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High traffic and high visibility I guess. Or Walmart is just the go to social hub in the South in general.
My biggest problem with this isn’t why there protesting it’s that they seem to be passing the burden on to a somewhat innocent party. I mean maybe I’m wrong but what is Walmart’s part to play in this. If something bad happens to me that doesn’t give me the right to go down the street and take it out on my neighbor.
I can’t speak for them. I just know that in the history of protest it is useful when it impacts the local economy. It’s one of the things we kept in the transition from British to American. More recently you’d have to consider things like lunch counter sit ins.
I would assume that they also believe society at large has sinned, so no one is truly innocent or free from the impact of the protest.
I get what your saying I just think it’s wrong. If someone has wronged you then that person is to blame, not Walmart. If we start blaming everyone for things that one person or a small group of people do then where does it stop. If society at large is to blame then why aren’t the protestors themselves to blame. Why is Walmart or the patrons of Walmart bearing the brunt of this punishment when they didn’t do anything. It’s a good way to turn people away from the cause when they might otherwise be sympathetic to it is all I’m saying.
I get it. Protests are often done out of a feeling of desperation, so I don’t know that they ever do or can make total sense.
Yeah great strategy, I'm sure they endeared themselves and furthered their cause with the lady trying to do her grocery shopping for the week before she goes back to work tomorrow.
You know what I think is hurting this BLM cause more than anything. It’s a lot of these white people out here trying to prove there not racist. Instead of just not doing racist things they feel the need to out perform everyone else and to show just how not racist they are. I found several videos of these young white men and women going out and destroying things to prove how tolerant they are of other people. A lot of the videos show black men and women confronting them and often times turning them in to the police.
It’s definitely a performative experience for a lot of young white people, but I’d imagine most are sincere as far as protesting goes. Anyone rioting or looting is in the wrong. To go back to Walmart, shut it down for an afternoon if you really feel the need, but don’t incinerate it (or a Wendy’s for that matter).
It has been difficult to watch protestors beg those people to stop being dumbasses. They are undermining a very simple message. I do believe some of them are doing that intentionally however. Not everyone rioting is doing it on behalf of racial equality.
A lot of the young ones (school ages) are just virtue signaling. It provides them immunity, increases their social capital, and inducts one into the club of social acceptance. They think it's going to give them a seat at the cool kids table.
Yep. You can usually pick them out fairly easily. There’s usually a Che T-shirt and a hammer and sickle logo somewhere in plain sight. And they are displayed with no sense of irony whatsoever.
I agree with a lot of what your saying but I still feel like shutting down any business to prove a point is wrong. I’ve never felt it was right to pass the burden.
We had a cop kill a man and is now being charged with murder. I don’t see many if any arguing that he arguing that he shouldn’t be charged.
I see a lot of people saying that we need to have more accountability in law enforcement. I don’t see many or are disagreeing.
The problem comes when you keep reaching and keep trying to take more and more your gonna eventually get resistance.
Walmart, as far as I know, has nothing to due with what going on and should not be held accountable for it. I seen a post on Facebook (don’t know how true it is) that they are canceling paw patrol. I mean what in the hell does that due to help the cause. I guess it’s because there is a dog dressed as a cop. There canceling live PD. Why? How does that help anything. At some point there are gonna be to many people alienated and it’s gonna become counterproductive.
Speaking of no sense of irony, the morons in Seattle in the Autonomous Zone have a list of things they want people to bring them. Don't think they know what autonomous means, which isn't surprising given the residents.
Ive never watched Paw Patrol or LivePD. I know the former has been discussed for cancellation, and the latter has been cancelled. I did watch cops as a kid, and it has been cancelled.
I don’t know the rationale for the first two. The argument behind cops was that it perpetuates the idea of innate black criminality. I’m sure that’s controversial among its fan base. I probably haven’t watched it as an adult and have no idea what an episode even looks like. So I can’t comment.
My grandmother is in total distress over LivePD to the the point that she is signing online petitions, so ya you are seeing a group of people being alienated by it.
CHAZ is essentially a micro walled off police state. So much for anti-fascist.
Lol yea I laughed at the irony of there stance. I saw a video earlier of them removing a man from there “community”. They basically locked arms and was trying to force him out and when that didn’t work they took his cell phone and used it like a stick for a dog and tried escorting him out that way.
They're finding out what police already know. Sometimes you are left no alternative but the use of force when dealing with knuckleheads.
I kept waiting on the social worker to show up and talk the man into leaving.
This is what CHAZ residents want America to be haha
The SOLUTION.......
The SOLUTION.......
Im sure the elderly trying to get their meds are super excited that the walmart on Cantrell is being shut down today. All due to the protests.
This actually tells me everything I need to know. Thank you sir
This is the kind of stuff that is so laughable. You can be out there protesting, looting, screaming, and wrecking havoc because it's all for a good cause. But I'll be damned if you go out and want to have a beer or want to make a living!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F*CK all this BS!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/15/ny-bars-reopen-cuomo/
On Sunday, the governor said he had personally phoned several bars and restaurants after seeing pictures of crowds outside their storefronts with takeout food and drinks. If people kept congregating, Cuomo warned they could lose their liquor licenses.
“We are not kidding around with this,” he said. “You’re talking about jeopardizing people’s lives.”
F*CK all this BS!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/15/ny-bars-reopen-cuomo/
On Sunday, the governor said he had personally phoned several bars and restaurants after seeing pictures of crowds outside their storefronts with takeout food and drinks. If people kept congregating, Cuomo warned they could lose their liquor licenses.
“We are not kidding around with this,” he said. “You’re talking about jeopardizing people’s lives.”
But, but, none of this is political according to the
libs .........................................
All that does is prove the inaccuracy of polls.
Trump will carry Arkansas with close to if not greater than 60% of the vote in November.
My quick polling of reading the 5News comments on Facebook on any Political post determined that is a lie, lol.
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