Riots/Looting/Violence and general post-George Floyd madness

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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,917
    Somebody has too much time on his hands. How many hours a day do you spend on Twitter? 
    Took less than five minutes to find that stuff on twitter. Searches like "Elderly woman paint" and "Chicago riots." 
    My next question is why would you want to?
    I opted out of angry memes and video clips and cable news two months ago. My quality of life has improved exponentially. I had no idea there was an elderly paint lady in existence until you identified her here. My life doesn't change by knowing or not knowing about her. I'm working on improving the connections I have with the people in my actual life. Try it. It's liberating.
    The connections with the people in my life are fine. So fine that I can post BLM protesters intimidating an elderly woman while at work without affecting those connections. Sorry your connections need improving. Good luck with that. 
    Well, I believe relationships can always be better, no matter how good they are. I don't really need your luck, but thanks anyway. I'm just suggesting that sitting on the Internet all day (while at work? Your boss pays you to post videos? Wow, what a gig) can make people really angry and bitter. Tuning out for awhile, you know like the old days when we weren't bombarded by negativity all day long, can reduce stress and lead to a healthier perspective. I look around my neighborhood from my window -- nobody is looting, marching, beating up old ladies. Kids (of color) are playing in the playground. People (of color) are walking their dogs. There's a guy  (of non-color) waxing his car. I'm inside watching Wheel of Fortune. The world really isn't on fire, as much as the Silicon Valley technocrats want us all to believe that it is. But just keep on clicking. You are making about five people really, really, really rich with your devotion to the cause.
    Slow day at work. I think most people here who are posting during the day are doing it while at work. 

    Pretty selfish to say that when you look out your window, things are peachy. It’s not like that for everybody. Others here think Donald Trump is terrible (he is) and post constant articles and social media posts about him (despite his terribleness having no affect on their day-to-day lives). So why do you have an issue with me posting this sort of stuff? I think this stuff is terrible. Businesses burned to the ground, people killed/injured, a good cause (equality) hijacked by bad actors. These aren’t narratives created by tech companies. They’re real. That’s fine if you don’t care about any of it because things are fine in your neighborhood. But then walk on by. Don’t be like “somebody has too much time on their hands” or “I’m working on connections in my life. Try it. It’s liberating.” Can you sound more like a pompous asshole? Get the fuck over yourself. 
    Why are you so surprised that people are pushing back on this thread? As you said so yourself in the opening, there is already a thread on BLM, Police Brutality, Trump, Biden . . . and then you go on a tear through Twitter finding every video you could find in five minutes to prove the obvious point that there are some creeps burning and looting some shit in Chicago. Like nobody isn't already aware of that. 

    I never said I didn't like the fact that there is strife and division in the world. I haven't singled you out with a pompous piece of advice. I've been telling everyone I know, sometimes here, often in real life -- get the fuck off social media. According to the headline I most recently saw about Chicago, the whole current spate of violence is because some asshole spread misinformation on Facebook to millions of people. Every single time someone spreads the video or the meme, it just inflames the situation. It's a fucking cesspool. Why do you or anyone want to be a part of that? How is it helpful to keep replaying the same violent images over and over again? It's not. At all.
    I actually thought to separate this stuff from the other threads was a good idea. Post this stuff in the BLM thread, and you’re taking away from an equality movement. The Chicago stuff was in the police abuse thread, and someone asked what it had to do with police abuse. I thought that was a good point. Trump and Biden? More than enough to talk about with them to have it clogged up with riots. So I’m not trying to agitate. More of an organizational effort than anything. Or at least that was the intent. And posting videos of these events isn’t the same as spreading misinformation like what you’re said you read in a headline regarding the Chicago’s riots. 

