Current Affairs George Floyd and Minneapolis Unrest

[Pettifogger]

Also, generally you only get warnings for personal attacks. I attacked ideas you may like, so it feels personal, but I didn’t attack you. I only called you a dumbass .

If you take the insults personally and the argument turns into a tour de force of asshattery, I think that’s when the vacations get handed out.

I did once get a reprimand for calling the mods nazis or Tories (forgot now which) and they didn’t like it, but that’s before RAFUH came in and changed the decor.

Obviously that's a personal attack. Moderators here put their finger on the scale, but I'll live. TBH it's my fault for not figuring out Liverpool politics before becoming Everton obsessed.

 

[verreauxi]

[citation needed]

Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War

Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.

www.vice.com

Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

Widely broadcast real-time video images challenge our beliefs about who is really protesting and for what reason.

www.justsecurity.org

 

[dandydan]

Also, generally you only get warnings for personal attacks. I attacked ideas you may like, so it feels personal, but I didn’t attack you. I only called you a dumbass .

If you take the insults personally and the argument turns into a tour de force of asshattery, I think that’s when the vacations get handed out.

I did once get a reprimand for calling the mods nazis or Tories (forgot now which) and they didn’t like it, but that’s before RAFUH came in and changed the decor.

Mods on here Nazi or Tory? Says more about you than it does them.

 

[dandydan]

Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War

Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.

www.vice.com

Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

Widely broadcast real-time video images challenge our beliefs about who is really protesting and for what reason.

www.justsecurity.org

Vice? lollollollollollol

 

[verreauxi]

Stormfront? Do you have myspace as well? Now stop with the dog whistle and post something relevant.

Oh look, Dandydan showing off his racist street-cred. Classy. The reference to stormfront as being akin to myspace, for those who care to know, speaks to an ideological divide among old- and neo-racists that occured about 5 years ago (mostly between Andrew Anglin versus members of stormfront); the same way that neocons mock paleoconservatives, or young progressives mock leftist boomers. But in this case, it's stormfront (old school, KKK-style racism founded by Don Black) versus Daily Stormer (more of the adolescent four-chan troll-culture neo-nazi racism founded by Anglin).

By the way, my post is relevant because you made a post that is straight out of racist troll-culture and this is a thread largely about racism and anti-racism.

 

[verreauxi]

Vice? lollollollollollol

Analysis is not your strong point so I suspect bellingcat might be beyond your reach:

The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think - bellingcat

Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police department. Floyd was black. Many of the protesters were people of color. The department fired four policemen that...

www.bellingcat.com

 

[dandydan]

Oh look, Dandydan showing off his racist street-cred. Classy. The reference to stormfront as being akin to myspace, for those who care to know, speaks to an ideological divide among old- and neo-racists that occured about 5 years ago (mostly between Andrew Anglin versus members of stormfront); the same way that neocons mock paleoconservatives, or young progressives mock leftist boomers. But in this case, it's stormfront (old school, KKK-style racism founded by Don Black) versus Daily Stormer (more of the adolescent four-chan troll-culture neo-nazi racism founded by Anglin).

By the way, my post is relevant because you made a post that is straight out of racist troll-culture and this is a thread largely about racism and anti-racism.

@RAFUH seems I'm a racist now. have any of my posts shown such a thing?

 

[dandydan]

Analysis is not your strong point so I suspect bellingcat might be beyond your reach:

The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think - bellingcat

Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police department. Floyd was black. Many of the protesters were people of color. The department fired four policemen that...

www.bellingcat.com

Do you even know the boogaloo reference?

 

[Yank]

More aggressive than tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets?

If your only option is escalating further beyond that, maybe it's time to change tact

I don't think the answer is that clear. It's a difficult situation to manage, and it isn't being managed by Trump. I had to board up the store I work at because we were warned that we are likely to be targeted by looters.

A lot of people are rightfully protesting. And you have a lot of essentially kids running the streets seeing they can do whatever and have been largely given a pass. It keeps escalating, I know a lot of store owners and civilians who are arming up and ready to take it to another level to protect their properties because they feel the police have given them free passes.

I don't know and I'm not pretending to know the best action for the local governments to take. I just know where I live things are at a breaking point. People understand the reason for unrest and seem more willing to work to really make it better. But someone is going to get shot if the looting continues, or even mistakenly shot out of the paranoia that is rampant now. And that is going to make things 1000 times worse.

 

[Ruairi77]

Awww, they wouldn’t let him take his ATM on the bus

 

[SerenityNigh]

Obviously that's a personal attack. Moderators here put their finger on the scale, but I'll live. TBH it's my fault for not figuring out Liverpool politics before becoming Everton obsessed.

Nothing wrong with being on the conservative side of the political spectrum so long as you’re not also an asshat.

 

[Pettifogger]

A lot of people are rightfully protesting. And you have a lot of essentially kids running the streets seeing they can do whatever and have been largely given a pass. It keeps escalating, I know a lot of store owners and civilians who are arming up and ready to take it to another level to protect their properties because they feel the police have given them free passes.

Where is this?

 

[SerenityNigh]

Awww, they wouldn’t let him take his ATM on the bus

He’s so mad when the bus leaves

 

[SerenityNigh]

I don't think the answer is that clear. It's a difficult situation to manage, and it isn't being managed by Trump. I had to board up the store I work at because we were warned that we are likely to be targeted by looters.

A lot of people are rightfully protesting. And you have a lot of essentially kids running the streets seeing they can do whatever and have been largely given a pass. It keeps escalating, I know a lot of store owners and civilians who are arming up and ready to take it to another level to protect their properties because they feel the police have given them free passes.

I don't know and I'm not pretending to know the best action for the local governments to take. I just know where I live things are at a breaking point. People understand the reason for unrest and seem more willing to work to really make it better. But someone is going to get shot if the looting continues, or even mistakenly shot out of the paranoia that is rampant now. And that is going to make things 1000 times worse.

Don’t use a sword

 

[Ruairi77]

He’s so mad when the bus leaves

“We cudda made money together”