The President has acted boldly and forcefully. All the members of Antifas Central Committee have been arrested.
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Why are people even replying to octopus?
It’s like edging, but for democracy rather than sex.
To keep him occupied in the pit, rather than having him shit all over the rest of the board. It’s a public service.
Good point. Japan, a socialist country, turned a smoking nuclear crater into a thriving metropolis in just a few decades. Capitalist America couldn’t even rescue Detroit from the decline of the car industry.
What’s that you say? The vaunted Japanese recovery only worked because of vast infusions of American investment? Gosh, it’s almost like American socialism also works great when we care enough to try it.
Japan was never even close to being a socialist country.
This is the Pit, not the Forum For Incredibly Hilariously False Statements.
Wait, “only one instance of the police looting”? “Only”? In what world is “only one” instance of that acceptable?
Although, as your own cite points out, socialist parties and aims played a much larger role in Japanese governance during about the postwar half-century (during which Hiroshima was rebuilt) than they do now.
In fact, anybody who’s genuinely as much of a “small-government conservative” as octopus likes to claim to be would absolutely crap themselves with horror at the extent of the “statist” “nanny-government” centralized planning and funding process that was crucial to the reconstruction of Hiroshima. Foreign militaries approving public works projects, central government giving away land, municipal housing projects construction, government agencies all over the place.
Eh, my views on pure market economies are shifting over time. Just like my view of the death penalty and same sex marriage has shifted.
They didn’t wear their MAGA hats, but they certainly look the type.
I don’t see them looting or setting fires. I see them ready to crack some skulls though. I’m not seeing the equivalence between a group protecting property and a group engaged in terror.
You are very clearly ignorant of the political history of Japan following WW2, and the degree to which the government directed industrial organization and investment, the fostering of labor unions at American behest, and the degree to which Japan even to this day resembles the socialist policies of Nordic countries.
But this is clearly destined to be an argument that depends on defining socialism as a planned economy where people eat dogs, so have fun with that. Crack open a history book if you get bored.
:dubious: You read the report of “n-words flying” and the overheard statement “I’m ready to fuck shit up. you know ive been looking for a fight for the past 6 months”, and the conclusion you draw is that they’re just a well-intentioned “group protecting property”?
How about when you saw the photo of the bloodied face of the guy documenting their presence, who posted that “they beat the shit out of me” for videoing them?
How about when you saw this photo posted by a Denver Channel 9 news reporter?
Sure looks to me like domestic terrorism is in fact exactly what these white guys are going out there for.
Well, whether used for for nefarious purposes or not, I don’t think they’d stack them neatly in the bed of their truck when they could just toss them, as you say. Therefore, I don’t think the orientation of the bricks is a reliable indicator or their use. But, I think I can now start the narrative of Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory (to come).
George Floyd is still alive and being held in a warehouse in Cleveland along with his high school friend Derek Chauvin. Floyd’s photoshopped death was used to ignite The Black Folk into a hate frenzy, to usurp Trump. Floyd’s family members are conscripted actors (editorial: who did a fantastic job, those tears!). Anticipating that The Black Folk wouldn’t comply, the Antifa, Far Left Cabal would enact their Contingency. Start rioting, looting, and fomenting Black vs. White violence. White Supremacists (WS…don’t confuse with World Series, which isn’t happening this year) attach their agenda to Antifa because it seems to suit them. George Soros funds the Boston Police Department (among others) to manufacture bricks and strategically place them around towns for his vassals to use against them and break windows, because the hapless rioters can’t find anything else to break windows, I guess. You get idiots challenging police trying to restore order, maybe killing to do so, and dumb people perceive that as police aggression and anti-Constitutional. Now, as Barack Obama intended, we have a Civil War-like contest, where Whites remain dominant, as is Providence, and we only have to deal with occasional Black Grievances, and lose a few buildings and their inventories, which is, of course, acceptable, because Blacks, after the smoke clears, will remain subject.
Large segments of people in these black neighborhoods hate white people and hate our government. Until you change that, I don’t know how you fix it.
Please provide a cite for your claim that large segments of people in black neighborhoods hate white people. Thanks!
And how would you change that?
My phone won’t let me search, so if anyone wants to for me-back in March, someone posted that astrology boards were predicting riots and civil war because of the conjunction (in March)of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Looks like they were right. Always watch out for Uranus.
Why wouldn’t they?