The Protest Thread

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times like these just make me think how happy vladimir putin must be at how everything turned out

[macphisto]

"Trump’s anti-antifa statements commit rhetorical violence, and provoke physical violence, in a number of directions. For one, it is a historical racist trope to suggest that black communities could not rise up and self-organize huge revolutionary action. In every major city, it is abundantly clear that these uprisings are being led by young black people. The promulgating of outside agitator myths is an affront to the agency of communities organizing on the front lines of these battles. The divide-and-conquer strategy is as old and tired as any “bad protester versus good protester” dyad, which again and again distracts from the plague of police violence attending every moment of antiracist protest. It just so happens that it was a strategy favored by the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1930s, the Klan issued flyers in Alabama stating that “paid organizers for the communists are only trying” to get black people “in trouble.” As James Baldwin wrote in 1961, “It is a notion which contains a gratuitous insult implying, as it does, that Negroes can make no move unless they are manipulated.”"

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/tru ... signation/

So it's not out-of-towners, not antifa, and not white nationalists, but black protestors turned rioters that are responsible for the looting and arson?

[macphisto]

People in my community Facebook group are threatening to drive down protesters tonight. Cool!

My company's main office is in Providence (actually now in East Prov), and from what I heard from them today, seems worse there than here in CT.

It didn't seem that bad. People in the suburbs are freaking out tonight thinking there are going to be roving mobs terrorizing the streets tonight.

These conversations are insane. Talk of how groups are out "targeting white neighborhoods" tonight. Stories of people dropping bricks off highway overpasses (but always beginning with "Someone told me that they heard..."). Police stations are going to be under siege. People saying that they're going to sleep with their shoes on. "Stay safe!" "Pray for our police officers!" "So sad in our country right now!"

Shout out to the woman who posted right in the middle of this: "Does anyone install air conditioners?"

Happened in Minneapolis.

[Mickey]

I just got back from a BLM protest directly around the block from my condo. it was one of the most emotional experiences i have ever had. we talked the cops into kneeling with us. one of them had the same pearl jam stickman tattoo i have, he was obviously cool. the energy was absolutely overwhelming.

there's also a group of idiot white guys walking around with bats to "protect their neighborhood" but the BLM protest completely overshadowed them. i have such a rush from what i was just a part of. with everything happening around the country and in my city, in addition to just finding out an old friend passed away, this really lifted me up.

Where do you live? This sounds a lot like Philly...

[E.H. Ruddock]

People in my suburban neighborhood are freaking out on Facebook when someone sets off fireworks. "Are the protests coming here now?!"

JFC

[Simple Torture]

People in my community Facebook group are threatening to drive down protesters tonight. Cool!

My company's main office is in Providence (actually now in East Prov), and from what I heard from them today, seems worse there than here in CT.

It didn't seem that bad. People in the suburbs are freaking out tonight thinking there are going to be roving mobs terrorizing the streets tonight.

These conversations are insane. Talk of how groups are out "targeting white neighborhoods" tonight. Stories of people dropping bricks off highway overpasses (but always beginning with "Someone told me that they heard..."). Police stations are going to be under siege. People saying that they're going to sleep with their shoes on. "Stay safe!" "Pray for our police officers!" "So sad in our country right now!"

Shout out to the woman who posted right in the middle of this: "Does anyone install air conditioners?"

Happened in Minneapolis.

That's true, it did happen in the center of the conflagration! So far, crickets in East Bumfuck, RI.

[Jorge]

People in my suburban neighborhood are freaking out on Facebook when someone sets off fireworks. "Are the protests coming here now?!"

JFC

Do people randomly set off fireworks in your neighborhood? Is it some sort of holiday or is that just a common thing in the US?

[McParadigm]

People in my suburban neighborhood are freaking out on Facebook when someone sets off fireworks. "Are the protests coming here now?!"

JFC

Do people randomly set off fireworks in your neighborhood? Is it some sort of holiday or is that just a common thing in the US?

People here like to set them off at weird times.

[Mickey]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

[macphisto]

People in my suburban neighborhood are freaking out on Facebook when someone sets off fireworks. "Are the protests coming here now?!"

JFC

Do people randomly set off fireworks in your neighborhood? Is it some sort of holiday or is that just a common thing in the US?

Depends on the area. It can be an all-summer-long thing, but sporadically. It's mostly concentrated in the days surrounding Independence Day, and the Karens on Nextdoor really lose their shit.

[simple schoolboy]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

[Mickey]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

[simple schoolboy]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

MMT, but for the common man?

[warehouse]

I just got back from a BLM protest directly around the block from my condo. it was one of the most emotional experiences i have ever had. we talked the cops into kneeling with us. one of them had the same pearl jam stickman tattoo i have, he was obviously cool. the energy was absolutely overwhelming.

there's also a group of idiot white guys walking around with bats to "protect their neighborhood" but the BLM protest completely overshadowed them. i have such a rush from what i was just a part of. with everything happening around the country and in my city, in addition to just finding out an old friend passed away, this really lifted me up.

Where do you live? This sounds a lot like Philly...

yeah man, i live in fishtown. this place has been out of control for days. are you in philly now?

[warehouse]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

this happened a couple blocks from where i live. i havent heard as many bombs as last night, but i heard a bunch of gun shots earlier.

i cant believe i just typed that.

[Mickey]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

this happened a couple blocks from where i live. i havent heard as many bombs as last night, but i heard a bunch of gun shots earlier.

i cant believe i just typed that.

Lmao so you were at the Fishtown protest? I'm in Brewerytown.

[simple schoolboy]

Digging the police and unidentified ownership aircraft orbiting protest spots. I suspect the new to protesting folk will get their data hoovered up via stingrays while those "diversity of tactics" folks left their phones at home or in airplane mode.

Its going to be hilarious if these people end up paying the price for the looting.

[warehouse]

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

this happened a couple blocks from where i live. i havent heard as many bombs as last night, but i heard a bunch of gun shots earlier.

i cant believe i just typed that.

Lmao so you were at the Fishtown protest? I'm in Brewerytown.

cool area

yeah, i didnt know they were happening here until i saw it on the news, so i ran over there last minute. "awesome" would be an understatement. being a part of something like that was moving.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

The peaceful protest in my city had a couple hundred white people, 2-3 “instigators” that instigated nothing, and this really tough hombre on his way to a Call of Duty convention.

[simple schoolboy]

The peaceful protest in my city had a couple hundred white people, 2-3 “instigators” that instigated nothing, and this really tough hombre on his way to a Call of Duty convention.

10 rounder in the mag well, 30 round mags in the chest rig... California?