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Old Jun 11, 2020 | 03:44 PM
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Have you found any indicators of who the actual mastermind(s) might be behind the latest version of the "Black Lives Matter"?
Not all social movements have masterminds. Many are simply the product of groupthink and a desire to conform.
Old Jun 11, 2020 | 04:00 PM
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Not all social movements have masterminds. Many are simply the product of groupthink and a desire to conform.
Or . . .

Old Jun 11, 2020 | 04:03 PM
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Apparently there are directors of some kind? Or at least someone pretending to be. The managing editor of BLM did an AMA earlier this week...it didn't go well. It's as I expected, and that the BLM platform is mostly just a loose collection of goals, but no concrete plans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...tor_for_black/
Old Jun 11, 2020 | 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Not all social movements have masterminds. Many are simply the product of groupthink and a desire to conform.
Someone is paying for their $30,000 projectors...

And look how much money they donate and to whom...


If you think this is spontaneous, you're seriously making me question your intelligence. But then again, you thought there merit to the Mueller investigation.
Old Jun 11, 2020 | 11:06 PM
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Spontaneous? No.

But not every great act is the product of a single central planner.

Take any random large group of people who all subscribe to a common ideal. Given time, they will tend to cluster into groups. Some of these groups will begin acting towards a goal. Often, these activities will overlap, and sometimes they will complement one another.

Examples here would be things like the development of the personal computer or the television, which were achieved by several different groups of people acting independently but with frequent cross-transfer of knowledge. Or, at a grander scale, the development of pretty much any free-market economy.

Believing that every large societal movement must be the result of a single actor directing all activities is little different from believing that soviet-style communism was a successful and efficient method of economic planning.
Old Jun 12, 2020 | 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
Someone is paying for their $30,000 projectors...
Why do you think it is a $30k projector? You can get decent 1080p projectors for sub $500 easily. Hell when I was in college in 2005 a guy in my dorm had a projector and we would play Xbox360 on the side of the dorm building.

It really just seems like Braineack is sad he does not get free movies and pizza in his neighborhood.

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Old Jun 12, 2020 | 07:33 AM
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I really wish they would do that chaz type thing where I live. Watching it implode in person would be beautiful.
Old Jun 12, 2020 | 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by shuiend
Why do you think it is a $30k projector? You can get decent 1080p projectors for sub $500 easily. Hell when I was in college in 2005 a guy in my dorm had a projector and we would play Xbox360 on the side of the dorm building.

It really just seems like Braineack is sad he does not get free movies and pizza in his neighborhood.
There's picture of one from Seattle CHAZ, pretty sure it's a $20-$35,000 Sony 4K projector sold at BB. It was also in a professional case, with other high end equipment -- so doubt it was stolen the week before.

I'd have to find it again.


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Spontaneous? No.

But not every great act is the product of a single central planner.

Take any random large group of people who all subscribe to a common ideal. Given time, they will tend to cluster into groups. Some of these groups will begin acting towards a goal. Often, these activities will overlap, and sometimes they will complement one another.

Examples here would be things like the development of the personal computer or the television, which were achieved by several different groups of people acting independently but with frequent cross-transfer of knowledge. Or, at a grander scale, the development of pretty much any free-market economy.

Believing that every large societal movement must be the result of a single actor directing all activities is little different from believing that soviet-style communism was a successful and efficient method of economic planning.
Follow the money, as Elon would say.

I didn't say a single actor put it altogether, but this is a ruse and planned. Just as it was before the 2016 election the last time we heard from BLM.

BLM are getting millions in donations [many coming from the same leftist companies being looted], which is run by a group called ActBlue. How does the money get distributed? Looks to me like it's just a money laundering scheme for very leftist political donations.


In the event that a campaign or committee (a) fails for 60 days to cash a check from ActBlue which includes your contribution (after ActBlue makes repeated attempts to work with the campaign to ensure all checks are cashed), or (b) affirmatively refuses a contribution earmarked through ActBlue, your contribution will be re-designated as a contribution to ActBlue. Contributions to social welfare organizations which are similarly not cashed or affirmatively refused will be kept by ActBlue and used generally to support its social welfare activities. Contributions to charitable organizations which are not cashed or affirmatively refused will go to ActBlue Charities.
ActBlue the PAC, only gives to Democrats. The director of ActBlue Charities and ActBlue PAC is the same person, Ben Rahn.

BLM and antifa are useful idiots -- as are the supporters. But there's something bigger here; just as all the elementary school kids "protested" the election of Trump, they didn't do it naturally -- someone/some thing made it happen.








I really think they should rename BLM to DLM. Democrats Lives Matter. I'd also accept Christoper Columbus,





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They should be sued to bankruptcy for discrimination.
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They should be sued to bankruptcy for discrimination.
Even better, should they call 911 for help they could be told "Sorry, but we can't allow police officers in uniform into your establishment."
Old Jun 13, 2020 | 10:19 AM
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I see racism and segregation still exists in CHAZ.




Imagine being so detached from reality and how things work, that you plant seeds on top of cardboard and not directly into the ground below...


Art > Science:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p...13285843747653





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Old Jun 13, 2020 | 10:27 AM
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lol.





I feel bad for the businesses and residents who have been displaced by the colonial takeover of CHAZ. MY guess this isn't actually constitutional or part of their authority in the state, but when did Minn start caring about law and order?
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Clearly photoshopped. Just zoom in on the image of the young lady in the background with the white V-neck who had her butt photoshopped to the front.


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Originally Posted by Braineack
lol.
I feel bad for the businesses and residents who have been displaced by the colonial takeover of CHAZ. MY guess this isn't actually constitutional or part of their authority in the state, but when did Minn start caring about law and order?
Just saw a statistic somewhere else, so I checked the math - 15% of houses for sale in Minneapolis have been on the market less than 7 days, 24% for less than 14 days.
it will be interesting to see the numbers next week.

Disbanding the police will doubtless make more people want to stay.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
when did Minn start caring about law and order?
July 6, 1974, according to my research.

The present situation is made all the more humorous to me by the fact that my entire perception of Minnesota is based wholly upon the teachings of Garrison Keillor in A Prairie Home Companion.



Old Jun 13, 2020 | 10:33 PM
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Round 2: BEGIN!

Atlanta shooting: Black man dead after struggle with police at Wendy's
Old Jun 13, 2020 | 10:46 PM
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This is getting ridiculous. The police should strike until this retardedness stops. Build some nice walls around all these shithole citys and let them burn.

notice they didn't say the race of the cop? I'm calling Coulter's law.



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