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Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:45 pm
Why do you pretend protestors who made death threats to my family, on the virtue of them being directed at any and all police officers, don't exist?
Because this conversation isn't about you or your family.
Yeah, don't bring up bad things MY tribe did!
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Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:45 pm
Why do you pretend protestors who made death threats to my family, on the virtue of them being directed at any and all police officers, don't exist?
Because this conversation isn't about you or your family.
Yeah, don't bring up bad things MY tribe did!
Is that really your only response trying to derail any real conversation.
OMG, are we about to question Admiral X's ethnic background again?
If so, then maybe I should just refuse to, say, take Fuzzy Necromancer's claims at face value that that user was just peacefully protesting. Or that Dragon Ball Fan has a cop relative.
Because you see once we fall down that rabbit hole, how easy it is to never trust anything?
Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:28 pm
OMG, are we about to question Admiral X's ethnic background again?
I don't think that's what's going on here; I think X was using 'tribe' colliqually, i.e. Democrats. And well Best is arguing that talking about the anti-police thing is irrelevant and derailing.
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Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:28 pm
OMG, are we about to question Admiral X's ethnic background again?
I don't think that's what's going on here; I think X was using 'tribe' colliqually, i.e. Democrats. And well Best is arguing that talking about the anti-police thing is irrelevant and derailing.
That is correct TGLS. I want it on record I didn't mention X race in my comments.
Draco Dracul wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:09 pm
So we have one group of people that protested decades of police brutality and systemic racism, and another group of people that set up a gallows, stormed the Capitol Building, and chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and it's the former group that are brownshirts?
And yet another example of how you ignore wrongdoing on the part of your tribe while trying to highlight the wrongdoing of another.
The funny thing is that not only are you trying to equate the attempted murder of potentially hundreds of elected officials with vandalism and looting, we have significant evidence that much of the vandalism and looting during the BLM protests was instigated by right wing agitators.
The funny thing about Trump and the media is that they spent the better part of the last 5 years treating him with kid's gloves,
Draco Dracul wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:09 pm
So we have one group of people that protested decades of police brutality and systemic racism, and another group of people that set up a gallows, stormed the Capitol Building, and chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and it's the former group that are brownshirts?
And yet another example of how you ignore wrongdoing on the part of your tribe while trying to highlight the wrongdoing of another.
The funny thing is that not only are you trying to equate the attempted murder of potentially hundreds of elected officials with vandalism and looting, we have significant evidence that much of the vandalism and looting during the BLM protests was instigated by right wing agitators.
The funny thing about Trump and the media is that they spent the better part of the last 5 years treating him with kid's gloves,
You need to learn how to discuss and contemplate other people's problems without bringing up your problems as a Gotcha. It's part of being a decent human in a functioning society.
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