No. That's not what soldiers are shooting at protesters right now, nor is it what bought most of the leading politicians in the country.
Jesus, missing the point is your superpower. I can imagine an X-Men scene where you walk into battle, and bullets, lasers, and arrows all whizz past you, but only because you don't see them. If you ever see the projectiles, then they hit you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/trump-demands-journalists-correct-stories-on-the-use-of-tear-gas-according-to-the-cdc-it-was-tear-gas/2020/06/02/bf68726c-a544-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html Hmm... I thought that it wasn't tear gas...
He and those like him will just keep blaming the victims for their lot, and wanting a doubling, tripling, quadrupling, quintupling, sextupling, etc, etc, etc down on cruelty.
Yes, because all the great dictatorships rose to power on Medicare for all, and a well run post office. Oh, wait....
12. He died weeks after being elected to a 4th term. And while FDR is no hero to Japanese Americans and he should be rightfully criticized for their wartime internment, he was by far the most radically progressive presidents in our history, and he was a Dem back when Dems were the conservative party. Says a lot that FDR would be considered a pinko commie by today's standards.
Guys, seriously, you may all be useless ignorant gun toting yanks, but please stay safe x ALL of you, right or left.
I see the US as closer to a civil war. There is still the major hurdle to overcome. In order to do that there would need to be more widespread conflict that would have to go into the suburbs and rural areas. It is one thing to go fight in the poor neighborhoods, but once it gets to the more affluent areas it is going to have to continue or it will slowly die down. If the suburbs, and I means the upscale ones, start to fight in the streets then there is going to be problems. As it is right now the problem areas are right up the road from where I live. I have to cross through the problem to get to the beach. around I95 on both sides of the highway has a number of ghetto developments. There are a lot of drugs, unemployed, and low value residential property. They are right next to some upscale commercial and beach tourist towns. The police are blocking entrance to the highways and there are protesting going on with the main roads where people can walk from the neighborhoods into it. If you travel less than 2 miles inland you have developments with million dollar homes and high end golf courses. The Boca mall, which is an upscale mall with 5th avenue stores, was the start of some protests, but that was because it was right off of I95. The protestors went towards the highway which led to more depressed areas. Had they gone west they would have immediately come on some very affluent gated communities. It is teetering ion the edge around here, but things are still going away from the high value land. I go east and there is a possibility of running into this, and I go west and there isn't a thing going on. I go driving late at night because it relaxes me. I don't go around 95 because even before this the police look at you differently. If things break out beyond miami I am right next to ground zero, and probably living in a huge target if the mob ever decides it wants to wreck up an affluent neighborhood.
I hope it keeps the momentum but uses its energy in a constructive way... Reform law enforcement and keep cops responsible should be a good starting point...
Getting rid of the ridiculous doctrine of "qualified immunity" would be a big move in the right direction.
Again, not me. You'd be surprised how much common ground the left and a genuine libertarian can have.
We're no closer to civil war than we were in 1965, 1968, 1991. It's just everyone has their nose in a twitter storm.
Oh, go watch old "All In The Family", episodes, Archie called him a pinko and a socialist. And there are political cartoons from the day of his programs being called Bolshivekism.
Not really. The ones that aren't protesting are just more aware of it. I'm sitting in a highrise in downtown Atlanta. I know more about protests from the Internet than I do from looking out the window (nothing). What could be a factor is Trump doing something rash.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs puts out statement reminding Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines of their oath to the Constitution and duty to the People of the United States. Considering what was not said (any mention of the Commander in Chief, need for order, preparing for internal deployment, etc) it sounds like the Armed Forces gonna just sit this one out.
Amy Klobuchar tweets that Officer Chauvin's charge will be upped to 2nd degree murder with (unspecified) charges to be filed against the other 3 officers involved in the George Floyd killing.
So the maximum will be less than 40 years in prison. If they can get the maximum of that with NO chance of parole I would be .....somewhat more satisfied. Still think he deserves to rot behind bars for the rest of his life.
