America is Fucked
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- Maaku7
There are all sorts of people in the protest. There are people fighting for racism, there are trolls and influencers looking for clout, there are instigators (white supremacists) trying to make the movement look bad, there's the opposition sending their own instigators to making it look like the gov doesn't have control over the situation. And among all these people, there are those that have been jobless for the last 2 months who are just tired of everything.
- surprised there isn't more looting with 28.5 million (and growing) jobless peoplemoldero
- Give it a couple of weeks, moldero...Nairn
- With each plan shared on social media as truth. Divide and conquer.monoboy
- Good people I know are retweeting fabricated bollocks, and it grieves me.monoboy
- Also vandals, arsonists & thieves********
- yes and the opposition is doing it in blackface.hotroddy
- exactly!!mapleT
- Everything going according to someone’s plan thenSlashPeckham
- shapesalad0
In 2 weeks are we going to seek a spike in cases of Covid-19 amongst the black community in NYC etc? Those young protesters, a lot living at home, bring it home to parents, to grand parents. It's going to be more wood on the fire....
- Doubt it. Infections done pretty much by now.NBQ00
- Why would it only spread to black people? https://static01.nyt…nb
- https://static01.nyt…nb
- shapesalad is racist ;)NBQ00
- If you look at the marches, it isn't just members of the black community out there.
The second wave in America will not be good. Lets not forget the open thePhanLo - economy marches last week.PhanLo
- Sorry, wasn't aware I was being racist. Just saw on the news lots of young black kids protesting, and so just thought about that.shapesalad
- I guess there are protestors and police of all races and so... same thought, are we seeing a covid spike in 2 weeks?shapesalad
- And my first thought was more out of concern, as I remember seeing a news report about NYC: disproportionate amount of covid deaths in black community.shapesalad
- And so I was thinking about that, and how if covid deaths spike in the community, it'll only add more pain and anger and despair...shapesalad
- I guess there's no answer to it all. Everything is unfortunately happening at once and seems to be spiralling downwards....shapesalad
- "Just saw on the news lots of young black kids protesting." That's fair. But you may want to change the channel. You're not seeing an accurate picture.nb
- (re: protests in NYC)nb
- "Doubt it. Infections done pretty much by now.
NBQ00"
And the idiot of the day award goes to...MarleyMarl - Marley you been brainwashed by 5G and chemtrails.NBQ00
- Bobo, is that you?MarleyMarl
- I need to put „I‘m joking“ or „I‘m sarcastic“ after every note :)NBQ00
- Yes. Because you suck at sarcasm and jokes. :)monospaced
- Y'all tense and serious :)NBQ00
- grafician2
"For the past fifty years, police unions have done their best to block policing reforms of all kinds. In the seventies, they opposed officers’ having to wear name tags.
More recently, they’ve opposed the use of body cameras and have protested proposals to document racial profiling and to track excessive-force complaints. They have lobbied to keep disciplinary histories sealed.
If a doctor commits malpractice, it’s a matter of public record, but, in much of the country, a police officer’s use of excessive force is not. Across the nation, unions have led the battle to limit the power of civilian-review boards, generally by arguing that civilians are in no position to judge the split-second decisions that police officers make.
Earlier this year, Newark created a civilian-review board that was acclaimed as a model of oversight. The city’s police union immediately announced that it would sue to shut it down."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazi…
This was written in 2016!
but more recent stuff here:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/…
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this would be the first problem to tackle, if this gets a fix quick, the other big reforms concerning racism, discrimination and lack of equality would follow...
but for sure the US can't do this under a Rep Gov and not under Drump.
- A close friend of mine is highly ranked and decorated police officer in Philadelphia. Here is his take. When he disciplines is officers for just about...utopian
- From what people understand, basically the police in the USA have become a state within a state! They have the unions taking care of everything for them.grafician
- ...anything, infractions, complaints, his orders they are either dismissed by his superior officers and or by the Police union. He is repeatedly told to play...utopian
- nicely in the sand box and not to create additional internal issues. He said that its almost impossible to have another officer fired, regardless of the...utopian
- ...offense. He said every single police district within the city is like its own very own high school. Bullying, racism....utopian
- ...petty fighting amongst each other, etc... It is impossible to make any changes from within the police because of corruption, internal power struggles...utopian
- ...egos and maintaining the status quo. The police in the United States will never change unless society and congress forces reform unto the cops.utopian
- This is a very dangerous situation for a democracy.grafician
- Look at this, whois running the show, this just in https://twitter.com/…grafician
- "NYPD chief calls for Cuomo to apologize publicly for making 'disgraceful' comments about officers"grafician
- grafician2
LISTEN TO THIS!
- lowimpakt7
"Terrifying photo of armed ANTIFA forces looking to start shit on an otherwise beautiful, peaceful beach."
- nb-1
"I’ve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history, with the possible exception of another Republican President, the late, great, Abraham Lincoln...and it’s not even close."
- Donald Trump via Twitter today. June 3, 2020
- nbq1
America is so fucked that it is fuckin itself.
- Meanwhile China slowly moves forward...shapesalad
- ^yupmoldero
- scruffics2
Fuckety fucked
- Krassy3
- You just won the America Is fucked Award.
Congratsnbq - What is going on here? Story?tank02
- Drugs are a hell of a drug.Nairn
- Is he a rugby player from the Borders?PhanLo
- keeping the socks on is a clear sign that he's not thinking straight.Fax_Benson
- haha phanlo - i saw that vid, if it's what I think - and he was Northumbrian :)
And yes, socks - bad, bad move.Nairn - Oh fuck I almost died laughing********
- You just won the America Is fucked Award.
- whatthefunk16
- Gold!aslip
- looting for tech gadgets and high fashion is first world privilege with third world mentalityhotroddy
- depends how the riots evolve ..neverscared
- grafician6
- Slow progress, but progress!nb
- This Tweet if from the future. I guess it's 9:18PM Somewhere.aslip
- @aslip maybe the time of tweets is relative to local time of the user seeing it or something, idkgrafician
- Omar Jimenez is the CNN reporter that got arrested by the Minn. police. But where is it 9 PM already?fooler
- @fooler yup and he just got apologies from the Gov it seemsgrafician
- https://twitter.com/… it says 11:15PM on that tweet!grafician
- pango3
- stoical fuckerFax_Benson
- Oh, a punch to the jaw, how imaginative.Fax_Benson
- Who is this cunt?NBQ00
- This was from Charlottesville 2017
https://twitter.com/…Crack_Junkie - I dunno, he could just really be into Superman. and I mean the comic, not some ünter-übermensch.Nairn
- Have you seen Kyle? He is this tall.teh
- NBQ000
How many of you living in cities like NYC, LA and so on are planning to move away to small towns and suburbs or even somewhere more remote?
- or out of the country?grafician
- That tooNBQ00
- but nah, stay and fightgrafician
- I never considered it until the COVID lockdown. Now, it's a talk I've had with my partner. However, it's easy to downplay the commute when you're not doing it.nb
- I feel that's the commuter trap that gets most people. They tell themselves that 30+ minutes extra on a train won't be so bad. But it's bad.nb
- I’m in NYC. I’m not movinghardhat
