2020 Dumpster Fire (Enter at your own risk)

[Hayduke1]

1 hour ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Peaceful night of burning American flags and burning bibles. It’s sad that any American that would support this. Could you imagine if I burned other religious books what would happen?

Still waiting to see a legitimate news source to verify.  Not saying I'd didn't happen. Also want to know if it did, in what context.  I know it would be very arousing for the sewing cicle if it did. 

I did find this.  

 

 

[Bison06]

5 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:

Still waiting to see a legitimate news source to verify.  Not saying I'd didn't happen. Also want to know if it did, in what context.  I know it would be very arousing for the sewing cicle if it did. 

I did find this.  

 

 

Your credibility ticks down every single time you roll out snopes as some sort of objective arbiter of truth. 

[Goon]

18 minutes ago, Bison06 said:

Your credibility ticks down every single time you roll out snopes as some sort of objective arbiter of truth. 

His credibility sucks, he referred to  honorable Federal Law Enforcement agents as Brown Shirts. 

It's pretty easy to find this stuff on Twitter and via Google. 

 

[Goon]

Yep, Antifa is just misunderstood. Mostly peaceful, right?

 

[yzerman19]

They want to remake America.  I’ve seen too many images of signs claiming the irredeemable nature of the US and calling for revolution.   This is such a narcissistic perspective with no historical or international context.  One of my favorite signs of all-time flew in Capitol Hill in Seattle.  I drove by it frequently and it said LBGTQ for a no border world.  I for one am proud to live in a country where you can be LBGTQ with equal protection.  I could care less how you were made and who you want to sleep with or how you identify.  The irony is in many, many countries around the world LBGTQ people are considered illegal and in many places murdering them goes unpunished, in some places it’s even state sponsored or condoned.  
 

my point is we have it better than any nation in history in terms of freedoms and opportunities.  To whine or revolt shows a true lack of perspective.

 

[Oxbow6]

Chicago homicide rate up 50% year to date from 2019. July was up 139% from last July. 

#BLM

[Oxbow6]

July was the lowest COVID-19 death total (159) for a full month in Minnesota.

[Goon]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

Chicago homicide rate up 50% year to date from 2019. July was up 139% from last July. 

#BLM

Chicago is a mess right now. 

 

It’s very sad. 

[TheFlop]

Hayduke so about those 6 cops killed during the BLM march in Dallas?

Crickets.

[Goon]

30 minutes ago, TheFlop said:

Hayduke so about those 6 cops killed during the BLM march in Dallas?

Crickets.

I’d like to see him answer that question, too. More from the mostly peaceful. 
 

 

[Hayduke1]

2 hours ago, Goon said:

I’d like to see him answer that question, too. More from the mostly peaceful. 
 

 

Five were killed. In 2016. 

But, what's I am seeing is BLM and Antifa living rent free in your head. 

In spite of way, way more evidence of atrocities carried out against left leaning groups and many times by the police, you cling onto those other situations that happened much more infrequently. 

The facts are there. But, you choose to ignore them.  Fake news in your minds because of your zombie like loyalty to an orange fool who cares nothing about any of us much less our country.  He does like to lie and line his pockets.  Maybe that's why he attracts the minority of folks like you? 

You would love some kind of revenge, wouldn't you?  Is that it?  You know, act out some perverse fantasy agsinst BLM or Antifa for your buddies in the sewing circle?

It would be laughable if it wasnt so pathetic. 

Well, have fun in your fantasy world.  Maybe you'll see more videos and dream of shooting a water cannon at citizens or doing something even worse?

George Floyd died because a cop, while being on video, laughed while putting his boot on his neck until he died.  You apparently don"t give a shi$.  You just wonder why these BLM people and others finally got fed up and are saying enough is enough.  

Maybe if you at least studied root cause analysis you might figure out why the streets have been filled with protesters.  But, I doubt that would happen.

Btw, the macho bull&#036 routine doesn't work on me either. Lol

[TheFlop]

18 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:

Five were killed. In 2016. 

But, what's I am seeing is BLM and Antifa living rent free in your head. 

In spite of way, way more evidence of atrocities carried out against left leaning groups and many times by the police, you cling onto those other situations that happened much more infrequently. 

The facts are there. But, you choose to ignore them.  Fake news in your minds because of your zombie like loyalty to an orange fool who care nothing about any of us much less our country.  He does like to lie and line his pockets.  Maybe that's why he attracts the minority of folks like you? 

You would love revenge, wouldn't you?  Is that it?  You know.  Act out some perverse fantasy agsinst BLM or Antifa for your buddies in the sewing circle?

It would be laughable if it wasnt so pathetic. 

Well, have fun in your fantasy world.  Maybe you'll see more videos and dream of shooting a water cannon at citizens or doing something even worse?

Btw, the macho bull$%!# routine doesn't work on me either. Lol

Non answer?  So why don't those cops count in the corner of those that were killed by left wing extremists?

No one here is defending atrocities committed by far right extremists....but why are the Dallas cops different?

[Hayduke1]

3 minutes ago, TheFlop said:

Non answer?  So why don't those cops count in the corner of those that were killed by left wing extremists?

Apparantly none you will ever figure out in your lifetime. 

[TheFlop]

Just now, Hayduke1 said:

Apparantly none you will ever figure out in your lifetime. 

Crickets.  Why are you so scared to answer the question?

[Rebel_Sioux]

14 hours ago, Hayduke1 said:

329 victims, killed by the extreme right. 

Zero from the extreme left.

Trying to? 

Lol.

I did.  You just can't count.  

Does Amazon sell water cannons?  Asking for a friend. 

