Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)

[campanula]

it’s all of them mate. Every single one.

Really? Might be instructive to analyse what we mean by hippies...because it was a scoffing epithet I derived some pride in, growing up where the antithesis of a hippy was basically the deeply unpleasant, racist and oafish skinheads. The worst I could say was having an execrable taste in clothing (which, in my case, still pertains) and some dodgy druggy use. Course, we are all deeply jaded and cynical but honestly, peace and love really doesn't seem to be such a foul underpinning to a life (if a trifle naive) and not really deserving of the derision on here.

Its probably fair to say I was working class with anarcho-communist tendencies even at 14 or so...and not remotely connected with the studenty/art school types (this was Oldham, after all...not bloody Totnes)

 

[Mation]

Really? Might be instructive to analyse what we mean by hippies...

On this thread? Seriously?

 

[campanula]

replying to an earlier post@Mation. Have you jumped on anyone else going off at a tangent? Still, not wanting to diminish the thread.

eta...and apols, was a bit solipsistic...but (and I am probably digging a deeper hole), I had wandered in and answered a post which caught my eye while not really being sure what thread I was on. Anyway, not meaning to distract.

 

[teqniq]

With passion:

 

[Jeff Robinson]

 

[spring-peeper]

Really hope link works - was posted by a Trump supporter.



Maybe they are not burning after all.

 

[ddraig]

That video is from a while back, remember seeing it

 

[teqniq]

What the fuck:

 

[spring-peeper]

^^^^^

apparently, the police took his artificial legs - other protesters ran after cops and got his legs back
you can see them in the picture above

 

[NoXion]

I've seen similar behaviour from the pigs, snatching peoples' wheelchairs and other possessions, etc. Absolutely no good justification for it whatsoever. Pigs are fucking dirty cowards.

 

[Pickman's model]

I've seen similar behaviour from the pigs, snatching peoples' wheelchairs and other possessions, etc. Absolutely no good justification for it whatsoever. Pigs are fucking dirty cowards.

acab

 

[campanula]

acab

I've seen similar behaviour from the pigs, snatching peoples' wheelchairs and other possessions, etc. Absolutely no good justification for it whatsoever. Pigs are fucking dirty cowards.

They have always been scum. The whole shitty edifice has been based on a culture of contempt.

 

[tim]

If you can't beat it monetize it, is the approach being taken by the Comrades at Twitter

 

[Edie]

If you can't beat it monetize it, is the approach being taken by the Comrades at Twitter

What’s your problem with that? It reads really well to me. Have you read it?

 

[tim]

What’s your problem with that? It reads really well to me. Have you read it?

I've read it and what it tells me is that "Making Money Matters"

 

[Edie]

I've read it and what it tells me is that "Making Money Matters"

Making money always matters Tim, that’s life. Aside from that, what’s the problem?

 

[Orang Utan]

Making money always matters Tim, that’s life. Aside from that, what’s the problem?

Making the rich even richer is not what BLM should be about

 

[Shechemite]

Mammon75

 

[8ball]

My company is being all woke-washy at the moment - they had a diversity and inclusion session that I was not able to make, but I wanted to ask about their stance on a major client that is taking taxpayers' money to research Covid-19 cures but is not making the trial data publicly available. Since Covid-19 has an (unexplained, so far as I can tell) disproportionate effect on BAME people, I can only assume their failure to make any connection is down to their approach re: using this moment as a marketing opportunity.

 

[NoXion]

My company is being all woke-washy at the moment - they had a diversity and inclusion session that I was not able to make, but I wanted to ask about their stance on a major client that taking taxpayers' money to research Covid-19 cures but is not making the trial data publicly available. Since Covid-19 has an (unexplained, so far as I can tell) disproportionate effect on BAME people, I can only assume their failure to make any connection is down to their approach re: using this moment as a marketing opportunity.

Woke-washing; I like it. Perfectly encapsulates the behaviour of all these corporations that have suddenly found a conscience on Twitter as of late.

 

[8ball]

Woke-washing; I like it. Perfectly encapsulates the behaviour of all these corporations that have suddenly found a conscience on Twitter as of late.

I can't take credit for it - seems to have originated possibly early 2019 (probably before), but it fits the bill.

 

[kalidarkone]

Making money always matters Tim, that’s life. Aside from that, what’s the problem?

The sentiment black lives matter being used for marketing purposes is insincere and disingenuous imo.

 

[dylanredefined]

See also: white man with an anti-tank weapon in a shop

Empty tube carried by a total tube. Why?
Even in the states you can't carry a rocket launcher around. Or even own one.

 

[Edie]

The sentiment black lives matter being used for marketing purposes is insincere and disingenuous imo.

Do you see it as insincere? Or do you see it as the tipping point where most people working in marketing, like this young black woman, have a different view? I feel like obviously yes they’re trying to capitalise on it, but not from a place of insincerity (in twitters case).

 

[kalidarkone]

Do you see it as insincere? Or do you see it as the tipping point where most people working in marketing, like this young black woman, have a different view? I feel like obviously yes they’re trying to capitalise on it, but not from a place of insincerity (in twitters case).

Until I see evidence that things are actually changing then yes. Obviously some companies may be genuine but its hard to know which. It's all about action not words. It just words at the moment.

 

[NoXion]

Do you see it as insincere? Or do you see it as the tipping point where most people working in marketing, like this young black woman, have a different view? I feel like obviously yes they’re trying to capitalise on it, but not from a place of insincerity (in twitters case).

Twitter is a publicly traded company and as such is constitutionally required to maximise profits. Shareholders want the value of their stock to increase. Twitter is moving with the times because those responsible for the strategic direction reckon that they stand to profit from it. The people involved may be sincere in their beliefs of woke capitalism, but that does not materially change the function of the corporate entity, which is to generate a profit.

 

[editor]

Balls of steel.

Sacha Baron Cohen infiltrates far-right rally pretending to be racist country singer

Cohen led a sing-along about injecting former president Barack Obama and Dr. Anthony Fauci with the "Wuhan Flu".

consequenceofsound.net

 

[editor]

He crept back in afterwards in a different disguise to interview the organisers about what happened!



And the alt-right bleating

 

[two sheds]

"I've seen some horrors in combat, I've seen some mass graves, ... it took me years to recover, and you know what, I did not know Americans could do this. And you know what, the enemies' bullets are more kinder"

 

[teqniq]