A protest of their own, I guess. I was assuming that part of town was in someway notably supportive of the protests, or something.
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a) Rioting is the language of the unheard.
b) Anyone who is not advocating for radical change in the USA is, at best, a passive supporter of white supremacy.
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Of course, Rochester was a hot bed of abolitionism back in the day…
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More projection from the GOP. Most of the pro-trump supporters Hate Tourists that drove through Portland were from as far away as Florida.
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Your post just gave me an idea, “Protest Tourism” could be a niche business. Package deals, complimentary gas masks and black outfits. “Antifa Tours” maybe. If Trump wins, it could be the next big thing in the travel agent biz.
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A true capitalist would also offer Hate Tourism trips.
And a real entrepreneur would create their own town and get people to pay them to be the cops too. You’re just thinking too small.
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jots all this down
This might really be too much work for a lazy person such as I…
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The angriest of the protesters are saying “these ongoing killings justify a little property damage.” The apologists for the police state are saying “this property damage justifies the ongoing killings.”
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Same as it ever was in capitalist USA: property before people (especially certain kinds of people).
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Traveling long distances to protest was fashionable about twenty years ago. All the targets were legitimately national or international events. People who did this were sneered at as “protest hoppers” at the time but there wasn’t any real analysis that it was bad.
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They have done the same thing in downtown Seattle. Just driving up and down streets making a lot of unnecessary noise on multiple occasions. It’s not going to make those of us that support BLM change. And those in my building that are less supportive of BLM are mostly upset about the noise of the protests, so cops making a cacophony is sure not winning those people over either.
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Fiehrer’s complaint was one of the 455 sent to Facebook warning of a militia event violating the company’s policies. Together, they inspired four manual and numerous automated reviews of the event page by Facebook’s content moderators, which all concluded it did not violate the company’s rules. CEO Mark Zuckerberg would later tell employees it was “an operational mistake.” In those same remarks, which were made public after being reported by BuzzFeed News, Zuckerberg suggested to employees that the company had removed the event and militia page from the platform the next day.
But internal company discussions obtained by BuzzFeed News show that’s not true. The event was actually deleted the day after the shooting, not by Facebook, but by a page administrator for the Kenosha Guard. Later that day, Facebook removed the Kenosha Guard page itself.
Interviews with Facebook users and employees, never-before-published comments from the Kenosha Guard’s event page, and internal company documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal that the company’s handling of the events in Kenosha wasn’t so much an “operational mistake” as it was a total failure to take action.
“The fact that Facebook took credit publicly for removing the event page shows Facebook is more concerned with reputation management than product safety,” said Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. “The vengeful posts on the Kenosha Guard’s event page are not an isolated case though. As I search through hundreds of pro-gun groups, the comments are rife with people fantasizing about becoming vigilantes and sharing Dirty Harry memes.”
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Well, shit.
This was just posted today:
Then this just happened:
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This is bad. This is real bad.
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Can’t help but wonder if he was being thought of in the same way they think of cop killers. Yeah, this could go bad quickly.
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Told ya
(USA Today reprint)
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Well that’s the problem, then. How dare they do something so un-American!
Seriously, my brother lives in Rochester and works downtown. I am a little concerned, not so much about him but about his headstrong and short-tempered daughters seriously fucking up any right wing assholes who get in their faces.
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Oh, but it gets worse
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Rochester police do not have a good record when it comes to race relations. At all.
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