The Donald vs Big Tech

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

if you are to only protest in the manner your oppressor will allow, what good is it?

the looting ... is being kept in your focus to distract from the protest itself and to justify the police reaction there, which I sure ye have all seen in detail if you follow any social media.

There have been plenty of attempts at peaceful protest throughout the years that were also met with derision, and had zero effect.  This was bound to happen on this scale eventually.

That's the whole thing in a pretty neat nutshell alright.

[mickO)))]

https://mobile.twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1267208123598733314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1267208123598733314&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailysnark.com%2Fhomeless-man-who-had-every-possession-burned-by-rioters-gets-brought-new-everything-by-people%2F

I wonder what Trevor Noah and his buddies think about this.

Who cares what Trevor Noah thinks about it? The guy himself says he has no bad feelings about it at all!
https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/01/rioters-set-homeless-mans-bed-on-fire-you-hear-anguish/

You were the one that brought an idiot like Trevor Noah into the thread.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Did you bang your head this morning? Whether Trevor Noah is an idiot or a genius, what difference does it make what he thinks when you have the opinion of the individual involved? I'm so sorry that your newest little right-wing twist farted out like a balloon, but hey, that's life! Learn how to follow up a story and you won't be left looking like someone whose only interest is to try to small-mindedly undermine things he has no interest in gaining a deeper understanding of.

[Pedrito]

if you are to only protest in the manner your oppressor will allow, what good is it?

the looting ... is being kept in your focus to distract from the protest itself and to justify the police reaction there, which I sure ye have all seen in detail if you follow any social media.

There have been plenty of attempts at peaceful protest throughout the years that were also met with derision, and had zero effect.  This was bound to happen on this scale eventually.

That's the whole thing in a pretty neat nutshell alright.

That makes all the beatings and burnings and arson and robbery alright then. Great that's that sorted. Maybe we can teach that to all young kids at school now.

[mickO)))]

Did you bang your head this morning? Whether Trevor Noah is an idiot or a genius, what difference does it make what he thinks when you have the opinion of the individual involved? I'm so sorry that your newest little right-wing twist farted out like a balloon, but hey, that's life! Learn how to follow up a story and you won't be left looking like someone whose only interest is to try to small-mindedly undermine things he has no interest in gaining a deeper understanding of.

At least you made a half decent attempt at being funnier than Trev. Enjoy the thread soon you will be the only one posting in it.

[Caomhaoin]

Trevor Noah, like John Oliver, is one of the cringiest lads on TV, painfully unfunny. Fair play though, he's put that across quite well.

I don't agree though. The thing I....nah, I'll leave it.

[Pedrito]

Step away from the phone...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That makes all the beatings and burnings and arson and robbery alright then. Great that's that sorted. Maybe we can teach that to all young kids at school now.

In schools in the US and Britain and France and Spain, they already teach kids that. It's called history. Of course, if they taught it in such explicit terms, reflecting the real history, there probably wouldn't be anything to discuss right now 

[Pedrito]

Any sign of Robb Flynn in all of this?

[Trev]

So those big tech companies then...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Trevor Noah, like John Oliver, is one of the cringiest lads on TV, painfully unfunny. Fair play though, he's put that across quite well.

I don't agree though. The thing I....nah, I'll leave it.

I'm not a fan myself. I posted his point of view as a de facto and well-respected spokesperson of the black community in America (which is what he is, regardless of when he arrived). In fact, I saw the video because a black friend from London shared it. Although he's French-Austrian. Fucking immigrants everywhere!

[ochoill]

if you are to only protest in the manner your oppressor will allow, what good is it?

the looting ... is being kept in your focus to distract from the protest itself and to justify the police reaction there, which I sure ye have all seen in detail if you follow any social media.

There have been plenty of attempts at peaceful protest throughout the years that were also met with derision, and had zero effect.  This was bound to happen on this scale eventually.

That's the whole thing in a pretty neat nutshell alright.

That makes all the beatings and burnings and arson and robbery alright then. Great that's that sorted. Maybe we can teach that to all young kids at school now.

I never said it was good, or bad.  I said it was inevitable.

[ochoill]

So those big tech companies then...

You wouldn't have seen the likes of this on Bebo anyway

[Emphyrio]

Also the looting is being amplified a lot by American media, not saying it's not happening because is certainly is but it is being kept in your focus to distract from the protest itself and to justify the police reaction there,

And that, for me, is the sad crux of the situation.

[mugz]

So those big tech companies then...

You wouldn't have seen the likes of this on Bebo anyway
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