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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Perpetrator said he wanted to kill white people
Especially white cops.
The logic is fairly straightforward, if ultimately counterproductive. "White cops kill black people, get away with it, so..."
edited 8th Jul '16 6:52:58 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"People are already calling for race war though
.
To wit: "This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you."
edited 8th Jul '16 8:08:51 AM by Deadbeatloser22
"Yup. That tasted purple."I suspect that the closeness between DPD and BLM may have been the reasoning that DPD were targeted, it could have been closeness if the shooter was local but it might also have been because he didn't like DPD and BLM working together and wanted a race war.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSo racist P Ds up and down the country are using this as an excuse to double down? Fantastic.
It would also mean open season on black people.
@Silasw, BLM organized a small protest
in my neck of the woods recently, though that particular case seemed pretty cut and dry. A little more than a decade ago though the local police there were run by a out and out Klansman who tortured false confessions out of black suspects and ran his own little crime racket on the side, so there's still very little trust between them and the community.
So apparently, Jill Stein has offered to step aside as the party's nominee for Bernie Sanders
. The response of course has been polite silence. If Trump was polling at 10% and the GOP was slated to lose half of congress, I'd say go for it since at that point it's clear the GOP would soon be going the way of the Whigs which creates an opening for a new major party to take their place as the opposition but as things stand the GOP is still politically potent enough that doing so would risk a Trump presidency. It would be nice if the Greens did well enough to get federal funding though (10% of votes), since that would pave the way for them to become a major party if the GOP continues it's spiral towards collapse.
edited 8th Jul '16 8:41:41 AM by CaptainCapsase
Nobody's really concerned with what these guys are going to do. They did what they came for. What people are worried about is what other people are going to do in response to them.
To use your terrorist metaphor, it would be accurate if people were saying, "Where will these radical extremists strike next?! We're not safe anywhere!"
Instead, this is more like, in the wake of a terrorist act, people going, "These f*cking idiots are going to get Muslims put in internment camps!"
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Indeed. The response to the Dallas shootings is not going to be, "Wow, Mister Black Man, you have a cogent point. We must work to control racial bias in our policing so that you do not feel the need to lash out in anger in the future." It's going to be, "See, that's why police have to shoot black people."
edited 8th Jul '16 8:44:03 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Must-Read: Scott Lemieux: Why Did Obama Do so Well at the Supreme Court?
(Basically that Obama's dealing with the last vestiges of across-the-aisle Republicans (and Democrats) from older generations. Any new Judges are going to be much more firebrand/partisan)
Must-Read: Jonathan Chait: Why ‘Fix the Debt’ Just Can’t Quit Paul Ryan
(Basically the organization is unwilling to concede its theory of coaxing change from both sides is unrealistic in the current enviornment, as it would undermine the entire organization's existence, so they stick to a dream world.)

I'm not seeing how this helps him at all. He's already got the racist vote down pat. To exploit this, Trump would have to come firmly down against the protesters, which will just piss off black people and rile up people who are already going to vote for him anyway.