Long hot summer ... of riots

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:45 PM

I found Second's sockpuppet, Reaverfan. He's driving the Brickmobile.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:08 PM

One Twitter Feed says they attacked a Childrens Hospital?

Houston Texas
https://twitter.com/FreeIllinoisNow/status/1268503935062597633

Pakistan link?
'Bomb thrower' lawyers Colinford Mattis, Urooj Rahman

https://nypost.com/2020/06/01/brooklyn-bomb-thrower-duo-set-to-be-rele
ased-on-bond/

SIGNYM

Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:42 PM

Despite the fact that the M$M is doing it's best to "explain" why looting and rioting is justified, a LARGE MAJORITY of Americans approve of using the National Guard to quell looting and rioting.

As usual, SECOND, you blame everything on Trump, and yet the data shows that police killed just as many black people under Obama as they did under Trump.

There was some dumb black bimbo holding a signTHIS IS FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS

Really????

Huh, that's funny because I wasn't around 400 years ago, and neither was she. I'm not about to be guilt-tripped about something neither I, or my family, nor anyone alive today had anything to do with. You can protest modern-day discrimination (yes, it still exists), but to carry a grievance about something that old and musty and pointless is just stupid.

Anyway, I think this whole black/white thing is something of a sideshow. If people want to protest the REAL lack of equity, how about the difference between the 0,01% and ... well... "everybody else"? If you're going to be pissed off at something, why not be pissed off at today's cluster-fucked economy, and why not protest at The Fed's regional headquarters, and at the headquarters of every bank, and at Langley and the Pentagon?

It's easy to beat "white people" over the head for something that they may or may not have done, or may or may not have supported (especially with the media behind your cause) but protesting the REAL sources of power apparently takes too much huevos for these protesters.

And looting is just looting. Yeah, I know ... nobody ever got rich by working hard. You can't even make a decent living by working hard. And the ultra rich got rich by looting and pillaging our entire economy (thru rentier capitalism) not just the local Walgreens, and greed and thievery is handsomely rewarded here in this good ole USofA if you do it on a YUGE scale, but if you want to change the system you have to change the laws.

I guess that, it's just too much trouble to think about.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

#WEARAMASK

1KIKI

Friday, June 5, 2020 2:12 AM

And my god how people seem to be SO susceptible to cosmetic pandering! "We hear ya'!" If not one more cop killed not one more person of color ... OK, let me take this all the way to its conclusion ... if discrimination were to completely disappear tomorrow ... there STILL wouldn't be enough good jobs for everybody. The awful housing would still exist. The obscenely rich would still be obscenely rich. And the vast, vast majority of people who have to work for a living would still be getting screwed. There is nothing 'fair' about this system, even if every secret stain of bias was to be made snowy clean tomorrow.

SECOND

Friday, June 5, 2020 7:12 AM

We Crunched the Numbers: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/04/journalists-attacked-police-george
-floyd-protests/

We are witnessing a truly unprecedented attack on press freedom in the United States, with journalists are being systematically targeted while covering the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

The scale of the attacks is so large, it can be hard to fathom. At the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists, we catalogued 150 press freedom violations in the United States in all of 2019. We are currently investigating 280 from just the last week.

The crisis has rightly generated international outrage. Some have pushed a narrative — fueled by commonly used phrases like “journalists are being attacked by police and protesters alike” — that police and protesters are attacking journalists at relatively equal rates.

Our data shows this is incorrect. Police are responsible for the vast majority of assaults on journalists: over 80 percent.

More at https://theintercept.com/2020/06/04/journalists-attacked-police-george
-floyd-protests/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SECOND

Friday, June 5, 2020 4:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
And my god how people seem to be SO susceptible to cosmetic pandering! "We hear ya'!" If not one more cop killed not one more person of color ... OK, let me take this all the way to its conclusion ... if discrimination were to completely disappear tomorrow ... there STILL wouldn't be enough good jobs for everybody. The awful housing would still exist. The obscenely rich would still be obscenely rich. And the vast, vast majority of people who have to work for a living would still be getting screwed. There is nothing 'fair' about this system, even if every secret stain of bias was to be made snowy clean tomorrow.

There was nothing fair about chattel slavery, but it worked fine for slave-owners until the 13th amendment ended it, at least until an alternative to chattel slavery was devised. In the alternative system, which looks like slaves being poorly paid and having permission to pick their masters and slave-drivers, the cotton pickers were still black, but now white cotton pickers could also be cruelly mistreated. That alternative did not go away, even after farming needed less labor. Instead, it moved to factories and mines and construction and even clerking. The 16th amendment on taxes took aim at the rich business owners in this alternative system, and the amendment worked for awhile, but the rich found a crooked way around that amendment, too, as they did with the 13th. The marginal tax rate has gone from 94% in 1945 to 91% in 1963 to 0% for Trump, as an example, but he is not the only rich person paying almost no income taxes. I’m one, for example, and I didn’t cheat, unlike Trump. I only used the unfair Republican tax code changes from 2017.

16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=57

Historical Highest Marginal Income Tax Rates
www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-
tax-rates

SCOTUS Deliberates Trump’s Tax Returns
www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2020/06/03/scotus-deliberates-trumps-tax
-returns/#2f6a3eab35f1

Read how slavery actually worked: “The Myth of the Kindly General Lee”
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

US billionaires have become $565 billion richer during the pandemic
www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/business/billionaire-wealth-inequality-pandemic
-jobs/index.html
If you don’t like it, why did you vote for Trump? He was gonna do this, even if you erroneously think he promised the opposite. How to explain the contradiction? He lied to you, fool.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Friday, June 5, 2020 4:59 PM

And if taxes were magically used to redistribute money, there STILL wouldn't be enough good jobs for everyone, housing would still suck, we would still be blowing money out of our ass on foreign wars, and prices would inflate to the sky.

The owners would still be the owners and banks would still be banks and the spook agencies would still be spying on everyone.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

#WEARAMASK

SECOND

Friday, June 5, 2020 5:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And if taxes were magically used to redistribute money, there STILL wouldn't be enough good jobs for everyone, housing would still suck, we would still be blowing money out of our ass on foreign wars, and prices would inflate to the sky.

The owners would still be the owners and banks would still be banks and the spook agencies would still be spying on everyone.

And we would still have thousands of H-bombs, too! But we don't need those H-bombs and yet Trump is cancelling every nuclear weapon treaty and spending $500 billion on more bombs. All those other problems you list could also be handled, except they cannot when Republicans in the Federal-level Senate or in state-level senates won't let the problems be solved. It is like the difference between Herbert Hoover and FDR. One of them never saw a problem that didn't have a solution. The other never had solutions. But aren't you the one who can't understand the tremendous psychological difference between Hoover and FDR? Or Eisenhower and LBJ? Or D's and R's?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Friday, June 5, 2020 5:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

What is the real cause? What are the real targets?

The Trump campaign cries censorship after Twitter removes a video about George Floyd on copyright grounds

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-trump-campaign-cries-censo
rship-after-twitter-removes-a-video-about-george-floyd-on-copyright-grounds/ar-BB154LTq?ocid=msedgntp

tick tock comrade. Trumps getting it from all sides now. Everyone has had enough.

T

Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

THG

Friday, June 5, 2020 5:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

What is the real cause? What are the real targets?

As protests grip Washington, President Trump and D.C. Mayor Bowser clash in contest over control of city streets

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-protests-grip-washington-pr
esident-trump-and-d-c-mayor-bowser-clash-in-contest-over-control-of-city-streets/ar-BB153lRX?ocid=msedgntp

T

Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

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