I’m sure “Vicky” would agree that nothing fights white supremacy harder than black people destroying their own neighborhoods.
I wanna know where the hell all these rioters get their fireworks during the off-season. It’s not like back in July people were buying cases of them on the 4th just in case they felt like burning down a Wendy’s.
If they're in the PNW they got them in bulk from the reservations, most likely. Like massive bulk. Like godddamn why did you buy so many explosives are you okay bulk.
My brother lives in Maine and spent...like...two mortgage payments if he'd paid retail. they heavily discounted him and his receipt was as long as three CVS receipts. I'm not sure my SIL let him use them all on Independence Day.
Protests without violence are easily ignored. When they end at curfew, they're easily ignored. Most of the "peaceful protests" that are effective are effective because the threat of insurrection lies under the surface. Also, the second the cops show up at a protest, it's violence brought on by the state. They're the ones starting shit. I reckon the protests will end when the cops stop killing black people with impunity.
The BLM protests in response to George Floyd’s murder only got crazy when the cops decided to start indiscriminately beating and pepper spraying the protestors for the crime of being out past curfew. They create the curfew to provide a pretext to physically engage the protestors and beat them under the color of the law.
So, the suspected shooter... "On July 5 at one of the demonstrations, Reinoehl was cited at 2:10 a.m. in the 700 block of Southwest Main Street on allegations of possessing a loaded gun in a public place, resisting arrest and interfering with police He was given a date to appear in court later that month, but the allegations were dropped on July 30 with a “no complaint,” according to court records. The documents don’t indicate why prosecutors decided not to pursue the accusations. Reinoehl spent no time behind bars."
Well, they probably just go to one of your states like Indiana, where they are made, tested, and there are enough there at any time to declare war on a small country. Just to be clear, YOUR country will NEVER run out of fireworks. You have storage facilities of them EVERYWHERE. Natives sell them year round, and cheap. The only shock to me is how few fireworks the protestors have, considering how much they COULD have.
today I learned that year round fireworks on Indian reservations were a thing. We don't have any here in Texas, that I know of. Kinda makes me sad to think about actually, if you wanna talk about systemic racism and the like. We literally murdered their land away from them.
The right wing has a bit of a problem at the moment: they have to explain how shooting someone who threw a plastic bag at you is self defense, but shooting someone who is macing you is not. Now I'm perfectly happy prosecuting both the Kenosha shooter and the Portland shooter, but then I haven't spent the last week donating to the gofundme of a 17 year old shithead and calling him a national hero.