Honesty feeling hopeful for the first time in awhile, bullish on protest and I think that tech can be leveraged in a significant way
When people feel that their security is threatened, they welcome fascism with open arms.
Large numbers of Americans are going to cheer this on.
The internet we have punishes educated, honest, kind, good actors. The internet we have rewards ignorant, dishonest, malevolent, connivers.
It's hard for the average person to reason about political issues when trolls and grifters and morons monopolize the public discourse.
The vast majority of people in those cities would've already supported them. And they bite that hand. Often hands just as brown/black as theirs...they don't care, because what they seek is power, not justice.
At least when authoritarianism hit my home country (Venezuela), we could leave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Aftermath...
I don't see it as a crazy idea that shooting some protestors would be popular.
I hope we never get to that.
There are many groups, but the most effective one is a right wing movement that is trying to start a second civil war by touching off race riots. Apparently international anarchists, and foreign governments’ misinformation campaigns are also making strong showings. Trump claims Antifa is too (though he has not provided any evidence to back that up).
Some of the right wingers have been caught with bombs, etc. Some have been firing weapons into crowds in an attempt to get police to shoot innocent people (and at least one person in Louisville was killed this way)
All of the major US news (except fox) networks are covering this continuously and showing pictures of the perpetrators, etc.
If you don’t believe their reporters, they also usually live stream the protests from the ground and the sky, so you can see for yourself. They covered a half dozen cities tonight.
The majority of the protests across the country have been peaceful, with a minority engaging in rioting and looting. If that's what you choose to focus on, then you don't give a damn about justice.
I also see hateful graffiti sprayed all over my city about cops, despite the fact that the vast majority of them are peaceful and lawful and mean well for their communities. That seems to be lost on people as mob mentality has taken over.
right. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/...
Stand this one out. You’re hilariously out of touch with what’s important to societies.
> § 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: (b) Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.
> New York Times reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff said that one of the Black Hawks had flown so low that it broke a large branch off a tree with its rotor wash, which fell, but thankfully didn't injure anyone on the ground below.
The Senate abdicated their responsibility and chance to hold Trump accountable. This is the outcome.
I don't like the looks of either side of this bloody conflict.
I just want to be clear that there is nothing that makes me more nervous than a President who is shown no sign of being second guessed by the Legislature, especially during a crisis. It wouldn't even matter if roles were reversed and it were Hillary in the White House with Democrats in control of the Senate. I'd still be calling them out.
It is so easy to get carried away by the reins of power. Most people do not realize just how well equipped the Government is to go full authoritarian if it came down to it. The only thing that has kept that from happening has been our value system doing a fairly decent job of keeping that tendency in check. Or at least it seemed to be prior to 2001.
[0]: https://s.sc-cdn.net/1KO38_D-saomzlpaMCGJvY96UMxYdW5Lsb-9MzD...
And this is a fire and police department set ablaze in Minneapolis: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8UO8ppmbjK8
You've lost the plot.
Stand this one out. You have no understanding of the situation on the ground.
Is that a law you can cite or your opinion? I’m really asking, IDK
The choppers were by all accounts being used against groups of peaceful protesters who were nowhere near the church in question. They were not the ones involved in the arson.
The Boston Tea Party was a riot by the colonial residents and it was an instigating event in the Revolutionary War.
The 2A is a threat that the people will (and according to founding fathers should) rebel if the government becomes too tyrannical.
It started with violating the rights of non-citizens by throwing them and their families in cages. Its building on centuries of black oppression and a nationwide corps of officers lead to believe certain class of Americans to be less than human.
Today, the president used American Military-lite in a completely unnecessary display of machismo, to terrorize groups of peaceful Citizen protesters and continues to do so by semi-wartime methods. The CBP has offered its help in brutalizing another class of people; these are the same group of people who have been let loose on border communities with little repercussions for their actions.
Unchecked, the fascism will grow until there is nothing left to contain it.
Its clear to the present occupant of the White House that winning fairly is not possible. Using emergencies as a pretext for grabbing on to power is an entirely predicable playbook, and yet Americans seem utterly powerless to stop what they know in their hearts is going to happen.