United States George Floyd Protests, Reactions and Riots

CarlManvers2019

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The whole racism angle is just a front, in my opinion; what they're really angry about is when members of their tribe are killed by people from the enemy tribe. They don't care when black cops die, because they're members of said enemy tribe; and they don't care when members of their tribe kill black people, because they can't blame that on the enemy tribe.

If it’s tribalism they want, then I can expect a number of “POC” joining up with the “white supremacists” and forming their own communities

These ones, unlike theirs, may ironically have more sense of family and community, more people who know each other and have barbeques together and even take care of each other’s kids

They won’t count as “POC” anymore
 

bullethead

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You know, if this had happened anywhere else, this would be a huge plus:
Three people were injured Friday afternoon during a protest march after a deer ran into the crowd, police said.

As the group was walking along Route 522, the animal ran from the high school property and into the marchers, according to a statement from the South Brunswick Police.

Police officers were escorting the marchers and were able to provide aid to the injured people, who included a 69-year-old woman, authorities said.

This one deer could probably clear out the CHAZ by itself.
 

CarlManvers2019

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JagerIV

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Thousands of people marching armed in Virginia shows some clear organization and political objectives both. Watch the state and local elections there in November to see if that is sustained into something larger as well.

Eh, I think Virginia showed that gun owners are totally harmless: there is no actual line where they will actually do anything meaningful.

On your earlier points

1) Who cares what the 40% who are out of power say? The fact that were retreating now speaks to no ability to hold ground or retake ground. Okay, the ideologically hardcore are pushed out into isolated farms and such in Idaho and other small, irrelevant states. If Texas and Florida can be turned solid blue, so its not conceivably possible for the republicans to win the Electoral college, and theres a comfortable lead in the Senate and house, who the bloody well cares what some people in Idaho or West Virginia do?

2) Guns in Idaho mean nothing to DC or LA.

3) This is definitely a more salient point, though the question is, does it actually eb and flow? Or do we always move left, we just move left at a slower or faster rate. Did conservative influence in the universities increase or decrease over the 80s for example? Did movies become more or less woke? Things seemed to have mostly moved leftward throughout the 80s: nothing was really turned back of much significance. He held the line, but most of what I can see, holding the line and maybe delaying the leftist march by 10 years is all he accomplished.

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Reagan clearly did something to slow the trend. Bush looks to have achieved nothing.

5) I'm just not sure guns actually matter all that much: for most people, there is no line where they will do anything, and most when they see they have lost will surrender rather than throw away their lives.
 

PeliusAnar

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Well guess what. George Floyd is now a saint in the new religion of BLM. A pastor is suing the DC mayor, claiming that BLM is breaking the establishment clause, since the Black Lives Matter is a cult, which is a denominational sect of the religion of Secular Humanism. The article linked below got me thinking on if BLM is actually a religion. There is kneeling to a higher power, check. There is a request for money, check. There are beliefs that are a part of it and those who don't believe are shamed, double check. While there is no book describing the religion, I would argue that their text is just outrage videos of black people being killed by police, that is their text, so check there.

I looked up the definitions of religion and BLM clearly falls under that category. They hold the belief of the supreme importance of black people above all others. So I guess even under the Supreme Court, we can give a check mark to the movement as a religious one.
The Supreme Court has interpreted religion to mean a sincere and meaningful belief that occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to the place held by God in the lives of other persons.

DC mayor sued over 'Black Lives Matter' street painting
 
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Regarding @JagerIV posts. It’s ultimately all futile.

Whittaker Chambers believed that “communism”(as he saw-the end of civilization) was inevitable. At best you can delay, deny, and divert.

We are at twilight, the sun has set on us, and the night is coming for us all. There is no dawn of renewal. No hope of victory. Our country, our civilization is passing away. It’s like trying to save a dying man, you can put him on life support and drug him up, but you can’t stop the inevitable, at worst you prolong his suffering.

We are in the last days, perhaps in a eschatological sense, but most definitely in a cyclical sense.

There is no hope for freedom, no hope for America. Only doom and defeat.

I know, I know, Lord Invictus drains the life out of the room with his doomsaying and jeremiads, prove him wrong.

This is the twilight hour, and night will soon descend. So we best be prepared and make peace. Both with those we love, the almighty God, and if needed ourselves. That my brothers and sisters, is all we can do. Before the sun sets.
 

Spartan303

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No wonder why the far left wants to replace truckers with robots they're way too vital for society for them not to control and worse yet a lot of them are conservatives.


Try virtually all of them. I have many contacts in the Trucker community. There is a group on Facebook called 'Eastbound and Down'. Solidly conservative group of guys and a few gals. They sound a lot like @Sailor.X which makes them very good people.
 

