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Post by majorminor on Aug 17, 2021 15:17:02 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Aug 17, 2021 15:17:20 GMT -5
For those unable to access the link, here is the pertinent quote [as salvaged from the Strib article] from Devin Hogan, Minneapolis Democratic Party Chair, from an opinion piece he wrote for the Southside Pride concerning the burning of the Mpls Third Precinct Police Station.
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Post by majorminor on Aug 17, 2021 15:21:20 GMT -5
For those unable to access the link, here is the pertinent quote [as salvaged from the Strib article] from Devin Hogan, Minneapolis Democratic Party Chair, from an opinion piece he wrote for the Southside Pride concerning the burning of the Mpls Third Precinct Police Station. It's complicated.
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 17, 2021 15:44:46 GMT -5
For those unable to access the link, here is the pertinent quote [as salvaged from the Strib article] from Devin Hogan, Minneapolis Democratic Party Chair, from an opinion piece he wrote for the Southside Pride concerning the burning of the Mpls Third Precinct Police Station. It's complicated. No. Calculus is complicated. Burning down and stealing other people's shit isn't complicated at all.
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Post by james on Aug 17, 2021 16:03:15 GMT -5
Decades of MPD misconduct and seemingly frequent relative impunity are a complicating factor.
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Post by Shannon on Aug 17, 2021 16:47:15 GMT -5
Is there really anyone dumb enough to believe that defunding police is a good idea? Even us rubes in the deep South know that's a bad idea.
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Post by Cornflake on Aug 17, 2021 17:02:10 GMT -5
"Is there really anyone dumb enough to believe that defunding police is a good idea? Even us rubes in the deep South know that's a bad idea."
As far as I could tell it never gained such support among Democrats. But Fox News and others found it useful to portray defunding the police as what the Democratic Party stood for.
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Post by brucemacneill on Aug 17, 2021 17:09:32 GMT -5
"Is there really anyone dumb enough to believe that defunding police is a good idea? Even us rubes in the deep South know that's a bad idea." As far as I could tell it never gained such support among Democrats. But Fox News and others found it useful to portray defunding the police as what the Democratic Party stood for. Well, none of us deplorables were supporting it.
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 17, 2021 17:21:39 GMT -5
"Is there really anyone dumb enough to believe that defunding police is a good idea? Even us rubes in the deep South know that's a bad idea." As far as I could tell it never gained such support among Democrats. But Fox News and others found it useful to portray defunding the police as what the Democratic Party stood for. Yeah, and January 6 was an insurrection. Sure.
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Post by John B on Aug 17, 2021 18:20:26 GMT -5
"Is there really anyone dumb enough to believe that defunding police is a good idea? Even us rubes in the deep South know that's a bad idea." As far as I could tell it never gained such support among Democrats. But Fox News and others found it useful to portray defunding the police as what the Democratic Party stood for. Yeah, and January 6 was an insurrection. Sure. Yes, it was.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 17, 2021 18:26:55 GMT -5
Yeah, and January 6 was an insurrection. Sure. So, how would you characterize what happened that day?
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 17, 2021 19:11:44 GMT -5
Yeah, and January 6 was an insurrection. Sure. So, how would you characterize what happened that day? A peaceful protest that went a bit sideways due to still unidentifed circumstances, caused relatively minor damage, and resulted in a single death when an unarmed female veteran was gunned down by a still unnamed coward, lasted 4 hours, and has resulted in the most savage display of Deep State viciousness possibly ever. Now, are you seriously going to tell me that compares to a real insurrection that's been happening in Afghanistan?
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Post by billhammond on Aug 17, 2021 19:20:04 GMT -5
So, how would you characterize what happened that day? A peaceful protest that went a bit sideways due to still unidentifed circumstances, caused relatively minor damage, and resulted in a single death when an unarmed female veteran was gunned down by a still unnamed coward, lasted 4 hours, and has resulted in the most savage display of Deep State viciousness possibly ever. Now, are you seriously going to tell me that compares to a real insurrection that's been happening in Afghanistan? My question was not about Afghanistan, but thank you for your description of the Jan. 6 events.
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Post by jdd2 on Aug 17, 2021 19:21:24 GMT -5
Yeah, what about afghanistan...
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 17, 2021 19:36:07 GMT -5
Yeah, what about afghanistan... Just a comparison. Maybe I should have said BLM riots.
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Post by james on Aug 18, 2021 9:36:08 GMT -5
"A bit sideways"
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 18, 2021 9:55:49 GMT -5
Oh, "visual investigations" by the New York Times. A "Day of Rage" no less. Does it include that the only person to die from that "rage" was Ashli Babbitt? An unarmed 5 foot 5 inch tall woman? And we still don't have any official idea which Capitol Police officer (yeah, those honorable bastards) did it. How long is that shitty little film? Does any of it include ANY of the roughly 15,000 hours of surveillance footage that the government has refused to release? Until they're done with it at least, maybe sometime after the 2022 trials of the roughly 550 people in custody. Hmmm...... Did anyone purchase a clue for those journalistic idiots that rage can easily (and justifiably) exist without violence? That perhaps everyone there had rage that Biden had managed to cheat his way into office (how's that going, by the way)? And did these feeble morons include ANY of the footage we've already seen where the doors were just opened to the public like any other normal day (I'm sure your Google skill can find it again if you missed it)? Huh? Or is this just another stupid side light?
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Post by millring on Aug 18, 2021 17:26:24 GMT -5
That's why we have a credibility problem that extends to (but is not limited to) even the covid policies. The very institutions that encouraged and cheered the BLM riots as they decimated American cities (they even called them "peaceful protests"), are the ones who prosecuted the Jan 6 riot and see it as worse than the destruction of at least five (and counting) American cities.
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Post by John B on Aug 18, 2021 17:51:22 GMT -5
Five cities have not been destroyed.
There has been property damage, but five cities have not been destroyed.
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 18, 2021 17:54:52 GMT -5
Five cities have not been destroyed. There has been property damage, but five cities have not been destroyed. Boy, that's picking flyshit out of the pepper.
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