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This riot is brought to you by Nike


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2020 Jun 3, 12:29pm   1,307 views  35 comments

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https://spectator.us/riot-brought-nike-looting-minneapolis-new-york-dc/

In Chicago last weekend 82 people were shot, 22 of them fatally. Between May 2019 and late May 2020, homicide claimed the lives of over 300 black men in the city. That’s not a police brutality problem, that’s a problem of insufficient police power being deployed to stop violent criminals. If the death of one man, George Floyd, while under arrest in Minneapolis is cause for nationwide protests, why don’t the deaths of hundreds of George Floyds every year prick the conscience of protesters that much more?

Better yet, why don’t the antifa kids who are mighty bold with the police go and toss bricks at the gangbangers in Chicago? Because unlike the police, the gangs will shoot them dead. The rioters setting America ablaze are cowards: they riot only because they know they face no danger from the police. ...

Intersectionality, to give the new faith just one of its legion of names, has replaced Christianity, particularly the bourgeois, patriotic Christian morality that supplied America’s elite institutions with their ethos until rather recently. ...


Absolutely, there is a liberal religion which flourishes because of the loss of traditional religion. It is as dogmatically certain and as violent as Islam. It tolerates no dissent whatsoever.

Take Nike. You might think the sneaker company would be upset about having its stores ransacked. But think again. You’re stealing Nikes? That just proves that Nike is the footwear brand of the revolution. That cool, edgy looter you see with his liberated Nikes is a walking advertisement, better than any money can buy. Others who admire the authenticity and passion and living purity of the looter — white suburban teens, for example, or progressive Ivy League lawyers — will now go out and buy Nikes so they can be part of the revolution, too.

Anyway, it’s not like the revolution is going to expropriate the sneaker factories — those have already been profitably relocated to countries under communist rule. Woke capitalism and the communism that employs the most brutal policing imaginable against the likes of Uighurs and Tibetans make perfect allies. Of course, corporate America wants you to know it totally rejects imperialism and racism. Just not the Chinese variety — or any other non-Western kind. ...

Regarding Floyd’s death, according to TMZ the Hennepin County medical examiner determined that he suffered a heart attack during the arrest, with fentanyl in his system. Floyd complained about being unable to breathe before he was pinned down by the arresting officers — and shortness of breath certainly seems like a plausible effect of fentanyl or a heart attack, or both. That by itself doesn’t mean that Officer Chauvin didn’t use excessive force, but it’s not the scenario that most of the protesters’ supporters seem to take for granted. ...

Police and the men and women of all colors who own small businesses that can’t profit from a looting the way that Nike can are not part of the ruling cultural coalition. ...

The new elite morality is hypocritical, often counterproductive, but it has no self-doubt and admits no flaws. That confidence has not only won the new faith of the streets: it long ago won the centers of power.

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1   joshuatrio   2020 Jun 3, 12:58pm  

Thats a fantastic article Partick - thanks for sharing.
2   EBGuy   2020 Jun 3, 1:17pm  

Another casualty of the Third Opium War?
3   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 3, 2:16pm  

Patrick says
Regarding Floyd’s death, according to TMZ the Hennepin County medical examiner determined that he suffered a heart attack during the arrest, with fentanyl in his system. Floyd complained about being unable to breathe before he was pinned down by the arresting officers — and shortness of breath certainly seems like a plausible effect of fentanyl or a heart attack, or both.


Proving that the knee on the neck was the ultimate cause of death is gonna be a bitch, methinks. Heck, even finding an untainted jury pool anywhere in the country is going be a huge bitch. If at all possible.
4   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 3, 2:24pm  

Imagine having the same politics as Burger King and Pepsi and thinking you're a revolutionary or a dissident.
5   EBGuy   2020 Jun 3, 2:26pm  

Speaking of "This riot is brought to you by....", Scott "more than a cartoonist" Adams announced he is long Amazon as Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post. What is Antifa, indeed. Talk about destroying the competition.
6   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 3, 2:27pm  

Patrick says

Absolutely, there is a liberal religion which flourishes because of the loss of traditional religion. It is as dogmatically certain and as violent as Islam


Also like religion, it has extremists.

When illegitimacy grows because of welfare for undeserving poor, the true believers insist we expand the benefits and spend more on education, their two rituals that solve all problems.

Just like religious fanatics insist that immorality laws consistently be made more rigorous, with more enforcement.

It's never that it didn't work - it's that we didn't spend more money and resources.
7   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 3, 4:24pm  

Newbie123 says


I can just imagine the future riots In case he gets off easy


And who's to judge whether he's "got off easy" or not? The mob? So is the justice by the mob your crave then? A.k.a lyncning? Is it how it is in your home country?
8   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 3, 4:25pm  

Newbie123 says
Without the protests and riots they would have never, ever charged all 4 officers so quickly!


^^^^^^^ supports and endorses riots. Will lie later that he does not.
9   socal2   2020 Jun 3, 4:30pm  

Newbie123 says
Without the protests and riots they would have never, ever charged all 4 officers so quickly!


