What happened to fixing things through conversation?

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Ian

As to the elements who benefit, the news right now is the biggest one of them, which is the tragedy in the reality of where we are right now: the narrative (all of them, regardless of perspective) is being controlled, VERY publicly, by people/companies/etc who have no incentive for you to go back to your daily lives.

So if we’re going to adjust/restructure funding for police, maybe we can get a media earmark in that bill too.
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Companies like NYTimes? WAPO? They are having a protest revolt at the moment because the staff, particularly the younger ones, want to be more partisan than, organizationally, they were before.

So this circular fuel will be one more (large) shift to further drive people away from the center - exactly the opposite of what is needed.

[spence]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Companies like NYTimes? WAPO? They are having a protest revolt at the moment because the staff, particularly the younger ones, want to be more partisan than, organizationally, they were before.

Or maybe they're just trying to keep the papers centered. The Cotton op-ed seemed a bit problematic both factually and in spirit from what I read of it. The headline of "all buildings matter" was way out of bounds.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by spence

Or maybe they're just trying to keep the papers centered.

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this is hilarious

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by scottw

this is hilarious

I know, right?

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by JohnR

I know, right?

If that’s hilarious, then how do you classify police in Minneapolis slashing tires on parked cars?
Hysterical?
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[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

If that’s hilarious, then how do you classify police in Minneapolis slashing tires on parked cars?
Hysterical?
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No, It is stupid and childish.

Hysterical was the rumor of the guy that dressed up in black bloc and put Trump stickers on protester cars and the riotous protestors proceeded to bash those cars.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by JohnR

No, It is stupid and childish.

Probably stupid. Probably not childish. The slashers were doing it on orders from higher ups, not on a childish whim. And the Minneapolis police were not involved in the slashing.

From Forbes:

“State Patrol troopers strategically deflated tires,” Department of Public Safety spokesman Bruce Gordon told The Star Tribune on Monday, “in order to stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement.”

Gordon also said that the patrol targeted vehicles containing items used to cause harm during the protests, and admitted that this is “not a typical tactic.”

The Anoka County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Andy Knotz said that county deputies followed orders from the state’s Multiagency Command Center to join the patrol and slash tires.

Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County, and National Guard officers were not involved in the slashing.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

this is hilarious

Sort of like a movement called Black Lives Matter, that vandalized memorials to Abraham Lincoln and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment (all black regiment in the Civil War). What did Lincoln and the Massachusett's 54th ever do for black people, right?

This whole thing is like something out of SNL or MAD magazine. It's a parody of a political movement. It's a farce.

"I care about black lives! So let's reduce or eliminate the police! If we do that, blacks in Chicago and Baltimore will live forever!"

The Washington Post is as liberal as it gets. And according to their data, 9 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2019. Now one is too many, but it's not an epidemic. Coincidentally, that's the same number that were murdered in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend.

But let's tear the country apart over the police, and never speak of what people in the cities are doing to each other. Why ignore the major problem to focus on the more rare problem, you ask? Because the large-scale problem (gang violence in cities, and the socio-economic causes of that violence) doesn't help liberals win elections. Shrieking about police brutality, does help liberals win elections. And that's what this is obviously about.