09-12-2020, 07:21 PM
(09-12-2020, 06:16 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 12-Sep-2020 World View: Émile de Becque
(09-12-2020, 05:36 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: > Anyway, no pirates. Emile fought a bully rather than being
> involved in any way with politics. It was almost like Xenakis had
> no clue how to respond to my recent posts and had to lie to come
> up with something.
You've managed to build a huge, monumental negative narrative from the
fact that I mis-remembered the details of Émile de Becque's past in
South Pacific. That's exactly the same thing you and others on the
left do do when you take some snippet out of Trump news conferences
and go on ranting forever about that snippet proves that he's a White
Supremacist. It's a standard technique used by the left to cover up
all sorts of things, most recently how antifa-blm fascist thugs are
committing crimes in Democrat-run cities, where they've been
guaranteed impunity for any crimes they commit. For you, one snippet
is all it takes to "prove" some crime about me or Trump, but for you,
burning down a building or raping a girl is not a crime if committed
by an antifa-blm thug.
And believe me, I have absolutely no trouble finding a way to respond
to your sanctimonious crap.
There was a movie about freedom-fighters who did seek the aid of pirates. That was Spartacus, with a gladiator becoming the leader of a slave revolt in the corrupt Roman Republic. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) did have his band of rebelling slaves taking precious stuff from slave-owners so that he could deliver it to pirates who were to take the rebelling slaves home. The pirates would have been paid so well that they could for once do some real good for Humanity instead of raiding shipping in the Mediterranean. I shall not go further. Watch the movie; it is excellent.
South Pacific is done well enough as a movie that one can remember much of it to the vignette level. Many of the details are easy to remember, especially if one participates in the play. (I was in the pit orchestra in a high-school performance, thank you).
Say what you want about Black Lives Matters, but plenty of white people, not all liberal, are getting sick of hearing about black people being killed as the result of police errors -- or worse. Police brutality, contrary to right-wing myth, does not promote lawful behavior by people like the victims. This is not one of those pull-a-gun-on-a-cop-and-die incidents. The job of the police is usually to make the arrest and take the suspect safely to the lockup where what follows is strictly the result of legal process.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have made unambiguously clear that violent and destructive deeds at a protest of any kind are not peaceful protest and are rightfully under the purview of law enforcement at the time of the event (if possible) and the legal system if the response isn't immediate. Peaceful protesters are not reliable allies of those who commit crimes that exploit a protest.
Americans are becoming increasingly intolerant of violent crime of any kind, whether police brutality or outright riot. Cameras are everywhere, and the same camera that someone brings to document police brutality that never materializes might instead catch someone torching a vehicle. Oh... you came to this protest and parked a few blocks away.
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.