Is that worth all of the deaths and destruction around the country this week? Particularly the destruction of minority communities and the killing of Dorn?

The entire country was united and outraged over Floyd's death last week. Now we are divided like never before.

Minnesota is run top to bottom by Democrats including Keith fucking Ellison. Did rioters really need to burn the country down due to the incompetence of Progressive in Minnesota?
10   EBGuy   2020 Jun 3, 4:42pm  

This is probably why they upgraded to second degree unintentional murder. All because the poor guy was claustrophobic.
At one point, Lane asked “should we roll him on his side?” To which Chauvin responded, “No, staying put where we got him,” the complaint states.
Lane then said he was “worried about excited delirium or whatever” to which Chauvin responded, “That’s why we have him on his stomach.” They continued holding their positions.
At 8:24 p.m., Floyd stopped moving. Kueng then checked Floyd’s right wrist for a pulse and said “I couldn’t find one.” The officers continued to hold their positions. At 8:27 p.m., Chauvin removed his knee from Floyd’s neck as medics arrived. Floyd was taken away in the ambulance. He was pronounced dead at Hennepin Healthcare.
The complaint determined that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds total. Two minutes and 53 seconds of that time was after Floyd became unresponsive.
11   richwicks   2020 Jun 3, 5:06pm  

covid_shmovid says
Newbie123 says
Without the protests and riots they would have never, ever charged all 4 officers so quickly!


^^^^^^^ supports and endorses riots. Will lie later that he does not.


He didn't say he supports riots. If you think something else could have been done to force our criminal government to hold these officers accountable, AND to have a nationwide discussion on police brutality - including reformation of our police - I'd certainly like to hear it.

If it wasn't for the riots, there would have been no charges, for any of the 4 officers. Do you think that is incorrect?

There needs to be serious reform of our militarized, roided up, crazy police where they have actively keeping out intelligent people with good judgement that want to serve the community. They were actually discriminating against people with high IQs or who were heavily educated. And I know, you think I'm full of crap with that, but I'm not:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

Notice that article is from 2000 - that's 20 years ago.

For 20 years, our governments have been actively recruiting, dumb, violent, criminals who obey orders without question as police. The entire police force across the entire country needs to be reformed. Almost all the police officers either need psychological reformation, or they need to be fired - maybe both.

People talk about the government needing "courage" to do the right thing. No, they need FEAR. The government leadership is filled, almost exclusively, with sociopaths, and they only want to hire their own.

Our government started a coup 20 years ago. People warned about it, but they were all paranoid crazies, right? Naomi Wolfe used to warn about this.
12   Patrick   2020 Jun 3, 5:17pm  

Newbie123 says
3 men sit on one man who is face down on the ground. The man says he can’t breathe. Somewhat understandable. You could try it for yourself and ask 3 protestors if they would like to sit on you because you think you won’t die from this.


The 50 Cent Party, or 50 Cent Army (Chinese: 五毛党, often shortened as 五毛), is a colloquial term for Internet commentators (Chinese: 网络评论员) who are hired by Chinese authorities in an attempt to manipulate public opinion to the benefit of the Communist Party of China. It was created during the early phases of the Internet's rollout to the wider public in China.


Seriously, I think this is what is going on here. Large numbers of people are paid 50 cents per comment by the Chinese Communist Party to post divisive comments on US forums.

The goal is to weaken America by dividing us, and to weaken our ability to unify and stop the outsourcing of US manufacturing to China.

And it seems to be working.
13   Patrick   2020 Jun 3, 5:19pm  

Yes, I am talking about you @Newbie123

It's not really personal. I just think you're paid by the CCP to promote division in the US.

First the robots on this site were all from China, then when that was too easy to block, we had robots from the US. Then humans.

I have some technical reasons for suspecting Newbie123 is paid to post. I could be wrong, but at the moment I don't think so.
14   EBGuy   2020 Jun 3, 5:28pm  

Newbie123 says
It’s fundamental racism - in the society and in our institutions. That’s the problem.

No they do this to white people as well. Over half the people killed by police since 2015 have been white (including cases similar to George Floyd).
According to Washington Post database, killed by police since 2015:
White: 2416
Black: 1265
HIspanic: 889
Other: 217
No sure what kind of reform is needed. It may come down to training and prosecutions.
15   Patrick   2020 Jun 3, 5:31pm  

Newbie123 says
I will take a break. Why would I, if my posts were all paid for?


Maybe you need to ask what to do in this situation.

Again, I'm not 100% sure, only about 90%.
16   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 3, 8:05pm  

#FreeTibet and #Free HongKong

Anybody notice that #FreeTibet disappeared around 2008?
17   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 3, 8:06pm  

Guy blows up a concert of little girls. Burn candles, say Not All Muslims Are Like That.
Bad Cop uses excessive force. Burn cities, say All Cops are Like That.

