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I wish so badly I could edit the title to more accurately reflect what happened. “Police shoot reporter in the back.”
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Are we great again yet? Or do we need to be made great again again again and again?
Unpopular Opinion: Y’all were never great. The country had one brief period of some sanity before it got dropkicked out the door by Reagan. The only difference between the United States and Russia is good PR and even better propaganda. The United States is offensive to common sense and human decency on every fundamental level, from it’s inception until today. Things are just more obvious now. That’s the only difference.
The US had a period of “greatness” shortly after WWII.
Why was the US “great” in the 1950s and 1960s?
- The labour protections from the New Deal hadn’t yet been repealed, so more wealth was shared with ordinary people (as long as they were white).
- The US was the only major country to escape WWII without massive damage to its infrastructure. So, while other countries were focusing on rebuilding cities flattened by war, the US economy just shifted from producing war goods to producing consumer goods.
- A lot of the world’s best and brightest fled to the US as a safe place to escape the war. These immigrants were essential to the US economy after the war.
So yeah, people’s grandpas were able to buy a house and support a family working a menial job for a brief period after WWII. But, that’s not because of some fundamental characteristic about the US that makes it better. It’s mostly because the US was fortunate enough to be on the opposite side of the planet from one of the most destructive wars in history.
Oh come on! At one point, through almost an accident of history, our country was still able to make things, build things, and pump out babies while the rest of the organized world had to reassemble their firebombed and nuked cities.
The US threw over 100,000 of its own citizens in concentration camps 60 years before Reagan was president. You’re giving the man far too much credit.
You think the U.S. was great in the late 70? I guess if you were a straight white guy then of course.
You think the U.S. was great in the late 70?
Would you mind pointing out where I said that?
Go ahead.
I’ll wait.
Well the brief period of time before Reagan was the late 70s… A truly horrific time for the U.S. but you seem to think it was a period of sanity.
You seem to think it was a period of sanity.
Would you mind pointing out where I said that?
Go ahead.
I’ll wait.
Actually, screw this. Let me just cut this off now so I can get on with my life.
The country had one brief period of some sanity
The operative word in that sentence is the word SOME. Stop painting my opinions to be all or nothing, stop shoving words down my throat, and actually read what I have to say. I also did not specify the period I was talking about, only that Reagan drop kicked it out. You made an enormous amount of assumptions and pretended as if they were reality. They’re not.
If you are curious next time, the correct thing to do is ask for elaboration or clarification.
Please stop wasting my time.
Near highest crime rate in u.s. history was “some” sanity? Wierd.
You’re either a troll or literally incapable of understanding that “some” means certain things I pick, not you.
Whatever the reason, the outcome is the same.
They said, quoted verbatim:
Y’all were never great.
Come on… other than the eugenics movement the 20’s sound decent. Lots of nice art deco a few years later….
Take that with the mid 50’s though the late 70’s and you’re talking about a solid half century. It’s not a bad run given our assumed trajectory ;-)
I was always kind looking forward to seeing the dystopian wasteland phase.
You seem to have forgotten the concentration camps FDR stuck 120,000 American citizens in between 1942 and 1946
Calm down kids, it’s called sarcasm.
That is an incredibly bad take. One so fundamentally poor, indeed obtuse, that this comment has to be filed under, " you’ve got to be fucking kidding me"
Don’t expect a response from me. I won’t waste time on stupidity.
Also… Oh nooo… I won’t get a response from you… oh noooo… Whatever will I do?
Bruh, I only knew you made a comment because a friend pointed out the silliness of it.
Troll
We’re getting greater. Gotta get rid of anybody with pronouns, skin, or who is awake.
That includes you, queers, and you, darkies! And you, brownies! And don’t forget the people that believe in gods. And likely the people that don’t, too. And anybody that disagrees.
Ok. Now, who’s left?
Now who doesn’t fit in? Who’s the deviant, now? We gotta keep pruning and killing and sowing unhappiness.
Only once we reach the end, will we be great.
You do realize that the people who voted for Trump are loving all of this. They want a police state. Because they believe that they will never be subject to it.
Let the leopards eat their faces.
They should have used the photo of the officer aiming at her.
And the title… I hate the passive voice shit with pigs.
“Hit by rubber bullet”
The man aimed at her and opened fire. It’s on camera. “Shot by cop.”
“Intercepted non-lethal round from law enforcement.”
"Crossed paths with lawfully-launched projectile. "
“Interfered with first-amendment suppression.”
In the article they show the video of her being shot at and also describe what happened as the officer aming and shooting her
“Hit by rubber bullet” as if it was a stray. Watch the live broadcast and it’s clear as day the shooter lifted his gun and aimed straight at her without provocation
Ya, wtf, I opened it up and was like that dude shot her on purpose. Standing there with a film crew around her. Should charge that cop with assault.
What legal reason would the police have for shooting journalists who are in no way in the midst of any violence?
edit: looks like they are going to claim she was blocking traffic, even though the car could have used the other lane.
Is it standard to shoot people who are blocking traffic?
Cops are a sack of hammers looking for nails in these situations.
Yes
In capitalist america, they shoot you for blocking traffic
There is no legal reason, whatever they say here is bullshit.
Need more pixels
Its kinda weird how dude looks like a cutout cop in both photos.
ENHANCE!
CIS/NCIS (mmm gibbs) really did fuck my expectations about resolution.
You have to say “alexa” first.
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I’m surprised they’re using rubber bullets and not proper ones.
Looks like a bean bag, a rubber bullet at that range would have done more damage.
The rest of the world sees the USA, Mexico and Canada as basically one country, and laugh at this.
