Orogun01

I'm around 10 miles where some of the protests are taking place thanks to a coordinated BLM effort to make this thing global. There's no hell to bad for George Soros and the cronies that support him.

The National Firearms Act, one of those panic laws that were made to attack organized crime. The irony is that the mafia was stealing guns from the National Guard and the law mostly affects lawful citizens.

To be honest I don't think most people work 40 hours a week, they're at work 40 hours a week. I'm a big proponent of the 3.5 day work week if done correctly.

Nope, I just don't think the comparison is fair as the politics are completely different and to my initial point before people got carried away with the specifics of the language, I"m condemning the looting which seems a common occurrence in these events and my perceived lack of admonishment by the media. There's a lot money pumped into institutions by global actors that are securing their narrative. Regardless of the framing, the HK people rebelled against an encroaching totalitarian regime. I would hope we can agree on that. Nope, different times and more complex situation. I don't subscribe to the idea of the noble savage, whilst some tribes were not at fault the savage attacks of others did much to earn retaliation. Also, removal its not ethnic cleansing. I often find that people that think like you don't actually try it. 2 hours a day over the course of a year comes to 730 hours, that's more than enough to develop a good level of proficiency in a skill. But if you rather watch a movie that's fine, just don't blame your luck when you're not trying (not you in particular, the general you. Funny, if we were having this conversation without the benefit of anonymity I would be cancelled. If I however said the most heinous things about white people and cops I would expect to met with agreement. This is what the mainstream is about, they're just not as explicit about it as the radicals. Black entertainers like the media are not about to potentially offend their base by insinuating that the looting its wrong. Failure to do so creates the perception of silent approval (even if incorrect) that emboldens the extremist behavior. It's why we are in this situation in the first place, when people go tribal they stop holding people accountable and you see the worst come out. That goes for the looters and the cops. I would have challenge the idea of disproportionate policing, generally black neighborhoods have high crime rates. It makes sense that a lot of policing happens there, and it is good as it happens to make black neighborhoods safer. Bad policing should be condemned, but the alternative is no policing and a rise in crime. I think it was in Chicago where the mayor decided to side with protesters and the cops just reduced their levels of proactive policing. That just led to more crime.

In 20 years from now I'll be either getting ready for retiring in Costa Rica or selling complex 3D printable models online. With the advent of more advanced 3d printers, I can safely say that my job its somewhat secure.

That certainly will become an issue in the future as automation takes over.I can only hope that new jobs open up as technology advances but I don't see a clear solution.

Fair enough, maybe the language is incensing. I do stand by the fact that you can accurately predict a black riot shortly after an incident involving a black death by a person of a different race. I'm not, I am however learning hardsurface sculpting, organic and anatomy sculpting, tried my hand at Marvelous designer and during the years I was inactive in the forums learned to 3D print and design for 3D printing. Your reductio ad absurdum completely misses the point that we all have transferable skills from our professions that would lend to another job, which would only require minimal retraining. I don't know why people like to be hyperbolic and expect a truck driver to become a day trader, he/she could move on to being a mechanic or a train driver

Has no clear evidence that it was the police, specially considering the level expertise to pull off suicides. You are making a better case that George Soros was behind the deaths than the Police department. The political situation of HK is completely different to the US, also the HK didn't make a culture out gangster behavior. It's hard to say that black people are unjustly targeted when ghettos are high in crime and black on black crime is one of the leading causes of death, and yes police shootings are in that list. I tend to look suspiciously on those groups since the CCP has their hands in a lot of organizations that aren't directly related to the state. Nope, still the same guy and I still love that guy. Specially since the Fed is a scam on the world's people. I don't know what you mean by better life, it seems like they are at least making a living. If you have a career you can develop into a better position, if you have connections you can find jobs at better places. I don't think everyone can just become wealthy but I don't think that's a reasonable measure of improvement. My point is simple if you try to make a better life for yourself you can succeed, I'm sorry that the people you know are content with their lot in life and don't put the extra hours to better their career or find a better one. Most of the time black men aren't being shot by the cops, but the tacit or sometimes explicit approval by both the regular mainstream media and black media during these events certainly does normalize the violent behavior. I don't assume they're the entire community, they're just the representatives with the biggest platforms so when they play into the narrative of black oppression, when the only real oppression is the expectation of low standards we have for them.

Since 2005 we get almost yearly, at least some form of riot caused by black outrage. I'm ascribing it to every member of the race, but the pattern holds. If you look through my posts you would clearly see I separate lawful black people from hoodlums as I dislike the fact that they're both bundled up together in the mind of Americans.

Is it a just a fracture? I met someone that had their bone pulverized, hope that's not the case.

Sorry for the confusion, within the context of my post I referred to the black community as being a group of black entertainers. That's whom I'm referring, hi profile black people that tend to throw more kindle into the fire. Obviously members of the community would oppose it as they're directly affected by it.

