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As someone who lives a few blocks from Cal Anderson and ate their regularly during the "occupation" (as is implied), I'll never stop appreciating when someone s
by iliveincaphill 6y ago
As someone who lives a few blocks from Cal Anderson and ate their regularly during the "occupation" (as is implied), I'll never stop appreciating when someone so quickly shows me that I can safely ignore them. It's not even in downtown, lmao. "killing and assaulting people". What a joke.
But yes, yes, we live in mis-information-hell, so predictably the days following a conservative-led coup were ALWAYS going to contain these elements:
- whataboutism with literally anything to distract and derail (in this case, BLM)
- false equivocation (protesting numerous statistically significant killings of black folks by cops, VS trying to violently overturn the results of a democratic election)
- more false equivocation (implying that storming the nation's capital with weapons, and posting up one block away from the SPD East Prescinct with pink umbrelllas, are the same thing)
- outright lies that enough of their base will pick up and repeat (I've already seen it in multiple threads here), like, "antifa false flag blah blah blah nonsense".
- dang 6y agoWe've banned this account. Creating accounts for political flamewar is not allowed here, regardless of what politics you're for or against. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- neartheplain 6y ago>It's not even in downtown, lmao. "killing and assaulting people". What a joke. Anti-fascist activists murdered an unarmed black kid in the CHOP. They shot him to death with assault rifles. Then they shot and pistol-whipped his critically wounded companion, an unarmed 14-year-old black boy (warning, video is disturbing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0tXOBPMHA&t=1m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0tXOBPMHA&t=1m25s This was one of at least four shootings in the CHOP. Bullets entered the homes of neighborhood residents, a group of whom are now suing the city for neglecting to provide law and order.