Chaos in USA

[barkingmad]

To be fair, our own racially dominated riots in Brixton and Sarf Croydon resulted in looting and the “liberation” of wide-screen TVs, trainers and other desirable but presumably expensive goodies.

[boing]

BOAC,

Do you check for Trump under your bed when you retire for the night? Do you have your search engine permanently selected to "Anything Trump"? Do you hear the word "Trump" when someone actually says "bump"? Do you have your TV colour set so that everything has an orange tint?

Your attacks are not going to influence the next US election but I think they may be devaluing the important positive contributions you make on other threads.


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[G-CPTN]

excuses for pure simple crime.
I do not see that breaking store fronts and stealing wide-screen televisions has much connection with protesting against police brutality.

Same happened in the UK (NRs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_England_riots

[Seenenough]

The Democrats have controlled the Police in Minneapolis for some while.The Mayor of the City is Democrat as are the Governor and AG of Minnesota.The Minnesota House is also under the control of the Democrats.

Let us see how the media deal with the issues over the next while.

[Boac]

Do you check for Trump under your bed when you retire for the night? Do you have your search engine permanently selected to "Anything Trump"? Do you hear the word "Trump" when someone actually says "bump"? Do you have your TV colour set so that everything has an orange tint?

No to all the above. I just enjoy the comedy show and wish to share it with others. It is too good to miss. Don't you think he is a hoot?

[boing]

Yes, certainly a puzzlement but arn't we all.

From "The King and I"

When I was a boy, world was better spot
What was so was so, what was not was not
Now, I am a man, world have changed a lot
Some things nearly so, others nearly not

There are times I almost think
I am not sure of what I absolutely know
Very often find confusion
In conclusion, I concluded long ago

In my head are many facts
That, as a student, I have studied to procure
In my head are many facts
Of which I wish I was more certain, I was sure
Is a puzzlement

What to tell growing son?
What for instance, shall I say to him of women?
Shall I educate him on the ancient lines?
Shall I tell the boy as far as he is able
To respect his wives and love his concubines?

Shall I tell him everyone is like the other
And the better of the two is really neither?
If I tell him this I think he won't believe it
And I nearly think that I don't believe it either

When my father was a king
He was a king who knew exactly what he knew
And his brain was not a thing
Forever swinging to and fro and fro and to

Shall I, then be like my father
And be willfully unmovable and strong?
Or is it better to be right?
Or am I right when I believe I may be wrong?

Shall I join with other nations in alliance?
If allies are weak, am I not best alone?
If allies are strong with power to protect me
Might they not protect me out of all I own?

Is a danger to be trusting one another
One will seldom want to do what other wishes
But unless someday somebody trust somebody
There'll be nothing left on earth excepting fishes

There are times I almost think
Nobody sure of what he absolutely know
Everybody find confusion
In conclusion, he concluded long ago

And it puzzle me to learn
That tho' a man may be in doubt of what he know
Very quickly he will fight
He'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so

Oh, sometimes I think that people going mad
Ah, sometimes I think that people not so bad
But not matter what I think, I must go on living life
As leader of my kingdom, I must go forth
Be father to my children and husband to each wife
Etcetera, etcetera and so forth

If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way
Everyday I try to live another day
If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way
Everyday I do my best for one more day

But is a puzzlement

[G-CPTN]

George Floyd death: Ex-officer charged with murder.

[Seenenough]

MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAULPublished 5 hours ago
Minn. mayor gives masks to crowding rioters after warning in-person worship would be 'public health disaster'

Hypocrisy at its best.

[brickhistory]

Hmmm, funny no libraries or museums looted...

[Seenenough]

Aparrently if you are protesting (and rioting and looting)Covid 19 will not infect you.

[Undried Plum]

If you are a white cop, bodyslamming a "******", you have similar immunity, apparently.

[Seenenough]

You seem to have no problem with racial words ,Plum

[Undried Plum]

You seem to have no problem with racial words ,Plum

I used that word in the particular context of a cop body-slammer, not the word that the slamee might have used the word in a different context.

The US has a particular problem with racism. It's built in to the structure of that society. It cannot be undone.

[Seenenough]

You were using it an a racial way in describing the person that the white cop body slammed.

[Seenenough]

Come on Alison lets debate the N word thing in the open.

[Seenenough]

If you are a white cop, bodyslamming a "******", you have similar immunity, apparently.

Who edited xed out the N word ,you or Alison?

[admin]

Yup. Entirely at your request per report.

See Trump v. Twitter for my thoughts.

[Seenenough]

Yup. Entirely at your request per report.

See Trump v. Twitter for my thoughts.

Do you accept the use of ,the now Xed out word?

I did not ask you to remove it,I only asked if you accept it.

[admin]

I repeat see Trump v Twitter thread.

[Undried Plum]

Don't know. Don't care. We all know the word I used and we all know the context within which it was used.

A white cop murdered a black guy. That's the sum and substance of it, regardless of sanitised wording.

That's what matters, not whether a war hero had named his Labrador dog as a jigaboo.