Minneapolis Social Injustice and Related

[theflashunc]

If you are not American, there is so much weirdness in what passes for normal. When you guys start calling things out as weird, it’s REALLy weird. I know it’s constitutional and all that bollocks but really why is it OK that any of these fcuckers have guns?

Because some modern day conservatives have twisted the Second Amendment to their own political ends? Because the Framers, brilliant as they were, were still human and made mistakes that for some reason we feel we can never go back and correct in what is intended to be a living document? Because the cognitive dissonance of anti-government militias openly supporting the suppression of protest groups by the government is an idea deeply rooted in the American right wing fever dream? Only in America could you marry anti-authoritarianism with protofascism.

[monadnocky]

"This is America"~Childish Gambino

Off topic, perhaps, but this song - and especially the video - is absolutely amazing.

[davids]

Off topic, perhaps, but this song - and especially the video - is absolutely amazing.

It's not like Black Americans haven't been trying to tell White America:



I know I'm probably missing half his references but still think this is one of the most shocking, disturbing, powerful works of art I've seen in the last few years.

[Mark Kelly]

Apparently there were 88 of the Trump ads with the red triangle and the first sentence had 14 words.

What do a red triangle, 14 words, and 88 ads have in common? | Psychology Today Australia

[thollandpe]

Apparently there were 88 of the Trump ads with the red triangle and the first sentence had 14 words.

What do a red triangle, 14 words, and 88 ads have in common? | Psychology Today Australia

Wow. I guess that answers the question “what is an anti anti-fascist?”

Who are Antifa?

According to the Anti-Defamation League, “it is important to reject attempts to claim equivalence between the antifa and the white supremacist groups they oppose. Antifa reject racism but use unacceptable tactics. White supremacists use even more extreme violence to spread their ideologies of hate, to intimidate ethnic minorities, and undermine democratic norms. Right-wing extremists have been one of the largest and most consistent sources of domestic terror incidents in the United States for many years; they have murdered hundreds of people in this country over the last ten years alone. To date, there have not been any known antifa-related murders.”

Looks like there are white supremacists in the White House.

[vertical_doug]

It's not like Black Americans haven't been trying to tell White America:



I know I'm probably missing half his references but still think this is one of the most shocking, disturbing, powerful works of art I've seen in the last few years.

You should binge his 'Atlanta' series on FX.

[vertical_doug]

Wow. I guess that answers the question “what is an anti anti-fascist?”

Who are Antifa?

According to the Anti-Defamation League, “it is important to reject attempts to claim equivalence between the antifa and the white supremacist groups they oppose. Antifa reject racism but use unacceptable tactics. White supremacists use even more extreme violence to spread their ideologies of hate, to intimidate ethnic minorities, and undermine democratic norms. Right-wing extremists have been one of the largest and most consistent sources of domestic terror incidents in the United States for many years; they have murdered hundreds of people in this country over the last ten years alone. To date, there have not been any known antifa-related murders.”

Looks like there are white supremacists in the White House.

Sadly, I don't think many on the alt-right think there is equivalence between Antifa and White Supremacists. I know people sliding into the morass, and to them, Antifa is dangerous terrorists and they are blind to white guys with guns threatening people.

[jclay]

Related; I found it interesting: The Police Weren't Created to 'Protect and Serve.' They Were Created to 'Maintain Order.' A Brief Look at the History of Police in America | naked capitalism

[monadnocky]

It's not like Black Americans haven't been trying to tell White America:



I know I'm probably missing half his references but still think this is one of the most shocking, disturbing, powerful works of art I've seen in the last few years.

So much symbolism up for interpretation here.
I'm intrigued about the cars - they all seem to be from the mid-to-late 1980's, maybe with the exception of the red one he is standing on towards the end (and this appears to be early 90's vintage).
Thoughts?

[davids]

How about the bodies falling from the sky?

[chasea]

So much symbolism up for interpretation here.
I'm intrigued about the cars - they all seem to be from the mid-to-late 1980's, maybe with the exception of the red one he is standing on towards the end (and this appears to be early 90's vintage).
Thoughts?

The cars are all from the last time period when there was real black upward mobility in the United States. Many modern rap videos feature new, flashy cars. Contextually the cars seem to be behind the times. They symbolize that stagnation. And more plainly, poor people drive old cars. That's it.

