When you believe a free press is the enemy of the people

Jun 2, 2020 4:06 AM

Attaroo

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Outrageous.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

when you attack the press you have something to hide from the people

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

The origin of the American Police lies in enforcing slavery, intimidating voters, and breaking unions. They were always political tools.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hmm it seems China is not the only asshole.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Calling them race riots isn't helping

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This needs more upvotes

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some fucking heroes they’re turning out be. Goddamn sociopaths with a badge and a uniform given license to do whatever tf they want.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

So when do these officers start doing the nazi salute?

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

They don't need to, they're already in uniform.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

There is no free press. Unless free as in free lunch.

5 years ago | Likes 108 Dislikes 9

That you can't differentiate between "not under the control of the government" and "paid for", means only that.

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

They do this because they know there'll be no repercussions. America will rage, then give up, and everything will continue as it always has.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

You have to push harder if you want something, *anything* to change. Don't sit thinking your only duty is to vote once every four years.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

do you have any idea how hard it is to capture that footage while upside down? fuck police brutality.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Have any of the protesters been Epsteined yet?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

If America hadn't already lost all respect on the world stage, the actions of it's police have made sure that that's now the case.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

These NFL matches suck. The opposing team didn't even form up. /s

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Ironic.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It seems the police are full of mostly right-wing types, and that's a problem.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Reporter was Australian media. Our PM is demanding an investigation. More than Drump is doing to protect HIS citizens.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

By the way things are being handled, this could escalate to semi-revolution. I know some cops are nice people, but the 90% does this stuff..

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Imagine if those protestors suddenly CHARGED the cops? If reversed how different would this have turned out. Just disgusting

5 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 5

If the protesters charged the cops I'd give it about five seconds until the live ammo started to fly and another cop led massacre began

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Cops: "Oh god they're standing still straight at us! Charge!"

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Officer Cletus: "let me shoot that protester real quick..."

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Damn this really is as bad as Hong Kong

5 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

No it's not. This is demanding fair treatment for a minority. Hong Kong is losing its democracy. We will get this right. HK lost

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It feels way worse though. If it can happen in US it can sure as hell happen in Europe.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It was happening in France two years ago. It has been happening in South American for fifty years.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For any lawyer out there: Is it illegal to fight back in self defense from an incoming attack from the police?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It is if they say it is. Theres a point where it doesnt matter anymore

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I hate to have to agree with you, but it does seem any legal rights are just going to get lost in all this mess

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

remember when america didn't have a coward dictator who attacked free speech?

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

what?? the land of the free? whoever told you that is your enemy.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Will we let democracy end?

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Every politician we have won their positions via Democracy. Democracy isn't a virtue.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

What democracy.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

To anyone still defending police, stop. Now is time for the people to come together.

5 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 1

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Policy change needs 2 happen, however this vid- Go home or least move back. Dont be there. This not happen in the peaceful protests/marches

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 22

How's that boot taste?

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Yes it does. Over and over and over again. Fuckin bootlicker

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

Question as an outsider (european): is right wing press being targeted as well and we're not seeing it, or are they just not covering this?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Well, InfoWars employees set fire to a homeless man's possessions and tried to blame it on protesters, so there's that.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

How do these people walk this Earth and not feel any level of shame.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not gonna lie, I was expecting Skyrim at the end

5 years ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 1

hahahahah!! goddamnit i didnt wanna laugh.. someone photoshop this in..

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

No, don't home about this. This is awful

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Me too. Sadly, this is no time for Skyrim.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You underestimate the insensitivity of some people

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I mean, I would have still laugh. So, me included.

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5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Oi get fucked cunts that's our TV crews

5 years ago | Likes 495 Dislikes 0

America has no gun laws to give them the illusion of freedom. Least free country in the west, it's all BS. Smoke (teargas) and mirrors.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fully. Wtf...

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

deadset, just saw this on abc from another angle, they smashed that ch7 cameraman up. shits messed up. Dogs

5 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 0

Yeah there's a comment in here somewhere showing it to punching the camera guy and hitting the woman with a baton. Fucking dicks

5 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Sorry Oz. This whole situation is fuct

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hey, we don't like it either. I'm sorry it happened man but we're trying our best to keep these peaceful.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Australian embassy is investigating the situation further and is looking to see how it can file a formal complaint against the US... 1-

5 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Oh no, that's not gonna go over well with our cheeto-in-chief. Sorry if we temporarily trade war you for like 6 months before election...

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

All the stuff we watched in Hong Kong. Thinking oh the big bad communist country. Only to see the lad of the free do the same

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What surprise me the most is that people are suprised. Police repression of protest isn't new. People forget fast

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Guantanamo was a clue as to how things would get. The jails was a clue.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

USA never had the moral high ground :/

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For now anyways

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

CCP can still get fucked though

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wasn't this in Australia?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It may or may not have been. I won't spread misinformation on that. But there is still evidence of the same in the US. Happy to find sources

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think it was an Australian mews crew i the US. At least thats what i got from the headlines ive seen.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That explains it ?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not even remotely equivalent to Hong Kong. Thousands of journalists and protesters aren't being tortured or disappeared.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Too close for comfort. The tactics are the same, even if the severity hasn't reached those levels yet

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm just drawing the similarities. Not saying US has escalated that far. To the best of my knowledge anyway.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Communism, capitalism, socialism; give the beast a name. Totalitarianism knows many masks, and many faces underneath.

5 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 3

Well, to be fair, they have not started disappearing people in the US yet. At least I hope so?

