US media entity in accurate headline shocker.

The police in the US really seem to be fully shitting the bed over this. It's almost as if someone in a position of power has encouraged them to use unreasonable force.

America is truly grotesque.

Powerful images G. Fucking sad.

More sickening behaviour by the overzealous cops. Permanently blind a journalist by firing a rubber bullet into her face:

https://twitter.com/isaacscher__/status/1266789231474675714?s=21

This could be tin hat stuff, but theory that white supremacists are firing up the looting wouldn’t be beyond the plans of an evil cunt like Bannon:

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1266741059163389952?s=21

Check out @ddanpereira’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ddanpereira/status/1266771755869319168?s=09

b0r1s, the vid in tweet above shows a white guy dressed in head to tail in balck with a gas mask smashing up a shop's windows. Maybe your onto something...

Dinostar77 wrote:

Check out @ddanpereira’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ddanpereira/status/1266771755869319168?s=09

b0r1s, the vid in tweet above shows a white guy dressed in head to tail in balck with a gas mask smashing up a shop's windows. Maybe your onto something...

I’d read about this but didn’t see the video. So fucking obvious how calculating it is. There is no frustration or rage in that guys actions.

How many UKs without the republic of Ireland would it be then?

The preposterous vastness of the US is something I still can't get past when I'm over that way. I don't entirely understand how the fuck humans grasped it pre-industrially.

Apologies for this, but I don't really have anywhere else to put it and the past few days have upset me to tears. *

*To put that into perspective, my fucking white guy tears don't matter. It's great for me to feel bad, but I'm as racist as every other white guy, as are we all. I just needed a place to vent.

In 1790, Washington wrote that

"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness."

As the "Great experiment" , America has endured a number of things that have undone many other nascent countries. In the UK we have had full revolutions, guillotines and all, and painful Unions of Crowns, but America, as a young and hardy country, seemingly democratic in all it does, has escaped somewhat unscathed.

Sure, there was the civil war in 1860 - every country needs a power struggle to assert its try order, but it's important to remember that slavery was the carrot, not the stick. There's an amazing desire to revise history that states the Civil War was about slavery, but that only became a lynchpin at the end of the matter.
A World On Fire by Amanda Foreman does much to dispel the myth.

It's a country that was founded by those escaping prejudice, forming a country defined by prejudice towards those they selected to build it, creating a constitutional document that neatly sidesteps a lot of issues.

Much has been made over State rule, and this is once gain an area where an African American can feel safe in one second, then be confronted by an AR-15 wielding idiot defending their second amendment whilst buying a Subway.

The American Experiment is a failure in that it failed to temper the initial germs that infected society. There was no "quarantine zone" that allowed a chance for a fresh start because that was counter productive to beating the Brits at their own game. Thus when slavery was abolished it was only because the UK had done the same and there was need to seem as "fair".

Yet as such a young country, those who had grandparents who owned slaves would feel aggrieved. Whilst in the UK there was a massive history of political overthrowals, even at the top level, this became a strictly political issue. Malcolm X and MLK (in that order) raised awareness for what was an absolutely criminal system .

And nothing has changed.

Everyone here knows that African American men are more likely to be incarcerated. Everyone here knows that the police in America are institutionally racist.

And we are all sitting here, like I have just done for a pile of writing, inept.
I spoke with a friend of mine in Salt Lake City, where I went to school, who told me they had never seen police marching in phalanx fashion down their street before.

The American Experiment is a disaster because there has never been a control mechanism. Obama was basically the "release the steam valve" at the top of the pipe. This shit isn't new, it is built into the DNA of America and it's about time the country rebuilds itself.

When your POS POTUS condones brutality it’s an inevitable result.

A radical tweet.

I've seen a lot of ACAB and FUCK 12 written all over things.

Meanwhile I learned something else today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement

What does looting have to doing with the protests?Nothing at all. Just reinforces negative stereotypes.

Looting is the price of this shit. You create a hyperconsumer society, worth determined by access to 'luxuries', people are going to want to consume and sometimes that's going to spill under chaotic social conditions. Again, we saw this in 2011 over here, very similar dynamics. Rubbish policing being a specifically Yank thing that is making this instance bigger and worse.

Dismantle the engines of desire and maybe they'll be less instinct to twoc stuff idk??

Solidarity