#Leftismisamentaldisorder.
18   Patrick   2020 Jun 3, 11:01pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Guy blows up a concert of little girls. Burn candles, say Not All Muslims Are Like That.
Bad Cop uses excessive force. Burn cities, say All Cops are Like That.


True, that's exactly what happened.
19   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 3, 11:40pm  

NoCoupForYou says
#FreeTibet and #Free HongKong

Anybody notice that #FreeTibet disappeared around 2008?


Yep, I was wondering about that too. Looked like all these Free Tibet bumper stickers have been covered over by Obama-Biden-2008 ones.
20   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 4, 12:28am  



I bet if Google numbers went back to 1999/2000, it would be even more impressive. You couldn't go to a rock concert in the 90s without seeing bumper stickers, tables, etc.

Then one day in the 2000s it was like POOF!
21   HeadSet   2020 Jun 4, 7:48am  

Patrick says
Yes, I am talking about you @Newbie123

It's not really personal. I just think you're paid by the CCP to promote division in the US.



A good response to this poster or any other Chinese agent would be to end your replies with:

"Free Hong Kong and boycott Chinese goods." That way every post will counter what these agents are trying to do.
22   Patrick   2020 Jun 4, 8:20am  

Patrick says
Anyway, it’s not like the revolution is going to expropriate the sneaker factories — those have already been profitably relocated to countries under communist rule. Woke capitalism and the communism that employs the most brutal policing imaginable against the likes of Uighurs and Tibetans make perfect allies.


It's actually kind of funny for communists to own factories creating consumer goods for capitalists.

And who gets the profits from that factory? The CCP no doubt. Do they have stock participation plans? They definitely have a stock market in China, which is also a direct and flagrant contradiction with communism.

They are CINO's, Communists In Name Only. Can be pronounced to sound like "chino" for added poetic flair.
23   HeadSet   2020 Jun 4, 11:44am  

They are CINO's, Communists In Name Only.

They are actually Fascist - they allow private ownership of the means of production but under total government control. Present day China strongly resembles the National Socialism of 1930's Germany.
24   PeopleUnited   2020 Jun 8, 12:33am  

Newbie123 says
Okay Patrick, if you feel better, I can just stop posting here. I appreciated the fact that I can freely speak my mind without necessarily attacking someone personally. None of my posts were flagged as personal, right?
I will take a break. Why would I, if my posts were all paid for? My last post for at least a month.


Must have needed more CCP yuan. Back posting after only 3 days. Enjoy your shift. Hope you didn’t get reprimanded too strongly by your division commander.

Might we ask if it is legal to be a Christian in your homeland?
29   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jun 8, 8:40am  

Tim Aurora says
They are not listening

Newbie123 says
% of the posts here are like this:
blacks are more violent so it’s all okay
It happened in a democratic state
Blame dems
Floyd resisted, too bad
Floyd was a druggie, so who cares
Floyd died on a heart attack. No murder here
It’s Soros, its a conspiracy, it’s all staged
No, you are racist
You are antifa
You are Ivan from Russia
You are from China
You are no republican
You support riots

They don’t hear it. They refuse to. They don’t give two shits about a black life. And they represent a large portion of society. They can’t say it was racism and that we need change in our police departments. They won’t acknowledge that a white man is not worth more than a black man.

I say this as a republican voting for trump.


There’s no evidence, not even circumstantial, that George FloydS murder was motivated by racism.0
31   BayArea   2020 Aug 23, 6:56am  

FuckCCP89 says
Heck, even finding an untainted jury pool anywhere in the country is going be a huge bitch. If at all possible.


Seriously, is that possible these days?
32   Robert Sproul   2020 Aug 23, 7:18am  

>Floyd was treated respectfully by police from first contact
>Floyd had 3 times potentially fatal Fentanyl levels in his blood, along with other drugs
>Video shows him complaining repeatedly that he couldn't breath before going to the ground
>Chauvin called for medical assistance in a timely manner and then called for upgraded response when Floyd showed more distress
>Police followed their training protocols



How the hell does this culminate with murder convictions?
33   Onvacation   2020 Aug 23, 7:33am  

Newbie123 says
he resisted arrest and died of a heart attack. They just can’t get themselves to admit that a racist bunch of cops killed an unarmed, innocent man.
They even claim he wasn’t innocent.

Career criminal tried to pass counterfeit bill, resisted arrest, and died of covid-19 while being restrained.

What's so hard to understand?
34   Onvacation   2020 Aug 23, 7:37am  

Newbie123 says
blacks are more violent so it’s all okay
It happened in a democratic state
Blame dems
Floyd resisted, too bad
Floyd was a druggie, so who cares
Floyd died on a heart attack. No murder here

Not all black people are violent. Otherwise you got it right.
35   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Aug 23, 7:40am  

Newbie123 says
They just can’t get themselves to admit that a racist bunch of cops killed an unarmed, innocent man.
One of th Floyd cops was black. Please explain the racism delusion.

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