No request for such so far, with another 6400 nonfederal law enforcement including possibly some from neighboring states reportedly on deck. My livestream sources, Unicorn Riot and RT, have apparently gone dark. We did see one Huey chopper overhead about 7 pm about 4 mi. west of MSP airport.

Rumors of outside agitator presence abound but here are the three best-sourced news pieces I've seen on that, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Post being somewhat more skeptical about the presence of right-wing types than Minnesota Public Radio; Post notes only 10 of 57 arrested through Saturday am gave non-Minnesota addresses.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/05/3 ... win-cities

https://www.startribune.com/as-crowds-s ... fresh=true

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html

Be safe out there.

NYPD has been in the air for a long time, but it's really nothing like the Twin Cities, Dallas, or even Portland.

Even though they did try to drive an SUV through a group of protesters, I haven't seen any bloodshed. Same in Newark, Boston, and Jersey City.

[Liriena]

some cops arrested a kurd who wasn't doing anything, so people held protests

nothing escalating to actual riots, though

Unlike the US, Japan is an orderly, civilized nation.

Japan simping. Gross.

[Liriena]

Eh I do not think I have much a chance. I might try but most likely that is not likely to get anywhere.

you may not like him but people thought trump never had a chance but look he is the POTUS now so don't count yourself out there Novus

Trump was a reality TV celebrity and billionaire.

[Bear Stearns]

Well looks like the Dallas rioters might have just killed someone (not sure if the victim survived). Won't link the video, as it is very graphic (or can I link it?), but it is essentially 7-10 rioters (mostly black) wailing on a lone white guy (some of them hit him with rocks and skateboard). They eventually leave and the victim is left motionless and there is a lot of blood.

Background story seems to be that victim attempted to defend a store with a sword or baton.

Thanks for the info. I've been watching ABC's coverage of this for over an hour now, and they haven't said anything about Dallas. They've mostly been going back and forth between L.A and local coverage of D.C.

I wouldn't expect ABC to pick up on this

[Neanderthaland]

Supposedly he pulled out a bow and arrow and fired it at a crowd

Different guy this one was in Dallas.

I guess this one had a sword?

Are the rioters targeting larpers?

[Liriena]

Different guy this one was in Dallas.

I guess this one had a sword?

Are the rioters targeting larpers?

Protect your local Quidditch teams and Jedi orders.

[Australian rePublic]

I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire

[Liriena]

Journalists keep reporting being shot at unprovoked by law enforcement.

Honestly, if American cops wanted to make a case against riots and in favour of their profession... it looks like they're kinda blowing it in the PR department right now.

[Slavakino]

Unlike the US, Japan is an orderly, civilized nation.

Japan simping. Gross.

Japan is a much better nation to live in than the US.

[Kanadorika]

Different guy this one was in Dallas.

I guess this one had a sword?

Are the rioters targeting larpers?

When you were partying, I studied the blade. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered the blockchain. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated inner strength. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help.

[Constaniana]

Buildings on fire in D.C. now.

[Slavakino]

I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire

I really don't want to think this but I feel like they are using it as an excuse to start breaking and looting shit

[Brunswick-upon-Raritan]

Alabama joins the fight: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020 ... abama.html

Protests in Hoover, Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, and upcoming in Mobile. All peaceful so far.

[Liriena]

I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire

I think your first mistake is using the same "they" to describe a very, very broad and unorganized mass of people dispersed across a vast geographical area who are engaging in a wide variety of actions and with unknown amounts of actual overlap. People setting black people's businesses on fire in the middle of protests are not necessarily active participants in them nor necessarily hold the same motivations.

[Novus America]

I don't get these people. They're protesting violence against black people, by setting black people's businesses on fire

That is my problem. I do not like what those Minneapolis police did. It was murder.
Obviously that needs to change. Many police need a overhaul in training, culture, organization and accountability.

But murdering innocent people is not going to help. Burning poor neighborhoods will not help.
It is just depressing to see this.

Horror followed by horror.