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Do you support the rioting?

Do you support the rioting?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 8.8%

  • No

    Votes: 121 81.8%

  • I don't know

    Votes: 4 2.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 10 6.8%
  • Total voters
    148
Outlook said:
Comrade
This is a dumb question. Anyone we answers yes to violence and destruction is a moron.
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More than 10% of people that have voted so far. I was just trying to get a sense of how common the sentiment is.
 
dex4974 said:
I'm not looking for a complicated mitigation of the actions of rioters. Do you support the rioting?

EDIT: I am not asking if you support protesting. That is not the same as rioting.
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No, I do not support the rioting. I support the protests, but do worry that there couldn't have been a worse time for this kind of activism to take place given it risks spreading coronavirus. People are extremely frightened and frustrated, so there is a kind of horrendous inevitability that the riots were going to take place. Americans need really to pull together to get out of this, but I'm not seeing that happening right now.
 
dex4974 said:
More than 10% of people that have voted so far. I was just trying to get a sense of how common the sentiment is.
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So sad that 10% feel it’s okay to burn black communities and black businesses. Sick people.
 
bomberfox said:
Eh not really but this kinda was bound to happen sooner or later, when authorities continue to get away with ****, the people lose faith in the institutions... none of these cops even attempted to stop armed white wingers from storming government buildings but get a peaceful BLM march going, they bust out the pepper pellets and tear gas. I laugh at all the idiots that say the left are fully in charge.
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When did armed white wingers illegally storm government buildings? What peaceful BLM march are you referring to? Specifically the one which involved pepper pellets and tear gas.
 
dex4974 said:
If yes do you think it will accomplish anything? Are there other more useful ways to use that energy?
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swing_voter said:
I agree with this.

Why ruin your neighborhood?
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Because it is not their neighborhood. Most of the perps come from other places. The real protesters are there to march peacefully. And they do. Thugs are opportunists that take the opportunity to steal and vandalize. They don't give two ****s about the cause.
 
Vadinho said:
Its there, thats why they fight each other. Are you trying to dismiss the deaths by cops we see constantly by making this point? Are you Sean Hannity? Sounds like his reasoning to me.
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Really? All unjustified or are you pulling from all areas? Does this compare to the constant death by criminal we see? Just curious what you mean by 'constantly'
 
To be clear I support the right for peaceful protesting. There has been precious little of that, and unfortunately what there has been his been infested by the scum of the earth working to forward their violent ends; and of course the looters are lower than whale **** as well.

The powers that be are acting quickly to deal with this outrage. One arrest arrest already and undoubtedly more to come.
 
calamity said:
I support getting rid of Trump. We warned you all this would happen.
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You win a dual prize for this post: The first irrelevant mention of Trump in the Thread AND the stupidest friggin' post ever.
 
Vadinho said:
No one supports burning and looting but I understand their anger and frustration.
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The anger and frustration of seeing the perpetrator arrested and charged almost immediately? With his abettors likely to follow? All facing local and federal charges? Having Bill Barr and his boys on your case can't be a comforting feeling.
 
holbritter said:
Really? All unjustified or are you pulling from all areas? Does this compare to the constant death by criminal we see? Just curious what you mean by 'constantly'
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If you are attempting to dismiss cops killing others with no reason other then their own fear or racism, then we have nothing to discuss. I block people like you for a reason. I have no desire to engage with you at all. None. Zip.
 
Bodecea said:
Thank you.
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noonereal said:
That is what this is really about.

[B]TRump has now torched this country.

100,000 dead, 20% unemployment, hate hate hate everyday for 4 years.
[/B]
Indeed, WTF, this had to happen.
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Make the tee shirts and campaign signs. This will be the mantra for the dems right from now until the election. A virus from China, and a murder in a democrat run city. Trumps fault?? Don't make me laugh. Ferguson riots, Freddy Grey riots, I guess were Obama's fault. Trump calls rioter thugs and he's a racist. Obama calls rioter criminals and thugs and it's all good.

Exploiting 100,000 dead virus victims and the murder of a handcuffed man, That "is what this is really about".
 
calamity said:
I support getting rid of Trump. We warned you all this would happen.
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You warned us that Leftist morons would riot, loot and burn down metropolitan areas.

Well, I don’t recall that warning, but I'll take your word for it.

I don’t think predicting riots by Leftists too great a leap.
 
TurtleDude said:
you need to learn to make the polls non-anonymous. I'd love to know who actually supports lawless violence and wanton destruction of innocent folks' property
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I’ll bet you everything I own... and all future earnings... if we unmasked the voters... all in favor of the wanton destruction are Leftists.
 
SmartCat said:
Several days ago I saw a word on the internet I wish I had saved. It was in a New Guinean tribal language. It means, "What is commonly known to be true, but what is not talked about." That is the way the vast majority of Americans seem to feel about black social pathology.
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Why talk about the elephant in the room when no one knows how to get rid of it?
Notice I didn't use the "500 pound gorilla" analogy. That get a little to close to the line.
 
Vadinho said:
No one supports burning and looting but I understand their anger and frustration.
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Why doesn’t the Black on Black crime... which is massive... cause frustration and anger?

Why?
 
