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user-inactivated  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Huff Po press apparently arrested in Ferguson, roughed up; later released

It's fucking incredible and ridiculous.

Apparently it's a no fly zone. A NO FLY ZONE. RUSSIA IS FUCKING NO FLY ZONE.

All the US news stations are reporting on the looting and rioting, but not the fact that police militarization is a real fucking thing.

I don't even know what to say.





Meriadoc  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is the worst case of... fuck, I don't even know, police state? Fascism? in the country's history at this point.

You know what... I can't even make that statement in confidence, and that scares the shit out of me. I am fully terrified of this country and government now.

user-inactivated  ·  3754 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is pretty typical actually, it just doesn't make the news most of the time because it's usually about boring political stuff like the G8 or Occupy or the RNC or something.

_refugee_  ·  3753 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This incident has shown me that I have several idiotic Facebook now-un-friends. I actually can't even begin to encapsulate the conversation I had earlier today with someone, and I won't, but let it be known that a gay man basically said that gays were better than other minorities because they "wouldn't riot" in similar circumstances, and then another one said that even if they did riot it would be okay because they haven't had the same rights as the rest of America for the past 40 years, legally speaking.

user-inactivated  ·  3753 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    gays were better than other minorities because they "wouldn't riot" in similar circumstances

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_refugee_  ·  3753 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I asked about the rationale but clearly there wasn't one. I actually asked because I think we are on double discrimination duty here; I think it's discriminatory to raise the gays up as somehow "better," but I also suspect that they said gays wouldn't riot because gay men are perceived as effeminate and women are, well, women, right?

I did do my duty and point out stonewall but of course if you're not arguing with intelligent people intelligent points don't hit any target any way.

bioemerl  ·  3754 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Look up 1970's protests about the vietnam war. Very similar situation.

kleinbl00  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    This is the worst case of... fuck, I don't even know, police state? Fascism? in the country's history at this point.

Well...

kleinbl00  ·  3754 days ago  ·  link  ·