Is anyone else getting tired of this crap ?

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Your comment is literally a contributing factor to the protests ---- that line of thinking. Like the delivery driver stopped in OKC recently. Doing a delivery. Why did that dickhead stop him? He was black driving a truck in Exclusive Ashford Hills. There are troves of unclassified documents showing the governments profiling efforts, but ignore that. Here in Tulsa protests were a great example --- have all the police setup to protect Brookside (a white neighborhood) but let everyone go at 51st-61st and Peoria. If you don't think racism is real, and systemic you're out of your mind.

Making honest observations is clearly a contributing factor to someone else's actions.

Literally, lol.







The founding of our country was literally built on wrecking stuff. Imagine if we all spoke with British accents because people hundreds of years ago had thought "We'd like to throw all the tea in the harbor, but those poor poor tea merchants! Why, we'd hurt their business and wipe out quarterly profits! Let's go back to being taxed without representation chaps, that's much preferred to not being oppressed"

Yes, and if you'll study the Boston Tea Party, you'll notice that the rebels PAID for the locks they broke in order NOT to be considered thieves or vandals. Civilized, polite, focused.

CLEARLY not what we see today.
 
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This incident?


That's another perfect example, but the one we're talking about is the Buffalo, NY PD shoving an elderly man and making him smack his head on the sidewalk until blood pours out of his ear. You have to go to social media sites like Reddit to see the full and extremely graphic footage, because the mainstream media is editing and censoring the footage. :(
 
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Taxation without representation wasn't why we went to war with tyranny, it was the common reason the colonies all joined in the fight. The war had been going since before the tea party. They fought overreaching police states, unjust punishments, crooked appointed politicians, civil forfeiture, and oppression because "colonists weren't british citizens." They were expected to pay a citizens taxes, but had no equal say as a citizen. Sounds awfully familiar to the current state of affairs.

Once again.... Boogaloo?

That's another point! The mainstream media and leftists are working overtime to cast the Boog Boys and protesters wearing Hawaiian shirts (The Big Luau) as "white supremacists". The hell they are! They're anti-authoritarian, anti-communist and pro-civil rights! They don't care one bit about race! Hell a lot of them posting on Reddit ARE black! But yet again, the left must portray them as racist, so they can divide us from each other.
 

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Yes, and if you'll study the Boston Tea Party, you'll notice that the rebels PAID for the locks they broke in order NOT to be considered thieves or vandals. Civilized, polite, focused.

CLEARLY not what we see today.

Did they pay for all the tea in the Harbor --- I've never seen that. I know that the British attempted to extort payment by passing the 1774 Intolerable Act but I don't know if it got paid in the end. But hey, lots of people right now don't see the footage of people going in and cleaning the streets, picking up wreckage, crowd funding medical for the people injured extrajudicially by police.

Our system is rigged and has been rigged for a long time. If a system is designed to incarcerate a group, and then that group is incarcerated at at higher percent than others, looking at the results of that cannot rationally be used as justification for the implementation of the system.

That'd be like if meth dealers looked at a study of users and said "Gosh, these people are addicted at higher rates than everyone else". Well duh! It'd be because meth is addictive. The system is designed to turn users into addicts, just as many of the institutions in the US are designed to create second and third classes of citizens and lock them up or fine them into servitude. Look back at Ferguson --- one of the things that came out of investigating the Ferguson PD was how they specifically targeted black and brown areas, wrote tickets more often, levied fines more often. And if people couldn't come to defend themselves, they'd fine them to creating a debtors class. But I'm sure someone on here can tell me how that somehow isn't right.
 

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We're taught that the Boston tea party was the event that kicked off a war that earned independence, it's only partly true. We spent years pleading with England in a peaceful matter. As actions speak louder than words, the tea party was an event created when the voices were ignored.
 

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Taxation without representation wasn't why we went to war with tyranny, it was the common reason the colonies all joined in the fight. The war had been going since before the tea party. They fought overreaching police states, unjust punishments, crooked appointed politicians, civil forfeiture, and oppression because "colonists weren't british citizens." They were expected to pay a citizens taxes, but had no equal say as a citizen. Sounds awfully familiar to the current state of affairs.

Once again.... Boogaloo?

There's another historical parallel there known as the Boston Massacre which waged unruly colonists with snowballs versus the redcoats and left 5 colonists dead and 6 injured. Kind of sounds like how police in riot gear are firing into crowds against water bottles.
 

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