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Merged The Disturbences in Ferguson Missouri...

What riot?
Yes, a very pertinent question. I would say "define riot" would have been a more pedantical obfuscation.


camo isn't riot-gear, it's...camoflauge, which is plainly useless in the middle of a city, and meant merely to intimidate.
Are you a riot gear expert now? FYI Camo is not useless in city environments, it conseals silouettes etc. But why would I bother explaining this to you - you have all the expert information on camo from the proper authorities at salon.com.

And again, what rioters?
Oh sorry. I meant "innocent victims forced by society to loot and burn down their neighbourhood in loving memory of a thug who was killed after he drunkenly went after a police gun".

(ETA: and how is camo "patriarchial", anyway? Seems like you're just tossing out a word you dislike.)
You clearly can't see the patriarchical system at work because you are part of it. Would a woman make such an insensitive and scary uniform? CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!


Well, one of the major rules of gun safety, is that you don't just randomly point it at random people. It's very dangerous, and the gun could discharge and injure or kill that person.
The whole pont of a gun is to pont it at threats. It is and should be dangerous to threaten police or other with harm.

And yet again: What rioters?
And yet again: I'm sorry. It was not my intention to hurt any rioters feelings. I'll refer to them as "victims" from here on out.
 
And yet again: I'm sorry. It was not my intention to hurt any rioters feelings. I'll refer to them as "victims" from here on out.

I believe "peaceful protestor" is the preferred phrase. As in, "Look, the peaceful protestors are peacefully setting that building on fire".
 
Way back when civil rights protesters fought against lynch mobs, now they are the lynch mob.

Way back when in the rarefied past. Back when the civil rights movement was broken by a hostile FBI and MLK was murdered in public. What happened after that, I forget? :rolleyes:
 
Yes, a very pertinent question. I would say "define riot" would have been a more pedantical obfuscation.

As well as a useless question - simply being here is proof that we all have Internet access, and can thus find word definitions. "What riot?" was by far the more important question, since there were no riots taking place during any of the clips I posted.

Although, now that I think of it, "fix everything" is a pretty meaningless term, as well...come to think of it, your first sentence doesn't seem to be connected to anything at all.

Are you a riot gear expert now? FYI Camo is not useless in city environments, it conseals silouettes etc. But why would I bother explaining this to you - you have all the expert information on camo from the proper authorities at salon.com.

Yes, Camo is used to conceal. That's what the word "camouflage" means. But the guys in the picture aren't very well concealed at al - in fact, they actually stand out remarkably.

Oh sorry. I meant "innocent victims forced by society to loot and burn down their neighbourhood in loving memory of a thug who was killed after he drunkenly went after a police gun".

"thug". There's that word yet again...well, maybe you just aren't in the US. Although, I don't know why you think that some drunken thug is at all on-topic.

Anyway, why do you equate standing in your own backyard or walking down the street, in these cases, with being"forced by society to loot and burn down their neighborhood"?

You clearly can't see the patriarchical system at work because you are part of it. Would a woman make such an insensitive and scary uniform? CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!

It's amusing to watch you badly bungle your parody of feminism, but...um, actually, you're so far off from it that I really don't know what to say, especially since this was never the topic to begin with.

The whole pont of a gun is to pont it at threats. It is and should be dangerous to threaten police or other with harm.

Well, I guess if you think that a lone, unarmed black guy walking around is such a threat...then yes, you may want to point your guns at him, before he grabs one of you and slams you into the ground like Hulk did to Loki. For normal people, though, one black guy on the sidewalk isn't very scary.

And yet again: I'm sorry. It was not my intention to hurt any rioters feelings. I'll refer to them as "victims" from here on out.

Well, you can do that, but it'll really obscure things, since that word already has another useful meaning when referring to individual people.
 
Just like you have nothing to offer?

Correct.

I would suggest that a lot of problems exist because too many people are waiting for someone else to fix it..

Well, here's the thing - the actual problem here is another group of people - namely, the Ferguson PD (I've heard via Twitter that other local PDs have actually been pretty good when not in Ferguson itself). The people who live there who are lotting or burning things, as opposed to people who run in to do so, must be extremely frustrated. And for some of them, the no-bill, and possibly the prosecutor's obnoxious speech, were *it*. Same as, say, the South Central riots back in the early 90s, but on a far lesser scale. Or, to use a suddenly overused MLK Jr quote, "A riot is the language of the unheard."
 
Way back when in the rarefied past. Back when the civil rights movement was broken by a hostile FBI and MLK was murdered in public. What happened after that, I forget? :rolleyes:
After that King's assassin was arrested, convicted, and died in prison.

What did you think happened? And what does that have to do with my point?
 
I thought that the prosecutor laid out the facts pretty well. What "obnoxious speech?"
Apparently it was "obnoxious" because he didn't call for the heads of the Grand Jury after they failed to find sufficient evidence a crime was committed.
 
Protestors were blocking the main interstate in downtown Dallas last night. Thankfully I take the train and that seemed to be as steady as it always is.
 
They did the same thing in San Diego this morning.
I know I'm much more sympathetic to protester's cause when they make me late to work, or a job interview, or a doctor's appointment, or cost a stroke victim permanent use of parts of their body because the ambulance arrived a few minutes too late.
 
A peaceful protester in Ferguson peacefully carjacks an elderly man on oxygen's car and then peacefully runs him over: http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_20781.shtml

Another peaceful protester in Ferguson peacefully steals a vlogger's iPhone 6 while he's live streaming the peaceful protest:


The guy on the ground is very peaceful.

The second one is actually funny. The useful idiots think these thugs are their friends. It's funny when they find out they're not; they're just thugs.
 
I know I'm much more sympathetic to protester's cause when they make me late to work, or a job interview, or a doctor's appointment, or cost a stroke victim permanent use of parts of their body because the ambulance arrived a few minutes too late.

If I didn't know better I'd suspect protestors of trying to get attention.
 
If what happened in Ferguson over the past two nights is not a riot, what the hell is?

The real irony is the looters and rioters in Ferguson have done a huge favor for the out and out racists .

No Justice ,No Peace,baby.
 
Why don't all the rioters go after that one officer? You'd think that instead of targeting the elderly in need of oxygen and people who own stores, they would actually go after the police involved.
 
I know I'm much more sympathetic to protester's cause when they make me late to work, or a job interview, or a doctor's appointment, or cost a stroke victim permanent use of parts of their body because the ambulance arrived a few minutes too late.

This.
 

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