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> Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's deaths until the violent protest That is untrue. Well before the executions, arsons, and burglaries, there was ess
by microcolonel 6y ago
> Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's deaths until the violent protest
That is untrue. Well before the executions, arsons, and burglaries, there was essentially no ambiguity in the public perception of the case. Most people who watched the video believed they witnessed a murder, and that charge was already planned for Chauvin, well before the public was aware of riots.
And of course, even if it did work, it would still be wrong, and the people executing people and shooting senior citizens to death to steal televisions should be prosecuted.
- unethical_ban 6y agoThis line is bogus. "I cared about police brutality until someone else who cares did something I don't like. Now, FOX News is telling me to care about looting!" Stop using looting as an excuse to not really give a damn about police reform.
- microcolonel 6y agoI feel like you are attacking me with a straw man, a very unfair one at that. Not everyone who sees things a bit differently from you is a baby-murdering psychopath who watches (gasp!) the most popular news broadcaster in America. I never thought theft, assault, arson, or lynching was okay, and I hope most people don't need to watch TV to learn that.
- unethical_ban 6y agoFOX is despicable, bad faith programming and anyone forming opinions based off watching The Five, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson are worse off for having been exposed to their lies and intentionally bad logic. But you're correct on one front: I attacked your use of FOX and gave you an opening to avoid the real accusation: That you are using the (limited number of) riots and looting as a way to get out of focusing on systemic police dysfunction and the need to radically reform policing and public safety.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoThe police departments need to be disbanded and law enforcement needs to be returned to elected county sheriffs the way the constitution intended. Make law enforcement accountable to the people and the people accountable to the law.
- xxpor 6y agoExecutions? Wtf are you talking about?
- microcolonel 6y agoSeveral people have been executed, including a Federal Protective Services officer.
- newacct583 6y agoAnderson was killed a a 2A boogaloo nut, not a BLM protester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings
- microcolonel 6y agoNobody is less dead when killed by a person of a different ideology from the nominal ideology of a gathering. When you push out the police, it's no wonder that people who would like to get away with heinous crimes show up.
- newacct583 6y agoWho pushed out the police? That guy you're talking about who got shot? He was a cop. On duty. Guarding the courthouse. There were police right there. You're saying he got killed because there was no one to protect him while he protected us? How does that work? In fact there wasn't even a protest going on in that area. This was a drive-by shooting by some kind of provocateur maniac, designed more or less PRECISELY to enable bad faith arguments like yours.
- obiye 6y agoWrong. Boogaloo followers are less than human.