It has been said previously, but if this turns into the 68 DNC, then shit is going to explode. Back then, there were some rough fucking groups, but in this age of global networking and social media, I'd wager there will be no small amount of violence that will make the weather underground look like fuckin' care-bears.
Politifact is probably on net a good thing but often suffers from the same lazy, indulgent, or banal impulses that you see in a lot of other political reporting.
Someone from the site decided to get some answers about OWS and fact checked a bloody protest sign. This isn't exactly a medium designed for sober policy analysis. So the upshot is, no, the CEO of Goldman Sachs doesn't make $16,000 an hour. It takes him a whole hour and forty five minutes. Thus Politifact declares this random anonymous sign "False!!!" This is why a common tag on a political blog I frequent is "Our Failed Media Experiment"
Trivia: So this is a German ballot from 1938. It reads "National referendum - Should Austria unite with the rest of Germany?" The yes circle is bigger because the solution which included Austria was called the "Big-German-Solution", as opposed to the "Small-German-Solution" that came to be later on. The vote didn't really mean anything BTW. Which is funny, considering the context you posted this in.
Video is making this worse. A new video shows that the cops in Oakland not only shot that Marine in the face with a tear gas canister at extremely close range, but then waited for a crowd to come help him--before lobbing a flashbang directly into the group of people.
Someone in one of my classes was doing a report on Hacktivism, and managed to tie the Occupy movement into it. It seems like we're really gonna reach some kind of turning point, since neither side seems willing to give in. Things are just getting kinda worse and worse...I mean, we've seen this all before with protests, but...Yeah.
Video is making this worse. A new video shows that the cops in Oakland not only shot that Marine in the face with a tear gas canister at extremely close range, but then waited for a crowd to come help him--before lobbing a flashbang directly into the group of people.
I saw more tear gas thrown at the police then was fired by them during the video.
Video is making this worse. A new video shows that the cops in Oakland not only shot that Marine in the face with a tear gas canister at extremely close range, but then waited for a crowd to come help him--before lobbing a flashbang directly into the group of people.
I saw more tear gas thrown at the police then was fired by them during the video.
Honestly, I don't really care. In fact, I hope they had tear gas thrown at them. That was a boy who had given two years of his life in service to his country as one of our most respected defenders, a fucking US Marine, and they shot him in the head with a can of tear gas and used him as bait to practice more brutality. He's lying in a medically-induced coma on a respirator right now. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't die, and even more surprised if he survives without major brain damage (brain swell and bleed to the frontal lobe is an invitation for severe permanent motor or speech impairments).
Nothing any protester did at that event could possibly justify that action. Not in the America I was raised in, anyway.
I saw more tear gas thrown at the police then was fired by them during the video.
Were we watching the same video? I saw two tear gas canisters lobbed by a protester that actually made it to the cops. I saw one half-hearted throw that was probably someone kicking a canister away from them. And the lobbing came after the cops threw the flashbang at the crowd. There was a lot more tear gas being fired at the protesters.
Also, unless the rioters had tear gas that they acquired illegally, the only tear gas they could throw at the cops must have been fired at them first. So at best, there could be an even exchange of tear gas.
Look, I'm all about cops breaking up a riot. Shit happens. It gets bad. Kids catch pepper balls in the face. But this preliminary examination looks bad for the cops. There was no reason to throw a flashbang at that group, at all.
This is funny. I was just reading that the cooks at OWS in NYC are pissed because the homeless and other "freeloaders" are coming in for free meals! The longer this thing goes on the more these protests look like the corporations they are protesting!
Look, I'm all about cops breaking up a riot. Shit happens. It gets bad. Kids catch pepper balls in the face. But this preliminary examination looks bad for the cops. There was no reason to throw a flashbang at that group, at all.
Also, the Marine's proximity to the cordon means that the canister was aimed and fired at his head, which in turn means that the cops were using their weapons inappropriately. People have died from tear gas cans before; I'm pretty sure standard training is to not fire the round unless you have enough distance to ensure that it won't cause lethal harm if it catches someone. Otherwise, you can fire in an arc.
This is funny. I was just reading that the cooks at OWS in NYC are pissed because the homeless and other "freeloaders" are coming in for free meals! The longer this thing goes on the more these protests look like the corporations they are protesting!
Huh, that's weird because Ophilly is feeding the homeless and other freeloaders on purpose....
There's gonna be an Occupy Louisville. I don't know any companies they'd want to protest except maybe Rohm and Haas but who the hell wants to risk their health standing around Rubbertown?
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I would vote the shit out of Elizabeth Warren.
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EDIT: Same video as the one posted above. Made this so the post isn't wasted:
Someone from the site decided to get some answers about OWS and fact checked a bloody protest sign.
This isn't exactly a medium designed for sober policy analysis. So the upshot is, no, the CEO of Goldman Sachs doesn't make $16,000 an hour. It takes him a whole hour and forty five minutes. Thus Politifact declares this random anonymous sign "False!!!"
This is why a common tag on a political blog I frequent is "Our Failed Media Experiment"
Nothing any protester did at that event could possibly justify that action. Not in the America I was raised in, anyway.
Also, unless the rioters had tear gas that they acquired illegally, the only tear gas they could throw at the cops must have been fired at them first. So at best, there could be an even exchange of tear gas.
Look, I'm all about cops breaking up a riot. Shit happens. It gets bad. Kids catch pepper balls in the face. But this preliminary examination looks bad for the cops. There was no reason to throw a flashbang at that group, at all.