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originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: projectvxn
a reply to: Annee
It's a pattern of behavior.
Rioting, looting, murder, extortion, racketeering, harassment, doxxing, terrorism.
They're criminals.
Criminals are criminals
They’re not color coded
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: RickyD
a reply to: Annee
Well you'd think something that makes them look so bad publicly would prompt them to publicly separate themselves from it. Unless of course they suppprt this kind of tactic. They had no problem publicly denoucing the victim making their extortion tactics public...why nothing about the people who did it? If the people who did this aren't representative of the whole why doesn't the whole denounce it?
Probably the same as those who denounce police for doing their job but make excuses for the protesters who allow rioting to carry on in their protests.
By all means. Let’s have a public shaming.
So productive.
Who will it make feel better? You?
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: infolurker
When the BLM extortionists come in to eat, put a little rat poison in their food.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
There is no rebellion that justifies demanding people give their private property to others based on color of skin. It’s the most outrageous thing I’ve heard in a long time. This is the true nature of fascist totalitarianism.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Tekner
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: RickyD
a reply to: Annee
How about we condemn it and rally around the victims and support them ...because that is who needs the support. What would you suggest doing...just drop it and forget about it?
I’m actually not particularly left.
I am a logical realist. And I am capable of understanding different perspectives.
Rebellions are messy. They also tend to expand into all of the following: civil unrest/disobedience, genuine protesting, advantage looting, infiltration, rioting, etc.
The smoldering “volcano” of racial inequality just needed a trigger and it got one.
The pendulum swings.
IMO this rebellion was deserved and needed. The extreme will settle. Hopefully, evolved changes will be permanent.
I can only hope you get to experience some of this "deserved and needed" violence yourself.
Love the emotional responses to a post void of any.
I’m 75 — Born & raised in the Los Angeles area. Just sayin’.
To be clear, I stated: “this rebellion was deserved and needed”.
I did not state: “this violence was deserved and needed”
However, as stated: “Rebellions are messy”.
I’ll remind them they have to play by your rules.
originally posted by: projectvxn
a reply to: Fallingdown
I've never met a soft spoken Cuban.
In my home there's no such thing lol.
On July 24, businesses in NuLu, including NoraeBar, were presented with a list of demands from residents and citizens who are concerned about gentrification in NuLu. Any response we could offer would be far less eloquent than the famous words of Frederick Douglass, which seem appropriate:
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Some of the demands we received will be challenging to implement, yet they seek only a commitment to fairness and equal representation. That a demand for fairness and equal representation feels challenging is proof enough that change is necessary.
So we welcome these demands, even as we navigate how best to meet them. If the demands weren’t challenging, there would be no struggle; if there is no struggle there is no progress.
We welcome all authentic demands for justice. Justice matters. Representation matters. This struggle matters. Black Lives Matter.
originally posted by: beyondknowledge
BLM is doing a great job of turning more people against them. Please, BLM, continue as you are doing and you will be no more.
Why is the FBI not investigating this?