SmartCat said:
Blacks do not riot when they feel hopeless. They riot when they feel powerful. That was how they felt when Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama were president. That is how they feel now when so many woke whites make excuses for them.
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You're saying it takes a feeling of power possessed by thugs and criminals to wear masks and destroy business establishments that employ people of color in a neighborhood? I hope I never feel that powerful to where I think it makes sense to burn down buildings and torch police cars.
 
wellwisher said:
What you see, in terms of the rioters, is similar to street or gang justice. If one gang shoots into a crowd at another gang and a gang member and innocent civilians are injured, the injured gang now gets to do the same or worse to the first gang. If the original victim acts as the aggressor for street justice, then this justifies the next counter strike, from the original gang. This continues until eye for an eye makes everyone stop being angry.

This is not how civilized people act. This is more third world and appears to be more common to Democrats controlled inner cities. These cities is where all the lawless street gang riots have been. Civilized people allow the police and the justice system to address the initial assault and meter out justice. Street justice is more primitive, and does not use a civilized code of law. Street justice is faster but hasty; too much, with the result being feuds that can go on for generations.

That being said, the rioters are like a street gang who saw harm being done to one of their own gang members. However, their actions have been too hasty and gone beyond a direct revenge They are also hurting others, who had nothing to do with the original crime; innocent bystanders. These shop owners and those who were assaulted and rob, under the chaos of street justice, should now be able to get justice.

The Democrats appear to support the first wave of street justice. Their gang of thugs is allowed to act on behalf of the original victim. They revenge by inflicting pain on others, including those who had nothing to do with anything. This is like a drive by shooting into a crowd. where a rival gang member is standing. New victims have been created. The Democrats then become civilized and try to protect their gang of thugs, from countering street justice, that is deserved based on the rules of street justice.

However, since these thugs were allowed to feely live and act by street justice, and created new victims, they need to pay some price, or the rules of both civilized and street justice will be violated by a dual standard. There is plenty of video of the thugs and looters. Many can be traced, tracked and street justice or civilized can be metered out, by another gang, who says they are acting on behalf of the victims of the rioters.

The way the Democrats have set up their riot and looter scam, using the rules of street justice, is their preferred groups of street thugs get to meter street justice to revenge an act of violence; so far so good in terms of street justice. But then the leaders want it to end there, with no further justice for the innocent victims created by their referred thugs. This is by design. Many people will see the rioters having revenged the original victim, but they will also see the new injustices that were created and left dangling by this sudden change of approach. Many will harbor negative street justice feelings that will go unfulfilled.

These feelings are exploited by fake news to create the racial divide; lingering feelings of people wronged and left unfulfilled on both side of the bias. To end the cycle, the Democrats sponsored street thugs need to be tracked down and served street justice or tack down and civilized justice. This will end the resentment that the Democrat use to create division. In the future, protests need to be done in a civilized way, so the Democrats will not create new victims, who do not have a voice, so they can be used as props to trigger resentment.

I am not for street justice. I am civilized. But the Democrats sponsor street injustice, and then change the rules back to the slower civilized justice system, to create lingering resentment, that fuels the racial divide. This occurs every election season. We need to be all civilized or allow street justice to apply to all the victims of the Democrat sponsored thugs. We have a choice, but one sets of rules need to apply for all.
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Your theme in your message is consistent and provable:
Cities with large minority populations prone to riot are led by Democratic politicians who do not know how to quell riots.
Nor do they know how to avoid riots before they begin.
If they did, there wouldn't be TV shows like "The Wire", "Law and Order", "Chicago, PD", "Treme", "Southland", and others to pictorialize life in the big city with minority crime stories. The political leaders would know what they should be doing to prevent the disproportionate number of crimes committed by people of color.
 
zimmer said:
Why doesn’t the Black on Black crime... which is massive... cause frustration and anger?

Why?
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I would imagine Lori Lightfoot, the new mayor of Chicago, is frustrated and angry because she has no way of changing Chicago from the murder capital of the world. Maybe Baltimore is right now. They have a contest going.
 
jaypatriot said:
Your theme in your message is consistent and provable:
Cities with large minority populations prone to riot are led by Democratic politicians who do not know how to quell riots.
Nor do they know how to avoid riots before they begin.
If they did, there wouldn't be TV shows like "The Wire", "Law and Order", "Chicago, PD", "Treme", "Southland", and others to pictorialize life in the big city with minority crime stories. The political leaders would know what they should be doing to prevent the disproportionate number of crimes committed by people of color.
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Of course without us, "big city with minority crime", you wouldn't have a pot to piss in.

Who pays the most in taxes:

3. Cook County, Illinois
Chicago Illinois
Chicago, Illinois. Maria Sbytova/Shutterstock
Total income tax liability: $31,008,352,000

Percentage of total: 2.04%


2. New York County, New York
manhattan skyline downtown
Shutterstock/Massimo Salesi
Total income tax liability: $40,960,806,000

Percentage of total: 2.70%


1. Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles
Sean Pavone/shutterstock
Total income tax liability: $55,677,867,000

Percentage of total: 3.67%
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zimmer said:
Why doesn’t the Black on Black crime... which is massive... cause frustration and anger?

Why?
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It does but the point of this is that the state condones this type of execution. Can you fathom the difference? One is simply a criminal offense. The other is sanctioned by the government. That makes it completely different.
 
I don't support property damage but I'm not losing any sleep over a burning police department or people finally losing it over institutional racism and neo-imperialist authoritarianism.
 
calamity said:
I support getting rid of Trump. We warned you all this would happen.
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Really? Link to your predicting that the shut down orders would lead to blacks burning down their neighborhoods?

Or did you predict that unless the inner cities get rid of the Democratic appointed police chiefs Democratic mayors, and cities councils, and Democratic appointed department heads their cities would erupt into massive protests, riots, looting and arson? Everyone in every side of this is a Democrat.

Which of those did you predict?
 
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