Posted on 08/29/2020 9:49:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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What would you say to people who are concerned about essential places like grocery stores or pharmacies being attacked in those communities?
When it comes to small business, family owned business or locally owned business, they are no more likely to provide worker protections. They are no more likely to have to provide good stuff for the community than big businesses. It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.
A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine]. That question assumes well, what if you're in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation. There's this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that's already been formed by the time that they're fighting. SNIP
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If riots and looting are accepted as "justified," then self-defense against them must be regarded as "unjustified."
Regards,
Here is a math problem for the hood. Suppose Mr patel has a $.25 profit margin on a two dollar loaf of bread and steaks cost $10 and have a $2 dollar profit margin. If Dontarius steals two steaks how many loaves of bread does Mr Patel have to sell to break even before he starts to make money? (for those of you who live in the Bronx and voted for the Cortez nitwit the answer is 64.)
Part Two assuming that Mr patel sold just enough bread to cover his losses on the steaks and at that point Tyrone robs Mr patel how much money does Tyrone get? $128 again here is the answer for any of you who voted Democrat
Stealing seems to be rampant in the "food desert" neighborhoods
Typical “a priori” (before the facts) thinking. Every bit of information must interpreted/filtered through the lens of their political philosophy. Everything that doesn’t conform to their preexisting “reality” is either discarded or ignored.
In the end, there is only one way to deal with people who think this way and that is not to deal with them at all. They simply must be defeated politically and driven from the public square. In other words, the “Cancellers” must be cancelled.
The word “revolution” has been replaced by the word “protest”. They had to in order to get away with it.
Yeah, that round is a gimmick and cumulatively causes massive barrel damage.
Grabbing a large flat screen television is simply stealing, nothing to do with anything else.
A vivid example of why we are here: If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute. Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
My first thought when reading this we need a punt gun.
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