A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested: Blocks from where George Floyd drew his last breaths, residents have vowed to avoid the police to protect people of color. The commitment is hard to keep.

NY Times ^ | June 24, 2020 | Caitlin Dickerson

[C19fan]

When Shari Albers moved three decades ago into Powderhorn Park, a tree-lined Minneapolis neighborhood known as a haven to leftist activists and bohemian artists like herself, she went to work sprucing it up.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Doesn't Sharia Law cut the hands off thieves and robbers. And make all the women wear burkas. And cut the heads off murders. And stone to death adulterers.

This ought to be really good.

[setter]

“Wait until they get robbed or raped. Then they’ll begin to think more conservatively. “

No they won’t.

[shelterguy]

“”””Minnesota is lost to the Muslim/Communistas.””””

MINNEAPOLISTAN is lost.

Here just a few miles west of occupied territory we are just fine.

Also, a few weeks ago the geniuses in Minneapolistan voted to ok camping in the city parks for the homeless, the criminals and drug addicts. Just a hunch on my part but I don’t think it will work out well for them.

San Francisco on the prairie.

[Williams]

Wacky stuff.

The cities are committing suicide.

And again: Follow the drug money.

[pepsi_junkie]

They used to say a liberal is someone who hasn’t been mugged yet. It turns out that a progressive is someone who gets mugged and then feels guilty about it.

The difference being that old school 80s style liberals were stupid but capable of being educated. Modern progressives have no ability to think critically, it’s been washed out of them by the public schools. They truly are just mindless NPCs that get their minds programmed and then do whatever it says.

[hinckley buzzard]

There is an abundance of truly hilarious statements. Worth it just for a good laugh or three.

[RoosterRedux]

Actually, to some extent (i.e., not entirely), my experience bears out the old saying "a conservative is a liberal who got mugged."

Of course, in fact, some people were conservatives from childhood, some became conservatives when they matured, and some became conservatives when they "got mugged."

[SpeedyInTexas]

The NYTimes article can be read here:

https://imgur.com/a/itYlcqf

[BatGuano]

No, Idiot, the boys put you in danger of death and THAT put them into the “system,’ which they don’t respect or give a damn about, fighting cops, stealing guns from the cops and then dying in a shoot out. Not your fault, not the cop’s fault and not systemic bullshit either. It is their fault only and they pay with their lives. Too BAD!
No pity, at all, from this corner.

[euram]

I tend to believe a lot of city dwellers suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, where they actually start to sympathize with people who despise them and would just as soon kill them.

[headstamp 2]

Mass suicide. The same mindset affecting western Europe.

[Trump.Deplorable]

I swear somewhere along the way Americans have become utterly brain dead. It is staggering.

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Public schools did that

[cuban leaf]

How to get past the paywall:

Click on the link. As soon as anything at all comes up, stop the download (Hit the little X in your browser’s tab). It will give you the full article before the paywall has a chance to block it. It may take a couple of tries if you stop the page load too soon or too late, but it works. I’ve got the whole thing up.

This also works on some other paywall sites but not all.

[matt04]

Yep. The one guy who found the passed out guy in the elevator and had to think about calling 911 and request no police gets mad police show up anyway. Dude, hey have policies in place on who to send to what calls. You don’t get to dictate that.

[Junk Silver]

[BatGuano]

“The Stupid is strong...”
I would think that there was a gym on every corner, “Be STUPID & STRONG!”
“It is not personal, just not safe..”
Safety is all about personal. The criminals are threatening your life and you don’t want them to take your calling the cops, “personally?”
That lady is an idiot.
“Illegal activity not their fault, it’s caused by oppression”
What planet are you from?
These Utopian dreamers just might die from being nice.
Now that is stupid, sad and still “strong stupid.”

[CatOwner]

Honestly, they deserve what’s coming. I hope it hurts.

Stockholm Syndrome. Won't move the needle in the voting booth. In fact, it might make it worse for the GOP.

[Trump.Deplorable]

They used to say a liberal is someone who hasn’t been mugged yet. It turns out that a progressive is someone who gets mugged and then feels guilty about it.

The difference being that old school 80s style liberals were stupid but capable of being educated. Modern progressives have no ability to think critically, it’s been washed out of them by the public schools. They truly are just mindless NPCs that get their minds programmed and then do whatever it says.

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The term Liberal has been misused for the past 30 or so years

These leftists are NOT liberals, they wish they were liberals, they want you to think they are liberals cause it is a better term then what they really are: communists

Classical Liberalism is pretty much Modern American Conservatism, the 10 planks of Classical Liberals are:

1) Liberty
2) Individualism
3) Sceptism about power
4) Rule of law
5) Civil Society
6) Spontaneous Order
7) Free markets
8) Toleration
9) Peace
10)Limited Government

These miscreants of today believe in none of that

[Repeat Offender]

"Please don’t come back or I’ll have to call the Muslim Community Patrol.”

That's likely an empty threat. They'd just kill her for adultery.

[Bonemaker]

“.....But now he feels bad about it...”

Wait until he gets shot or stabbed and he will feel VERY, VERY bad about it.