Cboi Sandlin wrote:  Like I said, they did push around the cops a little bit. But from that article those injuries were very minor. That article is just using jargon to make it sound bad, but it really wasn’t that bad.

And what ever happened to JJ Lehto?

JD wrote: Cboi Sandlin wrote: [EDIT]. But they were all perfectly fine, besides some injuries. OMG...do you even hear yourself? Cboi Sandlin wrote: But how are BLM riots justified. What, because of one incident where a black man may have been killed by a cop or maybe the lethal amount of drugs in his system (I honestly don’t know)? This 'Drugs' argument has been totally debunked. Cboi Sandlin wrote: That was one incident, it was bad, but it doesn’t mean that all cops are racist. All of the other incidents I have heard of is from a cop killing somebody in self defense By shooting unarmed people...and in the back? Cboi Sandlin wrote: For example, in one of the incidents a woman was accidentally killed by a cop who missed her boyfriend who was shooting at him. It was in self defense that he was shooting at her boyfriend, and he accidentally hit her. Self Defense?? The cops were executing a NO KNOCK warrant for a guy they already had in custody! They shouldn't have even been there. It was the guy they murdered that was defending "HIMSELF". Get your information straight. [QUOTE=Cboi Sandlin] “Don’t judge the twig in your neighbors eye before removing the log from yours”.

Priceless ! I've never heard that one before.

I don't believe the few right-wingers on here are being honest about their representation of the BLM protests. Or at the very least, they either didn't go far enough with their research or only listen to/read right wing media outlets. What is sorely missing from their arguments is that the majority of the BLM protests were peaceful. They instead are focusing on percentages of incidents that were in the single digits and using whataboutisms to deflect from the uncomfortable fact that we witnessed an attempted coup based on a grandiose lie, forever staining our democracy. It is indeed unfortunate that violence and damage happens at any protest, but not even mentioning the context of said protests is disingenuous at best.

I think that not enough thought goes into what sparked off the BLM movement. George Floyd was not the first black man killed on camera by Cops. Or even the tenth. There have been over a hundred. What else is left for blacks to do. And systemic racism is not understood. It's not the KKK overt type of racism. It's the knee jerk reaction of someone who immediately thinks that the black person killed was the cause of his own death before even knowing the facts of the killing.

progaardvark wrote: I don't believe the few right-wingers on here are being honest about their representation of the BLM protests. Or at the very least, they either didn't go far enough with their research or only listen to/read right wing media outlets. What is sorely missing from their arguments is that the majority of the BLM protests were peaceful. They instead are focusing on percentages of incidents that were in the single digits and using whataboutisms to deflect from the uncomfortable fact that we witnessed an attempted coup based on a grandiose lie, forever staining our democracy. It is indeed unfortunate that violence and damage happens at any protest, but not even mentioning the context of said protests is disingenuous at best. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/black-lives-matter-protesters-were-overwhelmingly-peaceful-our-research-finds https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/ https://www.wshu.org/post/uconn-study-least-96-black-lives-matter-protests-were-peaceful#stream/0

Thanks for bringing this up. The several Black Lives Matter events that took place in Memphis and in the surrounding suburbs went down without an incident. Ironically enough, this is an area known for its violence.

It was especially heartening to see events in a local suburban park where older white people sat in folding chairs and listened to young people deliver articulate speeches about how their lives are in danger. A few totally relaxed police officers stood around talking to each other. You would never see this on the news because the news is into fear mongering.

Edited by Easy Money - August 08 2021 at 18:20

omphaloskepsis wrote: I find it incredibly sad that the media blames Biden for exiting Afghanistan.  The Afghan people deserve their country back.   The media loves war. The only time the media praised Trump was when he bombed Syria. Now, the Media blames Biden for leaving Afghanistan.  Fox, CNN, and the others. I hope Biden pulls troops out of Syria and Iraq. If Biden does that...I will vote for him. However, I fear the Military-Industrial Complex and the media will pressure Biden to feed the war machine.  Let's hope not.

Well except that once we leave the taliban is going to come back in and start persecuting women and Christians. The women there have made so much progress socially and I would hate to see the Muslim extreamists come in and ruin all of that.

Strap in tight folks! Kabul is the new Benghazi.