[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

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48 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Yep, like most things the actual truth is probably somewhere in between the two obviously biased 'stories'. Glad I don't live there and hopefully it dies down quickly.

Well, that was the 55th consecutive day of protests, so it might be a while. Trump also announced “Operation Legend,” which calls for federal troops to start policing multiple major cities, and gives those police broad powers. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more protests in other cities this week.

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At least nobody says these are "peaceful" protests anymore. Funny how you could see this from miles away Let anarchy rule!

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4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

At least nobody says these are "peaceful" protests anymore. Funny how you could see this from miles away Let anarchy rule!

No, even that incredibly biased DHS Report says that last nights protest began as peaceful. It turned “violet” after provocation from both sides most likely.

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 

Yep, like most things the actual truth is probably somewhere in between the two obviously biased 'stories'. Glad I don't live there and hopefully it dies down quickly.

The whole story is exactly like what happened in Hong Kong. Time for Hong Kong government passed the sanction bill amid US police brutality.

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22 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

No, even that incredibly biased DHS Report says that last nights protest began as peaceful. It turned “violet” after provocation from both sides most likely.

 

At the end of the day no democratic government in the world - whether conservtive or liberal - will support anarchy. Which means these protests are destined to fail. And I'm not surprised by this one bit. The police-free zone in Seattle became a failure after what, three weeks? Anarchists stand no chance against the democratic machine in XXI century - even if they use BLM to justify their cause why anarchy is supposedly the way to go.

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4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

At the end of the day no democratic government in the world - whether conservtive or liberal - will support anarchy. Which means these protests are destined to fail. And I'm not surprised by this one bit. The police-free zone in Seattle became a failure after what, three weeks? Anarchists stand no chance against the democratic machine in XXI century - even if they use BLM to justify their cause why anarchy is supposedly the way to go.

See what you’re doing here, is distracting from the main issues. You are, perhaps inadvertently, justifying a government crackdown on what are/were largely peaceful protests against racism.
 

Two thoughts:

• People have a right to protest against an unjust government.
• If that government tries to suppress their voice, they have to right to fight back (though violence should always be a last resort, and only called for when people’s lives are in danger).

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Just now, Olympian1010 said:

See what you’re doing here, is distracting from the main issues. You are, perhaps inadvertently, justifying a government crackdown on what are/were largely peaceful protests against racism.
 

Two thoughts:

• People have a right to protest against an unjust government.
• If that government tries to suppress their voice, they have to right to fight back (though violence should always be a last resort, and only called for when people’s lives are in danger).

 

Anarchy should be supressed by every form of democracy. Violence itself causes enough of a distraction. When violence kicks in, nobody cares about the "main issues" anymore. That's why Martin Luther King is more cherished than Malcolm X

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British rapper Wiley (MBE!) has been exposed as anti-Semite. He claims Jews are like Ku Klux Klan among other things

 

I suppose BLM activists won't support this sucker for much longer?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53536471

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I'd still take Putin over Vladimir Zhirinovsky (head of the Liberal Democratic Party which Furgal is a member of). I bet several Americans would be amazed how Zhirinovsky's "liberal democracy" looks like