Spartan303

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Eh, I think Virginia showed that gun owners are totally harmless: there is no actual line where they will actually do anything meaningful.

On your earlier points

1) Who cares what the 40% who are out of power say? The fact that were retreating now speaks to no ability to hold ground or retake ground. Okay, the ideologically hardcore are pushed out into isolated farms and such in Idaho and other small, irrelevant states. If Texas and Florida can be turned solid blue, so its not conceivably possible for the republicans to win the Electoral college, and theres a comfortable lead in the Senate and house, who the bloody well cares what some people in Idaho or West Virginia do?

2) Guns in Idaho mean nothing to DC or LA.

3) This is definitely a more salient point, though the question is, does it actually eb and flow? Or do we always move left, we just move left at a slower or faster rate. Did conservative influence in the universities increase or decrease over the 80s for example? Did movies become more or less woke? Things seemed to have mostly moved leftward throughout the 80s: nothing was really turned back of much significance. He held the line, but most of what I can see, holding the line and maybe delaying the leftist march by 10 years is all he accomplished.

Religiosity-Graph1-807x538.png


Reagan clearly did something to slow the trend. Bush looks to have achieved nothing.

5) I'm just not sure guns actually matter all that much: for most people, there is no line where they will do anything, and most when they see they have lost will surrender rather than throw away their lives.


Have you seen anything on Doctor Steve Turley? One of the things he discusses at length is that America is set to become a Christian Majority again. Liberal Colleges are failing and were failing long before Corona Virus happened. I can't imagine yet how its sped this along. So why was this happening to begin with? Well, Liberals weren't having Children at anything like replacement levels. Where as Conservatives have been enjoying a 33% advantage in reproduction and thus demographics swinging in their favor. And most of these Conservative parents are not sending their children to these colleges to be indoctrinated by Marxist-Leninist professors. They are instead sending their children to Christian Colleges.

Also, a lot of people in general are avoiding college entirely. Too expensive for very little gain. Who wants to be in dept up to their eyeballs for 2 decades after College? Especially banking on a high paying job that may or may not materialize once you get your diploma. Most say they'll pass on that. Rather more people are going t trade schools and Technical Colleges. Far less expensive, mostly blue collar jobs. And guess what? They're making money on the level of those in White Collar jobs, but without the dept. They're getting married, having families and becoming the foundations for our communities and societies. And most of them aren't in these riots. And a great many of them vote Republican.

I highly suggest you guys check out his work. He does a lot to dispel the mirage of the doom and gloom crowd.

 

CarlManvers2019

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Have you seen anything on Doctor Steve Turley? One of the things he discusses at length is that America is set to become a Christian Majority again. Liberal Colleges are failing and were failing long before Corona Virus happened. I can't imagine yet how its sped this along. So why was this happening to begin with? Well, Liberals weren't having Children at anything like replacement levels. Where as Conservatives have been enjoying a 33% advantage in reproduction and thus demographics swinging in their favor. And most of these Conservative parents are not sending their children to these colleges to be indoctrinated by Marxist-Leninist professors. They are instead sending their children to Christian Colleges.

Also, a lot of people in general are avoiding college entirely. Too expensive for very little gain. Who wants to be in dept up to their eyeballs for 2 decades after College? Especially banking on a high paying job that may or may not materialize once you get your diploma. Most say they'll pass on that. Rather more people are trade schools and Technical Colleges. Far less expensive, mostly blue collar jobs. And guess what? They're making money on the level of those in White Collar jobs, but without the dept. They're getting married, having families and becoming the foundations for our communities and societies. And most of them aren't in these riots. And a great many of them vote Republican.

I highly suggest you guys check out his work. He does a lot to dispel the mirage of the doom and gloom crowd.


That there are so many avoiding Far Left Colleges is a surprise

I’m guessing since COVID-19 there has come a rise in homeschooling and online education
 

Spartan303

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That there are so many avoiding Far Left Colleges is a surprise

I’m guessing since COVID-19 there has come a rise in homeschooling and online education


This was going on long before COVID-19. Covid has likely made it far worse though. This is what happens when you bring in the Government into education. Everything gets more expensive so you must raise prices. There has been a massive price increase from even 20 years ago. If I recall the numbers correctly (off the top of my head without looking them up) In some places, prices have not only doubled, but tripled for some schools. Most of these expenses go into 'Title 9 offices and staff' in addition to other related programs. It is literally strangling the schools of their profits and does nothing to incentivise people to join. Now, another thing to consider. Woman have taken the lead in the number of people graduating from College, yes. Scholarships, Loan and other aid programs overwhelmingly favor women to men by at least....3 to 1 I want to say? Off the top of my head, I'd have to look up the numbers again. And guess which career fields most of these women choose? Not STEM fields, that's for sure. Most of these women are choosing Non-Stem fields mostly focused in the Humanities. Most of those don't even have career fields that pay very well. And by pay very well I mean making a salary to pay your student loans while handling your expenses such as rent/mortgage, car payments, food/water, electrical and so on. And this isn't even taking into account the women who have gotten degrees in Gender studies, African studies, feminist dance theory, ect ect ect. These college 'degrees' aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Infact toilet paper has proven much more valuable.

