Long hot summer ... of riots
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Quote:89 officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. Was it terrorists? Or just your ordinary everyday murderer? I'll go with murderer because when Republicans hear the word terrorist, the next thing you know there will be troops in Afghanistan for 20 years because Bush said terrorist rather than murderer and we can't let the terrorists win. (I forgot 6ixStringJack's complete indifference to 100,000 dead from Covid-19, so why is it a big deal about dead cops for 6ix? Is 6ix wanting to bring in troops to kill protestors? Trump wants to, but is afraid that starting a war against protestors might lower his vote count.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least 5 cops dead last night from Second's "protestors".
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump use of military to quell protest could stop rebounding markets and economy in their tracks, warns influential economist
www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-could-repeat-march-troubles-if-trump-
sends-in-the-military-warns-top-economist-2020-06-02
Our call of the day, from Tim Duy, an economics professor at the University of Oregon, warns that stocks may run into trouble if we see troops on the streets of America.
“The best-case scenario is that the riots soon revert to continuous, massive, but peaceful protests. The worse-case scenario is that President Donald Trump acts on his threat to use military force to end the riots,” writes Duy in his influential Fed Watch blog.
“Aside from the obvious additional damage to the nation’s social fabric, widespread use of military force domestically would I suspect inflame the situation further, worsen consumer activity, and slow the progress of recovery,” he says.
What’s more, Congress would divide further, possibly delaying the next fiscal support bill — analysts see another one coming by July. That is as large crowd gatherings and closed testing facilities have triggered concerns over a surge of COVID-19 cases in weeks to come, possibly hampering reopenings, he adds.
While more aid to counter the pandemic fallout, alongside continued supportive action by the Federal Reserve, offers a decent setup for financial markets, Duy says that story “feels more vulnerable this week.”
“Needless to say, widespread military action against U.S. citizens coupled with a resurgence in COVID-19 cases would be…bad. The psychology could turn against equities quickly, just as it did in March,” he says.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:89 officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. Was it terrorists? Or just your ordinary everyday murderer? I'll go with murderer because when Republicans hear the word terrorist, the next thing you know there will be troops in Afghanistan for 20 years because Bush said terrorist rather than murderer and we can't let the terrorists win. (I forgot 6ixStringJack's complete indifference to 100,000 dead from Covid-19, so why is it a big deal about dead cops for 6ix? Is 6ix wanting to bring in troops to kill protestors? Trump wants to, but is afraid that starting a war against protestors might lower his vote count.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least 5 cops dead last night from Second's "protestors".
Seriously. You'd think 6ix would want more cops dead to help bring down over population - which he says is the real problem. Maybe when the military gets here in they can start mowing down protestors and cops until we reach some kind of population balance. If we don't start killing lots of people soon something bad is going to happen. Like maybe even milk shortages.
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:89 officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. Was it terrorists? Or just your ordinary everyday murderer? I'll go with murderer because when Republicans hear the word terrorist, the next thing you know there will be troops in Afghanistan for 20 years because Bush said terrorist rather than murderer and we can't let the terrorists win. (I forgot 6ixStringJack's complete indifference to 100,000 dead from Covid-19, so why is it a big deal about dead cops for 6ix? Is 6ix wanting to bring in troops to kill protestors? Trump wants to, but is afraid that starting a war against protestors might lower his vote count.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least 5 cops dead last night from Second's "protestors".
Seriously. You'd think 6ix would want more cops dead to help bring down over population - which he says is the real problem. Maybe when the military gets here in they can start mowing down protestors and cops until we reach some kind of population balance. If we don't start killing lots of people soon something bad is going to happen. Like maybe even milk shortages.
We've already got meat shortages.
The price of beef has gone through the fucking roof.
Cows are the new toilet paper.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Foreign reporters Amelia Brace and Tim Myers with Australia’s 7NEWS were in the crowd covering the demonstration live on air when officers suddenly began to violently disperse the protesters to make room for President Donald Trump’s photo op in front of a nearby church.
In the live video footage of the scene, Brace, standing off-camera, tells her anchors back home that she and her camera operator Tim Myers had just been shot at with rubber bullets while trying to flee from the approaching officers, and that Myers had been hit. As she’s saying this, the crowd starts to run again: “Here we go, they’re moving through again!” she says, as officers in riot gear rush at the protesters.
As she’s describing the scene, an officer appears right in front of the camera, and seems to punch Myers in the face with his fist as Brace shouts “Media!” The camera drops to the ground and goes black for a few seconds as the anchors back in Australia shout, “Whoa!”
“Amelia, can you hear us?” one of the anchors asks. “Are you okay? Or your cameraman?” Neither Brace nor Myers respond, but the camera resumes filming the scene. “It looks like a policeman just punched our cameraman,” an anchor says.
