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Ew don't mix 2 items that're supposed to be 2 different temps

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lol even faceapp thinks Kamala is a white hispanic

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Ok google says the whole Kuja being intended female/was in the Japanese version is an internet forum rumor at the magnitude of mew being under a truck. Learned something new today.

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If absolutely none of that was true then I was duped by a ff secrets youtube video

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I'd say meat without vegetables tastes bad but yall white people eat unseasoned chicken breast

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Wasn't Kuja a female in the japanese version? Or referred to as one a few times where they forgot to edit the text because he was supposed to be a she until like a few hours before finalizing the game.

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If there wasn't any people overspending stupidly to grift from you'd have no way of accumulating wealth in the first place and our system would collapse harder than it already is.

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Skiggie posted...

Go ahead and support the destruction of black majority neighborhoods, black-owned businesses and all stores that black people shop at.

You're owning white supremacy now, aren't you? You're owning the bad orange man!

Yes we are. We've made more progress on police reform doing that than being peacefully ignored. A racist police state is going down and all the right can do is concern troll about small businesses. (Which they routinely destroy by supporting legislation that allows small businesses to get rekt.)

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GregShmedley posted...

I don't even know who Artemis or his history. But your account is very suspect. And you're not making a lick of sense.

You think the woman in the video is a right wing troll? You think all of the BLM chapters speaking OUT against the looting and calling for peace are Trumpers? How about all of the videos of black people calling out white people for starting shit? Are they all right wing trolls?

Gtfo here with that bullshit. This is a waste of time.

He was wrong. I have other active posts on CE right now in multiple topics from the past couple days. One of them being in a Popeyes topic will give right wingers you're aligning with proof that I'm genuine and probably rioted there for chicken sandwiches last year.

I think the right found exactly the type of video they were looking for and amplified it to gain energy and interest in discrediting protests. And you're eating it up.

Most leadership will never advocate for looting and rioting and neither do I. MLK didn't either, but instead of becoming a right wing reactionary in the face of these riots, he understood it was the language of people not heard. We don't get consumed with joining Trumpers because we saw a few white kids spray painting a Starbucks. We don't waste our energy playing into the right's playbook by handwringing about outside agitators in left wing protests at this time. We continue punching up and right for the reforms we're finally getting.

Some people go hungry during labor strikes
Some people get their property destroyed during protests
Some people will even have to see a mess in walmart so that police will not continue to murder without consequences.

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GregShmedley posted...

Nah, just gonna agree with Artemis that you're a trolling alt who came out of nowhere.

He already had to walk that claim back, but if your gut is telling you to join hands with Trump trolls and the rest of conservative CE in attacking how the left is protesting during times like these then you were never going to be part of progress anyway

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GregShmedley posted...

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Yeah yeah it's just those outside agitator white kids causing a problem, not people that are oppressed by the systems that made you so comfortable resorting to riots and looting after police started trouble. Many obviously consider Walmart to be one of those statues of oppression you agree with vandalizing. The news covers those statue takedowns pretty positively because it doesn't destroy any private/corporate property/profits so no surprise that's where you draw the line. Media coverage is powerful.

We'll just agree to disagree on what has actually gotten results.

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Artemis86 posted...

Lol and during this entire debacle, you have made all of twelve posts about it. Suuuuuure.

I dont even get what you're saying here. The riots and looting have damaged the reputation of the protests a good bit, primarily because the news considers them one and the same. If the right wing doesnt support it, why would they want to separate the two? And yet you willingly put the two together as synonymous . .

If things get worse, you wont see reform, you will see a brutal crackdown, and all the olive branches put out so far taken away. You might see martial law. You might even see civil war. What you wont see, is any meaningful reform of policing as a result. You want that?

Nope I have active posts from a couple days ago in topics about nostalgia and popeyes.

You've already had it explained in this topic to you. Google "outside agitators" if you understandably don't want to take a CE poster's word for it.

And nah we're gonna see a continuation of police reform and disbanding like what has already happened. That's what I want and taking a knee during a football game never accomplished it so it unfortunately came to this like it always does.

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Antifar posted...

More concretely, talk of "outside agitators" gives the state justification for using force against people regardless of where they're from. You see generally unsubstantiated claims of outside agitators in virtually every major protest, going back decades.

Exactly! And it's disturbing to see it still work so well, even on those I've seen say they hate Trump.

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Artemis86 posted...

Bullshit. The people I've talked to who actually go out into this shit dont want protesting and riots to be considered synonymous. They fight the provocation, not give in to it. You are undermining the efforts of many good people when you consider them one and the same, and it makes me very much doubt you protested. Most likely you're just a shitposting alt talking tough.