[Clean39T]

So much symbolism up for interpretation here.
I'm intrigued about the cars - they all seem to be from the mid-to-late 1980's, maybe with the exception of the red one he is standing on towards the end (and this appears to be early 90's vintage).
Thoughts?

[j44ke]

K-Pop Stans and TikTok teens will save the world. My wife and I were wondering about something like this happening when we read that anyone could reserve a ticket. The kids can have my lawn.

TikTok Teens Claim They Tanked Trump Rally - The New York Times

[Sbti]

By the time we got to Tulsa, we were 10,000(if that) MAGAts strong.

But the fucktwit did manage to reintroduce the racist terms Kung-flu and hombre.....so credit where credit is due.

[vertical_doug]

K-Pop Stans and TikTok teens will save the world. My wife and I were wondering about something like this happening when we read that anyone could reserve a ticket. The kids can have my lawn.

TikTok Teens Claim They Tanked Trump Rally - The New York Times

I think the NYT is playing checkers here for the following reasons:

Any requests from TIK TOK users would have been on top of normal demand from Trump supporters. Even if TIK TOK users did not show up, it would not matter, because the true Trump supporter would show. The tickets were not capped because they planned for overflow. The reality is Trump supporters did not show. That is the only fact we need concern ourselves with. His 'support' is waning.

The 1mm+ requests originated with Trump. We can safely infer this is a grossly inflated number since that is his habit. I doubt they had 100,000 requests including TikTok.

The campaign is now trying to spin this as TIK TOK (radical left) trying to subvert Trump and rile of his base. He thinks a riled up base is his advantage. I expect him to try to spin this into an example how the radical left will steal the election if mail in voting is allowed like they stole the tickets from his faithful supporters for this failed rally. I like AOC a lot, but she fell into a simple trap by cheering on TikTok in a tweet. She is one of the 4 women he loves to use to rile his base. She needs to be a little smarter.
I prefer this narrative and think it is more robust than the NYT piece.

I'll put a reminder in my calendar to listen to Rush Limbaugh tomorrow. He'll give it to me straight. (see how much of this he parrots)

[j44ke]

I don’t think any TiKTok users went or even planned to go. That wasn’t the prank. The prank was to create an overflow of nonexistent attendees. To build expectations among the Trump people that would only be disappointed. Leave him at the altar.

My niece was in on the hashtag dilution. Pick a k-pop band and add a hashtag. Pretty soon anyone searching by hashtag only finds k-pop bands. And she doesn’t even like k-pop.

I can guess the other 3 women who get Trump discombobulated. He’s going to use them anyway. I say keep him punch drunk and swinging at shadows.

[Tom]

The thing is, they never seemed to have a clue that something wasn't right. Tweeting how many people signed up they were going to have a second speech for the overflow that couldn't get in.

Today I burst out laughing on the ride. This came to mind: "Someone's gotta go back and get a s--tload of dimes."

[j44ke]

The danger of having a mythological narrative surrounding a central ego-vortex. Eventually everyone gets sucked in.

[jclay]

COVID19 doesn't make it easy but I suggest getting involved in some way to help elect forward thinking, constructive candidates. The Republican Party and allied organs have been extremely effective in gerrymandering and getting culturally regressive folks elected at local, state and national levels. The linked article shouldn't be news, generally, but it should act as an alarm; those folks are not stopping and will not stop. They don't give a tinkers damn about democracy, improving the lives of regular people, the environment or much of anything else; they care about economic and cultural (as in white man) primacy. Period. They're kicking ass and vile people like Tom Cotton are waiting in the wings. Do something.

'This is a war': Republicans launch bid to control election maps for next decade | US news | The Guardian

[vertical_doug]

COVID19 doesn't make it easy but I suggest getting involved in some way to help elect forward thinking, constructive candidates. The Republican Party and allied organs have been extremely effective in gerrymandering and getting culturally regressive folks elected at local, state and national levels. The linked article shouldn't be news, generally, but it should act as an alarm; those folks are not stopping and will not stop. They don't give a tinkers damn about democracy, improving the lives of regular people, the environment or much of anything else; they care about economic and cultural (as in white man) primacy. Period. They're kicking ass and vile people like Tom Cotton are waiting in the wings. Do something.

'This is a war': Republicans launch bid to control election maps for next decade | US news | The Guardian

This was the break through insight the republicans had and caught the democrats napping. They realized it was extremely cost effective to fund candidates at the local level to get control of redistricting.