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Prove them wrong

A few weeks ago our leaders denied us the privilege of holding funerals for loved ones. It was just too dangerous, they said. Think about the virus.

But it turns out now that funerals are perfectly fine, just as long as those funerals are politically advantageous to the left. It turns out that if you’re a drafted matyr for the Democratic Party, you can have three funerals and no one will raise an eyebrow.

Funerals were not allowed in the US? They made an exception for those here. Though they were limited to 30 people, who should follow corona regulations as much as possible I think. 

Also, didn't the US mostly end its lockdown? So wouldn't funerals be allowed again anyway? 

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio thought it was important enough to stop funerals that he sent the NYPD to do it.

Let me sum it up better. Here is the standard we’re suppose to accept:

If you protest lockdowns in Lansing but commit no crimes, you are “dangerous” and a “threat to the fabric of our nation”

But if you beat people up, loot, and burn down buildings all over the country, you are “mostly peaceful” and “a necessary part of our discourse”

The focus wasn’t on gun ownership; it was that peacefully protesting lockdowns would kill everyone because of COVID. There wasn’t any violence.

Now that there actually is violence but it’s coming from the left, it’s buried by the news. And social distancing is basically a joke now.

Showing up with signs is treated as devil worship if you’re on the right. Murdering old men is swept under the rug if you’re on the left.

Trump didn't seem to give a shit about the lockdowns anyway. They are definitely necessary. And social distancing and staying home as much as possible should probably be a thing until there is a vaccine. That sucks, but this situation is not a joke. You could see millions of deaths worldwide if we just let the virus do its thing. Additionally, it turns out that even those who survive the virus can have lasting damage done to their body, which could in the long term lead to more deaths, a lower life expectancy and just a lot of suffering in general. Macron was right when he said we are at war with this virus. 

Also, I am pretty sure Trump is using these protests to gain power. Like branding Antifa a terrorist organization, while in fact it is not a proper organization at all, this allows you to arrest anyone who claims to be Antifascist, and that seems fairly dangerous to me. 

And why is this portrayed as a right vs. left thing? Racism should not be an issue combated along political lines. Besides, I am pretty sure this stuff is going to hurt 'the Left' more than it will make sure they 'survive'. 

I am 100% sure if Trump completely flipped his rhetoric everyone would laugh if off. Because that is something he constantly does. The guy is like am AI that just keeps spewing random stuff. 

Agree that racism should not be an issue combated along political lines, but unfortunately the left portrays it that way and has for a long time. Everyone who does not smile and swallow their kool-aid, be it whatever ever politician or policy is branded as a racist. That’s why you’re not allowed to point out obvious problems in the riots going on today.

If you think the media sweeps things Trump does under the rug and passes on opportunities pounce on him, fairly or unfairly, then I think we’re living in different worlds.

If you want to have a peaceful protest you should not bring a gun. 

I don't think any of the violence is swept under the rug, because I heard about it all the way over here. But how many 'left-wing' murders were actually committed? Because in terms of politically motivated murders the right-wing, across the West, has been miles ahead of the left-wing for decades now. Seems like that may have been swept under the rug. 

Pretty sure conservatives (or the far-right as we call them here) do things like this all the time, their voters are just not as sensitive to it as Left-wing voters though. 

Here you can have a completely peaceful protest against racism, and be attacked by the far-right for breaking social distancing rules (again, this is stupid, but some mistakes were made in preparing the protest). That will cause the Green Party mayor, who is responsible, to come under attack as well, she even had to defend herself against a vote of no-confidence (which she won). And in the polls this results in the Green Party losing votes.

But at the same time, the far-right (and I mean really far) guy who is attacking the mayor the hardest, is actively going to cities to campaign for the elections in March (usually campaigns start 2-3 months before the elections). He shakes hands with peoples, goes on group photos, hands out fliers. Basically he disregards all social distancing rules on purpose. There is also a lone protester there who offers to take the fliers the far-right party handed out to people so he can recycle them. He is beaten up by the party's 'security' because he refuses to leave a public area. This party still gains votes in the polls. No one cares. 

That's the difference.

Obviously not. Violence is never okay. But you made it sound like the left has a monopoly on political murders, and gets away with them. While in fact left-wing murders/terrorism have been declining for years, the numbers are very low. In fact it is almost non-existent in the developed world. Right-wing murders have been on the rise throughout this decade though. It is a far greater problem.

I think the media rags on Trump too much here to the point where people don’t take their criticism of him seriously, even when there are legitimate points.

They’ve gone after him for things like getting an extra scoop of ice cream, waking up too early, and watching the World Series. Of course there’s a lot bigger things they’ve been wrong on, like selectively editing clips of him to make him sound like he’s saying something racist or awful. After the Charlottesville incident for example, they cut out clips of him condemning Neo-Nazi groups and then asked for weeks on end why he didn’t condemn them.

I’m not saying he doesn’t do anything bad, but when you have to dig this deep to criticize someone in such a petty way, or even falsify information, it makes you seem like you’re out for blood instead of out for the truth.

So that’s probably why he’s able to endure so much criticism even when he does bad things: his opponents cry wolf so many times that a large part of the country stops listening.

Don’t resist arrest.

When people in power undermine the law, violence surges.

It is not racist to punish people for crimes they commit. It is cowardice not to.

If there's anything we've learned over the past few weeks, its that terrorism works. The fear of the mob has led the leaders of Seattle to forfeit six city blocks, New York to disband their plain clothes units, and Atlanta to side against two police officers who acted completely appropriately. Fear works to enact change.