Yep, every active post is in this topic. Just a puffed-up alt.

Some will recognize me around here as a left wing poster that's been calling out CE's racists and right wing alts for years. It just takes more for me to get riled up enough to post these days. I have other active posts. It's you that I've never seen post here before.

Separating protestors from rioters is a right wing weapon with tons of historical context. There is a reason Trump immediately lied about antifa being behind the more raucous parts of the protest. It gives the public an out to turn against the protest that is finally gaining attention. You're either being played or actively participating in the bad faith takedown of progress towards racial justice.

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GregShmedley posted...

Such a dishonest and bullshit post. Goddamn.

Ok let's be more clear and break down the problems with your post since you still don't understand.

Some of you are so out of touch with reality it isn't even fucking funny.
Per the video "every grocery store looks like this." So no, her just going to another store is not an option. And lmao at suggesting she move to another neighborhood. What the fuck kind of bootstraps bullshit is this?

Bootstraps is a mentality that is used to prevent the kind of protest we're seeing. The meaning of it is to accept that you will have to work harder for less every day. These protests are what those propagating bootstrap mentaility fear because it actually brings change.

Why are people trying to hard not to condemn rioting and looting of community stores? Because they're insured? Great, that surely puts food in everyone's mouths that relied on that store. That surely puts money back in the pocket of the workers who can't work now.

Because these riots are the language of those that have been unheard. That's a famous quote for a reason. I have not looted, would not outright advocate for it, but I understand why it happens in movements. And in times with the right having so much power, I'm not wasting energy attacking the protest tactics of the left. Protests that actually create change always create uncomfortable conditions for all initially.

And fuck off with that whole "well that's part of a bigger problem," ok great, you're absolutely right. There is an issue with Walmart taking over towns and shutting down small business. What good does that do bringing it up in times like this?

Like, imagine seeing a woman in tears because she can't shop for her family and saying "sorry sweetie, thems the breaks! Down with capitalism!!!"

What good is it to bring up now? This is an important part of the context for why it is happening. Voting did not fundamentally change anything about these conditions, America ignored and mocked peaceful protests on this issue. Historically this is when riots happen and actually change things which is happening now. Sorry that it makes you uncomfortable. What else did you suggest we do? All other avenues have been exhausted. You wanted us to sign petitions even harder or what.

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Artemis86 posted...

Yeah, shredding a fucking Wal Mart and stealing half the shit in it's a "protest" now. You know what the REAL problem is here? Armchair analysts shitposting about "the cause" while sitting at home safe and sound. Encouraging destruction. Calling riots and looting "protests." All while never so much as having to go without their morning Hot Pocket from mommy.

I've been protesting and tear gassed twice. You've been projecting from your gamer chair.

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Proofpyros posted...

You're missing the point, but just walk around it with your self-righteousness

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No I get your point.

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"Why couldn't yall just sign an online petition or something instead :'("

Because voting blue didn't work, peaceful protests didn't work, America whined about something as innocent as kneeling during sports. You will complain about anything we do that is visible. Looting and rioting is finally working and getting action as it always does. Sorry somebody's mom gotta wade through a mess for 1 or 2 grocery runs to get to plenty of groceries that are still on the shelf. Black lives matter more than an inconvenience at the walmart. Again that video getting amplified by big tech is no doubt to astroturf people against protesting.

And these aren't "our neighborhoods" we don't own any part of them. I doubt many even own a share of walmart. These are bubbles of exploitation created by walmart and the politicians they have bought.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Well... Amazon is kicking the shit out of Walmart at its own game.

Truuu they're the new death star occupying people's attention. Then I guess that'll be normalized too and everyone will forget that 99.9% of America didn't always look like abandoned manufacturing towns.

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WaterLink posted...

Wut

Walmart's business model is to wipe out local economies til they're the only show in town. Then take all money being spent there and invest it elsewhere (usually investing in doing the same to other communities). If draining the resources from one area and dipping isn't looting to you then feel free to call it something else. The effects remain the same. Everyone on the internet hated walmart in the mid 00s for doing this but I guess enough time has passed that it's been normalized.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

The only action being forced is business relocating to the suburbs, while property values in the affected areas decay until gentrification becomes viable all over again in a decade or two.

All that's happened is a new redlining, based on insurance premiums.

No you missed that pesky police reform thing that's finally being taken seriously. That's an action that's being forced.

