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George Floyd At Age 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2WH1bFLJmEMake your own opinions as to the character of George Floyd.
?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
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It is fairly apparent that Floyd's death had nothing to do with race or systemic police misconduct, rather a little piss-ant of a cop who carried a grudge too far. The initial protests were justifiable, not from a racial injustice standpoint, but from the standpoint that police officers who act like this should be rooted out quickly, and prosecuted. Once the charges were levied and the arrest was made, there is not a whole lot of reason to continue the protesting.
Statistically there is not a significant problem of racial injustice in the police forces around this country. It happens. It should not happen. Each time it does happen it should be dealt with quickly and openly. I think we are very close to having had reached that point.
The rioting has nothing to do with the death of Floyd, nothing to do with race, and everything to do with the altering how we relate to each other a individuals and as Americans. It cannot be tolerated, and the hatred of those who destroy people and property is justified and is justifiable. There is a very obvious fact, however, that brings race into equation, and that is simply the factual and obvious demographic of those who are looting. There is noting racist or bigoted about pointing this out.
The crowds that are throwing things and attacking police and others is a more diverse group, however, and it is they who appear to think they are working towards changing the cultural fabric and ethos of these United States. I freely detest all of them, regardless of race.
Brad Steele
Definition of race-baiting
Not a good time for bluster, IMO.
'We are here to help if need us' would be a much more mature approach.
Brad Steele
The anarcho-communist movement is decentralized, composed of small cells, some of whom openly vow to engage in an armed struggle to trigger a civil war to abolish the current system and replace it with communism. Although they claim to be antifascists, in reality they are fascism personified.
Despite abundant evidence that neo-Marxists have a hand in these protests and riots, very few journalists have been willing to expose the truth. Mainstream media portray them as a well-meaning alliance of idealists who seek nothing more than to thwart the evils of right-wing “fascism.”
Although the Black Lives Matter movement has become mainstream, it’s unfortunate that so many well-intentioned Black and other good people have been duped into helping achieve Antifa’s nefarious ends. In truth, recent riots have little to do with race and everything to do with regime change and revolution.
Beefsteak Nazi (German: Rindersteak Nazi) was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe Communists and Socialists who joined the Nazi Party. The Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that within the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were "large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats" and that "many of the storm troops were called 'beefsteaks' – brown outside and red within."[1] The switching of political parties was at times so common that SA men would jest that "[i]n our storm troop there are three Nazis, but we shall soon have spewed them out."[1]
The term was particularly used for working class members of the SA who were aligned with Strasserism.[2] The term derived from the idea that these individuals were like a "beefsteak"—brown on the outside and red on the inside, with "brown" referring to the colour of the uniforms and "red" to their communist and socialist sympathies.[3] The implication of this was that their allegiance to Nazism was superficial and opportunistic.[4]
After Adolf Hitler became Germany's Chancellor, beefsteak Nazis continued during the suppression of both the Communists and the Socialists (represented by the Communist Party of Germany and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, respectively) in the 1930s and the term was popular as early as 1933.[4][5]
As I stated before, there are legitimate protesters but unfortunately the protests have been hijacked by extremists using this as an opportunity to further their abhorrent ideals. There have been instances where the legitimate protesters have resisted these attempts, so perhaps there is hope. These resistors should be applauded and not lumped in with the fascists. Bob
Communism has always been a theory, Marx considered his vision utopia. Many have attempted to achieve nirvana by implementing some form of Communism as well as socialism. Goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
The real danger with Communism as well as Socialism are the ones who think they can make it work and the fools who are willing to give up everything to live under such rule.
Delusional as the rats POTUS pick
Only one rat nest approving the burn loot murder piles of festering s***
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