Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
by slg on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:01AM
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Starting at second 9 of the first video and 17 in the second video, you think the man with the long black hair and beard with the American flag is trying to "help someone get up"? I don't know what to say beyond that you are letting your politics literally cloud your vision.
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Well FYI, what you needed to say was to look at the second picture. I was looking at the wrong part of the frame, under the arch and didn't see the staircase. Yeah, that looks pretty brutal. The police needed to be a lot more active in putting the protestors down.
But that, at best, upgrades the scene from a mostly peaceful protest torching vehicles to a violent clash with the police officer. Violent protests are not unheard of. It doesn't justify the idea that anyone was trying to irreversibly stain American history with the blood of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the chain of command of the United states of America.
I mean, the fundamental argument here is that we shouldn't mix the actions of the people on the stairwell facing the police with the rest of the protest. That line of thinking applied to protests was roundly debunked in 2020.