"HOW DARE YOU PEACEFULLY KNEEL DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM!!! YOU'RE DISRESPECTING OUR TROOPS!!!"
~everyone now condemning violent protests.
Maybe we should have taken it seriously in the decades+ that it's been a problem, and it wouldn't have gotten to this point. Instead of pretending that it was just a bunch of uppity ni-...I mean...people with a victim complex who hate America.
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"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
People defending the status quo are sick and tired of being called authoritarians, despots, racists, sexists and whatnot. As long society exists, there will always be dissatisfied minorities yapping about how oppressed they are and how there's a conspiracy to exterminate them. If you let BLM win, it will just result in a new form oppression where ex- and current policemen will be persecuted and lynched if they are deemed to be / have been racist (if you think victorious protestors don't turn into lynch mobs, refer to 2014 prosecution and murder of ex-Berkut operatives in Ukraine). There are no "innocents". Everyone is neck deep in various kinds of nasty shit but most of us prefer not to think about it so that we can go on with our daily lives without a massive baggage of guilt.
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Deposing those people DOES not work. Conflict and strife is human nature and old forms of discrimination will just be replaced with new. Even attempts to create a perfectly egalitarian society (e.g. communism) have resulted in more needless suffering than the "despots" they replaced (e.g. Nikolai Romanov) could have ever dreamed of. You can't take suffering out of the equation.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
But your bait was of excellent quality, it was impossible to resist, be proud of that!
Oh, you mean 170 pages of back and forth? Even the last few ones where half of posts are about you calling people racist and others asking for a source, instead of actual sources? Still not provided, btw.
A religious zealot? More, say more funny stuff! And punishment for "sins of ancestors" is commonly associated with Bible. Do try to keep up, will ya?
"check your privilige" is an argument you just used? Brah... Just stop. Unless you really want to call being born in Eastern Europe a priviledge. Then by all means go ahead xD
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Once more, do check the OP, or what posts I have made in regards to American police.
Folks, I know that interesting times like these produce a lot of social media gold, but I believe we may have a solid contender for Tweet of the Year for 2020 if only because it's probably the first time since Season 8 that I've felt genuinely good about a Game of Thrones meme:
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"Oppression is a part of human nature until it affects me", said every entitled person that has ever existed.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
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"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Don't take it but be a smart adult and avoid cops if you're scared of them. Don't go outside and don't live in a bad neighborhood where you could get no-knocked because they suspect you might have drugs. It's that easy. All BLM protests accomplish is reinforcing racist stereotypes among gun-toting hillbilly cops.
Yeah, that's a really dim view of humanity that I really don't share.
In my experience people who spout that sort of opinion are some of the most dependent on the public tit by virtue of their privilege, who then construct a moral system to justify benefiting from the exploitation they are quite aware is going on but choosing to ignore.
And more broadly speaking, on a human to human level that sort of viewpoint isn't reflected in how most people tend to behave in natural disasters and other community level calamities. The idea of 'every man for himself' is a thing that happens but tends to be exceptional and thus what gets noted in the history books, versus the majority of shit that we see - cooperation, sharing, community coordination. And in fact too often these things start happening but are then aborted by an external force holding the above belief.
It really bothers me why more people don't question how much the survival of the fittest narrative has been buttressed in our cultural consciousness to justify shit like imperialism, colonialism, slavery, police brutality, genocide, what have you, and exactly what level of complicity they are choosing to accept by repeating that narrative.
It's quite craven and again, the manifest display of the levels of intellectual bankruptcy and cowardice my fellow white man will go to just keep excusing the same shit, over and over has been one of the reasons why 2020 has made me more ashamed to be white than I have ever been in my natural life.
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Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi