Daily News Thread 7/17

I smell a trap.

hope you know what day it is today comrades

The cops have been killing people all year, especially in Minnesota, but of course the media doesn't care until it's a conventionally attractive white blonde woman.

Holla Forums must be heart broken that there's yet another white woman that won't ever fuck them

can we get Holla Forums mad over this

Does anybody else get the sense that this is the Dems preparing a united from against grassroots left-opposition?

This is great tbh, a few more years of this and we might have an actual revolution.

They'll try, but the Neocons will betray them and vote the party line. Again.

I don't imagine Bernie's enduring popularity and their star candidate's stunning defeat in the face of every possible advantage has gone unnoticed, no. I don't doubt either that significant alliances are being made in the event of some upstart party appearing.

I'm scared shitless of the cops in my country. Why am I feeling like this if I otherwise never break the law?

Well at least USA lets me sit inside and masturbate all day.

Tories waste magic money tree dosh on shitty planes that they could have used to literally end student debt and tuition fees (and still have money left over).

Shut the fuck up you just don't understand basic economics, dumb commie cuck.

I think the F-35 is an example of the US empire not actually possessing the worlds most powerful military.

I can't prove it but I think Russia and China and maybe even North Korea know it and thats why they've been slowly but steadily pushing back against US aggression.

Worked as a military contractor for many years and the F 35 is far from the only weapons systems that doesn't work in real life.

Lol this.
I guess the cops have brutalized blacks to the point of dimishing returns and are moving onto white women.

There was a video from Colorado where another pretty white woman was straight body slammed by a cop too.

We a have a ton of older and functional weapons systems that are quite good. I think the US certainly does have the most powerful military, but what it can actually do is far more limited than people thing.

The older systems work yes but are not significantly surperior to Russian systems. And China can buy most of Russia's arsenal.

The F35 and other next gen weapons systems aren't just supposed to be functional but provide air surpriority over their enemies. It's not enough especially given their price tag that they are merely competitive

Trump threatens economic action if Venezuela creates Constituent Assembly

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to take "strong and swift economic actions" if Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with plans to create a controversial super-legislature known as a Constituent Assembly in a July 30 vote.
"Yesterday, the Venezuelan people again made clear that they stand for democracy, freedom and rule of law. Yet their strong and courageous actions continue to be ignored by a bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator," Trump said in a statement.
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-politics-usa-idUKKBN1A22EL?il=0

what planet is he on?

yeah america loves democracy

This is why Russia and China are needed. America will not stand for any sort of left leaning political movement anywhere and will seek to thwart them as long as it is the hegemonic power.

JK Rowling cares.

This isn't the 1960s. Russia and China have been nothing but capitalist empires for a long time.

That's not the point. They will create anti-American international institutions that will help push America back into being just another regional power at best or at worst another superpower. Once America has been brought down a peg the capitalists will become fragmented and do what they were doing prior to "pax americana": betray each other and wage war against one another. Capitalism will become the same sort of unorganized mess that it was in 1917.

Obviously, if 4/pol/ is anything to go by. I just hope they get paid to do it.

What's wrong with this and why is this included?

Because it's paid.

lmao, what fucking clown world do you live in where the media "doesn't care" about police killings? Because last I recall practically every major news outlet that wasn't Fox was obsequiously fawning over the Black Lives Matter movement, and rigorously investigating any instance where a black person was killed by a cop in questionable circumstances

Also lmao that the cop involved was a Somali-American - which I assume will get absolutely zero play in MSM coverage, to continue promoting the angle that it was Redneck Cops Behaving Badly like they did with the Freddie Gray accused

The problem with cops is that they are cops. Not that they are 'white' cops dipshit.

And the entire Black Lives Matter movement (despite claims to the contrary) revealed that the Left (both liberals and #wokeleft ironybros) really didn't give much of a fuck beyond how many innocent black men and women were dying at the hands of cops.

Seriously the post I fucking replied to was trying to turn this into some dumb "heh, chickens coming home to roost, whiteboi, COPS AREN'T SO RIGHTEOUS NOW ARE THEY" shit

So please, don't pretend this has anything to do with police misconduct and that if I died at the hands of a cop (white or black) in dubious circumstances you wouldn't be making some smug post about how "looks like Holla Forums's gonna be triggered because their cop heroes killed a white guy"

Yeah, cops kill white people (including young, subdued, unarmed, etc. white people) and non-black people all the time. I'd like to respect BLM - I think they had good reason to start - but this is still a point that people should be reminded of. I've had more than one (white) friend abused, injured, whathaveyou by cops. And it's even worse for the poor and the homeless, and gays still get disproportionate targeting. But the mainstream idpol narrative just glosses over the commonality of police abuse, and reduced the issue to one aspect.

The real world
lol

Methinks ye protesteth too much

are you trolling? anytime a negro is killed or abused by cops the media go into a frenzy. there's a reason why the names of black victims are world-famous while others (not just whites; hispanics and others too) remain unknown. the michael brown incident was national 24-hour news for several weeks, for example. you're just being flatly disingenuous if you seriously claim the media only care about police violence when the victim is a "white blonde woman"

Yes, because we all know that every major media network dismissed the Black Lives Matter movement out of hand, and didn't provide constant sympathetic coverage even when they were burning down buildings in Ferguson and Baltimore because riots are just the oppressed venting their completely-justified rage on other people's property. Christ, what are you on? Because it must be some pretty potent shit to make you think that the positions of CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post etc on the BLM movement were somewhere between "Bull Connor did nothing wrong" and "kill all niggers, ethnic war now"

The cable news in my country had a right-libertarian politician talk about the state of democracy in Venezuela
Our media is totally unbiased, guys

You realize the media doesn't report on literally every case where a black man gets killed by cops, right?

Surely you understand that this doesn't happen only 3-4 times on a bad year, right? Police violence in the US is epidemic, and black people (many of whom, not coincidentally, also happen to be poor) get a lot of the worst of it. The media doesn't report every case, only some - and this is dependent on the case getting to them. A lot of times, for any race all that's left is a blotter and a grave because most people don't want to take it to the news and push it.

ok, i was being slightly hyperbolic when i said "every time," but the fact is "black man shot and killed by police" is not a headline unheard in the newsmedia. i am in australia so i see the u.s. from the outside, and what i see is a focus on and hyping up of cases of blacks killed by white cops or "white men," the trayvon martin case being the preeminent contemporary example. i simply haven't seen any similar, comparable focus on a case of a white or latin person shot and killed by cops. basically, i ask, is there a "white/latin/other trayvon martin"? the answer is clearly no, which says a lot to me

i should note i'm not saying any of this in defence of cops. i hate cops and would shoot them on sight if i had the power

star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington/article160572509.html

Harrison acknowledged the risk of using an electrical stun gun near gasoline, but said the man was “very frantic and erratic and became a danger to everyone in the room.”

“We realize that a Taser can have some other implications, but we also know he had something in his hand,” Harrison said. “It’s unclear at this moment whether he became engulfed in flames from the gasoline and ignitable object he had in his hand or from the Taser.”

He was going to set himself on fire, so we stopped him by setting him on fire.

Yeah, the real world, where there is a stark difference in the type of reporting either events receive. Just last year a man was held down in the street in front of a street full of witnesses and shot in the back of the head and the news had hardly a hiccup. Here a pretty white woman gets killed and then suddenly it's "oh, how could this have happened???"

and this going unreported while trayvon martin's death being made international headline news doesn't tell you something?