And take a look through the daily newspapers . . . almost all of the editorials are telling white people what to think, and oh yes, they are also deficient.

It's like we're living in Europe, 1900-1950. Weird, backwards, Bolshevik-style thinking, none of which is rational or promotes stability. Feels good in the moment, though.

It's like anti-immigrant hysteria.

Trump's approval rating has cratered since this BLM movement started. public opinion shifted towards the movement, even after the riots.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... d=tw-share

Trump is stuck in the 1960s and America has moved past him.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift
embezzle, misappropriate
have one's fingers in the till, have one's hand in the till
walk away with, walk off with, run away with, run off with, rob, swipe, nab, rip off, lift, liberate, filch, snaffle, snitch, souvenir.

Regardless of how you feel about the George Floyd matter and the vast majority are sickened by it this is right. National tv news to papers to Bernsie type to personal conversation you are not allowed to add any opinion to the matter.

People are acting as if you add anything additional you are pissing on his dead body and a bad cop lover.

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Elections have consequences.

There is some or maybe a lot of that but this was predictable when this country decided to elect a blatantly racist person such as Donald Trump. I called it 4 years ago. We can't say that we live in a "post racist" society and then turn around and elect an openly racist person as President.

Does it mean that 60 million people are racist because they voted for him? No it doesn't. It does mean that his racism wasn't much of a problem for them however.
He repeatedly stoked the flames of racism and many in this country cheered him as a result of it.

Now there has been pushback. That's all.

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Neither side's goal is a postracial society, though. And BLM predates Trump, so your time here doesn't add up.

Yeah BLM, Kap and cops killing Black kids and men was in Obama and even before. If anything by some weird logic Trump's era has caused more progress to awaken the masses to the problem.

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Elections have consequences.

Focusing on BLM completely misses the point. Its bigger than BLM.

BLM also doesn't predate Trump either. Trump began campaigning for the Presidency as a result of his birtherism claims. BLM wasn't conceived prior to that.

And the equivalency "well both sides do it" won't much fly either. Republicans actively push racism. They willingly accept White Supremacists into their tent and have for the last 50 years.

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I would say its more likely than not that over the next five years you see broad abolition of local and state police. Fact is, you cant prevent incidents like George Floyd from occurring and being filmed. There's just too many police/criminal interactions, its a matter of time before it happens again and the riots start. One thing leads to another and you'll have more of what's about to happen in Minneapolis.

That combined with mass resignations and nobody, I mean nobody, applying for the job. What police departments aren't folded by order are just going to die a natural death.

At the end of the day upper middle class and above people are not going to live without law enforcement. Overall, for the top thirty-ish percent of America law enforcement has been a very good deal. If keeping that around requires they pay they'll do it.

The only real nice thing about having money is not having to deal with the rabble, the rest of it is just aesthetics and preening.

Of course they do. The Republicans care about one thing: Winning. Ideology is irrelevant to the republicans. Now, whether they actively push racism? Nah, not really. Maybe a long time ago but if you go that far back you'll see the Dems pulling the same stunts. They wont turn away the support, though. Especially since they seemingly have to do basically nothing to get it.

You could swap the parties and youd still be correct.

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2016 proved polls don't matter, or maybe not as much when you have outliers like Trump involved. Polls don't mean much to me in 2020 either. Voter turnout will decide this race just like it did last time. The margins in Michigan, Wisconsin, etc were unbelievably thin. If the Bernie bro and far left classes turn out for Biden then it's over for Trump. But they're not gonna do that.

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T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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I highly doubt that is actually the case. There's been a false choice set up- either go along with all this nonsense or be branded a racist bigot. In that environment do you really think someone is going to admit to supporting Trump? At what cost? The loss of their job? Perhaps being beaten in the street? No. They'll just quietly go and vote in November.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

The democrats are broadly more ideological. The two are not identical at all in this way.

Yeah seems we’ve been down that road once before . “ But the polls !!! “

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Trump scares me, but he actually scares me less than the agenda of CHAZ and its ilk.

The Libertarian lady is getting my votes.

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What progress? We have Mitch McConnell talking about police reform and our country's "first sin". When has that ever happened?

So you believed marginalized people should have remained silent? Anyone who has a problem with someone asking for our 14th amendment to be enforced or believe that doing so guarantees a Trump reelection is what's wrong with the country.

I have no idea what that means other than it appears that people outside of your bubble demanding that their country become "better" makes you uncomfortable. That's you problem, not theirs.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Call me when the NY Times ever lets anything go to print that favors Trump (especially after they corrupted the Tom Cotton Op-Ed).

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

It is.

These rallies are pretty much majority white.

Black cops have publicly apologized for their co workers.

It should be repeated every day that there are black cops and white protesters and white cops and black protesters...and that we all benefit by police reform, not in an abstract way.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I have asked the question about how Black cops feel at least three times in the last couple weeks. This is the first I see discussion of it though I assumed it was true. I must be on the ignore or dislike list this days.

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Elections have consequences.

Except this isn't going to improve the country at all. Think just a couple steps down the road, the people who get hurt most by the future that imminently awaits us are the same people who all this change is being perpetrated on behalf of.

All you’re seeing is a bunch of city people riled up . The bumpkins who elected Trump last time whose lasting image of this is burned and looted buildings are going to turn out again and re-elect him .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I'd take it a step further and say there are city people that are going to vote for him that wouldn't have dreamt about doing so 3 months ago.

Cities should 'defund' the police like Camden, NJ did. Dissolve them and their union. Bring 'em back at half the previous average of $185,000. Then you can add many officers and really tackle crime in the city.

Obviously the biggest scam is firefighters. You gotta do the same to them but don't have to hire back increased numbers thus saving gazillions.

Next 'defund' the teachers and dissolve their union. Saving more gazillions. Fire most of the BigEd bureaucrats and save more. No more pensions (see below).

Next pass the savings back to home owners and lower city taxes on beer and dope.

Of course, no more pensions. None. Fund yer own. It's FUNDamental and you can still retire as a millionaire. All you gotta do is save some fucking money every year. Cities may have to hire more math teachers to explain how this is done. May have to recruit in Taiwan or Iceland for this.

Illinois is saved from bankruptcy.

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"Change has come to Amerika."- TFG

Koresh was fucking 12 year olds, wasn't he?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

As opposed to you dismissing poor people demands for equal protection under the law and police reform to Covid-19?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

FF, yes he was. But it's ok because...defend trump!

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Exactly.

Hide your white people!

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

Women demanding the right to vote predated Woodrow Wilson too. Change generally takes generations.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!