World uneasily watches US protests

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  1. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't give a damn about NK. It will buckle under its own weight sooner or later.

    And if China buckles sooner, then NK will follow immediately.

    China cannot fail economically, but politically it's a straw edifice with one man in charge. And as people start feeling secure about their economy, they then start wondering about a useless political hegemony ...
     
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    then why you compare US human right vs china.
     
  3. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How about explaining why I DO NOT CARE TO PURSUE that particular venue, which is my choice and not yours.

    There is no comparison possible with the US (a democracy) and NK (a family dictatorship)

    Kindly keep your suggestions to yourself. Or you will go on "Ignore" ...
     
  4. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    MANIPULATE IS A KEY-WORD IN AMERICAN POLITICS

    Because the US, as much as it as screwed up the essence of Democracy, is still the "model". That is the separation of powers (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) - with two-out-of-three all subject to the popular-vote*.

    China is nowhere near that ideal ...

    *Which we screwed up at the very beginning of the 19th century when we passed the Electoral College that manipulates the popular-vote - which, in any True Democracy, is and should be unmanipulable.

    And, as we have seen, with sufficient succession of Replicant presidents, a party can also manipulate the vote in the Supreme Court
    ... !
     
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  5. LafayetteBis

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    I'm not comparing Human Rights with either China or NK. It's not worth the effort.

    They are communist dictatorships and thus incomparable with anything even resembling governance of a democratic nature (of which there is good, bad and ugly). PrettyBoy (NK) has likely decided he wants a piece of the China's MoneyPie. (Perhaps to go skiing in Gstaad? I'll bet he's already got a stock of money in some southeast Asian bank.)

    There's a BigDifference between China and NK. China has a highly developed manufacturing activity, whilst NK does not. Besides, I doubt China wants the NK competing on foreign markets. Communist Domination Rule N° 1: Keep them fat, dumb and happy - but above all "dumb". The Smart Ones you put on a tight rope and execute them when they go astray. The other smart ones will take note of the rules.
     
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    would you start with the white racists or the black racists? How would you identify them and how would you get rid of them?
     
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    2011 Gaddafi in Libya was hiding in a sewer awaiting peoples rage.
    2020 Trump in USA hides in a Bunker from it's own people.

    How karma gets you. To bad this did not happen to the Democrats.
     
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    then why are you comparing it, in your OP? this sound like compare to me

     
  9. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Much ado about nothing ...
     
  10. LangleyMan

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    I'm being facetious.
     
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    So am I.
     
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    The world doesn't have to be nervous. The US has tons of guns in it. Almost everyone has a gun. So we can defend ourselves from riots.

    We also love to take drugs. So if the guns don't work we can take all our drugs.

    Why would the world be nervous?
     
  13. LafayetteBis

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    That in a drug-driven frenzy we start killing one another - at present, one half for PotUS the other half against the SoB?

    Nahhhhhh ... ?
     
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    But it isn't half and half. And the military is recognizing trump as a threat to the Constitution.

    Our soldiers do not swear an oath to protect the president. They swear an oath to defend the Constitution.

    Don't be fooled by what is relatively minor rioting. That is pretty much over with the vast majority of the protests being peaceful.
     
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    Famous bail opponent suddenly wants cash bail back

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    The times they are a’ changing.
     
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    Mission statement for Open Society Foundation:

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    If you visit the page, you will see a list of projects that they support. You'll notice that the list does not include BLM. You also have to admit that their mission statement does not include silencing opposition views, burning down buildings or looting businesses. But that is exactly what BLM does, and Soros has not pulled funding from them. What can we conclude from that? That Soros run terrorist funding programs lie about their intent and objectives in their mission statements.

    So, you have bupkiss!!!!
     
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    Anarcho-communists aren't Trump's people.
     
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    Another false narrative. Witmer's actions were keeping areas that did not have a large number of cases of COVID-19 cases. There were no reason for these areas to be shutdown. Once it was apparent that these areas were not a large number of cases in these areas, they should have been reopened, but Whitmer kept extending the shutdown for these areas also. Why?

    One point disproves you assertion. Whitmer released the stay home order in upper Michigan just days before Memorial Day. Her husband then requested the marina where their boat is stored outside of Traverse City, MI. Whitmer specifically asked people not to descend on Traverse City. Obviously, the Whitmers were planning to spend their holiday in Traverse City, but had to change their plan when the marina owner published the Governor's husband attempting to use wife's influence to get their boat into water. You might want to notice that the Governor lives in Lansing in Ingham county. Ranked ninth in the state for the most cases, and was at the time still on lockdown. Does not sound like she had saving lives on her mind to me!!!!
     
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    Next you will be saying she should do it block by block not in 8 sections. :)
    It didn't seem to bother the protesters to travel down and force the closure of the government.
     
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    Ignored the point again!!!! Whitmer kept things locked down while it suited her. She then removed restrictions when it suited her. You will notice that Traverse City went from lockdown to no restrictions, all at once, just before the Memorial Day Weekend. Awfully convenient for the area that the Governor was looking to take a trip to. Was she planning to self-quarantine for 14 days at her vacation home?

    You are also displaying a double standards here. Your blasting the citizens of Michigan peacefully protesting unnecessary lockdowns orders, but ignore that fact that the George Floyd protestors were not wearing masks or social distancing. At the same time, their protests were far from peaceful. So, why the double standards? Because you have no real legs to stand on?
     
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    Traverse City had among the lowest number of cases in the state. She just can't make you happy.


    I already answered this question. The governor was saving lives. The cop was killing an unarmed handcuffed man in cold blood.
     
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    How does going from a locked down area with 766 cases to an area that only has 30 cases saves lives?

    You also need to remember your original false narrative. That the Operation Gridlock was a violent protest and the George Floyd protests have been peaceful.
     
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    1% more? Now if she was in Detroit you might have a point.
    Keep your words out of my mouth. I don't like where they have been. I said they were domestic terrorists.
     
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    So no Antita as you claim.
    Your BLM claim is complete bogus. You can't show BLM supporting and promoting burning or looting. You are making that up.
     
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    I don't know if China will ever get rid of the man in charge, since some nations want to hang on to the person that brought them up in the world. Germany comes to mind.

    As for freedom, that depends on how secure a nation feels. The more threatened a nation is by Washington, the less freedom they will want or get. That stands for N. Korea and Iran as well.
     

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