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Seattle announces they are going to take back CHOP zone.
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2020-07-04 at 6:29 AM UTC
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2020-07-04 at 6:32 AM UTC
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2020-07-04 at 6:51 AM UTCmore like biting the hand that feeds
you want my attention that badly? post something a bit more substantial. -
2020-07-04 at 8:15 AM UTC
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2020-07-04 at 8:18 AM UTC
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2020-07-04 at 8:19 AM UTC
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2020-07-04 at 8:22 AM UTC
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2020-07-04 at 3:25 PM UTCYou do not have the right to protest.
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2020-07-05 at 4:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by CASPER This is a protest in the same way Unite the Right was a protest. Only there was considerably less destruction and murder as a result of UTR.
That was a singular event in a singular place and not at all comparable to mass protests going on all over the country. Besides, the vast majority of these protests are non-violent and non-destructive. If the millions that were out protesting were all looting and destroying there would be far more destruction. The majority of the arrests are for things like violating curfew and 'resisting arrest.'
Open a history book. Attribution of the crimes of the few to the voice of the many is pretty textbook authoritarian speak. The HK government said the same thing about the protesters there. The British said the same thing about the Whigs and other revolutionaries. Boston Tea Party? Oh god no. They were heroes for that. All those government offices set on fire after the Stamp Act? Goddamn patriots is what they are.
This is literally in our constitution. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. If you can't stand by people expressing that then I don't know what kind of freedom of speech you actually stand for. There will always, always be rioters in protests this big. Doesn't matter what you are protesting. Few movements are completely peaceful. You're just giving into the propaganda by thinking it has anything to do with any specific movement, and isn't just human nature.
Protesting is for red blooded Americans. -
2020-07-05 at 4:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker You do not have the right to protest.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Completely peaceful protest that day. None of those people were destroying anything. They were not violent. Yet they had violence used against them. There are protests and activists here every day of the year. Yet today, suddenly, nope. They don't have a right to. They were not past curfew. -
2020-07-05 at 4:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace That was a singular event in a singular place and not at all comparable to mass protests going on all over the country. Besides, the vast majority of these protests are non-violent and non-destructive. If the millions that were out protesting were all looting and destroying there would be far more destruction. The majority of the arrests are for things like violating curfew and 'resisting arrest.'
Open a history book. Attribution of the crimes of the few to the voice of the many is pretty textbook authoritarian speak. The HK government said the same thing about the protesters there. The British said the same thing about the Whigs and other revolutionaries. Boston Tea Party? Oh god no. They were heroes for that. All those government offices set on fire after the Stamp Act? Goddamn patriots is what they are.
This is literally in our constitution. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. If you can't stand by people expressing that then I don't know what kind of freedom of speech you actually stand for. There will always, always be rioters in protests this big. Doesn't matter what you are protesting. Few movements are completely peaceful. You're just giving into the propaganda by thinking it has anything to do with any specific movement, and isn't just human nature.
Protesting is for red blooded Americans.
The biggest difference is this shit going on right now is fueled and financed by Sorosbucks. -
2020-07-05 at 4:13 PM UTC
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2020-07-05 at 4:13 PM UTC"and the Whigs are funded by the French!"
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2020-07-05 at 4:15 PM UTC
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2020-07-05 at 5:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace That was a singular event in a singular place and not at all comparable to mass protests going on all over the country. Besides, the vast majority of these protests are non-violent and non-destructive. If the millions that were out protesting were all looting and destroying there would be far more destruction. The majority of the arrests are for things like violating curfew and 'resisting arrest.'
Open a history book. Attribution of the crimes of the few to the voice of the many is pretty textbook authoritarian speak. The HK government said the same thing about the protesters there. The British said the same thing about the Whigs and other revolutionaries. Boston Tea Party? Oh god no. They were heroes for that. All those government offices set on fire after the Stamp Act? Goddamn patriots is what they are.
This is literally in our constitution. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. If you can't stand by people expressing that then I don't know what kind of freedom of speech you actually stand for. There will always, always be rioters in protests this big. Doesn't matter what you are protesting. Few movements are completely peaceful. You're just giving into the propaganda by thinking it has anything to do with any specific movement, and isn't just human nature.
Protesting is for red blooded Americans.
you will change your mind in an instant when these protestors 'peaceably' assemble on your front yard. -
2020-07-05 at 6:24 PM UTC
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2020-07-05 at 6:37 PM UTC
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2020-07-05 at 10:26 PM UTC
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2020-07-06 at 9:16 AM UTC
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2020-07-06 at 11:46 AM UTCKinda like Occupy Wall Street. The thing about these things is that they always fail in establishing the basic machinery of a functioning organisations. CHAZ got some things right, they set up a border and a wall (walls work), but they got flooded with trash - both people trash, and literal trash. These things always wind up too dingy to stay in, and have to close down. No surprise. Leftism is fundamentally a dingy, depressing ideology with a dingy, depressing vision for the future. People don't want to be around that, even lefties.
This is what was always going to happen, and you need to allow these things to play themselves out. Cracking down on them might feel good, but it's counterproductive, kids need to be able to learn their own lessons, and CHAZ was fundamentally harmless.
