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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 1, 2020 at 2:10 pm
Nobody wants riots or looting. So why forever does this keep repeating?
Same thing happened after MLK was murdered. And just about every decade since a black person is needlessly murdered and we end up with the same thing.
It does no good to lecture after the spark if society is not going to focus on the long term conditions that lead to that spark. I think the empathetic and sane get this and always have.
But the problem for decades and centuries has been institutionalized structures that maintain the inequity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._...rban_riots Under the subsection "Urban Riots"...
Quote LBJ, " "What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off."
Understanding why things happen doesn't mean you want them to happen. So prevention matters long term. LBJ got that.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 1, 2020 at 4:11 pm
(June 1, 2020 at 2:10 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Nobody wants riots or looting. So why forever does this keep repeating?
Same thing happened after MLK was murdered. And just about every decade since a black person is needlessly murdered and we end up with the same thing.
It does no good to lecture after the spark if society is not going to focus on the long term conditions that lead to that spark. I think the empathetic and sane get this and always have.
But the problem for decades and centuries has been institutionalized structures that maintain the inequity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._...rban_riots Under the subsection "Urban Riots"...
Quote LBJ, ""What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off."
Understanding why things happen doesn't mean you want them to happen. So prevention matters long term. LBJ got that.
Apparently, LOTS of people want riots and looting. Have you been following the news? Riots and looting are very popular right now.
And I wouldn't be so quick to hold Johnson up as some paragon of racial equality. He spent the majority of his political career opposing civil rights legislation and wasn't at all shy about using the n-word (even in reference to Thurgood Marshall). He championed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s primarily because he needed to do something, and privately referred to them as 'n****r bills'.
If Johnson understood that 'prevention matters long term', it seems kind of odd that he did fuck all for civil rights in the two and a half decades he was in politics before he became president.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 1, 2020 at 4:20 pm
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 1, 2020 at 5:01 pm
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 2, 2020 at 6:02 am
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(June 1, 2020 at 12:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Away from leadership, away from his duty, away from his oath. When he was in no danger.
Whereas those he leads are compelled to run toward those things even and especially when they are in danger. This, in addition to gassing protesters so that he could waddle over and trespass on a church's property while waving someone else's bible in the air for a photo op. If he could feel shame, he'd have died from it by now, and if there were a god in heaven, he'd have been struck by lightning on the spot.
The president of the united states is attempting to marshal white supremacist troops in order to incite the race war the GOP has been telling us about for the last few decades. Guess they're tired of waiting. Adding insult to inanity, I doubt that he has the presence of mind to adhere to any of the shit he encourages, he just thinks it's his best shot at staying in office and out of jail come 2021.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 2, 2020 at 11:01 am
It just keeps getting better. Turns out that trumps street sweeping detail gassed the fucking priests out of the church he trespassed on.
Way to secure gods vote.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 2, 2020 at 11:14 am
(June 2, 2020 at 11:01 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It just keeps getting better. Turns out that trumps street sweeping detail gassed the fucking priests out of the church he trespassed on.
Way to secure gods vote.
Will this stunt finally get some of his religious followers to open their eyes?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 2, 2020 at 11:18 am
Their eyes are wide open, and they've long ago traded in jesus for some of that sweet, sweet earthly power.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 2, 2020 at 11:46 am
(June 2, 2020 at 6:02 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (June 1, 2020 at 12:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Away from leadership, away from his duty, away from his oath. When he was in no danger.
Whereas those he leads are compelled to run toward those things even and especially when they are in danger. This, in addition to gassing protesters so that he could waddle over and trespass on a church's property while waving someone else's bible in the air for a photo op. If he could feel shame, he'd have died from it by now, and if there were a god in heaven, he'd have been struck by lightning on the spot.
The president of the united states is attempting to marshal white supremacist troops in order to incite the race war the GOP has been telling us about for the last few decades. Guess they're tired of waiting. Adding insult to inanity, I doubt that he has the presence of mind to adhere to any of the shit he encourages, he just thinks it's his best shot at staying in office and out of jail come 2021.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
June 2, 2020 at 11:59 am
Yabut, he made up for it on monday.
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