George Floyd and the Ensuing Protests

[Deleted User 89]

Basically, anyone who isn't far left is a "white supremacist, racist" in 2020. That's how they try to sell it. It's hilarious because by their own definitions, I couldn't be a "racist" because I'm a mixed race.

what are you blabbering about?

ever get tired of being a victim?



oh, and still no comment on Redlining i see...

[twocoach]

Basically, anyone who isn't far left is a "white supremacist, racist" in 2020. That's how they try to sell it. It's hilarious because by their own definitions, I couldn't be a "racist" because I'm a mixed race.

No different than anyone who isn't far right being labeled a country hating, police hating, anarchist pedophile sheep.

[Leawood]

Question: Why does anybody engage Lobster? He is the dumbest dumbfuck in Dumbfuckville.

[Mjl]

Question: Why does anybody engage Lobster? He is the dumbest dumbfuck in Dumbfuckville.

^^

[Walrus]

Yet two more comments about me. I see just how important I am around here to you all.

[twocoach]

Yet two more comments about me. I see just how important I am around here to you all.

So important that the two comments were really just requests for me to stop responding to your posts so that others will see less of you and your comments.

[Walrus]

Here's an interview with "white supremacist" Candace Owens.

[twocoach]

Here's an interview with "white supremacist" Candace Owens.

"Because liberals are after the destruction of America". So dramatic. Nice of her to highlight exactly what the problem is with the rhetoric from both sides.

Look, everyone is overstating everything in an effort to make a point. It seems to be how things are done these days. Democrats want to destroy the unfair, unequal abuse of police power, not "America".

Republicans are making out to be that wanting to reallocate some of the zillions of dollars we spend on the military as "hating the military". They call wanting to get The Bible out of our legislation as "attacking religion". They call wanting to reform police behavior and accountability "supporting criminals". It's all part of the overdramatization that each side does to try to make their point.

Owens' statements in thus interview are no less divisive and problematic than when James rightfully pointed out that "we are literally being hunted" after Ahmaud Arbery WAS literally hunted down in the steets by multiple white men and murdered for simply having the gall to be a black person who crossed paths with those white people.

I love the good parts of this country and I want to see them thrive. But we still have a number of serious issues that yes, I do want to see destroyed. It's called improvement and should be the goal of everyone.

Here's a question. What are some GOP platform items that would improve the overall long term quality of life of a group of people and their future generations? They do a great job at saying what they don't want but that as useful as answering the question "what do you want to eat for dinner" with "I don't care, so long as it's not (fill in the blank)." Zero progress.

[Cascadia]

So i have waited a bit.....but i think it is sort of strange that there has been no talk about the 2 cops shot in LA. Zero outrage.

You don't have to be anti-cop to be pro black lives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/ ... M6Apx1CnNk

[Deleted User 89]

i like how lobs trots our clips of black people that align with his views, trying to convince everyone that we’ve got it all wrong, when those black people aren’t representative of anywhere near the majority of black sentiment across this country

[Deleted User 318]

i like how lobs trots our clips of black people that align with his views, trying to convince everyone that we’ve got it all wrong, when those black people aren’t representative of anywhere near the majority of black sentiment across this country

I read a good piece the other day on how black folks like Owens are making bank right now on these right-wing positions giving white people coverage for saying they aren't racist. I keep Lobs on block because it's not worth my time or bandwidth to see his posts. I'll see if I can find it.

[Deleted User 89]

i like how lobs trots our clips of black people that align with his views, trying to convince everyone that we’ve got it all wrong, when those black people aren’t representative of anywhere near the majority of black sentiment across this country

I read a good piece the other day on how black folks like Owens are making bank right now on these right-wing positions giving white people coverage for saying they aren't racist. I keep Lobs on block because it's not worth my time or bandwidth to see his posts. I'll see if I can find it.

it honestly reminds me of trump trotting out the sole black gop senator at the rnc

akin to “i’m not racist...see, i have a black friend”

edit: i have him blocked too, but often start perusing the boards before logging in...something i should remedy

[Cascadia]

i like how lobs trots our clips of black people that align with his views, trying to convince everyone that we’ve got it all wrong, when those black people aren’t representative of anywhere near the majority of black sentiment across this country

I read a good piece the other day on how black folks like Owens are making bank right now on these right-wing positions giving white people coverage for saying they aren't racist. I keep Lobs on block because it's not worth my time or bandwidth to see his posts. I'll see if I can find it.

