4764

And yet you skipped that they had the report blocked, regardless of the number. They know it’s bad optics, they cut funding, and they are hiding the truth of it. Are all the attacks race based? No. Are a significant number? Yes. Why hide that?

4765

I mean, if the narrative on the right is that BLM and Antifa are engaging in racially motivated violence while there is no white racism and racist violence propagated by white groups is negligible, a report which says exactly the opposite just has to be spiked, right?

4766

If they just let the report be released, chances are our do nothing Congress would ignore it anyway. People like us would make posts about it and Trump would keep being Trump.

But the recent attacks have drawn ire. Which spotlights burying the report from earlier. Trump keeps egging them on as well. This is going to get worse without action by someone, anyone.

4767

Oh, I didn’t see that they had blocked it. But we’re seeing the results of it, so it couldn’t have gotten blocked that much, right?

Regardless, my statement just involved the choice to narrow the range for the purpose of saying “They’re responsible for 100% of the cases!” That kind of phrasing opens you up to criticisms for being dishonest.

4768

It was in April. To be fair we’re hearing about it now due to everything else that’s happened recently. Still, it seems … shady? I agree with your comment about the makeup of all the attacks, not just racial. I also wish the article had a better resolution of this image:

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Oh, well of course it’s shady… the Trump admin has been incredibly opaque about virtually everything.

4770

Perhaps not too surprising, this depends on to whom you talk to. There are a number of people around here that fear attacks on their white lives by groups they can barely define.

4771

White racists love to talk about south africa as some kind of hell where whites are routinely raped and murdered.

4772

Ya, that’s the thing… the “black power” groups they fear don’t really exist. I guess some fear groups like black lives matter, but the reality is that BLM isn’t some kind of terrorist group at all.

Now, religious fundamentalists? Ya, there are definitely religious terrorists that need to be tracked. But even so, they’re currently less of a problem than the nazis.

4773

I believe the FBI, in recent years, called them Black Identity Extremists. This is like a couple of years ago not decades, from the FBI. Since that group doesn’t exist, it’s basically just activists. Still… In reality,in the general populace, it’s usually paranoid people discussing how scared they are that they might be somehow encounter these non-existent throngs of minorities all due to the scary stuff BLM never did.

4774

The MOVE people in Philly could probably have been considered black identity extremists. But those guys got shut down pretty hard, pretty fast. (and not just by white folks, the black folks who lived in the area didn’t want those nuts there either, although they also didn’t want the police to torch the entire block).

4775

This was in direct response to BLM, they were labeling those activists as domestic terrorists. These are officers who know who is actually committing crimes but they need to feed the false narratives to avoid upsetting republicans.

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4776

It really is past time to end the both sides crap, and the people terrified of imagined black people breaking into their homes as Nazis march down the streets and actually kill people are a lost cause.

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4778

I’m sure if this makes Fox n Friends, DJT will have a caustic tweet directed her way. If it doesn’t make Fox n Friends, DJT will remain blissfully unaware.

4779

I don’t understand how the Log Cabin Republicans are still a thing in the Trump era. I assume they are aware that that they are actively being targeted for murder by the President’s supporters, and that the President has no Conservative values to speak of. The level of denial at those meetings must be off the charts.

4780

Sheep voting for Eid al-Adha. Fucking muppets.

4781

Bill Maher openly admits to wanting a recession to hurt Trump. Maybe they consider him a “left wing journalist”?

4782

I think just about anyone that’s anti-Trump (aka rational thinking sane humans) would be happy to see a recession (that’s going to come anyways and seems pretty unavoidable given our current path) hurt Trump. If we’re going to get hit by it, may as well see some benefit emerge from the experience. Of course we all know it’ll really be Obama’s fault. Or Clinton’s. Or maybe Antifa’s.

4783

I heard on NPR this morning that he wants the Fed to do more Quantitative Easing so that we won’t get a recession, and he’s talking about doing a payroll tax-cut to avoid a recession too.