from the you-said-it dept
This week, our winners on the insightful aspect are a comment-and-reply combo concerning Trump ordering the Nationwide Guard into California. In first place, it’s huskcummerbund with a query:
Hey, bear in mind when Kristi Neom tweeted “If Joe Biden federalizes the Nationwide Guard, that may be a direct assault on states’ rights. During the last a number of years, we’ve seen Democrats attempt to remove our Freedoms of faith, meeting, and speech. We are able to’t allow them to take away our proper to defend ourselves, too.”?
I ponder what she thinks about this? Will she select Cognitive Dissonence or outright Hypocracy?
In second place, it’s Thad with the reply:
The identical factor Republicans take into consideration every thing. “It’s okay once we do it.”
For editor’s alternative on the insightful aspect, we begin out with a remark from Stephen T. Stone passing alongside a quote about protests and “violence”:
In case your ways disrupt the order of issues beneath capitalism, you might be accused of violence, as a result of “violence” is an elastic time period typically deployed to vilify individuals who threaten the established order. Situations that the state characterizes as “peaceable” are, in actuality, fairly violent. At the same time as individuals expertise the violence of poverty, the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of well being care, and plenty of different violent features of this technique, we’re informed we’re experiencing peace, as long as everyone seems to be cooperating. When state actors check with “peace,” they’re actually speaking about order. And once they check with “peaceable protest,” they’re speaking about cooperative protest that obediently stays throughout the traces drawn by the state. The extra uncooperative you’re, the extra you may be accused of aggression and violence. It’s due to this fact crucial that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means amongst individuals in search of justice.
— from Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes
Subsequent, it’s That One Man with a remark in regards to the media’s function in manufacturing narratives:
‘Metropolis burned to ashes! Residents nonetheless dwelling there confused concerning lack of fireside or rubble.’
Nearly all of the ‘mainstream’ media within the US has been so successfully collared and leashed at this level that they’ve became the US variations of Baghdad Bob, parroting regardless of the regime tells them to irrespective of the shortage of proof or presence of proof that contradicts their claims.
Over on the humorous aspect, our first place winner is MrWilson with a remark about Elon Musk’s technique of demanding enterprise from advertisers whereas threatening lawsuits:
It’s not “extortion.” It’s extra-legal aggressive negotiation with utilized duress! Nothing to see right here!
In second place, it’s a fast nameless clapback reply:
“I at all times thought“
Info not in proof.
For editor’s alternative on the humorous aspect, we begin out with one other remark from MrWilson, this time in reply to That One Man’s already-highlighted remark about media protection of protestors:
Portland nonetheless hasn’t recovered because the George Floyd protests. You may’t stroll a metropolis block with out seeing a constructing that was as soon as not burned down.
Lastly, it’s Nimrod with a foolish however apt joke:
Republicans used to love to drink koolaid, however now they’re switching to ICE tea.
That’s all for this week, people!
