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Originally posted by sdy:
Corporate interests have donated over a billion dollars [to] Black Lives Matter

Shakedown.

Basically, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton all rolled up in one, on steroids.

Man, it’s crazy to go down the rabbit holes on these communist reddit pages. I’m learning a lot about them though. Very enlightening.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialistRA/

The threads below speak about how to better block roads....

this is what a peaceful protest looks like



I can't wait until it gets out of hand...

Should things continue down this path of endless protests/demonstrations, I can see various leftists getting resourceful with spike strips and caltrops thrown out at motorists. In which case a successful stop will undoubtedly result in the mob descending and carnage, thus, prepare yourself.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Should things continue down this path of endless protests/demonstrations, I can see various leftists getting resourceful with spike strips and caltrops thrown out at motorists. In which case a successful stop will undoubtedly result in the mob descending and carnage, thus, prepare yourself.

And when that happens in certain places in this country, some of those tens of thousands of new gun owners are going to litter the landscape with this filth. People are scared, and that rising fear is likely to produce a result these black clad morons aren't prepared for.

You’re assuming all those new gun owners are on our side.

Antifa and BLM are begging people to stop posting videos and pictures of riots because they're getting arrested

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313...g-their-lives-video/

video at link

Her recorded message:

stop sharing videos and pictures of people at riots.

the police are tracking these people down, and by posting pictures of them,

you are threatening their lives.

so please stop posting pictures of them.

Stop posting pictures? The Instagram Generation? The most narcissistic people who have ever lived??



"How do you stop posting pictures?? Is...is there an app for that?? Alexa, how do you stop posting pictures?"

Well then, post those videos and images even more. Hypocrite anarchists!

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
You’re assuming all those new gun owners are on our side.

I'm assuming nothing. Antifa is indiscriminate in who they attack, and people of all stripes, regardless of political affiliation, are scared and taking measures to protect themselves. Its simply a powder keg awaiting a spark.

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Originally posted by esdunbar:
Are you a business owner? If you are, you're literally the first one I've "met" who thinks this will save your company money.

No, I'm not. Just summarizing the stuff I've heard and seen coming out of companies with left-leaning senior management, including the one I work for.

Here's a good article about my central point:

https://thefederalist.com/2020...-destroying-america/

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Why Corporations Push Wokeness

Corporations push wokeness, higher education institutions love launching “sensitivity trainings,” and CEOs love the book “White Fragility” precisely because it moves the conversation away from economic privilege, the extreme cartelization of parts of the economy, the lack of American social mobility, and the collapse of working-class American families and civil society.

Focusing instead on the amorphous boogeyman of racism shields the economic system from direct or thoughtful scrutiny. Racism is a problem, but it will be unsolvable as long as extreme economic inequalities exist between whites and blacks — many of which stem from economic issues, not explicitly racial issues.

Multinational companies such as Nike are perfectly happy to be woke if that means not talking about their supply chains, their close ties to China, or the few Americans they employ. Coupled with the fact that the left is much more likely to launch boycotts than is the right, the recent actions of multinational corporations are financially, though not morally, logical.

The Democratic Party loves the focus on sex and race over class too, because the party establishment long ago abandoned working-class blacks and whites in favor of identity politics, corporatism, and cultural leftism.

How We Get Corporatist Marxism

This helps explain the extreme left-wing movement taking hold in America today. First, the movement is extremely and obviously Marxist. BLM explicitly says it is a Marxist organization, and many of the radical left rioters and protesters, who are mostly white Americans, are the products of neo-Marxist indoctrination in our highly taxpayer-subsidized university system.

Just like Marxists of old, the new movement views wrongthink as unforgivable, but the new Marxism is also extremely corporatist. Yes, the useful-idiot foot soldiers might trash a Starbucks or loot a Target, but they have much greater ire toward traditional Christianity, the police, and America’s founding than they do toward any corporation — go ask them.

Corporations and establishment Democrats might be riding a tiger that will soon turn on them, but in many ways they are spurring the tiger on, directing it, and whispering in its ear. Although a few Democratic lawmakers have plans for a huge economic overhaul of America, mainstream Democrats and big tech companies don’t seem very concerned.

That’s because even left-wing Democrats don’t plan to fundamentally change anything about the working class, globalization, or the economic assumptions we have made in the last 50 years. Look at the cities far-left Democrats run. They’ll make poor black American neighborhoods less safe by limiting the police. They’ll launch green initiatives that amount to little more than public displays of environmentalism and hit the working class with higher energy bills.

But they have fundamentally no problem with the existing corporate power structure. The wealth in cities such as Minneapolis runs in lockstep with politicians, not in opposition to them. The new Marxists want to ensure their own people hold positions of power in business and that opponents are pushed out, but there is no push to de-cartelize the economy, increase social mobility, or actually redistribute income and privilege.

It follows, then, that what we see today is some strange and insidious union between corporatism and Marxism. The focus of this corporatist Marxism is exclusively on issues of sex and race, to the point that anyone talking about inequalities in terms of economics is guilty of wrongthink. The left’s pushback against Bernie Sanders, who initially talked exclusively about class rather than race or sex, is instructive.