If walmart thinks it's too risky to continue looting these "dangerous" areas (their entire business model) and they want to try their hand at the suburbs instead, then godspeed. Maybe we'll finally be able to build back some semblance of locally owned grocers and small businesses that're actually invested in the community before they were destroyed by walmart tactics.

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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

It has nothing to do with Walmart and I dont know why people keep only focusing on that.

If Kaepernick wasnt a mess during that then maybe it would have done something at the time. But from sitting on the bench before the game because youre not a starter, to wearing socks with pigs as cops, and praising Castro .... he was all over the place.

You're sad for this woman because her Walmart is a mess. You felt nothing about her community being looted by walmart to the point that she apparently feels like it's the only place she can get food. Years of that was all just fine. Police brutality wasn't a big enough issue to interrupt football for. It was seeing a walmart destroyed that finally made you feel something.

Plenty of people other than Kaep have been kneeling and peacefully protesting in many ways over the years but white status quo joes are always going to find something to complain about any form of protest. They want us to remain invisible so they can keep ignoring us.

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Ok let's go back to peacefully kneeling during the anthem, that really accomplished our goals after years of it. Looting and riots are finally forcing action. Anyone concern trolling about poor walmart doesn't understand that store has been looting our communities for decades now or that this is how change has happened historically. No doubt powerful people are amplifying videos like this to astroturf the people against destroying racist capital. No surprise it's CE's resident stock market bros and conservatives (that also hated peaceful kneeling) not caring about the black community until a walmart was hurt.

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I have 2 popeyes by me and they're both always out of everything no matter when I go.

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As a 91er, I don't claim those mid 30s Harry Potter wine losers that didn't discover the internet til Facebook as they were leaving college. The emergence of meme internet captured the entirety of my HS days and I have way more in common with those a few years younger than a few years older. Older millennials never even fucked with pokemon or DBZ.

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Steven Crowder, Jordan Peterson, Doom Art

What is it with Canadians having awful takes on American politics?

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wackyteen posted...

And it isn't your average beat cop driving it.

You can, and I do, object to cops having tanks. But if you're going to criticize, make sure you're on it otherwise don't be surprised when people don't take you seriously or think you're blowing things out of proportion

The unit driving those tanks require no training beyond less than a year of academy, a high school diploma, and 3 years experience in law enforcement.

At least research the boot before you lick. There is a reason people are taking to the streets and it isn't becuase we aren't "on it"

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wackyteen posted...

Your average cop isn't driving a tank.

Be real.

They roll through destroying the roads on my street just to harass the weed house every year.

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But how will we give cops more funds, what about the deficit Biden. Guy is willing to give cops another fancy SUV before providing us healthcare.

Cops are extremely overfunded because the wealthy rely on them to protect their property. They give some meathead that spent a couple months in the academy a fucking tank.

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I'm Jamaican American.

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I am now.

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The haters will say it's fake.

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Crash posted...

What? No! I sell propane!

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Racial consultants to corporations bout to make bank

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I protested yesterday again in goggles and a bandanna over my mask. Helped against the tear gas and if I still get corona I'm gonna get antimaskpilled and say they don't work.

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I like how white women's ways of dealing with everything is always to talk to their manager to get them fired.

She's a racist kid that's obviously surrounded by racist Trump sludge. That white christian academy is no doubt filled with more of her types so it's good she won't be attending. Being adamant that a teen is beyond reform is almost never a good look tho. She still needs a path forward.

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It was introduced like 10 years ago.

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Bullet_Wing posted...

Because your qualifier is exactly the quality needed to be maliciously racist. He's ignorantly racist. Whereas Trump purposely discriminates and glorifies those who do. He genuinely believes white people to be superior to others.

I thought about how that could be confusing, but no. And Biden to this day still glorifies his old friends that would've been slave owners if they were allowed.

What I mean is he's the type of dude to author the racist policy that intentionally attacked the black community but has the ego, the political sociopathy, and lost enough of his fast ball to be legitimately confused these days as to why people care about the racist things he's done when theres a cheeto in the white house.

You can't do the things he's done and still gloat about some of the friends he's kept without being maliciously racist to an extreme degree at some point.

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Some of the shit he's said in the senate, the people he still speaks fondly of and worked with that were only 1 tiny deviation from literal slave owners, the crime bill, the Trumpian way he dismisses any criticism of this by saying you have to vote for him because he actually has the best record of all time, etc etc

Idk how you can say he's not maliciously racist, even if he doesn't understand that he is. Obama picking him as his racist white friend to balance the ticket doesn't make all of this ok. Being the only alternative to Trump doesn't make him not racist either. We're just picking the racist that'll likely do less harm because of the structures around him. That's Biden.