    I don’t disagree about the cesspool that is politically-driven social media. But posting these videos from twitter is just easier than grabbing them from another video source like YouTube or a cable news website. You say everyone is already aware of it all, but you also said you didn’t know about the woman doused in paint, and that you don’t care to learn about her because learning about her doesn’t change your life. That’s fine. But others might be interested in seeing that that sort of stuff is happening. Is it fun to watch? Not at all. Is it helpful? I dunno, is anything posted on this AMT board “helpful?” 
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 10,821
     Ledbetterman10 said:

    But the movement has been hijacked by rioters, many of whom are far-left white liberals.  

    Great thread.  To put a phrase on it it is called controlled opposition. If you aren't familiar with it, you should look into it.  These riots/looting/acts of violence were not done because of George Floyd.  They were paid for and sponsored as a form of government opposition.  No single individual or group of individuals is capable of hijacking a just movement.  It took an entire sect of the government that is trying to promote fascim/socialism/dictatorship (not so shocking is it is the extreme left wing).
    Let me guess...paid for by George Soros? Paid for by the Rothschilds? Maybe even ZOG? Or the NWO?
  • jimjam1982jimjam1982 AZ Posts: 1,434
     Ledbetterman10 said:

    But the movement has been hijacked by rioters, many of whom are far-left white liberals.  

    Great thread.  To put a phrase on it it is called controlled opposition. If you aren't familiar with it, you should look into it.  These riots/looting/acts of violence were not done because of George Floyd.  They were paid for and sponsored as a form of government opposition.  No single individual or group of individuals is capable of hijacking a just movement.  It took an entire sect of the government that is trying to promote fascim/socialism/dictatorship (not so shocking is it is the extreme left wing).
    Let me guess...paid for by George Soros? Paid for by the Rothschilds? Maybe even ZOG? Or the NWO?
    100% Soros, the Clinton's and Epsteins crew. They are terrified Trump will get Maxwell to spill the beans. Terrified. They have to out some left wing stooge in to keep it concealed. Which, would be Biden in this case as he's so old and mentally unstable he's just a puppet at this point. 

    NWO was Bush's thing. Luckily we got Obama after him to kind of cleanup the economy a little. 
  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 39,338
     Ledbetterman10 said:

    But the movement has been hijacked by rioters, many of whom are far-left white liberals.  

    Great thread.  To put a phrase on it it is called controlled opposition. If you aren't familiar with it, you should look into it.  These riots/looting/acts of violence were not done because of George Floyd.  They were paid for and sponsored as a form of government opposition.  No single individual or group of individuals is capable of hijacking a just movement.  It took an entire sect of the government that is trying to promote fascim/socialism/dictatorship (not so shocking is it is the extreme left wing).
    Let me guess...paid for by George Soros? Paid for by the Rothschilds? Maybe even ZOG? Or the NWO?
    100% Soros, the Clinton's and Epsteins crew. They are terrified Trump will get Maxwell to spill the beans. Terrified. They have to out some left wing stooge in to keep it concealed. Which, would be Biden in this case as he's so old and mentally unstable he's just a puppet at this point. 

    NWO was Bush's thing. Luckily we got Obama after him to kind of cleanup the economy a little. 
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    “Confederate ideology?” But at least he didn’t steal their shoes.

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  • static111static111 Posts: 4,889
     Ledbetterman10 said:

    But the movement has been hijacked by rioters, many of whom are far-left white liberals.  

    Great thread.  To put a phrase on it it is called controlled opposition. If you aren't familiar with it, you should look into it.  These riots/looting/acts of violence were not done because of George Floyd.  They were paid for and sponsored as a form of government opposition.  No single individual or group of individuals is capable of hijacking a just movement.  It took an entire sect of the government that is trying to promote fascim/socialism/dictatorship (not so shocking is it is the extreme left wing).
    Let me guess...paid for by George Soros? Paid for by the Rothschilds? Maybe even ZOG? Or the NWO?
    100% Soros, the Clinton's and Epsteins crew. They are terrified Trump will get Maxwell to spill the beans. Terrified. They have to out some left wing stooge in to keep it concealed. Which, would be Biden in this case as he's so old and mentally unstable he's just a puppet at this point. 

