I'm just saying, historically that broader definition of violence is abused by crackdown-hungry opportunists. We know who the system exists to protect, and it isn't only triggered by danger to human bodies alone or prior physical assault on other people.
I probably won't disagree with any negative sentiment about government overreach. I disagree with the sentiment that the protection of property is somehow not important and should always* fall by the wayside (*As long as I support their cause of course!).
It's not just evil corporations and their evil capitalism that don't want their stores burning, regular people don't want that in their cities either.
It's not just evil corporations and their evil capitalism that don't want their stores burning, regular people don't want that in their cities either.
By diehard Go To PostAnd people will continue to downplay and excuse violence as long as its done by a group that they share sympathetic politics with. Big "it's just property" energy when its not your property.Very profound insights here
naw, its pretty spot on. even moreso if whatever is going on disrupts public transportation or accessibility.
everybody loves protests on tv. when its your block upside down its different. when its you out there and some jackass you never seen before decides to launch a brick and get your whole group blacklisted retweeting ain't gonna accomplish much either. love a riot but "insurance will cover that, don't even worry about it" when small businesses get ate up.
there's a massive disconnect on a lot of this stuff.
everybody loves protests on tv. when its your block upside down its different. when its you out there and some jackass you never seen before decides to launch a brick and get your whole group blacklisted retweeting ain't gonna accomplish much either. love a riot but "insurance will cover that, don't even worry about it" when small businesses get ate up.
there's a massive disconnect on a lot of this stuff.
I was being sarcastic. Of course people will downplay violence if it’s to their political benefits but also violence isn’t inherently wrong.
I don't proclaim to be saying anything profound. I just don't really see anything wrong or overtly disconcerting in that particular page of the anti-terrorism document like some seemed to.
Yeah. The anti-terrorism document there is about the least surprising thing Biden has done. Of course a capitalist political state is going to want to preserve capitalism lol. Business as usual.
By reilo Go To PostTax is not the right term here but it totally is an infrastructure catered towards vehicle ownership which disproportionately affects poor people more.get yours stolen too you're still out of pocket for a lot of it, insurance typically isnt buying your whole new (or even used) car
Not like insurance or any of that stuff is subsidized, either.
By Not Go To PostWho is buying password-protected appliancesSmart thermostats are super common
By Perfect Blue Go To Post
This video is mad. The Wall Street dudes sound like a bunch of gatekeeping twats. Dude that said WSB is like Nazism and Communism must have a newsletter I’d like to subscribe to
That Mike guy jesus fucking christ lol
By diehard Go To PostSmart thermostats are super commonCouldnt be me
Especially with this functionality
By Not Go To PostCouldnt be meIf you are too dumb to not opt in to a system that says it can adjust your temperature by 4 degrees depending on power usage then I don't think not having a smart thermostat is going to save you.
Especially with this functionality
I don't get the need for nearly all IoT devices, especially with their terrible security, but a smart thermostat does make sense. I have one and I couldn't go back.
True, i wonder how many other auto enroll bullshit clauses are going to be hidden in that fine print going forward
New York Post cant destroy careers w/ weaponized puritanism anymore? This country going to hell in a handbasket
By diehard Go To PostAnd people will continue to downplay and excuse violence as long as its done by a group that they share sympathetic politics with. Big "it's just property" energy when its not your property.I mean, all they have to do is just stop murdering minorities wholesale and we wouldn't need the it's just property energy.
By Euros-batong Go To PostHorse pls
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By blackace Go To PostI mean, all they have to do is just stop murdering minorities wholesale and we wouldn't need the it's just property energy.lol this stopped being about black people months ago
Still have no idea what CRT is nor do I intend to educate myself on it as the title alone sounds pretentious.
By UkerLunatic Go To PostStill have no idea what CRT is nor do I intend to educate myself on it as the title alone sounds pretentious.It's not that difficult to understand.
CRT is an academic framework to examine institutions and laws through the lense of race and discrimination. It's been used in academia for decades.
What Republicans/Conservatives/Fox News want you to think is that CRT is any topic about race that makes white people uncomfortable. White privelige is CRT. BLM is CRT. Teaching about slavery is CRT. Any negative preconception that has anything to do with race is now branded as CRT. It's the hot shit in the culture war.
They're weaponizing hwite fear. Make it look like it's a threat to white culture. All these grievances related to anti-racism are lobbed at CRT and that's exactly why it is so effective: it's a threat to the white identity.
But the whole fucking this is that it has not a fucking thing to do with you as an individual, it's about institutions. All these fucking dumb ass Fox News motherfuckers are butthurt and feel offended because they feel like teaching about slavery in American history is done to spite them, thus it is CRT. Where an actual CRT position would be "we live in a racist society because AA history is purposefully ignored. What can be done to change that?".
CRT is nothing. It's a conservative buzzword, like post-modernism. "CRT is when a white person does something bad to black people because white people are bad" and Karen read on facebook that they're teaching CRT in schools so Karen is livid.
