As far as an actual take goes, yeah I support this...okay, one more joke: if only there was some way they could have hid their faces, maybe with some sort of, I don't know, cloth material that covered most of their face, but my mind is blank.
Association of Flight Attendants calls for all those involved in yesterdays events of breaching the Capital Building to be banned from flying
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You actually baffled, or just angry/exasperated/resigned? Cause I'm not seeing that as remotely surprising, myself.
Just the Trump nuts. Rioting for good shit is good. Rioting for bad shit is bad.
Oh, and now for 5 pages of whatabbboutisms and false equivalences.
Should've taken notes from Antifa, fucking dumbass amateurs. Is it true a guy tasered himself in the balls to death? I want to believe, but it's almost too good to be true. It's like an old Coen Bros sketch!
It's true. Although the death was more of a complication than a direct result.
Any standard that condemns BLM or the following is not a standard worth utilizing:
Yeah, the complication part I learnt first, just the cause was the area of doubt, thanks for clarifying!
Nothing existed before America, don't confuse these poor folk!
Well, I meant the war of 1812, or at least part of it that happened in August 1814. The US did exist back then.Nothing existed before America, don't confuse these poor folk!
There's never anything that rioting is actually good for though. It's hypocrisy to address your complaints about the system being oppressive to you in whatever way with violence. If you wish to claim such a thing is bad it is incumbent upon you to set the right example, otherwise this all becomes an exercise in power and we have no right or wrong principles to deal with, so there's no reason to support your position.
You see, everyone THINKS they are rioting for the "right thing", so even if you were to magically make a scenario where there's no hypocricy in the rioting, you have no way of assuring that only the people who are in that situation are gonna be allowed to riot. And not allowing anyone to riot is the least worse option when contrasted with allowing idiots or brainwashed people to riot too.
I'll shift you on this. There are plenty of videos of Protesters who stay in front of people trying to loot saying that all they are doing is harming the cause.
You remember that scene in Ocean's Eleven when they used the Pinch to knock out the electrical systems of the casino? And in the Bedlam of twenty seconds of the power going out, the entire casino erupts in free stealing anarchy? Yeah, it's kind of like that. People protest an idea, unscrupulous figure use it as a smoke screen to loot. That doesn't mean the protest themselves are the cause of looting. They are just an unfortunate backdrop. It's like if the love story of Titanic was real, and the main purpose of the ship going down was to make the story that more heart wrenching.
Wow. I'm doing a lot of movie References today...
Then we get to the rioters. The people who are more angry than anything else. Who were hurt, and must see others hurt as some sort necessary karma to right the universe. This, sadly, is more a part of any protest. Anger over a situation can't always be contained for every person. Should these people self regulate and avoid situations they can't control? Sure. But if it was that easy, we wouldn't have support groups for... well, anything.
But again, I don't think every rioter believes they are rioting for the right thing. I think some do. I think some just want to inflict pain because they are angry. It's hard to differentiate the two, but it's necessary to realize that all protests are not riots, just because we don't fully go along with the concept that has been broached.
To be fair actually baffled because apparently the terrorists killed an officer, and I thought if nothing else officers were supposed to support one another and took the whole "cop killing" thing seriously.
Fascists played stupid games and are winning stupid prizes. Funny to see though.
Personally opposed to dramatic expansions of the no fly list because typically it primarily inconveniences minorities. Still opposed in this case. Most of these middle class used car salesman will get away with this and face zero consequences, while these changes will be used against the Portland moms or some teens who drop kicked a door, maybe the one U of O baseball patcher who got kicked out of school for breaking a Sprint store window.
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I hope they win stupid prizes, but let's not forget one of them won the presidency so, you know...