    NWO was Bush's thing. Luckily we got Obama after him to kind of cleanup the economy a little. 
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 10,821
    static111 said:
     Ledbetterman10 said:

    But the movement has been hijacked by rioters, many of whom are far-left white liberals.  

    Great thread.  To put a phrase on it it is called controlled opposition. If you aren't familiar with it, you should look into it.  These riots/looting/acts of violence were not done because of George Floyd.  They were paid for and sponsored as a form of government opposition.  No single individual or group of individuals is capable of hijacking a just movement.  It took an entire sect of the government that is trying to promote fascim/socialism/dictatorship (not so shocking is it is the extreme left wing).
    Let me guess...paid for by George Soros? Paid for by the Rothschilds? Maybe even ZOG? Or the NWO?
    100% Soros, the Clinton's and Epsteins crew. They are terrified Trump will get Maxwell to spill the beans. Terrified. They have to out some left wing stooge in to keep it concealed. Which, would be Biden in this case as he's so old and mentally unstable he's just a puppet at this point. 

    NWO was Bush's thing. Luckily we got Obama after him to kind of cleanup the economy a little. 
    Do you believe JFK JR is alive and running the show with super agent Q and Trump just waiting to reveal the secret peophile ring to us?
    Anyone with half a brain knows its the Jews running things.

    And Obama
  • SpartanacusSpartanacus Oviedo, FL Posts: 855
    R.I.P. Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, etc.  You should be ashamed of yourselves, and the citizens who live there should be too.
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    R.I.P. Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, etc.  You should be ashamed of yourselves, and the citizens who live there should be too.
    Replace all those cities with "United States of America" and I agree completely with you.
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    R.I.P. Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, etc.  You should be ashamed of yourselves, and the citizens who live there should be too.
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 39,338

    People arrested in Portland since late May on nonviolent misdemeanor charges during the protests that have racked Oregon’s largest city for more than two months won’t be prosecuted.

    The new policy recognizes the outrage and frustration over a history of racial injustice that has led to the city’s often violent protests and the practical realities of the court system, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said.

    It is running more than two months behind in processing cases because of the coronavirus. As a result, at least several hundred people arrested over the past few months will not face criminal prosecution, according to statistics provided by Schmidt’s office.

    The same no-prosecution policy applies to those arrested on similar charges in future demonstrations, he said.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/12/protests-live-updates/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-low_protest-luf:prime-time/promo
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 39,338
    Where's the snatch them off the streets tactics for these "peaceful" protesters? Unless you consider shooting firearms and paintball guns a form of "peaceful" protest? And explain to me again, what exactly are the Proud Boys' grievances?

    PORTLAND, Ore. — Far-right extremists and continued clashes between Black Lives Matter protesters and police this weekend renewed tensions in Portland, Minneapolis and other cities, pushing the country into its 80th day of consecutive demonstrations in some places.

    A group with ties to far-right organizations that have long targeted Portland gathered downtown Saturday afternoon to wave American flags and push back against Black Lives Matter protests challenging police brutality. The event ended with two gunshots.

    Protests in other cities also erupted into violence Saturday, as police grappled with small groups hijacking otherwise peaceful events, including far-right activists armed with pepper spray and wooden flagpoles.

    One clash ended in fistfights after Proud Boys marched in Kalamazoo, Mich. Police intervened as the Proud Boys retreated into a parking garage, about seven minutes after a large brawl broke out between members of the far-right group and their opponents. Officers arrested some counterprotesters who had come out to oppose the right-wing group.

    In Chicago, a protest also grew violent after people used umbrellas and skateboards to attack police officers, injuring 17. Twenty-four people were arrested.

    And just before midnight Saturday, a group of roughly 50 protesters, most dressed in black and wearing full-face masks, descended on the 5th District police precinct in South Minneapolis.

