The Warlord
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- Aug 21, 2018
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Police brutality has existed as long as there has been police, everywhere in the world. It is not something unique to America. My point of the state issue is the state police is a state jurisdiction, say you are elected as president of the USA, if you attempted to force some kind of change to the police, you would be dragged to court and blocked, much like with what has happened every time Trump has attempted to do something he has lacked jurisdiction.
My amusement at the Trump derangement syndrome exists because in almost every facet Obama was as bad, if not worse, and nobody ever called out his s**t. Because he has a silver tongue and understands the political game, people excused him for every atrocity under the sun, some felt they couldn't criticise him because he was black. I think if you treat people differently or hold them to a lesser standard you would someone else then to me that is soft racism, the bigotry of low expectation. I think if Trump said what people on the left wanted to hear but did what he has done regardless then people would have been less hysterical about him. If optics is the only issue then the country is never going to change.
The vast majority of black deaths come from Democratic strongholds and black people largely give the Democrats their votes by default regardless of their policies or their lack of track record in actually doing something to help them. Even though black people are only 13% of the population, they have significant political influence in the states where their numbers are concentrated, the same states which have violence issues, crime issues and police brutality issues. They need to use their political influence to get people elected who are actually going to produce results, regardless if those candidates are democrat, republican or independant. If you keep rewarding political parties that do nothing with your automatic vote, they are going to continue to do nothing because they have no incentive to elevate you out of the gutter if you living in the gutter guarantees them your vote.
The status quo has existed for so long because nobody is being forced to produce results. The president doesn't have the power to make the changes you think he can make, it has to come from state governments.
The Minneapolis chief of police is Medaria Arradondo, a black man. Do you think he is all for police murdering civilians, particularly black civilians? He has been chief of police since 2017. His predecessor was Janee Harteau, she was native american, openly gay and female, she ticks all the diversity boxes, she resigned after the Australian woman was shot dead by a Somali-American police officer. Why aren't all these diverse people making any difference to the Minneapolis police force despite having an active role in employing, training and micromanaging these police officers. You think someone who has the macro responsibility to run the country can micromanage ever single police force?
If the black people don't blame trump, why are they marching on Washington? What do they expect him to do when he doesn't have any authority over the state based police forces. If Obama couldn't get anything done as a Democrat, what do people honestly think Trump can do?
The protests started and continue to be peaceful.
I make the distinction between protestors and rioters/looters/thugs. I do not think they are the same people and there have been clashed between peaceful protestors and the other group as they do not want their protest associated with their criminal behaviour.
I do not believe for a minute that Floyd protestors are killing black people, like David Dorn, who was trying to protect a pawn store from being looted, or the many black business owners who had their businesses destroyed by rioters and looters. Do you think they are protesting Floyd's death by murdering black people and destroying business owned by black people?
I am not going to link it but there is video of Dorn's death, it is quite confronting and I think people need to see it if they are conflicted between the different groups. If you look at the violence inflicted on innocent civilians who had the misfortune of being in the way. To blame this on police or excuse their behaviour is surprising. They even took a puppy from a shelter, tortured it on live tv and ended up killing it by choking it to death. Calling these type of people animals is an insult to animals, animals do not know cruelty or malevolence at this level.
Do you think people mourning Floyd's death and want to see justice are the same people killing black man like David Dorn?
People on the left have a neurotic fear of fascists, which do not exist in the Republican party, but are also the same people who covert with people who do not make any attempt to hide their batshit crazy authoritarian far left ideology. People should actually go to the Antifa website and see the kind of s**t they stand for.
This fascist bogeyman doesn't exist, sane people across the world aren't afraid of a far right uprising, they are afraid of the far left lunatics, it is why almost every western country and shifting towards the right, it isn't because they want a fascist government, because we have safeguards to protect ourselves from fascists... it is the fear of the murderous regimes people on the left openly cavort with make excuses for their abhorrent behaviour. It is disturbing, to put it mildly.
The Antifa website? The one run by white supremacists.
Lol at the "neurotic fear of fascists".
You really do live a sheltered existence.