Riots, looting, vandalism, etc.

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Emily's Cat said:
Jesus christ. Okay, if this actually were a war, and there was the "Protester" side against the "Cops" side of the war... what we keep seeing is the "Protester" side attacking civilians.

Black people have a completely legitimate gripe against police. 100% support that. I'm not seeing how that makes it acceptable to just brush off a bunch of white people intimidating and yelling at a person who isn't a cop at all.

This is not okay.

Nobody should be brushing this off as no big deal.
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Strange that the posters who are dismissive of the issue of black people being murdered by the police don’t receive similar admonishments from you. You know, because of how much you champion that cause and aren’t at all just paying lip service to it to bolster your argument.
 
Emily's Cat said:
I have a lot of concern for people who are dying from COVID as well as from unjustified use of police force.

Even so, I really strongly feel that mob intimidation should NOT be normalized.
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And for some mysterious reason, you only actually express outrage over some of those issues.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
Breaking reports that Kyle Rittenhouse arrested in Illinois on the first degree murder charge.

To think, Kyle could have just stayed home rather than travelling to another town for the purpose of killing protesters.

Looking forward to finding out how a 17 year old had access to a rifle and a car to travel overnight to a riot out of state.
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I'm sure Antifa bused him in
 
Any armed anarchist is a soldier in this war. They are left wing.

Kyle Rittenhouse is also a soldier and he is with the opposition. They are right wing.
 
johnny karate said:
And for some mysterious reason, you only actually express outrage over some of those issues.
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I get very frustrated at the tactics and the seemingly bloodthirsty nature of some few posters. I do not approve of the willingness to tolerate "collateral damage" in the zeal to impose their ideals on others.

I don't really need to express "outrage" over the killing of Floyd or Arbery or any of the other recent events. The outrage is already there, and I'm clearly in support of reform... and the very few people who seem to defend Floyd being killed as appropriate and justified are largely people I don't interact with. There are a few who are taking positions I disagree with, but who haven't reached a level where I feel a need to avoid them yet.
 
Another unarmed black man is shot by a cop and a gun-toting right wing kid kills two protesters and wounds a third, but a white woman got yelled at and it was totally unfair and we need to talk about that.
 
uke2se said:
Another unarmed black man is shot by a cop and a gun-toting right wing kid kills two protesters and wounds a third, but a white woman got yelled at and it was totally unfair and we need to talk about that.
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Yeah, I suppose that's the kind of asinine noisemaking it's best to simply ignore, along with the users who posted them. Leave the weaponised class clown without an audience.
 
Insider said:
Hours before the police named Kyle Rittenhouse as a suspect, web sleuths had already gone to work tracking him down online and shared details about his social-media presence.

On Facebook, Rittenhouse, who lives about 40 minutes from Kenosha, posed with his long gun in American-flag slippers. Several of his photos on Facebook were set on the background of Blue Lives Matter flags and insignia.

One photo from 2017 shows him dressed as a safety cadet, a program for youths interested in law enforcement, at Target. The photo has since been removed.

Rittenhouse was also identified in a local newsletter as a "fire protection cadet" in the same region of Illinois.

His Instagram also has a Blue Lives Matter backdrop, but was set to private on Wednesday...
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https://www.insider.com/kyle-rittenhouse-who-shot-kenosha-protesters-was-obsessed-with-cops-2020-8
 
Why did the kid buy his Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun from a Tyrannosaurus rex?

Because he was a small-arms dealer.
 
Emily's Cat said:
Edited by Agatha: 
Removed mention of ignore list
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That’s convenient.

Emily's Cat said:
I get very frustrated at the tactics and the seemingly bloodthirsty nature of some few posters. I do not approve of the willingness to tolerate "collateral damage" in the zeal to impose their ideals on others.

I don't really need to express "outrage" over the killing of Floyd or Arbery or any of the other recent events. The outrage is already there, and I'm clearly in support of reform... and the very few people who seem to defend Floyd being killed as appropriate and justified are largely people I don't interact with. There are a few who are taking positions I disagree with, but who haven't reached a level where I feel a need to avoid them yet.
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If you say so.

The problem is that a lot of the time the posts you are responding to are in response to these posters you claim to be ignoring. The result is that your engagement in these discussions appears one-sided.

Perhaps better options would be to engage in the whole discussion or not engage at all.
 
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