So yes, multinational corporations think they can ride this tiger for some time. Even the neo-Marxist college professors, who have trained this generation of neo-Marxists, reek of corporatism. They work in a protected and highly cartelized industry, rake in salaries far higher than the average American, drive fancy cars, and live in cloistered and often lily-white neighborhoods.

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And what is the word for socialist corporatism? This should be an easy one...

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No, I'm not. Just summarizing the stuff I've heard and seen coming out of companies with left-leaning senior management, including the one I work for.

Here's a good article about my central point:

Why Corporations Push Wokeness

One can reasonably assume that all large corporations are run by leftist management.
It's what's taught at all the 'best schools'.
It's fashionable and it won't get you fired. It's how you get noticed, and promoted.

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Originally posted by bigdeal: . . Antifa is indiscriminate in who they attack, and people of all stripes, regardless of political affiliation, are scared and taking measures to protect themselves. Its simply a powder keg awaiting a spark.

bolding mine.

I think that needs a repeat. Antifa's, and in my view, most of BLM's, goal is to disrupt society, with a goal of benefiting from the rubble.

Some Australians are creative:


flashguy

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

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Originally posted by bigdeal: . . Antifa is indiscriminate in who they attack, and people of all stripes, regardless of political affiliation, are scared and taking measures to protect themselves. Its simply a powder keg awaiting a spark.

bolding mine.

I think that needs a repeat. Antifa's, and in my view, most of BLM's, goal is to disrupt society, with a goal of benefiting from the rubble.

Well...since Leftists don't know how to build a damned thing (all they do is tear down society), they'll have to live in that rubble because they're too stupid to rise above it.

It's a start

US Attorney: Feds Have Opened 300 ‘Domestic Terror’ Investigations Following Riots

Justice Department officials told a hearing, chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), that investigators have opened around 300 “domestic terror” cases as a result of the riots that arose following national anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests in June and July.

Cruz is hosting a Congressional inquiry into the role of Antifa or other anarchist groups in organizing, directing, and even arming riots that took place in a number of major cities, including in places like Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, where the unrest continues.

On Tuesday, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. Attorney leading Attorney General William Barr’s inquiry into the matter, testified that “the feds have opened hundreds of federal criminal investigations surrounding the violence and rioting since May 28,” according to Fox News.

“They have since May 28 [opened] over 300 domestic terrorist investigations,” Cox said. “That does not include any potential civil rights investigations or violent crime associated with the riots.”

Cruz’s inquiry focuses on rioters who may have “hijacked” the peaceful protests that followed the death of George Floyd, a black man who perished while in Minneapolis police custody, according to the outlet. The hearings have already proven contentious. On Tuesday, Sen. Maisie Hirono (D-HI) made a dramatic exit from the meeting after Cruz confronted her for refusing to acknowledge Antifa’s role in the unrest or even say the organization’s name.

The Justice Department announced back in early June that they would be looking into whether individuals, arrested during riots in places like Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Chicago, Illinois, had ties to more radical groups. By June 10th, at least 50 people had been arrested in connection with instigating violent unrest, but none were ultimately charged with domestic terrorism or accused of having connections to a domestic terror group, according to Forbes.

Attorney General Barr later noted that the FBI and DOJ investigations into Antifa are ongoing and that charges would only come after months of investigation, potentially with the cooperation of those arrested during the riots.

“We have evidence that Antifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions, have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity,” Barr said in a press conference in early June.

“We have some investigations underway, very focused investigations on certain individuals that relate to Antifa,” Barr said in a separate interview. “But in the initial phase of identifying people and arresting them, they were arrested for crimes that don’t require us to identify a particular group or don’t necessitate that.”

Cruz’s focus was on Portland, which has seen more than 60 straight days of nightly unrest, although the situation has calmed somewhat since the Department of Homeland Security began to pull agents assigned to protect that city’s federal courthouse. Despite claims from Democratic legislators that Portland’s protests were mostly peaceful — a claim not borne out by on-the-ground footage — Cruz and Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli both noted that federal agents, and the courthouse itself, sustained considerable damage.

“Cuccinelli told lawmakers that an estimated 140 federal law enforcement officers guarding a Portland federal courthouse sustained 277 injuries due to the violent and sustained nightly attacks at the building,” according to Fox News.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...m_campaign=position1

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

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Originally posted by bigdeal: . . Antifa is indiscriminate in who they attack, and people of all stripes, regardless of political affiliation, are scared and taking measures to protect themselves. Its simply a powder keg awaiting a spark.

bolding mine.

I think that needs a repeat. Antifa's, and in my view, most of BLM's, goal is to disrupt society, with a goal of benefiting from the rubble.

Well...since Leftists don't know how to build a damned thing (all they do is tear down society), they'll have to live in that rubble because they're too stupid to rise above it.

Yes, they will live in the rubble that they helped create. But many of them will not recognize/admit the connection, their own culpability.

This bares repeating on a regular basis:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

― Ronald Reagan

multiple videos of the pick up and the motorcycle

https://www.redstate.com/nick-...-it-doesnt-end-well/

especially this one:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1290948957661728775