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Just play GTA5 for cultural reference.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It’s not common, but look up “cia secret prisons”. They were allowed after 2001. Most overseas, but some in us too (Chicago has one)

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Well once you declare a made up group of people terrorists and demand they start to be hunted down like ISIS...

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How would you know? They're disappeared. /s

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

HK resident here, we are laughing how Americans were all about "supporting us" but as soon as something like our situation happens to them..

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

suddenly protesters are thugs. and groups like antifa are now terrorists

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

The people ive talked to, protestor or not, don't believe that. Bunker Boi is the one fanning the flames. I support HK and these protests.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Stay safe over there.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

People are fucking morons, someone tells them "that's the bad guy!" and they just go "baaaahd! baaahd!" like sheep

5 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 13

People are fucking morons, someone tells them “that’s the bad guy!” And they just go “stop resisting” like sheep

5 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Touche

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The sheep "joke" is getting old, do another animal. Also it seems the whole right-wing is doing them, like some herded animal...

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

True, true

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hey, these are trying times. Thank you for having civil discourse and admitting when others make good points. Good on you.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry, I kinda use Imgur/Reddit to vent and forget

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not really the same though. There's individuals in PDs that are doing this while others are deescalating just fine. HK's is FAR worse

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 6

um, have you SEEN the HK protests? this is chump change compared to a system where protesters are getting shipped to godknowswhere

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

What I was trying to point out is that trying to minimize this by comparison is grotesque. The cops are seriously out of control.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

I'm not minimizing it by comparison. Likening what's happening to systemic oppression by an authoritarian state is a gross misunderstanding

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Far fewer vids of journalists being attacked there though

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm not sure we were watching the same HK protests...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We were, but the past few days I've come across 7 or 8 of these clips of journalists being attacked in the US where as those were fewer in h

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Travel to hong-kong was severely restricted and it didn't have many int-media crews. This is DC. Everyone has a team there.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

HK being worse doesn't put us anywhere near okay.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

and where did I say that?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was my impression you were implying it. Looks like watering down the original argument.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's happening and nobody holds them accountable. The moment you have to compare which one does more of the bad thing you have already lost

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

uhhh, have you ever seen HK police deescalate at all?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I'm not saying it isn't worse in HK. I'm saying your'e seeing very clear parallels which should worry you. But sure, argue semantics instead

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

I'm not denying there isn't a problem. But the fact that there is deescalation AT ALL means the underlying problem is completely different

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Lol, land of the free.

5 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 2

#Canada

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To quote Zach De La Rocha, "Whoever told you that is your enemy."

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was waiting for that. Spotted it after I posted. The shame.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This wasn't even about the typo. The notion is as outdated as the USSR.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Just got to look at their healthcare system to see how "free" they are. Random number generator applied to basic human medical rights.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

USA talks about freedom like the insecure kid at school who dunks on their smart friends over minor trivia.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

:) lad of the free sounds like some sort of capitalist superhero sidekick

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But you can’t have a beer outside or you’re going to jail. Or smoke a joint or you’re going to jail.

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Don’t forget they tear gassed the peaceful protestors and shot rubber bullets at the crowd for a Trump PHOTO OP before DC’s curfew began.

5 years ago | Likes 343 Dislikes 3

So a curfew to not protest at night for safety and yet people are confused as to why they are getting their ass beaten? Go home

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 26

Protest again in the morning.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 8

It was before the curfew even began

5 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Its our fucking RIGHT to have a PEACEFUL protest. It was BEFORE curfew. What the hell is wrong w/ you? Ur condoning this police brutality!?

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago (deleted Jun 2, 2020 3:21 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Why do you think people not breaking the law deserve to be fired upon?

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Looking out my window in DC right now, Because that protester is spray painting a coffee shop. That is closed down again...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

I like how you are reporting my comments. This is why you will never have a voice. Your are a hypocrite.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Tear gas and rubber bullets were unleashed before the curfew started. The protestors were exercising their constitutional right to be there.

5 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Don’t feed the trolls. What is happening in the US & in this moment in DC is dire. No time to waste on someone who supports police brutality

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

They have a constitutional right to back the fuck up as well if directed. Show me there occupation permit? Yes you are required one in DC.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 9

It is not peaceful just because you showed the fuck up and declared it one person doing one dumb thing is going to be met with force

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 7

Enjoy getting your ass beat for walking with sheep and not driving change like a wolf

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 9

This doesn't even make sense. What are you talking about? It was a 100% peaceful protest. What one dumbfuck? What one dumb thing?

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

At a church where even the pastor said he wasn't invited, didn't alert them, didn't even bother to pray, took some pictures, and left.

5 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 0

well, the church is closed, why would anyone be there

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There were people in the courtyard, probably protesters fleeing after police pushing them out of other areas

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The church is behind a public park that is often used for protests. No one was at the church they were in the park/on the street

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You have to walk through the park and in the street where the protestors were to get from the White House to the church.

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The pastor immediately condemned Trump for using their church and his treatment of the protestors.

5 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 0

Very interesting, we here in conservative Christianity do not have a female pastors. Thats usually some guy, women are usually nuns.

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That’s literally one single branch of Christianity. How far are you going to let this division spread? How far away from the teachings 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Of Christ are you prepared to drift before you acknowledge that you’re no longer following him? Is the power and dogma all you care about?

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Fuck you

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Just wondering, if that is still christian....

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Well it's hard for them bc God isn't fond of women's rights, he prefers they are sold as slaves or bear more soldiers and worship men

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's the Episcopal Church; it is Christian. There are many different Christian denominations, some of which have women pastors and bishops.

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Well yall changed the book once when it was outdated so i dont see whats wrong. what makes it unchristian?

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