So what does all this mean? You have people taking money from a system to pursue worthless degrees that do not equate to high paying jobs upon graduation. This puts pressure on the system that is unsustainable and would have collapsed years ago but then local, state and even the Federal Government stepped in to bail them out. I wish I could say these were all Democrats who did this, and truth be told, most of them are, but some Republicans also allowed this to happen. So with Government intervention and Government money pumped into the system, prices went up again. But so did the radical element of College become more and more vocal and visible. Sensible people took a long hard look and bowed out, thus prospective enrollment never materialized....and the system once again became unsustainable. Colleges were closing across the nations with the exception of Private Christian Colleges (who have had spikes in enrollments). This had been going on for a decade if not more.

And then came COVID-19.

I have no idea how bad its been for Colleges due to the virus, but this is likely the deathknell for many colleges across the country.
 

CarlManvers2019

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I have no idea how bad its been for Colleges due to the virus, but this is likely the deathknell for many colleges across the country.

Hopefully it becomes just that, if they try nationalizing Trade Schools and illegality homeschooling and somehow succeed

I expect idiots from other countries, mine included, to imitate
 

Sailor.X

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Try virtually all of them. I have many contacts in the Trucker community. There is a group on Facebook called 'Eastbound and Down'. Solidly conservative group of guys and a few gals. They sound a lot like @Sailor.X which makes them very good people.
Thanks Spartan. From what I have found the Trucking industry is the Biggest Red Pilling organization on the planet. Being a Trucker tends to kill Far Left thinking due to the day to day life of trucking.
 

Sailor.X

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Have you seen anything on Doctor Steve Turley? One of the things he discusses at length is that America is set to become a Christian Majority again. Liberal Colleges are failing and were failing long before Corona Virus happened. I can't imagine yet how its sped this along. So why was this happening to begin with? Well, Liberals weren't having Children at anything like replacement levels. Where as Conservatives have been enjoying a 33% advantage in reproduction and thus demographics swinging in their favor. And most of these Conservative parents are not sending their children to these colleges to be indoctrinated by Marxist-Leninist professors. They are instead sending their children to Christian Colleges.

Also, a lot of people in general are avoiding college entirely. Too expensive for very little gain. Who wants to be in dept up to their eyeballs for 2 decades after College? Especially banking on a high paying job that may or may not materialize once you get your diploma. Most say they'll pass on that. Rather more people are going t trade schools and Technical Colleges. Far less expensive, mostly blue collar jobs. And guess what? They're making money on the level of those in White Collar jobs, but without the dept. They're getting married, having families and becoming the foundations for our communities and societies. And most of them aren't in these riots. And a great many of them vote Republican.

I highly suggest you guys check out his work. He does a lot to dispel the mirage of the doom and gloom crowd.

I know when I left the Navy I used my GI Bill at Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College. I chose that college because not only did it have the coarses I was interested in but It was way cheaper than a 4 year College. I got an Associate Degree in Machine Tool technology and the following year got a degree in Engineering Graphics. (Yeah I know I am a workaholic Multitasker) But that in the long run was the best decision I ever made education wise. I know some people my age who still have not payed off all of their College Debts. They listened to their parents (Stupidly) They got a Bachelors Degree. They got themselves a Masters Degree. Then 2008 happened and the job they were counting on to pay off all of that debt went poof. They had to go into a much lower paying job with still sky high debt. Because along with the College Debt. They also had a big Mortgage and Car payments. Their lives got ruined. Me on the other hand only have $23,000 Dollars worth of debt. Which is mostly my Mortgage and my Car. And my Security Job actually pays a little more money than I use to make as a Draftsman at Nucor. So I think more people are seeing that avoiding 4 year college is a better life choice and choosing to do that.
 

LordsFire

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Truckers must ooze “toxic masculinity”

Absolutely. It takes someone of sustained capability, responsibility, and ability to act independently to make it as a trucker long-term. I've driven big trucks a few times, and once drove the largest sub-CDL truck you can halfway across the nation. Truckers have to deal with harder and longer hauls than that as their regular job, and a lot of them are away from home for days on end as part of it.

It's not a job you can stay on if you can't man up.
 

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