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Tony Hawk is a good man, really sad some tried to slander him as part of the alt right.

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Mr Hangman posted...

No it isn't. Nuclear is a good idea. Wind and solar is better where you can use it, but it will never be 100% unless there are unimaginably huge improvements in energy storage technology. You need a baseline power source that isn't dependent on the weather.

It literally is though. Nuclear is a risk to take for countries that don't have the unimaginably huge access to other powers like us. It's just going to take an actual commitment from the government to switch the grid. Not the bs tiny incentives for random companies to shit out a few crappy panels and then leave them behind once they're on to chasing the next check. We actually have the tech to do it too, unlike the magical waste free and (this time!) completely safe nuclear plants that bad faith dark money keeps fooling the public into believing is right around the corner. We have the luxury of making them prove it.

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What a piece of dishonest trash film. Just because tech companies still have infrastructure tied to the grid as a backup doesn't change the fact that they produce more green energy from panels, wind, water, etc than they use. Of course we're going to need to overhaul the grid to get off fossil fuels but that's going to take huge changes from the govt. Bernie wanted to do that but we're stuck with Biden/Trump so climate change will have to wait another 4-8 years or whatever.

The rest of the complaints are just functions of industry/class dynamics. And the US is uniquely poised for an embarrassment of riches with wind/solar, etc. The push for nuclear is 100% astroturfed and makes no sense for us.

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I questioned it when I saw his remake model too. He looks like a white dude that just did some light work at a coal mine. Kind of weird.

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Coastal_elite posted...

because OMG teh globalizt cabal and corporate round table of doom!!! D:

Rod support proving the fish hook theory

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Taharqa_ posted...

You and I have different definitions of "real". I saw the writing on the wall for Bernie a long time ago. The polling data was fool's gold until the primaries started to hit more diverse states.

The polling data was pretty consistently correct throughout the primary. Bernie really crushed it in the diverse state of Nevada (like polling said he would) and in early voting of Cali, Texas, etc while polling head and shoulders above the pack nationally. This spooked the dem establishment into forcing everyone to drop and endorse Biden while giving him unlimited fawning media coverage. Again, a soup can would win after that sugar high which radically changed things. It wasn't real or enthusiastic support for the candidate so that's why they're dreaming about replacing him with Cuomo just weeks later.

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Taharqa_ posted...

Did I ever say that I was only going by pure numbers and data? I see the writing on the wall for Bernie, you don't and get surprised that he's lagging behind black voters and can't expand his base.

idk you were beating your chest about being a reals not feels guy, which suggested data to me. He expanded his base quite a bit. He went from white saxist bros in 2016 to dominant among latinos and matching Biden's black support pre Clyburn, much of which was retained under 45. It's more of a generational thing. Older primary voters simply fall in line with media.

Bernie losing the dem primary did not surprise me, he's taking on a lot at once. The general was the easier part. It's you that's in a perpetual state of shock when the safe candidate hasn't notched a W in decades.

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Anteaterking posted...

Neither of them had any hope of winning. They didn't even look like they'd be getting any delegates on or after Super Tuesday besides Minnesota and Indiana.

Listen to yourself. The only way that Bernie could win is if the moderate vote was fractured between candidates? Bernie + Warren didn't have enough votes to beat Biden on Super Tuesday.

Pete had a good argument to stay in. You dip out after tying for 1st in the first 2 states because Biden's dead campaign won a state he was expected to no matter what? Obama made some phone calls tho.

Bernie+Warren flips a lot for Bernie actually. Gives him a giant lead by convincing wins in Texas, Mass and more. At least do simple math before making a statement like that lol. This is also ignoring that pre centron media wave Bernie was beating all of the centrists when polled 1 on 1 (so no vote splitting.)

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Taharqa_ posted...

Bernie would get crushed in the south and Midwest, just like he did in the Dem primaries. The polls say one thing but when people get in that voting booth it's a whole different story. He put his eggs into the 35 and under basket, and lost.

Ok so you agree that you're not a realist going by data, you just feel he would get crushed in spite of the data saying otherwise. Nothing wrong with punditing for discussion sake. I'm engaging in it myself.

Low turnout primaries where almost the entirety of the vote is 65+ loyal democrats has no bearing on the general. Bernie won the 50-59 age vote in states he lost like MI. It's not Bernie hitching his ride to under 35, it's Biden putting all of his eggs into the 65+ basket. Dems lose whenever youth isn't excited in the general, good luck beating Trump at the nursing home.

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