Trump has been doing the same thing. He's not a Republican and never has been.

[twocoach]

i like how lobs trots our clips of black people that align with his views, trying to convince everyone that we’ve got it all wrong, when those black people aren’t representative of anywhere near the majority of black sentiment across this country

I read a good piece the other day on how black folks like Owens are making bank right now on these right-wing positions giving white people coverage for saying they aren't racist. I keep Lobs on block because it's not worth my time or bandwidth to see his posts. I'll see if I can find it.

Owens is just a modern day televangelist. Profiting from others gullibility and willingness to believe anything that aligns with a personal worldview is as American as it gets.

[Deleted User 318]

i like how lobs trots our clips of black people that align with his views, trying to convince everyone that we’ve got it all wrong, when those black people aren’t representative of anywhere near the majority of black sentiment across this country

I read a good piece the other day on how black folks like Owens are making bank right now on these right-wing positions giving white people coverage for saying they aren't racist. I keep Lobs on block because it's not worth my time or bandwidth to see his posts. I'll see if I can find it.

Trump has been doing the same thing. He's not a Republican and never has been.

Oh, that's never been a question. Honestly, I'm not pro-Dems or Pro-GOP, but the fact that GOP could be co-opted to the dark side so easily says a lot about them. I lean left, so I vote mostly Dem right now (minus my GOP gov), but I don't know how I could pretend I would ever vote for a Trumpian-Dem like candidate.

[twocoach]

I read a good piece the other day on how black folks like Owens are making bank right now on these right-wing positions giving white people coverage for saying they aren't racist. I keep Lobs on block because it's not worth my time or bandwidth to see his posts. I'll see if I can find it.

Trump has been doing the same thing. He's not a Republican and never has been.

Oh, that's never been a question. Honestly, I'm not pro-Dems or Pro-GOP, but the fact that GOP could be co-opted to the dark side so easily says a lot about them. I lean left, so I vote mostly Dem right now (minus my GOP gov), but I don't know how I could pretend I would ever vote for a Trumpian-Dem like candidate.

Agreed. He is obviously lying about just about everything he says and is wholly incapable of performing this job. He does not have the people skills to succeed on the world stage and is too stupid to even comprehend the daily briefings he should be receiving, let alone form intelligent responses to the details contained in them.

I look at the President as a 4 year contract employee. Team (D) or Team (R) aside, his performance in this first contract does not support extending him on another 4 year contract.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/am ... ke-gardner

in nebraska no less

[Cascadia]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/am ... ke-gardner

in nebraska no less

"Don't worry, white man will be found not guilty" - Lobster

<insert YouTube video>

[twocoach]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/am ... ke-gardner

in nebraska no less

This is the 311 groupie bar owner that I spoke of when it happened.

Sounds like the guys own statements to the grand jury helped make the case against him. Not surprising.

He brought a gun with him to a protest to "protect his property" and then engaged a person who was not at his property and who was not harming or intending to harm his property. Like in Kenosha, some people respond to a gun being pulled on them not by running but by trying to get the gun away from the person. I dont about you but I cannot outrun a bullet so that reaction doesn't surprise me at all.

[Deleted User 310]

So i have waited a bit.....but i think it is sort of strange that there has been no talk about the 2 cops shot in LA. Zero outrage.

You don't have to be anti-cop to be pro black lives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/ ... M6Apx1CnNk

I am not sure what this has to do with anything i posted.