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Protesters Harassing Diners

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by pgabriel, Sep 25, 2020.

  1. fchowd0311

    fchowd0311 Contributing Member

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    And it'll keep on getting worse until systemic changes occur. .
    We can keep on lecturing about how this is bad and it won't change a thing.
     
  2. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    It sucks when your dinner is inconvenienced by someone protesting for civil rights and basic humanity. I wish them protesters would just go bother someone else and let me enjoy my calimari. ‘Murcia 2020
     
  3. Corrosion

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    How about they harass the people who are the problem , not just random strangers on the street ?

    Kinda like the rioting and looting - the people who get hurt are innocent bystanders.
     
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  4. larsv8

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    Protesting is by design supposed to inconvenience and draw attention too.

    The goal is not and should never be to enacts laws or control protestors, but rather address the systematic issues causing them to protest in the first place.

    Nobody wants riots and protests, but its a natural consequence of oppressive regimes.

    What the right doesn't understand is that desperate people will not lose desperation by having their protests quelled, they will simply resort to more extreme measures.

    Its really not complicated.

    The obvious response of a functioning government would be too address these systematic issues, however we do not have a functioning government, and it is inevitable that this will evolve into violence / terrorism and a further corrosion of American society.

    Republican rule just keeps getting worse and worse.
     
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  5. larsv8

    larsv8 Contributing Member

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    Because "mobs" are not logical or rational.

    They are emotional and the last thing you want is a large group of extremely emotional people.

    Protests are not something that can be controlled by some sort of law enforcement or legislation.
     
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  6. fchowd0311

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    Cool. You want to make a PSA or something?
     
  7. fchowd0311

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    People just don't get this. It tells me that they would rather be on a high horse thinking "I'm better than those humans" rather than actually sincerely wanting so solve problems.

    The current economic trends in this country along with law enforcement acting with impunity throughout the nation is just going to naturally result in riots.
     
  8. R0ckets03

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    Sucks to be in Joe Bidens America I guess
     
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    So you loonies in here are telling me instead of eating my chicken sandwich, I will be eating a knuckle sandwich and somehow it is my fault?
    This shiet right here is why Mr Trump will have a landslide victory come November.
     
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  10. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    They are harnessing them? Do they then ride them around town?
     
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  11. Corrosion

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    No , they have to control themselves .... not acting like ****ing heathens.
     
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  12. fchowd0311

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    Cool you should do a PSA
     
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    Yeah, they need to be terrorized to listen to something that gets rammed down their throats every day just one more time.
     
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    Way to justify terrorism.
    Like we haven't heard their message enough over the last 4 months.
    Oppressive regimes? What country you live in - North Korea?
     
  15. Wattafan

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    So I take it you approve of their unjust ways of seeking justice?
    Got it.
     
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  16. fchowd0311

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    No. He was making a statement about human nature. It was a positive claim, not normative.

    Similar along the lines of MLK saying "riots are the language of the unheard". He definitely did not condone violence but he understood human nature of desperate people.
     
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    Good luck with that.

    Has never happened and never will happen on any group of people.

    This is just how the human brain works.

    Desperate people will act increasingly irrational.
     
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    I am not justifying it, I am predicting it based on everything we have seen over the course of history.

    Not really, I abhor violence, destruction of personal property, etc.

    Its like you are asking me if I approve of gravity, because I note that if you drop a pencil, it will fall to the ground.
     
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    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    TERRORIZED by SJW at DINNER, next on Hannity.

    The problem with MAGA is that only education can cure it.
     

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