We have different thoughts on what "making it" means, I think of making a living as making it. Apparently you think that being a steel plant worker is not. More so with all the online courses there's no excuse other than not wanting to go through the effort (insurmountable as it might seem) Alternatively there are other jobs they can occupy that pay well and don't require them to change careers or take 20 different courses. I know a master handyman who makes a heck of a living working for wealthy people. While I agree with your examples and I know that with mass immigration comes a wave of crime (we clearly seen that pattern repeated in the US) I was referring to minority groups within the US.

That seems like a bit of a conspiracy theory, "suicides"? HK has a legitimate claim as Beijing has been encroaching on their rights and overtaking their government. Black rioting is a predictable mainstay of the US, there's nothing exceptional about this situation I guess you take your news from China then? I said minimal, as in I haven't seen HK protesters try to rob a burned out bar when the news are interviewing the owner. I take my new from where I can so I can have a complete point, but you're off the mark. I'm a left leaning centrist with heavy libertarian leanings, a live and let live kinda guy. I gave you an example of people who went trough extraordinary circumstances to escape poverty, why aren't those white people migrating? I don't get your point, I gave an example of people that are in the US making a better life for themselves as proof that you can make it if you try. Why do you conflate the worst elements of a minority with their best? I"m not a MS-13 gangbanger despite being an immigrant. I can only imagine what a decent black person thinks when they're told that looters and gangsters are their equal. But to illustrate my point; you don't get to make a culture out of gangsta rap and then be surprised people think bad of you. My frustration comes at the lack of accountability by the black community (which is really just black entertainers) I'm talking common sense in a forum and a bunch of white people (I assume) are ready to pound me for my apparent racism. Is it too much to ask for the black community to communicate that looting is wrong and that it is hurting their cause? You know, hold your people up to a decent standard instead of defending crime.

...so there's such a dangerous police state that the police station was burned down and the looters are allowed to rampage. I'm going to support HK because I know China is a totalitarian dictatorship. I'm not going to support looting because that's just robbery, HK has near no reports of looting or damage to property. Saying that they're the same its like saying ISIS are like the founding fathers. I don't know what you assume my "apparent politics" are; but my point its simple, people can make it in this country. How come every other racial minority has made it here, some to the point that they're being handicapped by institutions? You just don't see behavior like this from other minority groups.

One are fighting for freedom from a totalitarian regime, the other are using a man's death as an excuse to ransack stores. If you think they're the same you're mental. Never been to Appalachia, I have however met lots of Hispanics that walked a desert to be here. They don't have legs in Appalachia?

I cannot understand why someone would be on the side of the looters, I guess some people don't value their property, safety and don't care about that of others. And nobody better dare come up with the whole "marginalized" spiel, maybe some dumb white mothereffers believe that but I know brown people that barely speak the language that are surviving and struggling to do better. If you can't make your life better in the US its because you're not trying.

Socialism and having corpses decide legislation, funny how the left seems to be going full Inca.

One, Saturday is great we get to see the launch cause we're not at work Two, It's going to rain Saturday. It's been raining nonstop in Florida, you'd think someone got pregnant from an angel or something.

Quite frankly at least the guy that put the knee over should be tried for manslaughter, I guess the DA isn't ruining his/her relations with the PD. Ain't that some BS?.....y'all down with OPP?

Speedy?!!! you're so insensitive.

Well, this is it folks. As soon as that law passes, I'm going to jail.

You need to understand that a large portions of DNC donations and the donors put a lot of money into sabotaging other parties. If the GOP has been infiltrated by Rhinos then you could safely assume that any party that gains momentum will be sabotaged. I pick on the DNC as it is the one I know there's evidence of wrong doing, AFAIK the GOP doesn't.

Calcium, lots of calcium

I honestly don't think you understand market economics, but that's due to the fact that you likely grew in monopoly (at least a visual one) and aren't involved in production. I too used to think that way until I got a small corporate job and saw how a small company owned a large share of their product market. Since then I became very interested in how businesses grow and I will tell you that there are a lot more factors to inequality than Millionaires are bad. I don't know your economic background but I've; by virtue of mine, met people that are housekeepers. They're essentially janitors to rich people, but are payed way more than janitors. That's the market economy, some people have more capital than others and can pay more for services. Now if those services are too expensive, like they're mandated to give them healthcare (which leads to inflated prices because of price inflation) they will likely get a roomba and call it a day. Leftist social programs don't work because they always start from the premise of "Infinite money dumped into this issue will solve it" which is never the case.

There's a difference between academical hypothetical and reality. You can think and believe that Communism works, it's a whole different thing to look people who suffered and fled Communism in the face and tell them they were wrong. As per your attempt to deflect; billionaires create better opportunities by paying premium for common services. Pricing has little to do with billionaires and in a healthy market with competition companies could price themselves out of existence, companies should not be accountable for consumer behavior (although if you can prove price gouging and scamming then they should pay retributions) People that are killing themselves to live are in extreme situations and are not the norm, you do better by them by providing them with better opportunities than by subsidizing them. The former has them likely becoming part of one or several industries and gaining skills that would make them more marketable in the job market, the latter finances mediocrity and uselessness