Cooked Crack Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 9 hours ago, spjunkies said: NSFW kyle is just a misunderstood child! Gonna hold my breath on Fox News saying he's no angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 So now people are shooting each other at the protests so that’s great. wonder how long it takes for it to spread to a bigger issue than these, where groups of people are shooting at each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) This was a long time coming. It's basically Charlottesville but all over the country at this point. Trump's America was always bound to look like this. Edited August 30, 2020 by No Excuses 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 1 minute ago, No Excuses said: This was a long time coming. It's basically Charlottesville but all over the country at this point. Trump's America was always bound to look like this. If Charlottesville happened today the response would be much different. Right wing media would be defending James Field. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearrock Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) I don't think it's a sudden massive swell of racist extremists. I think having a president and a significant segment of one of the major political parties that keeps on winking to them, giving them dog whistles, and normalizing their behavior has emboldened them into acting in more broad daylight. Edited August 30, 2020 by bearrock 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 1 minute ago, Cooked Crack said: If Charlottesville happened today the response would be much different. Right wing media would be defending James Field. Yup. James Fields was treated a hero in far right circles but he never got mainstream accolades. But the arguments were the same, that he drove into the crowd because he "feared for his life". Kyle Rittenhouse's ascendance really shows how the extremists won and the entire party is now just a bunch of bloodthirsty racists whose entire worldview is about power and domination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 16 minutes ago, tshile said: So now people are shooting each other at the protests so that’s great. wonder how long it takes for it to spread to a bigger issue than these, where groups of people are shooting at each other. Well, people have been programmed to think like this for years, decades even. It’s been broadcast over airways and through the cable, straight to the people. In the last 10 years or so, the internet has made it so information (good to bad) has been pumped right to people’s faces. When they are staring at their phone, they’re staring at a reality that has been catered to them personally. I’ll admit, I get caught up in it myself. I don’t really talk to people about everything going on, mainly because I have anonymous outlets here on ES and Reddit. But I browse ES, Reddit, Facebook, IG, and other stuff WAY more than I think I should. Often times I feel like I’m just waiting for someone I don’t agree with to post so that I can shout them down. And I’m a pretty free thinking and open, honest adult. I can feel the pressure of media (mainly internet, not some dumb trope like MSM), but there’s lots of people less self aware than me who are just getting played. Tomorrow, all the usual provocateurs will say the typical controversial stuff that people eat up. Some from the left, some from the right. I feel like those from the right speak the loudest and with the most anger, but that’s just probably my political bias showing. It will just stoke the flames though. People who are influenced by this stuff will just become more incensed. Protests will increase, anger among counter protesters will increase. It’s what sells. If only we had some sort of leadership that could guide us through this. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Here's a United States Senator calling for "citizen soldiers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) Hey, just a question. How stupid do i sound now? Too late to stop it now. ~Bang Edited August 30, 2020 by Bang 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Destino Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 I get the impression that things will get worse as we get closer to the election. Not to mention all of these repeated, constant, never ending mass gatherings are absolutely spreading corona virus. We’re going to reach November skidding sideways sparks flying and on fire at this rate. 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) trump wants this chaos on a daily basis to distract from his constant failures at handling other crucial issues, people need to stop playing into his hands, it's pretty damn obvious at this point. Edited August 30, 2020 by spjunkies 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 So, today at the gun range two youngish guys, vets we figured, with bugaloo bois bumper sticker shooting long range at human targets. One of them had the anarchy symbol tatted on his arm. Isn't that for antifa? Weird to see that here. Everyone else middle aged hunters sighting in for the coming hunts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Thought occurred to me today. (Happens every few years.) I think it belongs in this thread. Apparently, society has decided that in cases like these, society has the authority to ban protests, prohibit them from certain areas, impose curfews, things like that. Does society also have the authority to ban carrying guns in the safe areas? Can the same person who draws a line on a map and announces that "effective tonight, any person on the street in this area after dark will be arrested", have the authority to make the same announcement for any non-police-officer carrying a gun? And if so, would it be a good idea? I mean, to me, I think that keeping guns out of potential riots would be an idea most folks could get behind. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheDoyler23 Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 God, it just feels like a matter of time before some MAGAdiot plants a Patriots Day-like pressure cooker bomb in a crowd of protesters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, TheDoyler23 said: God, it just feels like a matter of time before some MAGAdiot plants a Patriots Day-like pressure cooker bomb in a crowd of protesters. We already had one mailing bombs to prominent Democrats and media institutions. Seems very on brand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) An 8th grade social studies assignment is pulled after criticism from a police group and Texas governor exas Gov. Greg Abbott and the National Fraternal Order of Police are denouncing a social studies assignment that included political cartoons depicting the treatment of Black people in American history. One cartoon, which was used at Cooper Junior High School in Wylie, Texas, in mid-August, sparked outrage on social media, with critics saying it compared police to the Ku Klux Klan. Some parents in the Wylie Independent School District just north of Dallas also complained about the assignment, which was posted online by an unidentified eighth-grade teacher. Click on the link for the full article Edited August 30, 2020 by China Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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purbeast Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) This is the POTUS everyone. Seriously though, Trump is really making me question my job doing contracting work for the federal government. I've felt this way for about a year or so and it's just been eating at me more this past year. Edited August 31, 2020 by purbeast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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