Thoughts on Minneapolis and the riots

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  1. ImNotOliver

    ImNotOliver Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like indoctrination at play.
     
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    ImNotOliver Well-Known Member

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    The KKK was created by conservatives who wanted to suppress Blacks and other minorities. The antifa was created by liberals in order to stop the efforts of groups like the KKK.

    Modern American conservatives vehemently deny being fascistic (having extreme right wing authoritarian tendencies) yet most support Trump, and a violent show of force to end the protests. One can’t get much more fascistic than that. We all know the real reason conservatives hate the anti fascists, don’t we?
     
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    Suppress them from voting for republicans. It was formed by the dems. Republicans believe in Conservative policies...ie Constitutional. That doesn’t make them conservative.

    nobody wants to end the protest, just the riots and terrorist attacks by the so called anti- fascist that are using the same old left wing tactics of violence
     
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    ImNotOliver Well-Known Member

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    I’m quite certain that most of what the antifa does, or at least what the right wing world claims the antifa does is almost entirely made up fiction. Part of the hate everything on the left ideology that makes so many conservatives sound so foul when they speak. Instead of listening to the propaganda, why not see for yourself what the AntiFa is really about.



    https://rosecityantifa.org/



    From my point of view, it is quite obvious why conservatives hate the antiFa. And it is not for honorable reasons.
     
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    ImNotOliver Well-Known Member

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    How confused one must be to be a conservative or whatever it is you are. Go ahead and live with your tortured denials, but I’m not buying it. But then that is what a liberal is, one who is not led.
     
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    ImNotOliver Well-Known Member

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    Whatever. Ever try a dictionary?

    Slave: a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
     
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    Yet if you get a few friends and poke and stab the bear repeatedly from different directions, soon the bear will wear down and bleed out.

    Ever see a murder of crows take down a much larger animal?
     
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    The Unabomber was a recluse who wanted to tear down the technological world. I am a social butterfly who wants to transform the world into a technological wonderland.

    I have more in common with David Mills.
     
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    Sounds like a reality you aren't willing to face.
     
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    Le Chef Banned at members request Donor

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    I am more literate than you are, and I understand the concept of natural rights, which overrides supposed proprietary "rights" in slaves, and which you apparently never even heard of. So don't snark about dictionaries. It's rather juvenile.
     
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    LOL. That is a bunch of pretentious twaddle.
     
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    Social butterflies are friendly, so ... no, you are not.

    And please stop patting yourself on the back. That's what Trump does. It's embarrassing.
     
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    The rules are that I cannot say bad things about the other guy, so I have to point out how much better I am. But it is not just me. Places like Boulder are full of people like me. That is the beauty of it. It isn’t just that I earned all A’s in college, as a physics major no less, but that I had an opportunity to work with a multitude of other people who had had a similar educational experience. And we competed against other companies who also had teams of people who had also been A students.

    That people like me so often lean heavily liberal is a phenomenon I find quite interesting. So much so that a whole industry was built pretty much on the underlying innate philosophy.

    Could you imagine if Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were conservatives? I can’t.
     
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    Self important much? If only an overblown ego was an asset.
     
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    Whatever. You want to play some silly rights this and rights this bull s$@ game but if one is a slave one is property. Plain and simple. Maybe it isn’t right, but it is what it is.

    Many many years ago, my ancient ancestors used to raid and trade along the water ways between the Baltic and Black Seas. A rather lucrative loot was the captives they would collect and then sell to traders in the Middle East. These captives were Slavic people. Thus when the men from the North traded with Middle Easterners they had Slavs to sell.

    Natural law is law of the jungle. Natural rights is whatever one can fight to defend.
     
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    I got a question: suppose the Proud Boys occupied a street in D.C. and refused to disassemble.

    Would it be wrong to push them back and use pepper spray if they resisted?
     
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    The country is already started. I assume you want to tear it down?
     
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    I did a bit of research on the politics of the state and city where this recent police issue started, that being Minneapolis Minnesota.

    Minneapolis is a city with a long history of democrat mayors and currently, twelve of the thirteen city council members are democrats with the thirteenth being a member of the green party. Both the senators that represent Minnesota are democrats as well as the governor and the Minnesota House is comprised of a large majority of democrats.

    The city has a progressive chief of police that was preceded by another progressive chief of police. The Hennepin county Sherriff is an openly gay progressive.

    The people of Minneapolis are represented by Ilhan Omar and Dean Phillips both far left politicians.

    Every single executive office in the state is held by a democrat or an officially declared non-partisan. There is not one republican holding a statewide office in Minnesota.

    I wonder if the solution to what ails Minneapolis is giving more unaccountable power to democrats.

    I hear the “protesters” shouting for change, maybe the citizens of Minneapolis should reconsider how they cast their ballot.
     
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    FoxHastings said:
    To the "historically illiterate: "Violent protest" is what started this country.



    Then you ASSume wrong....:)
     
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    ANTIFA has been around since the early 20th century... The only reason it's back is due in large part because of infiltration of Communists/Socialists within academia. Majority of the members are white kids who are able to attend advanced education and are indoctrinated by Communists. California is a good example as an ANTIFA member who took a bikelock to someone's skull was a Professor at a Uni. So your claim ANTIFA was created by "Liberals" is false unless you consider all Liberals of the 20s to be Socialists/Communists/Anarchists and saying it was created to "stop the KKK" is also wrong as it was created in response to the rise Mussolini's Fascists in Italy taking power.

    ANTIFA is a Anarcho Socialist/Syndicalist movement with the intention of using militant tactics to overthrow/subvert a nation into aligning with their philosophy.
     
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    I think it's obvious that antifa thugs coordinate their activities. That would make it at best a loosely organized group, but still organized enough in my book to be liable for individual acts of the people they coordinate with.

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