02-08-2022, 02:03 PM
(02-08-2022, 01:32 PM)Skabungus Wrote: Well now.
It's been a while and it appears we still have a right wing that believes Antifa is a living breathing being set on destroying the republic by "burning American cities" and "killing people"..... even though there are no facts to back that... at all.
I wondered where you were. I'm glad to see you back, and I hope that you will stick around again.
As I see it the Black Lives Matters people have far more respect for law and order (they are only against police brutality that is itself criminal) than the people who attempted a Bolshevik-style coup in the Capitol thirteen months ago. Black lives must matter if Americans are to have a good society. If only Jewish lives had mattered in Hitlerland... not to ignore that much else was wrong with the demonic Third Reich, such as its militarism, regimentation, repression, and exploitation.
Most people can distinguish between peaceful protest and such overt criminality as looting, assaults, and property destruction. People aren't being busted for peaceful protests, but peaceful protesters who brought their video cameras to a demonstration to document police violence might instead get video of someone torching a police car and turn that over to the police. Going to a store to take off with electronics, clothes, or toys without paying for them because a demonstration is going on nearby isn't peaceful demonstration.
I strongly encourage people who participate in peaceful protests to show respect for the communities in which they protest by going to the local small businesses and patronizing such places. That's a good way to meet fellow protesters and perhaps even get the message across to staff and owners.
It's undeniable that left-wingers were remarkably scarce in the surroundings of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. There was no counter-protest, likely because moderate-to-liberal people expected nothing to happen until they saw news coverage. I got sick to my stomach when people chanted "Hang Mike Pence".
I've seen video of such deeds as participants attacking news crews... tsk, tsk, tsk. How do such people think that attacking news crews and camera equipment is consistent with the First Amendment? Such looks like a violation of civil rights, a very serious federal crime, to me.
I'm glad to see some old timers here still.
Quote:As we approach the orgasm / crescendo / implosion / explosion / or fizzle that will constitute the end of the crisis era, I have many questions.
Do any of you have answers, or even inklings ?
I regret to say that most people -- even some with whom I have ideological agreement -- have the wrong answers. So could I. Far too little is settled yet.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.