    The group lobbed rocks and fireworks at the building. The station’s front windows were sprayed with anti-police graffiti, and red paint was poured along the steps of the front entrance and the sidewalk.

    “Blood on your hands,” one message read, while another referred to officers as “pigs.”

    Early Saturday afternoon in Portland, far-right extremists walked around a few downtown blocks, trading barbs with antifascists. Video shows several people in the far-right crowd using pepper spray and pellets fired from paintball guns against the counterprotesters.

    As the protest wrapped up, a car drove out of a parking garage, witnesses say, and one of the people inside the car pulled out a gun and fired two shots as they sped away. No one was injured.

    “A blue Toyota Corolla came tearing out, and then out of the driver’s seat two shots were fired,” said Laura Jedeed, a freelance journalist who witnessed the shooting.

    Video of the incident posted on social media appears to show two shots fired from the driver’s-side window of a blue car pulling out of a parking garage into the street. It’s not clear who fired the shots.

    A reporter with local TV news station KOIN heard the two gunshots pop. Witnesses picked up a bullet casing outside the garage, according to KOIN. Freelance photographer Paula Bronstein also witnessed the gunfire.

    The Portland Police Bureau initially told The Washington Post that officers were aware of a scuffle, pepper spray use and a paintball gun at the rally, but said they had not received evidence of gunshots. About three hours later, the bureau confirmed one injury at the event and acknowledged allegations that shots had been fired.

    “An officer took a report this afternoon after a person was injured after being hit in the face with a paintball fired from a paintball gun,” the bureau later said in a statement. “The groups moved a short distance from Southwest 3rd Avenue and confronted each other near Southwest 4th Avenue and Southwest Yamhill Street. During that confrontation a person allegedly fired a gun.”

    Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler did not respond to a request for comment on the alleged shooting.

    Some critics noted a disparity between how police responded to the right-wing group downtown and the left-leaning crowd that gathered outside a police building Saturday night. Officers did not intervene downtown despite reports of violence and gunshots, but they confronted protesters later that night after a small number of people in a large crowd threw fireworks at the police building and defaced it with graffiti.

    The Portland Police Bureau said its resources were stretched thin on Saturday afternoon because of a crisis negotiation taking place with an armed man that lasted more than 17 hours.

    Gunfire stemming from far-right demonstrations targeting Portland has long been a fear for the city, since Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys and other right-wing groups began singling it out as a battleground to fight “antifa.” Since 2017, members of those groups have threatened to bring guns to large rallies and staged on a parking garage roof with long guns, and at least one person has been arrested for flashing a handgun.

    A separate militia-like group called American Wolf, which has been known to mace and shoot paintball rounds at left-leaning protesters, showed up at Saturday night’s Black Lives Matter protest to confront the crowd. Fewer than a dozen men, including the group’s leader, Peter Diaz, were met in the street by dozens of black-clad protesters before they could reach the larger crowd near the police building. People shouted for Diaz and his men to leave, and they did after several minutes of yelling back and forth. Most of the men drove away in a stretch limo with “American Wolf” painted on the side.

    A disparity in police response was on display Saturday night, as hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside a police building in southeast Portland.

    The crowd remained peaceful for hours, but eventually a small number of people in the crowd began escalating tactics to draw out police. At least two fireworks were thrown into the driveway of the building. Two people dressed in all black approached the building and banged on the boarded-up windows, sprayed graffiti on the wall and damaged a security camera. A handful of people in the crowd threw rocks, eggs, glass bottles and plastic water bottles, which landed in the driveway of the building.

    A short time later, police declared a riot. They deployed smoke and rushed the line of protesters, who had created a barrier at the property’s edge with shields. Officers then chased protesters into a residential neighborhood for almost an hour. They made 11 arrests, on charges including disorderly conduct, interfering with a peace officer and riot, among others.