By Laboured Go To PostIt's very much like when the American right talks about socialism whilst not knowing what it is.Socialism is when the government does things and that is bad because of dictatorships
By DY_nasty Go To Postlol this stopped being about black people months agoThe argument of ignoring violence from a protest ignores the violence that birthed them. Regardless of them being fashionably hijacked. People have been ignoring murders caught on tapes for years. Now we need all the facts isn't good enough? 😂
I wouldn't have a problem with CRT at all if it wasn't somehow being elevated to the point where it replaces accepted historical facts
the labeling is the issue
once you got fake freedom riders happily rolling out to tear up shit in areas they ain't even from, then you've got problems that escape the scope of what you're emphasizing. once those clowns leave, the people who live there are left holding an inflamed situation far beyond what would've been normal.
the labeling is the issue
By blackace Go To PostThe argument of ignoring violence from a protest ignores the violence that birthed them. Regardless of them being fashionably hijacked. People have been ignoring murders caught on tapes for years. Now we need all the facts isn't good enough? 😂breh we got traveling protest groups legit making up shit just to get puters putin now. its way beyond good honest protesting and typical hijacking.
once you got fake freedom riders happily rolling out to tear up shit in areas they ain't even from, then you've got problems that escape the scope of what you're emphasizing. once those clowns leave, the people who live there are left holding an inflamed situation far beyond what would've been normal.
Again, only addressing the effect instead of the cause does nothing but set a stage for worse real protest, followed by more spotlight jackers. If there were real procedures in place to address the issues that got people up in the first place, I wouldn't mind this at all. But this is definitely a cart before the horse move.
By UkerLunatic Go To PostHow popular is NewsMax really? Bet like 35% who watch it are libsHad no idea they existed until fender mentioned them a few times and never seen any clip until now and it is amazing. Has to be an elaborate prank.
I think you're lumping the two together. They're separate - To the point where it needs to be clear that large, already polarized groups are vulnerable to targeting, exploitation, among other things. Its too easy to show up to an event, launch a brick, then walk out while everyone who was just trying to get more pay for teacher's gets tear gassed 😂
By DY_nasty Go To PostI think you're lumping the two together. They're separate - To the point where it needs to be clear that large, already polarized groups are vulnerable to targeting, exploitation, among other things. Its too easy to show up to an event, launch a brick, then walk out while everyone who was just trying to get more pay for teacher's gets tear gassed 😂Does it really separate it? Because it seems like it would be just as easy to launch a brick, get everybody tear gassed and potentially arrested as domestic terrorist.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostHad no idea they existed until fender mentioned them a few times and never seen any clip until now and it is amazing. Has to be an elaborate prank.Don't tell her that there are two distinct beings that were translated to God and Lord from the Old Testament. May blow her mind.
By blackace Go To PostDoes it really separate it? Because it seems like it would be just as easy to launch a brick, get everybody tear gassed and potentially arrested as domestic terrorist....is that type of action tied to the motivation and purpose of every protest going on? there's more shit going on than just the civil rights/police brutality stuff that's so fun to watch and meme. people just want to start shit and emotionally charged mass gatherings is a great place to do it. and that's not exclusive to one particular cause over another.
there were anti vax protesters hitting spot after spot like they were on tour ffs
By DY_nasty Go To Post…is that type of action tied to the motivation and purpose of every protest going on? there's more shit going on than just the civil rights/police brutality stuff that's so fun to watch and meme. people just want to start shit and emotionally charged mass gatherings is a great place to do it. and that's not exclusive to one particular cause over another.Do you really believe these measures came about because of anti-vaxxers protests?
there were anti vax protesters hitting spot after spot like they were on tour ffs
By blackace Go To PostDo you really believe these measures came about because of anti-vaxxers protests?No, obviously, and what I'm saying is that this all isn't centered around civil rights/police brutality stuff either. All last year did was accelerate our domestic policy to what's generally the norm in other countries. And we've been on that path since 2005. Whether it's a pipeline protest, immigration reform, flat earth aficionados anonymous, lbgtq orgs, environmental policy, unions, backyard militias, etc - when you have outside influences and actors purposefully seeking out groups to make situations more volatile than they already are in more ways than one, then you have to address that type of problem for what it is. Not the group as a whole. That's a separate approach and fucked up in its own right. And to be clear, its not because it's the right thing to do, but because its simply more cost effective as local and state govs ain't trying to cut liability checks indefinitely. This helps divy up the fukkery.
If you were to actually scrutinize the aftermath of a lot of these events that veer off the rails, you'd often see a disproportionate amount of people from outside of the area, people with multiple offenses on record already, and the amount injured before police even break out the experimental warfare wagon is ridiculous too.
But that shit doesn't trend. People out here vandalizing art districts on the other side of a city's march against gun violence and its not for the culture.