ignoramceisblis

Any shred of evidence or not, it must be piled on! Surely we are not the ones fanning divisiveness.

Be good to good people--that's what matters.

"We were told or otherwise made to believe your industry should stop doing what it's doing. Therefore, you should stop doing what you're doing." ("I know the future. You don't exist. So you might as well stop existing now.")

The irony is this person has no idea of "the reality." If the reality was that the pipeline served no purpose, had no value, it would not have gone through the lengthy process it's already been through. And if tar sands oil had no value, it wouldn't be retrieved.

But it will be. It will be retrieved and it will be transported, somehow, for the simple fact that people and industries use it. And if you choose a costlier method of transport, then people will feel those costs. Simply saying "No, it's not gonna go by rail or go by ship. Because I said so." is blind arrogance.

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/06/10/tar-sands-compa...

The oil will still be extracted. It will still be transported to the entities who use it.

Don't worry, not ALL of the people doing the things we want done are white dudes. Your experience with our club will not be ruined by the presence of this lower caste. Pay little mind to them. In fact, pay them little, in general.

Join us. You'll feel good about yourself.

Except it happened at a BLM protest. And in this day and age, evidently having someone commit some violent act at an event is enough to blame scores (and more) of other people at that event, and organizations associated with it. And then de-platform them, and de-monetize them, .... and generally de-humanize them. (Like the protest at the Capitol)

Also, he was a member of the New Black Panther Party:

> NBPP head Quanell X said after the shooting that Johnson had been a member of the NBPP's Houston chapter for about six months, several years before.

> Following the shooting, a national NBPP leader distanced the group from Johnson, saying that he "was not a member of" the party.

But of course, any organization with ties to him would want to cut those ties and disavow him, making themselves look clean. Do you think BLM or other organizations would want ties to such people exposed?

And they ask "where are the police?" after unanimously deciding to defund (rather, abolish) the police.

So an entire police force must be abolished because of the alleged abuses of a few?

And they ask "where are the police?" after defunding the police.

If you govern a people and willfully allow them to become endangered through, eg. defunding the police, permitting lawless zones throughout your jurisdiction, and so on, and the end result is innocent lives under your power are harmed or destroyed, then you should be held accountable.

But, of course, many of them won't hold themselves accountable for what happens.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

page 10:

> The district court stated, inaccurately, that the CMP video had not been authenticated and suggested that it may have been edited.

> In fact, the record reflects that OIG had submitted a report from a forensic firm concluding that the video was authentic and not deceptively edited. And the plaintiffs did not identify any particular omission or addition in the video footage.

[Planned Parenthood are the plaintiffs in this specific case.]

A bit more information on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdbu4bp5rQ

Including some of the videos referenced themselves: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCenterforMedicalProgress/videos

> "U.S. police officials said they are examining both local and out-of-state actors focused on creating damage and inciting violent confrontations with police (and possibly other protesters) in the name of anarchist and antifa causes."

> "They prepared to commit property damage and directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities."

> "And they developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov cocktails where they thought officers would not be."

Beyond even Antifa and similar groups, my first point is largely about the statement "garden variety robbers unassociated with any political group."

There have been many protests throughout America's history. Most of them are done peacefully. Clearly most of them do not approach the level of violence and destruction that the recent riots and looting accomplished--riots and looting that coincided with those protests. Are we to believe this is largely coincidence?

The images and videos of the damage and looting that was done are out there. Windows, doors, and even entire buildings destroyed and ransacked, with "F* cops", "F* 12", "ACAB", &c. scrawled on the remains. Smashing, grabbing, chanting, it's all out there. There was obviously a political statement meant by many if not most of those people. This is made even more obvious when there are political groups that make statements such as: "By any means necessary", "No justice, no peace", "Give us what we want or we'll burn down the system", &c.

These are obviously politically-motivated actions. You cannot bear witness to all of the radical statements that have been made, also bear witness to the radical acts carried out and publicly supported, and then say the two are not related.

And I'm not sure how bad you think the rioting and looting was, but in Minnesota (mostly Minneapolis) alone, the economic loss is already estimated at $500 million dollars, with over one thousand businesses affected, and many were destroyed. Source: https://emmer.house.gov/_cache/files/b/c/bc0f4be4-4618-4786-...

You're conflating "expressing opinions" (by clicking a button) with: making it less likely for the poster's expression to ever be seen.

By a large margin, most "news" that I've seen that gets any popular attention (through channels with any significant number of consumers) has been of the variety that paints conservatives as being the problem, having unfair advantages, &c.

So what does that tell you about the actual balance of power?

It's entirely predictable.

They want to retract their study because they feel its information is being "misused," which is extremely disturbing in the context of honest academic research. I won't go into this deeply, but valid information on such a hot button subject is exactly what we need right now, and withdrawing valid information only leads to more vacuum, which will be filled by whatever the dominant political power declares.

As to your second statement, statisticians regularly use one quantity as a proxy for another. Here, they used the violent crime (by race) rates as a proxy for police encounters. This is in contrast to using gross population race proportions as a proxy for police encounters. Other studies--which have not been retracted--have used gross population race proportions as a proxy for police encounters. Will those be retracted? Will future studies using similar proxies be retracted? Only if they go against a powerful narrative, I wager.

If we all followed the golden rule, all the time, we could find this planet is a paradise.

As the article states, near 1000 commercial properties were damaged, and 52 were completely destroyed. This business and its employees are not the only ones grappling with the effects of this massive indiscriminate violence, and I think it's important to see the effects of those actions.

We're conditioning a culture to be hypersensitive, and at the same time, for some of them, hyperaggressive. Lack of experience has always clouded the vision of humans, but many find themselves, willingly or not, living within silos and echo chambers, which reinforce their beliefs and behaviors. What they consider trauma does not begin to approach yours.

In other times, their vocal ignorant statements would be squashed immediately upon utterance. In these times, they receive reinforcement, from some.

He threw himself under the bus.