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@Adam_Cadmon1 I watched Black Lives Matter "peaceful protestors" set cars on fire, break the windows out of stores, steal tons of shit and cause actual real terrorism on the streets of Chicago right outside my building. The terrorism continued the entire weekend. I drove out to a Taco Bell and saw all the windows broken out and boxes scattered all over the streets from every store that had been looted. One owners was on the news, a Korean American who said $300k worth of merch had been stolen. None of these businesses had insurance that covered riots (riot insurance is insanely expensive). I had to get through police checkpoints on the way home and there had been several carjackings in the area. City dump trucks were blocking/protecting a Burger King ... interesting to see which businesses Lightfoot chose to protect and which ones were left to burn.

I wrote this article after it happened, documenting some of the riots and my opinions at the time:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/war-is-hell/

It's not "bullshit," it's what I saw with my own fucking eyes.

Seems pretty clear to me, want to place limits on it, get support for a new amendment.

#2A

Fedi advice

I had a guy tell me, he had been trying to argue in a good faith for days in his thread.

The thread had 2 posts.
And after he blocked me, I tried to open his post from a different instance. HOLY SHIT.

If you want people to see your posts, MAYBE, don't block 95 percent of them, because if the instance actually respects the block, guess what? It breaks the threads into oblivion.

Trying to read a political hellthread
300 posts of pure vitriol.

all of a sudden, It's all about some TV show.
I try to scroll further
Still a TV show
Fast scroll
Nutrition

WTF is this hellthread?

It's like a poetry
@blacklight
Of course, even the original post called for > "Showing zero tolerance towards the intolerant and the illiberal is a civic duty for any democracy that wants to protect its health."

So.... yeah.

Remember to not give money to random churches today because the people who run them and profit off of you probably suck.

Professional Sony Programmers: We can not make the PlayStation 4 backwards compatible because the Software is not compatible with the Hardware.
Unpaid Amateur Hobbyist Programmers: Hold my Beer.

@blacklight What bothers me about people like you is that you think our beliefs come FROM the GOP to begin with. You think we’re following it for guidance and leadership because you do it with yours.

See, you don’t really have any beliefs in a vacuum. That’s why your morality has been shifting all your life. You get updates to your beliefs with every advert, every sanctimonious front-page reddit thread, and each condescending, shame-based imgur meme. You were never rooted in a spiritual belief set that’s immovable, constant, and enduring. Everything you believe is just a timeline of pop-culture celebrity causes as each one saw an influx of advertising. You lack conviction in all of them, they’re like socks. you take them on and cast them away when you get the next pair.

Our beliefs are like bone marrow. And that’s why you’ll never ‘get’ us. We don’t care about trump of the GOP as guidestars for our life. They’re just tools to bring to pass the world we want to live for our children. (The greatest, most important aspect of our existence, after all, is our family. We look past ourselves.) As tools, Trump, the GOP, every silly mainstream political apparatus you are familiar with are woefully inadequate for our purposes. We want a hammer, and at best they’re a crumbling brick.

But even your blunted, bugman instincts pick up on that. You see us reach for a busted brick and your ever-attuned fear instinct prickles at the base of your brain. “Oh goawd….they’re looking for a hammer.“

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