America riots after Police kill unarmed Black Man

[Punainen Suomi]

The Democrats have controlled Minneapolis since before any of these officers joined the force.

Clearly it's Trump's fault that the Democrats didn't spend the decades they've controlled the city government cleaning up the police force...

That... I have no real rebuttal aginst. You have a point why didn't the dems clean up the force?

Certain factions within the party are not as nice and progressive as they might like you to believe.

[The Alma Mater]

That... I have no real rebuttal aginst. You have a point why didn't the dems clean up the force?

Certain factions within the party are not as nice and progressive as they might like you to believe.

To rephrase: in much of the rest of the world, the dems and the republicans would be considered a single party on the right side of the spectrum.
It is just that in the USA 90% of the spectrum is ignored; so they seem to be on opposite sides there.
Kinda like saying violet and purple are very different colours; which is true - but if one looks at a spectrum that also contains yellow, green, red etc. they seem much more alike.

[Australian rePublic]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

[The Alma Mater]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

The question now is what will dominate - covid or the riots.
I am still guessing covid though.

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Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

We still have half a year to go.

[Snakeden]

Husband and Wife attacked whilst trying to defend their store from looters, hit repeatedly with fists and wooden boards. Rochester NY

That's terrible. I hope those people are okay.

Good point. Sometimes people are happy to say what not to do but they become quiet when it comes to suggesting a realistic alternative. Having said that, I think there are better ways to protest than destroying a store who's owner may or may not have supported you.

I don't disagree. I don't at all like the idea of burning or trashing and looting small businesses and so on.

In an ideal situation we wouldn't have burnings or lootings of megacorporation stores either, but this obviously isn't an ideal situation, and I don't care as much about the damage to them simply because they can eat the cost--even Target spoke up and was like "Nah we're not upset, we're coming back" today. And since corporations pretty much own this country, well. Forcing them to make a choice may be worth something. Almost my only worries with ruined megacorp stores are about the people who work at them and interruptions to supply chains in neighborhoods that may lack other options without one (which needs to be addressed for sure, but is a matter for a little later).

Leave the little person out of it though for sure. That should be inviolable. Pharmacies too, even if they are a big chain; people's lives definitely rely on those.

Don't have a lot to spare given the need to keep our own household afloat in present circumstances, but we're passing what we can out to different gofundmes for such cases; would recommend anyone else who can chip in even a little to do same. Minneapolis and St. Paul each had pages with several this morning; I'm sure other cities do now too if you toss a quick Google at it.

[Punainen Suomi]

Certain factions within the party are not as nice and progressive as they might like you to believe.

To rephrase: in much of the rest of the world, the dems and the republicans would be considered a single party on the right side of the spectrum.
It is just that in the USA 90% of the spectrum is ignored; so they seem to be on opposite sides there.
Kinda like saying violet and purple are very different colours; which is true - but if one looks at a spectrum that also contains yellow, green, red etc. they seem much more alike.

That is very much the case. I would say that the republicans have been moving further into the right over the past few years (into the ultraviolet if you will), but they are still pretty similar on a great many issues. American voters often find themselves offered a false choice between two superficially different options, and so long as that continues, no real change can occur within the system.

[Gormwood]

In light of George Floyd’s death, ex-NFL exec admits what we knew all along: Protests ended Colin Kaepernick’s career

Looks like Kaepernick was vindicated. Bet they're wishing all those people were just kneeling.

[Slavakino]

Apparently someone was jamming Chicago police radio yesterday with Serbia Strong.
https://twitter.com/digg_it3/status/1266948874431840257

Posted that a couple hours ago. Fuckin hilarious

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

The question now is what will dominate - covid or the riots.
I am still guessing covid though.

I'm going with COVID-19.

It's killed more people and will keep on killing people long after the riots calm down.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Husband and Wife attacked whilst trying to defend their store from looters, hit repeatedly with fists and wooden boards. Rochester NY

Savage scumbags.

One of the reddit comments put it best, senseless shit like this does nothing except piss people off and delegitimize a very real outrage a lot of people feel right now and create more racists.

Fucking idiots the lot of em.

[-Astoria]

The question now is what will dominate - covid or the riots.
I am still guessing covid though.

I'm going with COVID-19.

It's killed more people and will keep on killing people long after the riots calm down.

Likely even more as of late, due to the riots.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

Everybody in Australia might have thought that.

But the terrible year America has had so far should make us Australians keep quiet. Anything we say now will sound either gloating or patronizing. Don't you think?

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Husband and Wife attacked whilst trying to defend their store from looters, hit repeatedly with fists and wooden boards. Rochester NY

Savage scumbags.

