Recognizing a Progressive, Marxist Attempt at Revolution When We See It

[Rocky17]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/26/middle-class_america_and_the_spirit_of_revolution_144298.html

[Neodymium60]

To me, if the death of George Floyd had been reported exactly as it happened, the reaction would have been proportionate.   The headline was 100 times the event and the reaction was catastrophically disproportionate.  Make George Floyd white and no one knows about it.  No riots, no protests, nothing.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Neodymium60.

[Legend]

The Floyd death looked really bad on tape because of the issue of correlation and causation.  the correlation of the cuffed prone knee to the upper shoulders and neck on a black man who was pleading for his life and that he couldn’t breath with his immediate death was a justifiable triggering event for an assumption that the cops caused the death.  I fell for it. It looked awful.

the actual causation:  that Floyd had somehow ingested or otherwise taken (he said he had been “hooping” which I believe means carrying drugs in his rectum)  a fatal dose of fentanyl and would have died if the cops had him sitting quietly on the sidewalk.

The real problem is that, of course, everybody is committed to their position, even the positions that were about police brutality and murder even when there was none.  George Floyd would have died of the cops had given him a relaxing foot rub and sent him on his way.

This episode of american history brought out the worst of the social media age:  bunch of people speculating on what they saw on a video without expertise or even all the background facts.

the cops will walk and Minneapolis will burn again. If I’m the mayor there, I want the verdict read when temperatures are below zero so the crowds don’t get out. No way I’m allowing a summertime trial.

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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)

[rjnwmill]

Would that it was only the Floyd drug death.  You have the Taylor shooting where the first man down was a cop shot by her boyfriend…after they announced before breaching the premises.  You have the shooting of the fellow with a knife who was violating a protective order.

And consider who is pushing the false narratives.  AG Ellison who indicts white cops for murder when the issue is clearly one of use of force procedure.  He slinks off when the facts are fully presented.  Ben Crump who just got his slice of a $14 mil settlement with the city of Louisville.  Marketing, marketing, marketing.  BLM, the offspring of ACORN?  The media.  What has happened to standards in this industry?  Ready, fire, aim for eyes, politics and money?

And the end result…$2 bil in insured loses and who know how much in uninsured losses?

I don’t think we’re so stupid that we will vote for this.

Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long

[Neodymium60]

Let Minneapolis burn.  They voted for it.

I am very familiar with that city and the good people that live there.  You can be too kind for your own good.  An odd paradox.

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