    Meanwhile, by Sunday morning, the bureau had not yet announced whether it is actively investigating social media reports of gunfire and a possible bomb at the right-wing event earlier in the day.

    Bailey reported from Minneapolis.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/16/portland-extremists-protest-gunfire/


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  • PJPOWERPJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    nicknyr15 said:
    Disgusting deplorable humans.  Too bad the driver was not carrying...pretty sure he would have been justified in using deadly force against the vile shitheads that were attacking him.
  • nicknyr15nicknyr15 Posts: 8,564
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    Disgusting deplorable humans.  Too bad the driver was not carrying...pretty sure he would have been justified in using deadly force against the vile shitheads that were attacking him.
    Yea. It’s disgusting. 
  • PJPOWERPJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    edited August 2020
    nicknyr15 said:
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    Disgusting deplorable humans.  Too bad the driver was not carrying...pretty sure he would have been justified in using deadly force against the vile shitheads that were attacking him.
    Yea. It’s disgusting. 
    Hope the perps there are identified and then tackled and beaten unconscious by the police that they are rioting against.  I, for one, am just fine with the police beating people like that senseless.
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  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,905
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    Disgusting deplorable humans.  Too bad the driver was not carrying...pretty sure he would have been justified in using deadly force against the vile shitheads that were attacking him.
    Yea. It’s disgusting. 
    Hope the perps there are identified and then tackled and beaten unconscious by the police that they are rioting against.

  • nicknyr15nicknyr15 Posts: 8,564
    cutz said:
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    Disgusting deplorable humans.  Too bad the driver was not carrying...pretty sure he would have been justified in using deadly force against the vile shitheads that were attacking him.
    Yea. It’s disgusting. 
    Hope the perps there are identified and then tackled and beaten unconscious by the police that they are rioting against.

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  • PJPOWERPJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    edited August 2020
    cutz said:
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    PJPOWER said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    Disgusting deplorable humans.  Too bad the driver was not carrying...pretty sure he would have been justified in using deadly force against the vile shitheads that were attacking him.
    Yea. It’s disgusting. 
    Hope the perps there are identified and then tackled and beaten unconscious by the police that they are rioting against.

    Excellent!  Hope they make an example out of him.  His life does not matter.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,917
    edited August 2020
    Bit of a timeline of the guy assaulted in Portland:

    His girlfriend getting assaulted:


    He then sped away and crashed into a building


    Pulled from the car and surrounded:


    Knockout blow:


    Knockout aftermath:


    Post edited by Ledbetterman10 on
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  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,488
    God damn. If you hate something don’t you do it too. 
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,917
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    God damn. If you hate something don’t you do it too. 
    There’s more incidents from last night in Portland on that Drew Hernandez’s Twitter. Shit is crazy. 
    Post edited by Ledbetterman10 on
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 39,338
    And yet not one expression of sympathy for the victim. How human.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,917
    And yet not one expression of sympathy for the victim. How human.
    The reason I said that to you in relation to that five-year-old that was shot was your immediate reaction was to blame “responsible” gun owners rather than the actual shooter. Sorry you were offended. But get over it. 
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 39,338
    And yet not one expression of sympathy for the victim. How human.
    The reason I said that to you in relation to that five-year-old that was shot was your immediate reaction was to blame “responsible” gun owners rather than the actual shooter. Sorry you were offended. But get over it. 
    And yet you didn’t express sympathy for that victim or this one which leads me to believe you could really give two shits and just want to push an agenda. Takes way more to offend but I do find your callousness interesting.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,917
    Nothing callous about it. Just posting incidents that, speaking of agendas, others don’t post. 
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 39,338
    Nothing callous about it. Just posting incidents that, speaking of agendas, others don’t post. 
    Because those of us in the left bubble are in the complete dark as it relates to Portland, BLM protests and civil unrest. Thank god for cons keeping us all in the truth.
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