There is no point I'm trying to make. I'm interested in a healthy discussion about monuments/memorials/etc.
I say burn them all and send the ashes to Russia.
Boston Police and Mass State Police roughing up the alt-left(or whatever you call it) right now.
They are called the Left. Unlike the White Nationalist GOPers who are afraid to call themselves what they are and have to come up with code names (i.e. the Alt Right) the Left doesnt have to do that.
I don't think they like being called dots.![]()
~20,000 people showed up in Boston to counter-protest this:
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Were there even 50 "free speech" demonstrators there? LOL
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Trump called the 20,000 "anti-police agitators"
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Trump called the 20,000 "anti-police agitators"
Ya know that's the thing that keeps from these protests. Who do I bill my hours to? Is it Soros directly? Do I bill to the union and he reemburses them? Is it a holding company? Obviously I'm not liberal enough.Soros broke out the checkbook again.![]()
Okay, let's go with 10 years from now, where will we be? Enough time for changes to be made, but not enough time for a full generational swing.
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Trump called the 20,000 "anti-police agitators"
Boston Police and Mass State Police roughing up the alt-left(or whatever you call it) right now.
Ten years from now all the confederate statues will be gone in the free states except the ones on battlefields that memorialize the fallen. In a few places like Portland or Cambridge slave-owners' statues will probably removed in the same way that, say, Yale renamed a building named after a slaveholder, but that won't catch on nationally because Washington and Jefferson were slave-owners and we're keeping them.
In the slave states, very little will change. The GOP will use this as a way to milk votes from the hicks just like they did with gay marriage and trans bathrooms. It's their same old strategy of appealing to fear and bigotry to screen an agenda that calls for cutting the taxes of the rich and rolling back worker and consumer protections. This will allow a lot of dingbats in a lot of dingbat districts to tub thump and raise money.
LOL- the police commissioner is pointing out that the only violence was when they (the police) escorted the "free speech" ralliers out of the Boston Common.
Sure doesn't sound like the police were that upset with the counter protesters. Heck he mentioned that the counter protesters were there for the right reasons.
Oh, and some of the "free speech" guys were armed. He mentioned some had protective vests and at least one gun was confiscated.
One wonders who wanted the violence.
Peacefully denounce, I might add. Granted, the alt-right are more apt to start sh*, but the alt-left aren't angels, either.What else is he going to say? He'd be burned at the stake if he said anything negative about the alt-left. Part of it was taking the alt-right crowd out, but a lot of it too me looked like alt-left looking to have a confrontation with the police.
The rally reinforced my views on what is happening. You basically have three groups; people who strictly oppose nazis and are there for the right reason, alt-right, and alt-left. The first group are wonderful people who we are lucky to have in this country. The latter two should be denounced by everyone else who isn't part of them.