Brace then appears back on screen. “You heard us yelling that we were media, but they don’t care,” Brace tells the anchors. “They’re being indiscriminate at the moment. They chased us down that street.”
“You really saw the way they dealt with my cameraman Tim there — quite violent. They don’t really care who they’re targeting at the moment,” Brace continues.
Videos of the incident immediately circulated online. Brett McGurk, Trump’s former top anti-ISIS diplomat — tweeted it as well, commenting, “Here’s how this scene was viewed live in Australia. One of America’s closest and most dependable allies.”
https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1267662905383596032
Australia’s conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison — who has been friendly to the Trump administration — told 7NEWS that the channel would have the government’s support should it want to file a formal complaint against the US government. He also called on the US Embassy in Australia to apologize for the violence — leading to a Twitter statement from Ambassador Arthur Culvahouse Jr. hours later.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Minneapolis Police Union President: “I’ve Been Involved in Three Shootings Myself, and Not a One of Them Has Bothered Me”
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/minneapolis-police-union-bob-kroll
-shootings/
In an interview in April, Lt. Bob Kroll, head of Minneapolis’s police union, said that he and a majority of the Minneapolis Police Officers’ Federation’s board have been involved in police shootings. Kroll said that he and the officers on the union’s board were not bothered by the shootings, comparing themselves favorably to other officers.
“There’s been a big influx of PTSD,” Kroll said. “But I’ve been involved in three shootings myself, and not one of them has bothered me. Maybe I’m different.”
His comments underscore the rampant nature of police violence in the United States. The number of times police officers fire their weapons swamps the level of violence in most other countries, where authorities rely on nonlethal methods of coercion, persuasion, or control. Many police officers live with post-traumatic stress disorder induced by the violence associated with policing.
But not Kroll’s crew, he said. “Out of the 10 board members, over half of them have been involved in armed encounters, and several of us multiple. We don’t seem to have problems,” he said. “Certainly getting shot at and shooting people takes a different toll, but if you’re in this job and you’ve seen too much blood and gore and dead people then you’ve signed up for the wrong job.”
Kroll has been a central figure in the unfolding protests and riots following the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I'm not saying you're on twitter. But your 'news' sources and the extremist websites you visit are.
But be the idiot laughingstock mouth piece! I don't really care what you turn yourself into out of sheer snowflake exceptionalism ... yanno ... your precious belief that the only person who deserves to survive is you.
Look who's embarrassed that nobody is talking about The Coomph anymore.
Please feel free to neglect to apologize for your behavior like I know you won't.
You were wrong (again). I was right (again).
And you're just as salty as that crusty old vagina in your bloomers, boomer Karen.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Look who's embarrassed that nobody is talking about The Coomph anymore - except all the first-page major internet media, of course.
I post such stupid things because I'm an idiot ... along with my mindless and completely pointless coda:
Do Right, Be Right. :)
And I like being laughed at
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Why extreme actions shouldn’t delegitimize a protest
It’s by now a well-worn script: faced with social injustices and unaddressed grievances, mass numbers of people mobilize to protest publicly, and sometimes that action spills over into acts of violence and vandalism. Government officials then pounce on the opportunity to denounce the protest movement as immoral and reprehensible, and cast protesters as rioters, extremists, even terrorists.
It can be tempting to idealize protests as peaceful, and civil disobedience as just that: civil. But an uncritical rejection of more forceful protest methods can obscure uncomfortable and complicated truths: for example, that state violence, whether in the form of institutionalized racism or the deployment of so-called “non-lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and tear gas, is normalized and accepted, whereas protesters are condemned as violent mobs as soon as a brick is hurled and a barricade burned. Governments often preach the value of “civility,” calling for calm dialogue over street clashes, without acknowledging its own repressive incivility. As the political philosopher Candice Delmas writes in her book A Duty to Resist, in which she makes a case for uncivil disobedience, “Incivility calls civility’s bluff.” And while protests can draw agent provocateurs and opportunistic looters, blaming all violence on outsiders conveniently ignores a more crucial question, as the journalist Masha Gessen notes in an article this week in the New Yorker: “Why would you expect protests against state-sanctioned racist murder to be peaceful?”
More at https://qz.com/1863651/
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lol @ you goons cheering on the mayhem.
Democrats are going to get absolutely shredded in November. You're going to make people who haven't voted in 30 years get their asses off the couch.
I find it HILARIOUS that anybody who DARES use the #WEARAMASK now get piled on by the box wine Karens on Twitter for being racist. Suggesting that people should stay at home now and maintain social distancing is the new Muh Nazi.
Local news didn't even mention The Coomph once in the last two evenings.
It sure didn't take long for that to change, did it?
I'll be handing out I Told You So's all week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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