Posted on 10/06/2023 9:57:28 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A more fundamental mindset is, in my opinion, at play.
Leftists, expecially white, dedicated Leftists, feel that because they are often “down with the cause”, it makes them immune to violence from the people whose causes they choose to support.
In this case, it is a case of a dedicated, ideolocally-bound Leftist who assumed that everyone he might meet would immediately understand he was on their side, fighting for their cause, whatever that Leftist cause might be.
It emboldens them to be in areas that they shouldn’t be, at times they shouldn’t be, and they think because of their hair, tattoos, slogans on t-shirts or hats, whatever, that anyone from the side they profess to support would immediately recognize their fealty, and not harm them.
Solzhenitsyn recognized well this dynamic in his observations of Soviets who were all in on the Communist Party. They wholeheartedly believed in it. They supported it.
And even when they didn’t believe it fully or whole-heartedly support it, they thought that pretending they did would shield them from the consequences of what they prefessed to believe in.
But when that heavy knock came on their door at 2 AM, which they answered with blinking, sleepy eyes to be told they were under arrest, they were astonished and puzzled, saying “Me? Arrested? What for?” and they really expected there to be a valid justification. They didn’t realize the Communist cause they supported and bought into was a thoughtless, blind predator, beholden only to the whims of some official who didn’t care a whit that they stood up and applauded Comrade Stalin for his tryannical efforts.
They would be dragged away, screaming, saying “Why? Why? I am on your side! I am one of you!”
In the same way, this guy who was stabbed, not by a tyrannical bureaucat taking orders from a list given to him, but by a person who was taking his murderous marching orders from a steambath of racism he was enveloped in, must have lain there on the ground, unable to speak, thinking “Why? Why? I am on your side! I am one of you!”.
And no doubt, the woman with him likely was screaming aloud in puzzlement and frustration “Why? Why? We are on your side! We are down with your struggle!”
In these cases, I recall the quote uttered by Clint Eastwood’s character (William Munny) in the movie “Unforgiven” when he heard the dying Sheriff mutter, just before Munny blew his head off “I don’t deserve this.” to which he answered “Deserves got nothin to do with it.”
This guy who got stabbed didn’t deserve to die, even for supporting racism as a BLM supporter or associating with people who fully support racist killings as long as it is them doing the killing. But he didn’t know that racism is a double-edged sword that cuts in both ways even if you support or don’t support it. He was on the cutting edge of that sword that swung in his direction.
An earlier story answered that:
“as he waited with his gal pal at the B38 bus stop at Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard – after the pair left a wedding...”
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Karma just has a knack of biting these losers in the ars.
BTTT!
Now he was a poet too?! First I heard of that.
A poet, a painter, and undoubtedly a singer and a dreamer.
He was coming from a friend’s wedding and clearly he has an aversion to cars as he hadn’t even ordered an Uber. So he was waiting for an NYCTA bus at 3AM. Unfortunately TA buses don’t run often at 3AM especially in Bed Stuy. I haven’t read this but my guess is the couple had already been on one bus and were waiting for a connection bus.
Funds for time off work is ok with go fund me but a 72 year old sick woman burned out and lost everything, homeless didn’t meet GoFundMe requirements.
Ok!
That website is so abused and nothing happens to people like this, but if it involves a Trump supporter, it’s banned.
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Exactly what happened to me after the fire. People who were supporting Biden were welcome.
I haven’t used any AI programs yet, but if this is what can be produced, I’m all in.
“Now he was a poet too?! First I heard of that.
A poet, a painter, and undoubtedly a singer and a dreamer.”
I would just summarize him as “liberal douchebag”
nasty little bitch, wasn’t he? Rush outlived the twit by far. lmao hell yeah.
Well stated
Thanks for saying so. The guy laughed with glee when Rush Limbaugh died. I won’t laugh with glee at his demise. But I will take grim acceptance that stupidity in these matters can result in death, and he was betrayed by his own blood-soaked ideology of Leftism, whose altar he worshiped at.
Yet my gofundme for my wife with cancer and home repairs got $30.
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