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xerxes xerxes:

was wondering who'd give the speech this time around.
glad it's mike.

RTJ - Talk To Me RTJ - Talk To Me:

talk real good 'cause i'm smart and stuff
we a good crew to fuck with, better to love!

props to a real political voice.

plot, plan, strategize, organize, mobilize!

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from the washington post. wapo is trash, but this is a decent take:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... r-country/

$1:

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
By: Karen Attiah - Global Opinions editor - May 29, 2020 at 1:57 p.m. PDT

If we talked about what is happening in Minneapolis the same way we talk about events in a foreign country, here’s how the Western media would cover it. The quotes and those “quoted” in the piece below are fictional.

In recent years, the international community has sounded the alarm on the deteriorating political and human rights situation in the United States under the regime of Donald Trump. Now, as the country marks 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the former British colony finds itself in a downward spiral of ethnic violence. The fatigue and paralysis of the international community are evident in its silence, America experts say.

The country has been rocked by several viral videos depicting extrajudicial executions of black ethnic minorities by state security forces. Uprisings erupted in the northern city of Minneapolis after a video circulated online of the killing of a black man, George Floyd, after being attacked by a security force agent. Trump took to Twitter, calling black protesters “THUGS”’ and threatening to send in military force. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts!” he declared.

“Sure, we get it that black people are angry about decades of abuse and impunity,” said G. Scott Fitz, a Minnesotan and member of the white ethnic majority. “But going after a Target crosses the line. Can’t they find a more peaceful way, like kneeling in silence?”

Ethnic violence has plagued the country for generations, and decades ago it captured the attention of the world, but recently the news coverage and concern are waning as there seems to be no end in sight to the oppression. “These are ancient, inexplicable hatreds fueling these ethnic conflicts and inequality," said Andreja Dulic, a foreign correspondent whose knowledge of American English consists of a semester course in college and the occasional session on the Duolingo app. When told the United States is only several hundred years old, he shrugged and said, “In my country, we have structures still from the Roman empire. In their culture, Americans think that a 150-year-old building is ancient history.”

Britain usually takes an acute interest in the affairs of its former colony, but it has also been affected by the novel coronavirus. “We’ve seen some setbacks with the virus, but some Brits see the rising disease, staggering unemployment and violence in the States and feel as if America was never ready to govern itself properly, that it would resort to tribal politics,” said Andrew Darcy Morthington, a London-based America expert. During the interview, a news alert informed that out of the nearly 40,000 coronavirus deaths in the United Kingdom, 61 percent of the health-care workers who have died were black and or have Middle Eastern backgrounds. Morthington didn’t seem to notice. “Like I was saying, we don’t have those American racism issues here.”

Trump, a former reality-TV host, beauty pageant organizer and businessman, once called African nations “shithole countries." But he is now taking a page from African dictators who spread bogus health remedies, like Yahya Jammeh of Gambia, who claimed he could cure AIDS with bananas and herbal potions and pushed his treatments onto the population, resulting in deaths. Trump appeared to suggest injecting bleach and using sunlight to kill the coronavirus. He has also said he has taken hydroxycholoroquine, a drug derived from quinine, a long-known jungle remedy for malaria. Doctors have advised against using the treatment to prevent or treat the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, Americans desperate to flee will face steep challenges to cross borders, as mismanagement of the coronavirus and ethnic tensions in the country have made them undesirable visitors. But some struggling American retailers, like Neiman Marcus, are hoping to lure shoppers with traditional 19th-century colonial travel fantasies through neutral khakis and cargo shorts as part of a “Modern Safari” collection. “Utilitarian details & muted tones meet classic femininity,” reads a caption under the photograph of a white woman. Pith helmets were not included in the accessory lineup.

Some nations are considering offering black Americans special asylum. “Members of the white ethnic majority are forming armed militia groups, demanding their freedom to go back to work for the wealthy class who refer to workers as ‘human capital stock,’ despite the huge risk to workers,” said Mustapha Okango, a Nairobi-based anthropologist. “This is a throwback to the days when slavery was the backbone of the American economy. Black slaves were the original essential workers, and they were treated as non-human stock.”

Africa could be an ideal asylum destination, as several African countries have managed to contain the coronavirus outbreak through aggressive early measures and innovations in testing kits. Senegal, a nation of 16 million, has only seen 41 deaths. “Everyone predicted Africa would fall into chaos,” Okango said. “It is proof that being a black person in this world doesn’t kill you, but being a black person in America clearly can.” The African Union did not respond to requests for comment, but it released a statement that said “we believe in American solutions for American problems.”

