Hewson
Blue Crack Supplier
Welcome to the first full day under our "Law and Order President".
Welcome to the first full day under our "Law and Order President".
This speech by Biden is striking me as being really very good. Tons of empathy.
There's a reason he thinks people are stupid.He's going to another church today-Saint John Paul II National Shrine. He really thinks people are stupid. Of course some are, and will fall for this insulting disrespectful charade.
Donnie really represents what Jesus represents, no doubt about that.
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I'll give him credit: I thought he handled it about as well as he is able to handle it, considering the things he cannot say because of his record and stances. He's certainly handling this better than Nancy Pelosi, who is coming across once again as insanely out-of-touch.This speech by Biden is striking me as being really very good. Tons of empathy.
I'll give him credit: I thought he handled it about as well as he is able to handle it, considering the things he cannot say because of his record and stances. He's certainly handling this better than Nancy Pelosi, who is coming across once again as insanely out-of-touch.
Why is she obsessing over the Bible thing and not the violence police are committing against citizens? Because she can only view her relationship to Trump as some sort of petty meme war. She just wants to make fun of him. It's fine to make fun of Trump, so long as you're making an effort to right his wrongs. But she's content to not even bother putting up actual opposition, because she's more concerned with not taking "losses" on legislation.
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I’ve studied protest from the 1950s to today, and I’ve looked at this across a host of different issues in which individuals can see change, whether electoral shifts or policies or donations. The reality is that—objectively examining protests—violent protest has a positive impact on political and policy change. Nonviolent protest brings awareness to an issue; violent protest brings urgency to an issue. It forces individuals to pay attention to these important discussions of race relations, but also prompts the international community to join in and say, “Hey, there’s something wrong there.” We see protests breaking out in Berlin and other cities throughout the world right now. So there is a positive, influential aspect of violent protest. Saying that, naturally I don’t condone violence, and I’m not pushing for individuals to engage in unlawful behavior, but if we are objectively examining the influence of protests, we’re being disingenuous to say that violent protest does not bring individuals to the table, that it does not lead to policy change. That simply isn’t true.
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One of the most contentious protests we’ve seen that we can relate and compare to what we’re seeing now in 2020 is the Rodney King riots in the 1990s. This is a protest that became very violent, and if you look at the representative for that area, it was Maxine Waters in South Central L.A. When she spoke about these events, she referred to it as “righteous anger,” because she understood the pain individuals were going through. And it led her to engage in more policy actions in the House. Before the riots took place, she was looking at initiatives involving international things, women’s rights— but after this took place, she began focusing on bills dealing with the concerns of protesters. We saw her work on public housing, we saw a neighborhood infrastructure bill pass, we saw an inner city job creation bill she introduced. In addition to that, George Bush had several meetings looking at how he should address this. Later Bush came out and he had no choice but to acknowledge the reality of the times. He said, “In the wake of the L.A. riots, can any one of us argue that we have solved the problem of poverty and racism?” And the answer is no. Every day discussions at the water cooler actually changed because of that.
Oftentimes, when people say “violent protest has no impact,” it’s not because they have empirical evidence. They’re relying on their optimistic notions of seeing King and hearing his rhetoric. And those things are true, that nonviolence can be effective, but the violence can also be effective if you look at the data and follow the protests and see the impact it has on policy.
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Ferguson is a great example for us to assess activism and policy, because with Ferguson, we didn’t see a massive change in many things. But the point we gotta take from Ferguson is that it fits into a larger narrative. Sometimes we see protests today, and then we wait 24 hours, and see that nothing happened the next day. We say to ourselves, “This is useless, we’re wasting our time.” But the way in which I approach protest influence is through a larger, broader lens. What protest does, especially Ferguson, is it fits in this larger narrative of racial and ethnic minority protests that have pushed back on police brutality throughout the years. So we’re seeing the Ferguson arrests around 2014—what’s the impact it has? It begins to bring awareness and urgency to this issue. Shortly after that, there’s more attention and more interest in Black Lives Matter. There are more protests in 2016, and Black Lives Matter begins to grow in strength. By the time we get to 2020, the reason why George Floyd becomes a protest that bubbles over into the streets and leads to various forms of violence and resonates across the world is because of all the protests that preceded it. George Floyd is not necessarily the catalyst—it’s the crescendo.
It was like this in the ‘60s. Some might have said, “Why didn’t we see some kind of change immediately following the protest in 1961 or ‘62 or ‘63?” Take your pick. But then we see the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and all of a sudden we have the policy change we’re looking for. But it took time.
hewson doesn't know how roman numerals work.
it's not a matter of if. it's a matter of when. this will end badly.
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I did. Things went about as well as they should have for him.Did you hear about bow-and-arrow man in SLC?