F is for Fascism (Ferguson MO)

[mako1331]

I’m not a violent person but if someone did that to my kid one or both of us would be in court the next morning.

I think that would elicit a NetflixandChill reaction from just about anyone on the board. I'm starting to question how violent I actually am during all of this.

 

[PhDeac]

This is great.

By the way, there is a discussion to be had about the role pop culture plays in fueling protests and social action through the popularity of books, films, TV shows about people banding together to fight in dystopian societies.

 

[TownieDeac]

Completely agree. I am heartened, rather than discouraged by the fact that so many people learned about the Tulsa massacre from Watchmen. It’s our way of consuming information in America to a great degree. I think there’s a lot more available to makers out there than just Modern Family-style virtue signaling. Prestige tv has done it for a long time, I know I didn’t even think about Christopher Columbus as anything other than a hero til the Sopranos.

 

[avalon]

So many fascists

lol, as always, you can tell what's making him feel sad and insecure by his twitter activity.

I'm surprised he couldn't find a bigger name than his lawyer, though.

"our black brothers and sisters" who wrote that?

 

[Frosty]

This guy. You can't make this shit up.

 

[RJKarl]

Wonder what Pete Rose thinks about Dowd?

 

[Kory]

Ph doing media scholarship !

 

[deactherunner]

Wonder what Pete Rose thinks about Dowd?

Trump really is dazzled by celebrity. He's had three different lawyers who I have heard of (Dowd, Giuliani, Dershowitz) before they worked for him, and I don't know that many lawyers. Four, if you count the guy who willingly practiced under the name Ty Cobb.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[WakeForestRanger]

Guess Trump was really afraid that crowd was going to drag his ass out of there last week.

 

[PhDeac]

I just can't help feeling optimistic throughout all this. People are realizing how bad things are.

My wife got a call from a long-time friend from the Dominican. He's lived in CA for about 20 years and he does very well for himself. He just wanted to talk about how he didn't fully realize how racist the US is until now. He'd never been that politically active but he protested this weekend.

An old friend whose a white guy reached out to me yesterday and referenced some conversations we had awhile back about police brutality. He just reached out to tell me I was right and he just didn't realize how bad it was.

Another friend who is a white woman just messaged me and apologized for some things she said to me out of ignorance back at Wake. Her parents were racist and she came out of that. She wanted to invited me to her sorority formal one time and her parents threatened to cut her off if she did.

I'm seeing stories like this from other people. I'm seeing friends on line who were like "give Trump a chance" 3 years ago who are furious about all of this now.

As a counter to palma's take on looting, I keep thinking about the white woman who waved at a camera while cops were breaking the windows and tazing the two young black college students behind her. The last we see of her is as she turned around and then turned back in horror. How many people who were out there protesting saw police brutality in person for the first time? That has to stick with people and be part of a lasting image of policing in this country.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[RJKarl]

Trump really is dazzled by celebrity. He's had three different lawyers who I have heard of (Dowd, Giuliani, Dershowitz) before they worked for him, and I don't know that many lawyers. Four, if you count the guy who willingly practiced under the name Ty Cobb.

I'm guessing Trump may have had well over 100 lawyers to work on his over 3000 cases prior to running for POTUS. He was notorious for stiffing his lawyers.

 

[Kory]

look at the line of cops hear the crack of the man's skull and halt uncertainly. holy shit.

 

[Kory]

statement from the BPD

"tripped and fell"

 

[Strickland33]

look at the line of cops hear the crack of the man's skull and halt uncertainly. holy shit.

there isn't a good apple in that bunch.

this is what hannah arendt was talking about wrt the banality of evil, btw

 

[Strickland33]

statement from the BPD

"tripped and fell"

acab.

 

[Kory]

there isn't a good apple in that bunch.

this is what hannah arendt was talking about wrt the banality of evil, btw

here for arendt obviously. hard to see the banality when they're not testifying at trial though.

 

[PhDeac]

statement from the BPD

"tripped and fell"

Cops lie.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

Blood just gushes out of that poor old man's ears.