[Newfie]

You set the context when you claim Republicans are a cult. In the context of a cult you had expressed your desire for them to commit suicide. Roughly 150 million if your fellow Americans!

In what context is such a desire NOT an expression of disturbed psyche?

In what context are such expressed desires not worrisome?

[dohboi]

Newf said:

"Republicans are a cult"

This we can agree on!

(Now do you enjoy having your words taken out of context? )

But to specify, they are a DEATH cult. They are already in the process of killing themselves off as fast as possible, as far as I can see.

As I have made clear in the original and for upteen times since, I just prefer that they do it elsewhere, if they're going to off themselves, as they seem to be doing.

[dohboi]

I'm only gonna post a few more times on this forum, which seems to be dying anyway, so I may not be able to enlighten those will I'm sure that they know for sure better than I do what is going on basically in my own back yard....

But you are likely to hear about this soon if you haven't already: a Black man was shot dead just a few blocks from the site of the Floyd lynching last evening. Details at this point still seem to be a bit murky. Body cam footage is supposed to be released at any minute.

But this could well cause another round of protest and perhaps more, at least locally, and perhaps far beyond, as happened with Floyd.

Please don't just automatically believe whatever the cops and the right wing media feed you about this. (tho I know that will fall on at least some deaf ears)

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', 'I')'m only gonna post a few more times on this forum, which seems to be dying anyway

[dohboi]

"heroic police offices"

Wow, I didn't realize that offices could be so heroic! :D

These sorry p's of s couldn't just stop and let this guy shoot his gun out and then go arrest him, like they did with a white dude just a few weeks ago who had shot his wife and two neighbors??

What kind of heroism is it when, even when your city has told you to use the least deadly force possible, blows eight holes in a guys head, a guy who has absolutely no where to go, is completely boxed in, who...all you have to do is wait him out and he's gonna have nothing else to do but give up.

cops aren't supposed to be the trial, judge, and executioner, especially in a state that doesn't have executions....

But thanks for making my very point, P. Some of you will never get a f'n clue...one of several reasons I am jumping off this sinking, sad and increasingly pathetic ship

To recycle some meme (and we're all into recycling, right? :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67t0sp

And of course the classic: "I have not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpmid25B_5E

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', '
')These sorry p's of s couldn't just stop and let this guy shoot his gun out and then go arrest him

[Subjectivist]

I watched the body-cam footage and I am with Plant on this one. The guy clear shot first when surrounded by armed police officers. That is a option known as "Suicide by cop" around this part of the country.

[Plantagenet]

Unprecendented spike in crimes and murders occurring in cities across the USA

record-spike-murders-2020

During the Obama administration the term "Ferguson Effect" was coined to describe what happened to a city after the police were demonized for so-called "brutality". It turns out there is pretty much a direct correlation between demonizing the police and not supporting the police and defunding the police and a rise in crime rate and murder.

When the police pull back and stand down, criminals and murderers step up their activity-----that is the Ferguson Effect.

Now, in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matters protests that demonized police across the country, we are seeing a nationwide "Ferguson Effect."

I expected a big increase in crime to happen from the very moment that the mayor of Minneapolis told his police force to pull back and stand as rioters and arsonists and thieves destroyed parts of his city.

And now its happened.....not only in Minneapolis but in other cities that followed down the footsteps of Minneapolis.

The Ferguson Effect is very real.


The Ferguson Effect....demonize and attack and defund the police and---surprise surprise---- criminal activity increases.

[jedrider]

Police 'unbrutality' anyone? The Capital insurrection on 1/6/2020 is your evidence. White privilege in full display and open arms

If they were French, they would have double kissed, I think.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'P')olice 'unbrutality' anyone? The Capital insurrection on 1/6/2020 is your evidence. White privilege in full display and open arms .

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/victimhood/617604/]The Insurrectionists Would Like You to Know That They’re the Real Victims[/url]
The perpetrators of the assault on the Capitol and their sympathizers in the media and Congress lost little time in claiming the mantle of victimhood.

In an absurd video statement released this morning, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida tried to have it every way he could. He condemned the riot and warned against seeking “political shelter in divisive political movements and in conspiracy theories,” but instantly pivoted to talking about the real problem: the press.

The idea that the real victims of the attempted coup are Trump and his supporters comes directly from the president. He has portrayed himself as the victim in chief throughout his time in office, as Yuval Levin noted, and his decisive loss in November has only amplified his already huge grievance.

“I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'P')olice 'unbrutality' anyone? The Capital insurrection on 1/6/2020 is your evidence. White privilege in full display and open arms .

[yellowcanoe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'P')olice 'unbrutality' anyone? The Capital insurrection on 1/6/2020 is your evidence. White privilege in full display and open arms .

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/victimhood/617604/]The Insurrectionists Would Like You to Know That They’re the Real Victims[/url]
The perpetrators of the assault on the Capitol and their sympathizers in the media and Congress lost little time in claiming the mantle of victimhood.

In an absurd video statement released this morning, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida tried to have it every way he could. He condemned the riot and warned against seeking “political shelter in divisive political movements and in conspiracy theories,” but instantly pivoted to talking about the real problem: the press.

The idea that the real victims of the attempted coup are Trump and his supporters comes directly from the president. He has portrayed himself as the victim in chief throughout his time in office, as Yuval Levin noted, and his decisive loss in November has only amplified his already huge grievance.

“I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us.

[EnergyUnlimited]

New troubles are breeding in Minneapolis...
Seems that officers there are confusing gun with a stun gun (or their lawyers are teaching them how to lie ).
They didn't learn anything, did they?
Fine.
Another 1000 of businesses and cars need burning to remind them how to behave.
I am all for that.
Good job BLM - now time to avenge - until society which supports police banditry is either reformed or (failing that) disassembled.

[jedrider]

Interesting how the right here on PeakOil prefers to comment on the Civil War thread rather than a thread more related to White Supremacy

Why This Keeps Happening in Minneapolis
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/minneapolis-police-shooting-daunte-wright-protest-goals.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat’s wrong with Minneapolis is the complete dismissal of its own problems and deeply embedded racism. There is victory and there is progress to be had with white spaces and white community members that are willing to talk about race, but in a predominantly white state, city, and community that refuses to talk about its racial issues, not only can there be no progress, there’s resistance to keep the comfort. In New Jersey, they have the saying: “Only the strong survive.” In Minnesota, only the passive survive. People do not talk about race here. And the more you don’t talk about race, the more electable you are. The inherent problem with Minnesota is the fact that the community perceives itself as nice and welcoming, when really it has one of the longest, deep-seated histories of racism. This is where sundown towns started. A sundown town is where the sun goes down and you’re not white, you go home—otherwise there’s going to be hell to pay. That started here. That’s what this is.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'I')nteresting how the right here on PeakOil prefers to comment on the Civil War thread rather than a thread more related to White Supremacy
Let's face it, the white backlash against 'democracy' is clearly present in our police forces and in our armed services. Shocking? Yes. Surprising? Well, no.

[EnergyUnlimited]

There is nothing racist there.

All what is going on is that when (usually white) police officer sees a black guy (or girl) s/he is simply confusing them with a monkey, pulls gun like on hunting range and fires few shots to get a trophy.

Well, one way or another this practice must end and if not then why not to treat police officer as a trophy too?
Why not to turn hunters into hunted?
Nothing else seems to work and time is running out.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', ' ')....the white backlash against 'democracy' is clearly present in our police forces and in our armed services.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', ' ')....the white backlash against 'democracy' is clearly present in our police forces and in our armed services.