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Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 1:28 am
by 96583UP

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 2:18 am
by BurtReynolds
elliseamos wrote:chaz/chop seems like a decent-enough microcosm of American life.
I think every city should have an autonomous zone. Kind of a real world, player-vs-player MMO or persistent "Purge" area. People need a place to blow off steam.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 3:11 am
by Mickey
Don't worry, the pew pew is coming.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 3:54 am
by simple schoolboy
McParadigm wrote:The Blackout looks silly to me, too, but painting a Juneteenth neighborhood celebration as OMG actual segregation just makes you look intellectually dishonest.
Blackout Schedule
3:00pm Sound Healing - Naa Akua
4:30pm Black Imagination- Natasha Marin
6:00pm Dance Party - DJ Dark_Wiley
8:00pm Blackout After Party
The human chain of white people 'enforcing' it... is not great.

It also does not exist in a vacuum. We haven't missed the demands for black spaces on campus and black dorms in the last few years.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 10:51 am
by Bi_3
simple schoolboy wrote:
McParadigm wrote:The Blackout looks silly to me, too, but painting a Juneteenth neighborhood celebration as OMG actual segregation just makes you look intellectually dishonest.
Blackout Schedule
3:00pm Sound Healing - Naa Akua
4:30pm Black Imagination- Natasha Marin
6:00pm Dance Party - DJ Dark_Wiley
8:00pm Blackout After Party
The human chain of white people 'enforcing' it... is not great.

It also does not exist in a vacuum. We haven't missed the demands for black spaces on campus and black dorms in the last few years.
Those are just outliers. The fringe. Not something you'll ever have to deal with.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 11:01 am
by Bi_3
This is the strangest argument for censorship I've read in a while:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-surveil ... ed-racism/

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 12:16 pm
by Bi_3
BurtReynolds wrote:
elliseamos wrote:chaz/chop seems like a decent-enough microcosm of American life.
I think every city should have an autonomous zone. Kind of a real world, player-vs-player MMO or persistent "Purge" area. People need a place to blow off steam.
Live stream from Sunday night, fun starts around 13:30 left in the video:

The good news is we are getting one in DC soon:

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Tue June 23, 2020 2:08 pm
by verb_to_trust
This has gotten so fucking stupid

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 1:39 am
by 96583UP
Bi_3 wrote:
Live stream from Sunday night, fun starts around 13:30 left in the video:
this video makes blair witch project look like citizen kane

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 9:31 am
by Anders
He was born in Norway, fought and died in the civil war for the north, and was a lifelong opponent of slavery. Statue now torn down.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 11:18 am
by BurtReynolds

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 11:31 am
by BurtReynolds
At least they are attacking senators now instead of random people. That's progress.

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Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 12:07 pm
by Bi_3
BurtReynolds wrote:At least they are attacking senators now instead of random people. That's progress.

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It's more than progress. It's progressive.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 2:42 pm
by surfndestroy
Anders wrote:He was born in Norway, fought and died in the civil war for the north, and was a lifelong opponent of slavery. Statue now torn down.
Wikipedia says it was orb down by vandals. That’s not very progressive of them.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Wed June 24, 2020 8:37 pm
by B
Anders wrote:He was born in Norway, fought and died in the civil war for the north, and was a lifelong opponent of slavery. Statue now torn down.
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Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Thu June 25, 2020 11:17 am
by BurtReynolds
gotta be fake. who wrote this?

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Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Thu June 25, 2020 11:40 am
by Anders

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Thu June 25, 2020 1:54 pm
by Bi_3
Surprised it took this long:



‘Faces of the conquerors’: Trump trip to Rushmore draws fire

https://apnews.com/50f6bdb9e2fd2349bb39b99c1250b093

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Thu June 25, 2020 1:57 pm
by Mickey
Yeah me too Mount Rushmore is an abomination.

Re: The Protest Thread

Posted: Thu June 25, 2020 2:59 pm
by verb_to_trust
Oh man, if a group of whackos defaced Mount Rushmore that would be amazing.