3 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

never trust a bald woman. 

That's a woman?

Ever wondered what a whacked out, far left co-opt of the "Don't Tread on Me" movement would look like?

4 minutes ago, mayanh8 said:

Ever wondered what a whacked out, far left co-opt of the "Don't Tread on Me" movement would look like?

Isn’t "Don’t tread on me” the far right ?

4 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said:

Isn’t "Don’t tread on me” the far right ?

He was saying this is the far left version.  A comparison of the extreme nut jobs on each end of the spectrum.  Go ahead and remove police from black communities.  Let them police themselves.  Don't call for help though.  Same for the Don't Tread on Me people of the far right.  They clearly don't need help from police either.

I'm sure it would go swimmingly for both.  Their neighborhoods and trailer parks would be third world countries in a week under drug lord rule.

1 hour ago, mayanh8 said:

Ever wondered what a whacked out, far left co-opt of the "Don't Tread on Me" movement would look like?

It's a smart messaging strategy for them though.  I've never understood why the left isn't able to appeal to the right when it comes to police killings.  It's literally agents of the state killing private citizens.  Should be a lay-up.  The problem is they talk about it as a race problem instead of a government overreach/individual liberty problem and lose an entire segment of the population that might be sympathetic.

2 hours ago, mayanh8 said:

Ever wondered what a whacked out, far left co-opt of the "Don't Tread on Me" movement would look like?

2 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

It's a smart messaging strategy for them though.  I've never understood why the left isn't able to appeal to the right when it comes to police killings.  It's literally agents of the state killing private citizens.  Should be a lay-up.  The problem is they talk about it as a race problem instead of a government overreach/individual liberty problem and lose an entire segment of the population that might be sympathetic.

But is cops being called to the scene of active knife fights really overreach, though?

5 minutes ago, mayanh8 said:

But is cops being called to the scene of active knife fights really overreach, though?

Yes.  Ruined a perfectly good worldstarthiphop video.

On 4/19/2021 at 2:58 PM, Alpha_TATEr said:

never trust a bald woman. 

She has a hair-loss conidition. Alopecia, I believe.

19 minutes ago, mayanh8 said:

But is cops being called to the scene of active knife fights really overreach, though?

Wasn't it her property?  Wasn't she just defending herself?  I haven't watched the video of that because I don't like seeing people get killed so I don't ever watch those videos but going off of what people have posted, it sounds like that was the case.  And it seems like someone being killed on their own property while protecting themselves is tailor made for an individual freedom message.

20 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

She has a air-loss conidition. Alopecia, I believe.

That explains her stupid comment.  Lack of oxygen to the brain.

45 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

Wasn't it her property?  Wasn't she just defending herself?  I haven't watched the video of that because I don't like seeing people get killed so I don't ever watch those videos but going off of what people have posted, it sounds like that was the case.  And it seems like someone being killed on their own property while protecting themselves is tailor made for an individual freedom message.

I'm just responding to the context of the tweet...

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"Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers."

Responding to knife fights is a legit thing we should expect cops to do.

1 minute ago, mayanh8 said:

I'm just responding to the context of the tweet...

Responding to knife fights is a legit thing we should expect cops to do.

Oh yeah, I don't have any problem with it.  Protecting people is exactly what cops should be doing.  It's a really sheety situation but you can't go at someone with a knife and expect not to get taken out by the cops that you wanted to be there.  

But I'm not talking about the act itself necessarily, I'm just referring to how the people that fight against this stuff react and message it.  For the most part, these situations are bread and butter individual liberty issues.  But they're almost never presented as such.  Instead they're always presented as racism.  In my mind, it misses an opportunity.

12 hours ago, mayanh8 said:

Ever wondered what a whacked out, far left co-opt of the "Don't Tread on Me" movement would look like?

It’s not whacked out far left.  Here’s Valerie Jarrett, about as mainstream Democrat as you can get, saying pretty much the same thing.

 

 

 

I guess I'm not surprised, since these same people never gave a damn about inner city shootings.  Just let these people handle each other.  If gun crimes are not a big deal, why would knife crimes be a big deal?

 

On the other hand, in the UK, they implemented gun control and have moved on to legitimate knife control.  So people on the left are at both ends of the spectrum in different parts of the world (or maybe coming to a country near you?), where knifes have to be regulated by the government, and the police should not interfere with someone indicating that they would use the knife as a weapon.

Liberals posting leftist randos from social media...

Thank you Joe Biden. 

On 4/19/2021 at 12:30 PM, Dawkins 20 said:

Wait... "cancel rent" is a thing now? Actually, forget it, I'm not surprised.

"Cancel work" is the next one, I bet.  Some random person was already on Twitter yelling about how working 4 days a week is too many, and people shouldn't have to offer services ("work") in order to obtain money that can be used to buy "human rights" like housing, food, water, etc.

13 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

It's a smart messaging strategy for them though.  I've never understood why the left isn't able to appeal to the right when it comes to police killings.  It's literally agents of the state killing private citizens.  Should be a lay-up.  The problem is they talk about it as a race problem instead of a government overreach/individual liberty problem and lose an entire segment of the population that might be sympathetic.

Yeah, but it is a race problem...

I actually don’t think it’s as bad as it used to be either.  Like many people have said though - the difference today is the prevalence of video.  Video cameras, cell phones, body cams, etc.

11 hours ago, The_Omega said:

It’s not whacked out far left.  Here’s Valerie Jarrett, about as mainstream Democrat as you can get, saying pretty much the same thing.

 

 

 

One is saying that cops shouldn't be called to knife fights at all, which is absolutely bat sh** crazy. The other is saying cops need not show up to a knife fight between two people with the intention of spraying first, which taken at face value, is maybe something a normie would think.

22 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

The problem is they talk about it as a race problem instead of a government overreach/individual liberty problem and lose an entire segment of the population that might be sympathetic.

 

BINGO!!!

It is a race problem!!

9 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

Yeah, but it is a race problem...

There's definitely a racial component, but by making it out to be solely an issue of race is not only short-sighted, it's also politically ineffective, as Van said. The racial aspect is just part of a larger problem of lack of police accountability.

23 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

It's a smart messaging strategy for them though.  I've never understood why the left isn't able to appeal to the right when it comes to police killings.  It's literally agents of the state killing private citizens.  Should be a lay-up.  The problem is they talk about it as a race problem instead of a government overreach/individual liberty problem and lose an entire segment of the population that might be sympathetic.

No, the problem is that usually the people who get killed did something to deserve it. Leftists live in utopian fantasies while the right understands you don’t scuttle the police force because of a couple outlier situations.

30 minutes ago, TEW said:

No, the problem is that usually the people who get killed did something to deserve it. Leftists live in utopian fantasies while the right understands you don’t scuttle the police force because of a couple outlier situations.

No, the right will lay blame on the cops when it's one of their own (see the Capital Insurrection, Ruby Ridge), just like the left will, and when they do it's framed as a liberty issue, not as a racial one, yet in both of those cases the person (or people) that was killed did something to deserve it.