Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

The teenaged white "militia" chump who travelled from out of state to murder people with an assault rifle in Kenosha last night is on video coordinating with, and receiving water and verbal encouragement from, the police. He gave statements that "his job" was shooting people in order to protect concrete and metal.

The system is not the protestors.

tbh if Biden campaigned solely on dismantling the systems that have starved public transport networks, and fully funding the expansion of Amtrak, I'd give him a pass on his call for me to be shot in an artery

I went to Richmond not long after George Floyd. there were many fires there, and yeah, you could tell rioting had occurred, but that city was by no means 'burnt down', and in fact looked like a city transformed in solidarity afterwards. it was fairly incredible to see what they'd done to the monuments, turning them into memorials.

and as we all know, the fires weren't always started by protesters (or its starters were unknown). how many times did we see a white person arrested for the arsons?

Bears reposting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPeD2miyF8

wrt to protesting vs. "burning down their own neighborhoods" it's worth noting that many of the people charged with arson in minneapolis are not from the neighborhoods and not african americans

like these two - one from a small town (monticello mn) of 12,000 an hour away from minneapolis, another from wayzata, i would guess the single most affluent (or at least top 5) suburb in the state

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/wayzata-man-charged-with-arson-during-minneapolis-unrest/89-b5142929-8aa9-4b0f-ae41-42c8b23d312f

I know, I know, this is Bad, Actually, because she is a Bad Person (she worked for Trump! she says she's a Christian! and a Mom!) so this just means that Bad People from the Bad Side are supporting Joe Biden, which means that Joe Biden is also Bad.

Still...

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In 2016 she supported Trump but based on what she saw inside his administration, she's voting for Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/ZjoDpVJBCR

— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) August 26, 2020

"Joe Biden will be more efficient at entrapping Muslim teenagers!"

wrt to protesting vs. "burning down their own neighborhoods" it's worth noting that many of the people charged with arson in minneapolis are not from the neighborhoods and not african americans

Exactly

I think the RVAT ads are all pretty good. effective, dunno, but they are good.

Bad People from the Bad Side are supporting Joe Biden, which means that Joe Biden is also Bad

Indeed, indeed:

https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-joe-biden-trump-maga-1527141

QED, amirite.

Lol at all the people in this thread siding with the most violent police force and country in the world over the people that have been systematically disposessed so that the country could make profits for white folks.

Shame on y'all.

jesus christ

I didn’t see anyone do that. I don’t think it makes sense to see the arsonists as representative of the “authentic voice” of the movement though—I think that kind of romanticization of violence is gross.

Welcome to Strawman Fest 2020

I got ya bud lights heeere

It's not about "authentic voices of the movement." It's about a permanent underclass that doesn't have any real reason not to burn shit. If you never have any hope of joining the property-owning class, what's the argument tying you into polite society?

If you never have any hope of joining the property-owning class and receive no support or reciprocal interest from that class*

People burn shit because they have nothing to lose and perhaps you haven't looked around much but we're sitting at peak nothing to lose for a lot of people.

thread over tbh

🙄

I just will never agree that chaos and destruction are necessary steps in building a more just world. I have not seem that strategy work before, and I am skeptical that it is effective at all.

So, you know, have a good time I guess. Adios

concern-trolling about some arson when people were just murdered by a teen gunman who was palling around with the cops. must be treeship

xp
It's not a strategy you ninny.

I have not seem that strategy work before

France would like a word with you.

that didn't work out well

sure, "trolling." xp

what are we arguing about tonight

It worked out better than in Britain tbh. Besides, someone had to get there first.

xps

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/body-minneapolis-protests-floyd.html

and also, jim in vancouver, acknowledging that this is a tragedy does not mean that the violence committed by police and by right wing extremists is not also a tragedy, and a worse one, because it is more common you dishonest, um, person

Anyway, I maintain that only about half of Revolver lives up to its reputation.

revolver is commendable for its experimentalism but as a listen it's not as solid as most other post-65 beatles releases.

more false notes

Pound for pound, I wouldn't say it's less solid than Sgt. Pepper despite the latter's greater stylistic consistency.

oh i disagree. sgt. pepper's is more cohesive listen and the lows aren't as bad as yellow submarine. but you know what, i'm putting revolver on to see if i still feel this way.

eleanor rigby and for no one are really good. i relate to these songs more than most other beatles songs because they're about isolation and depression.

which are kinda like, the common emotional denominator for millennials.

beatles were shit, also you can’t vote out a white supremacist police state, and fuck your buildings

i think the subtext of these songs, for the beatles, was that the conformity of bourgeoise society caused the misery, and it would be ameliorated by the liberation of the new left. that part doesn't translate as much. all the psychedelia stuff seems completely historical now. 'tomorrow never knows' is more like an artifact than a song, for me. others might feel differently.

respectfully, left, i hate you

'Taxman', 'Eleanor Rigby', 'I'm Only Sleeping', 'She Said She Said' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows' are among the very best songs of that era but the rest (barring 'Love You To' and 'For No One', which are pleasant enough) actively annoy me. 7/14 brilliant tracks do not a classic make!

beatles were shit, also you can’t vote out a white supremacist police state, and fuck your buildings

― ... (Left), Wednesday, August 26, 2020 8:09 PM

how delightful to revel in wrongness! Besos!

the beatles also hated destruction- the system worked out great for them after all

It takes talent, forward thinking, and impeccable politics to understand this thread, so kudos to your conservatism, bad writing, and posturing to get it right, Left. Congratulation!

Left wins this thread for silly posturing.

bunch of tim wises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjBF1uj6Do

beatles were shit, also you can’t vote out a white supremacist police state, and fuck your buildings

― ... (Left), Thursday, August 27, 2020 12:09 AM (six minutes ago)

fuck you and your smug inane trolling on like every fucking thread these days

Ehhh prose too.

Ahh, look at all the lonely people

The bored white teens with no politics smashing windows are on the same team as the bored white teens with fascist politics shooting people, but only the shooters are imminent danger to people's actual lives.