My god, there are some ratbags on this thread.

Individual: so to protest against the murder of a Black man is racist ?

AC: so the US military planned against this murder two months ago ?

Antifa are a tiny bunch of piss-ants - certainly they're doing what they can to stir up protestors, who are mostly sensible enough to ignore them. But the broad Church of Sensible People are doing the human thing and defending the rights of people to live together in peace, without a copper's boot on their necks.

Pallet-loads of bricks are not uncommon anywhere where building may be going on.

It must be a bastard to be a big Black man - maybe it always has been - when you have to be looking over your shoulder all the time for some groups of thugs or coppers out to get you. And no, I don't think that's being paranoid. Being big and Black in a white and racist society must mean to be in constant danger.

Joe

Joe,

Yes there are ratbags here, and you are one of them. "White racist society" What a load of tosh!

LM wrote:

"Not everybody who can't stand Trumpf is a secret member of the CCP:"

Well of course I never said, suggested, intimate nor implied that...but, heh, what's the truth got to do with?

Speaking of hysterical...."He [Trump] is indeed a fascist, no better than Putin and Xi."

Now THAT'S hysterical both in the clinical and non-clinical senses of the word.

Re relative poverty...currently the poverty threshold for a family in the US is $US26000 ie below that income level means you are poor. (Bare in mind that excludes social welfare like food stamps, medical aid etc). A person on that income in China would be in the upper 30%.

You can't just compare poverty lines between countries.

"Antifa are a tiny bunch of piss-ants"....evidence?

ttbn, have a look at the video I posted. it is not black people looting and destroying businesses and lighting fires, it is white leftist extremists. Trump is all over this, but the Democratic media want you to believe it is about "Black Lives Matter" anger. They are bussed in mainly white Thugs, using the slogan.

Mhaze,

Pity I never wrote anything about Trumpf or others being fascist. Verging on, maybe.

Mind you, yes, I would be the first to agree - given their policies against minorities - that the CCP leadership has been fascist for some time, under the thin guise (for the guidance of idiots) of being socialist.

As for Putin, yes, he dips into the fascist playbook every so often with his murder of opponents, but he comes from a long totalitarian tradition going back through the tsarist times to the Mongols, and coming up through the old CPSU and Stalin.

No, Trumpf is not fascist - opportunist, yes. Utterly unprincipled, yes. Narcissistic, immature, half-witted, yes. But we haven't seen his full-on fascist side, yet.

Joe

//"Antifa are a tiny bunch of piss-ants"....evidence?//

Do your own posts count as evidence?

//Whatismore, the rioters are an extremely small subsection of their city's population. So a small minority of people in a small minority of cities in a small minority of states.//

And I doubt that all the rioters are part of Antifa, or politically aware enough to know and care who Antifa are. I think there's probably quite a few who are just there for the looting and not that politically motivated.