One of the reddit comments put it best, senseless shit like this does nothing except piss people off and delegitimize a very real outrage a lot of people feel right now and create more racists.

Fucking idiots the lot of em.

Pretty much.

[Snakeden]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

We still have half a year to go.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T TEMPT IT... If we can fit all of this in five months, there's no telling how much can be jammed into the other seven. That's a horrible risk. I'm knocking on the wood furniture next to the bed. Fate better hear me doing that.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

The question now is what will dominate - covid or the riots.
I am still guessing covid though.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the riots wouldn't be so bad if they weren't off a base of covid misery.

[Australian rePublic]

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

The question now is what will dominate - covid or the riots.
I am still guessing covid though.

Which riots? The ones in Hong Kong or the ones in the USA. My money is on the event that actually effects other countries. Almost every single person on the planet has been impacted by Covid, at the very least, through some kind of lock down. Same cannot be said about the Australian fires, nor riots in Hong Kong, nor riots in the USA. Something will happen that won't eliminate Covid, but will dwarf it. I predicted that weeks ago, look at my "hope is for morons" dispatch

Remember when everybody thought that the Australian bush fires would be the defining event of this year? I guess you could say that hindsight is 2020

We still have half a year to go.

Ah shit! **hides in corner with security blanket and trembles in fear**

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

The Democrats have controlled Minneapolis since before any of these officers joined the force.

Clearly it's Trump's fault that the Democrats didn't spend the decades they've controlled the city government cleaning up the police force...

Well, Trump did tell these fine officers that hurting a suspect a little during an arrest was fine...

But yes. Plenty of blame to go around.

Also yes. Lots of blame from dems and republicans too be spread here.

Main people to blame in this are the morons who think beating people with wooden planks will do anything to help the problem of police brutality.

Husband and Wife attacked whilst trying to defend their store from looters, hit repeatedly with fists and wooden boards. Rochester NY

Savage scumbags.

One of the reddit comments put it best, senseless shit like this does nothing except piss people off and delegitimize a very real outrage a lot of people feel right now and create more racists.

Fucking idiots the lot of em.

Yep.

I feel bad for all the actual peaceful protesters who must be facepalming hard rn.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

We still have half a year to go.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T TEMPT IT... If we can fit all of this in five months, there's no telling how much can be jammed into the other seven.

Years are arbitrary demarcations of time. The only things that obey years are the seasons.

[Snakeden]

In light of George Floyd’s death, ex-NFL exec admits what we knew all along: Protests ended Colin Kaepernick’s career

You know those moments where you could have an "I told you so" to someone/the world but you can't bring yourself to take it because it'd feel so bad?

Yeah.

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The police have been the greatest perpetrators of violence throughout this uprising.

[Punainen Suomi]

The police have been the greatest perpetrators of violence throughout this uprising.

That is quite clear from what I've seen. They're certainly not doing themselves any favours by harshly cracking down on protests against police brutality.

[Australian rePublic]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T TEMPT IT... If we can fit all of this in five months, there's no telling how much can be jammed into the other seven.

Years are arbitrary demarcations of time. The only things that obey years are the seasons.

Unless you live in some parts of the tropics, where seasons repeat themselves every six months, effectively having two seasonal cycles per year (when the rest of the world has one seasonal cycle), or if you live in parts of the tropics which have seasons at all, as it's always the same temperature and always rainy, but that's irrelevant to the discussion, so, carry on...

[Brunswick-upon-Raritan]

That... I have no real rebuttal aginst. You have a point why didn't the dems clean up the force?

Certain factions within the party are not as nice and progressive as they might like you to believe.

People in Philly are trying to tear down the statue of a cop Democrat mayor who once ran on a "vote white" ticket. He was mayor in 1980.

[The Alma Mater]

One of the reddit comments put it best, senseless shit like this does nothing except piss people off and delegitimize a very real outrage a lot of people feel right now and create more racists.

Fucking idiots the lot of em.

Yep.

I feel bad for all the actual peaceful protesters who must be facepalming hard rn.

Not really. As mentioned earlier in the thread Trevor Noah of the daily show asked the loaded counter question how the protesters would benefit from NOT rioting.
Because decades of peaceful protests still mean a jogger can be hunted down and killed, a cop will sit on your neck until you die "because he can" and a woman in a park will not hesitate to try to ruin your life with a false accusation. Protest peacefully by kneeling, hurting nobody and destroying exactly zero property ? Get yelled at by the president and lose your job.

Rioting does nothing to benefit them. Not rioting does nothing to benefit them. The only ones who benefit from them not rioting are the people supporting the existing system; so why should they give a fuck ?