Around the world, grass-roots organizations, celebrities, human rights activists and even students are doing what they can to raise money and awareness about the dire situation in America.

“It’s sad that the Americans don’t have a government that can get them coronavirus tests or even monthly checks to be able to feed their families,” said Charlotte Johnson, a 18-year-old Liberian student activist, who survived the Ebola pandemic. “100,000 people are dead, cities are burning, and the country hasn’t had a day of mourning? Lives don’t matter, especially not black lives. It’s like they’re living in a failing state.”

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i think this is the youtube video mike refers to from the atlanta police chief:

[Thanos]

King Scum crawled out of his bunker underneath the White House and is back to rage-tweeting, safely ensconced behind his wall of taxpayer-funded protection. He's not only the worst president in American history, he's also the most cowardly one. What a fucking joke of a person he is, like some sort of pantomime of a human being some writers on a sitcom came up with while they were all out of their minds on cocaine.

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some folks kneel in front of the gates and he's squeeling about sending the dogs

this whole period of time will be absolutely exhausting for future american historians

[Thanos]

I thought that MAGA and the Legion of Karens would have arisen in their multitudes to attack the rioters and protect Dear Leader. Apparently they were too busy elsewhere yelling "pussy! wimp!" at people wearing safety masks.

[Scape]

Martin15 Martin15:

Please don't think for one minute what is happening in the US
is anything like a National Uprising.

It just isn't.


It is one community, doing what it does best.
Burning its' own buildings, and it's own future, straight down to the ground.


Just like trey trey

gentle giant mikey brown

smoking Eric

and I dont remember who else. There's a list somewhere.





Not much social distancing going around there, though.

Please? Has the cheese slid off your cracker? 35 cites are on fire in the US and it is spreading. As we speak thousands are protesting in downtown Toronto.

I posted this before but I guess it needs repeating:



You think anyone is going to take a word Barr says now as anything but a lie? We are talking about King style riots in 92. I was a bar hop in Halifax when it happened and we had riots there! There were mobs running past the front doors as the news was announced and we had to lock all the doors for fear of being looted. The dam has broken, there is no coming back from this.

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cops shot reporter linda tirado in the face yesterday. permanently blind in her left eye now.

her twitter, where she's doing well to be positive while joking around with her nurse

[Fighter]

Poem title: I can't breathe

By Simeon Austin David Pangu

'I can't breathe I can't breathe '
'Please take your knee off my neck I can't breathe'
'My stomach hurt, my neck hurts I can't breathe'
Were his last words 'I can't breathe'

Hundreds of years my ancestors suffered to build this land,
Strip off their dignity and put chains on their hand,
They were used as a shield in your war for independent,
Though in pain and sorrow they were still resilient.

We never ask for much just let us be
Yet you restrict even the air so that I can't breathe.
You say here is a free world that was built on the back of my people,
Taken from our homes leaving our land cripple.

Each and every day we get over taxed
Halt and shot by police when trying to ask
Right to all but ours are restricted,
Because of the color of my skin my kind are being hunted,

You despise my skin color and cherish my heritage,
Making millions out of my artifacts in you museum, and I can't even pay the mortgage,
I am paying debt I never owed just because of my skin color
Working harder than you and yet you call me idler.

Your put you knee on my neck deprived me of air,
What crime could I ever committed that such could be deemed fair
Yet you get fired but still get a life to live,
And that your system call 'fair' and forced my kind to believe.

Am not asking for more just a little air
My hands chained behind my back what else could have caused you to fear,
'I am resisting arrest' you say
Yet my hands chained behind my back in a cruel way,

Being black is a crime in America
You get arrest and shot for driving a fancy car
Now I am not even allowed to breathe
Ponder in fear all I do is seethe

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Video:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1266546753182056453

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ahahahahahha

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Scape Scape:

Video:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1266546753182056453

“Why are the doing that?”

ACAB

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Mean a heck of a lot more if it were a politician or a banker or tech billionaire's head being paraded around on the end of a pike instead of a stone hand from the statue of a king who's been dead for 230 years. The new aristocracy is the threat to everyone else. The old aristocracy isn't even worth talking about anymore.

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i agree, but, why not both

a statue of the guy who lost his head to a revolution? it was asking for an ironic comeuppance

frankly a hand from some statue is a lot more palatable to the order-conscientious.
and it's easier. the tech billionaires and bankers and politicians aren't standing lit up in the middle of a crowd, sadly. they're far away from this, hiding, as always. if the protestors were dragging fancy folk and state-backed murderers from their residential homes, it'd be a "bad look"

the statue being damaged means nothing. it's just funny. especially with his heir bitching about it