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Post by robeiae on Aug 30, 2020 11:32:24 GMT -5
This looks to be a pretty clear case of cold-blooded murder (Portland shooting):
The guy's death was cheered by a BLM crowd, apparently:
At least the Kenosha shooter had the balls to surrender himself. What are the chances that this antifa piece of shit does that?
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Post by robeiae on Aug 31, 2020 8:25:04 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Sept 4, 2020 8:25:10 GMT -5
Suspected Portland shooter is dead:
Marshals don't play. I suppose they sent the Fugitive Task Force after him because they suspected he'd not come peacefully. I, for one, am satisfied with the explanation from the Marshals and hope people in Portland can accept that this fvcker got exactly what he deserved. These violent delights have violent ends...
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Post by robeiae on Sept 4, 2020 8:31:49 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Sept 4, 2020 15:08:35 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of Vice. They occasionally have really good pieces, but they also serve up plenty of uber-woke bullshit.
Having said that, I'm not sad that the guy's dead. I don't have much sympathy for cold-blooded murderous lunatics.
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Post by robeiae on Sept 6, 2020 7:22:10 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Sept 6, 2020 10:17:48 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Sept 6, 2020 10:22:27 GMT -5
Look, I just can't stop quoting Taibbi, the takedown is so viciously entertaining:
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Post by Optimus on Sept 6, 2020 14:51:37 GMT -5
Christ.
I remember the halcyon days of just 5 to 10 years ago when people with those types of views were admitted for psychiatric treatment.
Now, they're given a platform and actually taken seriously....but only by the other mentally-deranged people out there who have also gotten away with this type of intellectual con.
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Post by mikey on Sept 6, 2020 20:48:56 GMT -5
Texas man / Florida man have nothing on Portland man. 100 days and counting
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Post by robeiae on Sept 7, 2020 8:08:32 GMT -5
From MIT's Technology Review ( ?): www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007931/riot-porn-right-wing-vigilante-propaganda-social-media/From it: She imagines that she's a scholar, then seriously offers this kind of one-sided analysis. But wait, there's more: I don't necessarily object to her thesis, insofar as people can be driven to action by seeing videos, etc., but the idea that this is a one-sided (politically) thing is just so ridiculously stupid, I don't know what else to say. And I think such a bullshit take does little more than undermine the side offering it, just like the "in defense of looting" stupidity or all of the ignorant takes on the right wing side. This article is particularly comical in my view, given where it has been published and what we now know about the Portland shooter, since it's pretty clear that Reinoehl was much more of a cold-blooded murderer than is Rittenhouse. That doesn't mean Rittenhouse's "side" is better, to be sure, but then the reverse was the foundation of this piece.
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Post by robeiae on Sept 7, 2020 13:31:20 GMT -5
Christ. I remember the halcyon days of just 5 to 10 years ago when people with those types of views were admitted for psychiatric treatment. Now, they're given a platform and actually taken seriously....but only by the other mentally-deranged people out there who have also gotten away with this type of intellectual con. It's just terrifying, from the standpoint of enlightened discourse:
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Post by robeiae on Sept 8, 2020 7:38:50 GMT -5
Hannah Arendt, writing about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956:
For those unaware, the Revolution began as a student uprising in Soviet-controlled Hungary and actually toppled the government, before being put down--harshly--by the Soviets, proper (don't get me started on how the UN, the US, and Western Europe responded to the Revolution).
One of the currently en vogue themes with regard to looting is that it was an integral feature of the US Revolution and indeed of revolutions in general. This is total hogwash. It (looting) may occur during a violent revolution, but it also may not. It's not a critical element and its existence isn't evidence that something Important is happening.
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Post by Optimus on Sept 8, 2020 14:17:11 GMT -5
I wonder if these people have even heard of "the rule of law," know what it means, why it's crucially important for maintaining a functioning society, etc. I imagine they'd likely be the type of people who would whine about "this goes against the rule of law!" when things don't go the way they want, yet totally ignore it when it serves their ideological needs.
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Post by robeiae on Sept 8, 2020 15:22:55 GMT -5
Well, see, looting is actually an economic strategy--as valid as any other--that has been utilized by various people across history as a means of not only overcoming oppression of the so-called rule of law, but also as a means of undermining the principle of property and thereby acquiring necessities for life.
/academic gobbly-gook speak.
Dammit, where is Sokal/Higgins* when I could actually use him...
* This is a reference that no one may get. That's okay; I'm pleased with myself for making it, nonetheless.
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