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That's like saying civil forfeiture is ok because the police will only ever take things from people involved with actual crimes, and that if you're not doing cr
by daenz 5y ago
That's like saying civil forfeiture is ok because the police will only ever take things from people involved with actual crimes, and that if you're not doing crime you have nothing to worry about. Do you forget how things are manipulated by people with power?
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoNo it isn't. And this is entire event has been orchestrated by "people with power" with a political agenda which is hostile to most of the population. It has almost exactly zero organic content. No amount of rhetoric and gaslighting is going to change that.
- 0cVlTeIATBs 5y agoCould you summarize who the "people in power" are and their agenda, in your opinion?
- _whiteCaps_ 5y agohttps://toronto.ctvnews.ca/anonymous-donations-to-convoy-as-high-as-215-000-concern-canadian-mps-1.5777497 https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/anonymous-donations-to-convoy-as-... > The top donation, $215,000, has a comment that says “processed but not recorded.” The next top donation, at $90,000, is listed as from Thomas M. Siebel. CTV News has reached out to the American billionaire by the same name but has not confirmed it is his donation.
- notjoemama 5y agoEh, never mind. In retrospect my previous thoughts add nothing. I apologize for wasting your time.
- DuskStar 5y agoShould we apply the same standards to things like BLM or Moms Demand Action? Those standards being "billionaires donated, therefore illegitimate" as far as I can tell.
- not2b 5y agoBLM protesters have been promptly arrested when they blocked streets or failed to disperse when the police ordered it, often rather violently. If these protesters want to get the same treatment BLM protesters got, they may well regret it.
- RHSeeger 5y agoThey have also been given a free pass in other instances. It's gone both ways.
- rootusrootus 5y agoHow many BLM protesters were arrested, though? Something like 14,000? I don't think they got much of a free pass.
- throwaway894345 5y agoIn fairness BLM was far more violent. Neighborhoods were burned to the ground, businesses were looted, people were injured, and several people were killed. Moreover, the BLM protests involved millions of people, so 14K arrests seems believable. Moreover, how many of the arrested were charged (getting arrested on its own isn’t that big of a deal).
- eric_h 5y ago> Neighborhoods were burned to the ground This is the first I'm hearing of this. Which neighborhoods were burned to the ground?
- throwaway894345 5y agoVarious parts of Kenosha off the top of my head. Most other arson cases were isolated businesses, police precincts, etc. There were also entire neighborhoods in which virtually every business was looted. We had at least a few such neighborhoods in Chicago, and there were many others across the country including many of the communities that BLM folks purport to care about.
- throwaway894345 5y agoWhat’s the distribution? What are the median and 95th percentile donations? It’s impossible to tell if those donations are indicative of anything or merely outliers.