Source? Or did it get burned in the dumpster fire

[Old Fella]

11 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

Chicago homicide rate up 50% year to date from 2019. July was up 139% from last July. 

#BLM

Here is some more bad news.

Virus deaths in US now exceeds 155,000.

Up 155,000% since July 2019.

 

 

 

[UNDlaw80]

On 7/31/2020 at 6:08 PM, yzerman19 said:

Social justice is a subjective term.  If it means flipping the system on its head, adopting socialist positions, and vilifying anyone who has earned and achieved more, I am not for it.

if it means treating people fairly, I’m all for it.

like coaching hockey:  ice time will be fair, it will not be equal.

At its core, social justice entails equal opportunity and access for all; which doesn't exist in this country.   That said, how we go about achieving it is where it gets tricky.  

I like your hockey analogy though, but that too should be predicated on opportunity.  Just like Gasparini used to always say ..  “hard work produces results and everyone must receive a square deal.”  

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

5 minutes ago, Old Fella said:

Here is some more bad news.

Virus deaths in US now exceeds 155,000.

Up 155,000% since July 2019.

Just once, I would like for one of you self-appointed mortal cash register ringers to throw up some more numbers, like normal US mortality rates, decreased mortality due to other causes for the same time period, decedent age ranges, percentage of decedents with other chronic/terminal conditions, jobs lost, lives disrupted, business closures, bankruptcies, bill delinquencies...

Or for such an astute numbers guy such as yourself, is "data" really not your thing?

(And your percentage calculation is a tad off, by the way.)

[wxman91]

14 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

Thank God we live in a country where all opinions, words, and symbols are allowed to exist without being infringed upon...oh wait....

Um, yes?  Things can be Constitutional and still be a bad idea.  Burning bibles and Confederate statues as two examples. 

[wxman91]

13 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

They want to remake America.  I’ve seen too many images of signs claiming the irredeemable nature of the US and calling for revolution.   This is such a narcissistic perspective with no historical or international context.  One of my favorite signs of all-time flew in Capitol Hill in Seattle.  I drove by it frequently and it said LBGTQ for a no border world.  I for one am proud to live in a country where you can be LBGTQ with equal protection.  I could care less how you were made and who you want to sleep with or how you identify.  The irony is in many, many countries around the world LBGTQ people are considered illegal and in many places murdering them goes unpunished, in some places it’s even state sponsored or condoned.  
 

my point is we have it better than any nation in history in terms of freedoms and opportunities.  To whine or revolt shows a true lack of perspective.

 

That’s a lot of hand-wringing over 1% of the population who might identify as Antifa supporters. I’m personally more afraid of Evangelical Christians trying to remake the country in their theocratic image.

[wxman91]

On 7/31/2020 at 10:28 PM, yzerman19 said:

Couldn’t help yourself could you?  Sometime I’ll enlighten you to how the world works. Meantime, I’m going back to my $300 bottle of wine.  Enjoy the debacle.  In the end, I will always win.  Hint:  you can too if you stop listening to stupid people and trying to sound intelligent and start working hard at the right stuff.  

Here’s the problem - you think that a $300 bottle of wine impresses people.  I’m assuming that you are a business owner, so here’s what would actually impress us.  How well paid are your employees?  How good are their benefits?  How long do they stay with your company?  Are any of your employees on government assistance?

The world is always going to have business owners and employees.  How the employees are treated is a better measure of the success of a society than the boss’s extraction of wealth.

[wxman91]

@Hayduke - there isn’t a good reason to defend the Portland anarchists.  The peaceful protestors outnumber them by a massive amount, but some assholes just want to watch the world burn.  Yes, the feds ratcheted up the tension, but that is a separate problem.  Destructive protests aren’t helping anything.

Also, saying something absolute such as left-wing terrorists don’t kill people is just inviting a challenge that obfuscates the issue.  Left wing terrorists in the US are more about property damage while right-wing terrorists are more likely to kill.  Leave it at that and it is obvious which side is worse.

[Bison06]

22 minutes ago, UNDlaw80 said:

At its core, social justice entails equal opportunity and access for all; which doesn't exist in this country.   That said, how we go about achieving it is where it gets tricky.  

I like your hockey analogy though, but that too should be predicated on opportunity.  Just like Gasparini used to always say ..  “hard work produces results and everyone must receive a square deal.”  

The problem is people’s interpretation of the words social justice. If it means us coming together and working to provide equal access to opportunities so people can more easily rise, I will literally pick up a sign and stand next to you or anyone else. That’s a beautiful and I think incredibly American project and I fully support it.

To many, equality has morphed into equity and equal opportunity has morphed into equal outcomes. Providing equal outcomes requires discrimination against others, which is just taking a sin of the past and directing it at a new group. Eventually that will create more problems than it solves.

[wxman91]

5 minutes ago, Bison06 said:

The problem is people’s interpretation of the words social justice. If it means us coming together and working to provide equal access to opportunities so people can more easily rise, I will literally pick up a sign and stand next to you or anyone else. That’s a beautiful and I think incredibly American project and I fully support it.

To many, equality has morphed into equity and equal opportunity has morphed into equal outcomes. Providing equal outcomes requires discrimination against others, which is just taking a sin of the past and directing it at a new group. Eventually that will create more problems than it solves.

Tracing from this is the problem with the interpretation of equal opportunity.  There are people in this thread that think that because there are no longer laws on the books that stand in the way of equal opportunity everything is now on an even playing field.  But that is a radical interpretation of the world in which we live with massive wealth disparities and social geography, and the problems caused by both.

In other words, we can’t just wash our hands of history and say that everyone has the same chances.

[Goon]

Yep, mostly peaceful.