Laniakea
Not of this world
Those from that way of thinking also believe riots, looting, arson and murder are "Mostly peaceful protests".
Everything is backwards with them.
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The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots
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Everything is backwards with them.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
What makes you think that they could not have different degrees of accuracy? You clearly have never debated with creationists.
Laniakea
Not of this world
I wouldn't want to since I would be in agreement with them.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
And you are being disingenuous again. It appears that you have no idea how many BLM protests there were across the country. The number of protests where violence broke out was far less than the majority. That is why it is accurate to say that they were "Mostly peaceful protests". The violent protests tended to be in cities that were rather larger. Where I live the population was a bit over 100,000 people . The protests only made local headlines. Why? Because like most they were not violent. And guess what, peaceful protests never make the news if there are violent ones breaking out elsewhere.
I would say that 93% qualifies as "mostly":
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project analyzed more than 7,750 BLM demonstrations in all 50 states and D.C.
Demonstrations and Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020
Preliminary analysis of key trends from May to August.
acleddata.com
BLM and Floyd protests were largely peaceful, data confirms
These charts cast a fresh light on perceptions that protests against racism and police brutality have been violent.
Oh cool. The Christian Science Monitor article has a useful graph. There is a thin gold band at the top of the graph. Whose were the violent protests:
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Aaah, well that explains a lot.
I'm saying that telling the mob to march to the Capitol and make sure that Trump "wins" when there's no way to do this that doesn't involve violence and crime is a call to commit violence and crime.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
I just posted links to a bunch of articles that you show that you are wrong.
Here is your problem. The news did not report very much about the vast majority of the protests. That was because nothing happened at most of them. That is not exciting. That does not draw viewers. They reported only the violent ones. Not due to racism or anything like that. One could say that they did so because of capitalism. They need to make money. Reporting the everyone protested and then went home of the sort that happened in my city are boring. You only heard of the violent ones and then assumed that they were all violent.
Laniakea
Not of this world
A question usually ends with a question mark. Since you messed that up after only 6 words, I didn't read any further. The rest couldn't possibly be any more accurate.
Laniakea
Not of this world
He said, "make your voices be heard". How does that equate to "make sure Trump wins"?
Clizby Wampuscat
Well-Known Member
He did not say to do that either. And that is your limited thinking, protest itself can change things.
Clizby Wampuscat
Well-Known Member
What are you talking about?
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Where was the question? You just responded to an observation. Please learn the difference.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Sorry, that was my error. There was a side discussion about the BLM protests.
By the way, cherry picking is a logical fallacy.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
He did. You just conveniently ignore or try to reinterpret when he did that.
Laniakea
Not of this world
There, now you got it right. I'm glad I was able to help.
Do you see your error now?
Laniakea
Not of this world
Can you quote where "he did"?
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
You made the mistake. You could not even quote the supposed question.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Yes, I can. But for you to demand anything you need to at the very least apologize for your recent behavior. I need a sign that you can be an honest interlocutor.
Laniakea
Not of this world
Tried that already when trying to get you to tell us what you thought "insurrection" means. You didn't demonstrate being an honest interlocutor at that time, so I have little expectations for this time either.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
No, you never "paid" then either. What you had to do was clearly laid out to you and you refused to do that.