Again, Columbia...
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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I lived in Columbia about 20 years ago during Y2K and around the time of the confederate flag protests.
Small world. “Dump Beasley! Keep the flag!” (Not an endorsement)Is that like Gazza turning up with a bucket of chicken wings?
There goes all my Hawaiian shirt wardrobe in the trash now.
I don’t remember media being so demonised during the Clinton Bush or Obama era. It’s all Trump allowing Fox to weaponise claims of ‘FAKE NEWS’ with aggression and violance towards non partisan media that brings us to where we are.
It’s very hard to be ideologically sympathetic to Fox News when they receive behaviour they have actively normalised themselves
A bit off-topic but I still cannot comprehend what went through the minds of those cops, especially Derek Chauvin. The brazenness to treat Floyd like that, after all that happened in the US in the past years regarding black victims. The mentality is just so telling.
Roids & MMA dork isn’t a healthy mix.
Yeah man those feckers ruin everything.
Bro, what's a boogaloo boi?
Boogaloo is alt-right code for the 2nd Civil War that they think is coming. It comes from a shitty “cult classic” movie from the 1980s “Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo“.
Wait... Are all those electric boogaloo jokes on reddit over the last few years alt right inspired?
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boogaloo bois
But really it's apparently a term coined by nutjobs about an imminent second civil (race) war.
https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war
The ‘Breakin’’ series was iconic, you’re just too young to fully appreciate it.
I've just searched the film and I remember it as "breakdance 2", and just for your information, I LOVED that film! Turbo and ozone 4ever.
How does this end exactly? No one seems to be trying to deescalate, quite the opposite.
Yep!
Bullshit. I thought it was It's Always Sunny and Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo that made it a thing?
In my limited knowledge on this it seems to me that this brutal murder has lit a fire that only needed a spark to set alight. From the brutality against minorities (particularly black people) to the rampant inequality, the failure of virus response and the unsupported financial and healthcare problems that come with it it seemed inevitable that America was reaching a boiling point. It's no surprise that this has come under an openly facist and uncaring government. May of these issues have existed under endless governance of both parties but perhaps this is the first time that the government has dropped all facades of caring and a wider public has woken up to reality.
I remember a speech by an Iraq veteran where he said that he realised he had more in common with the Iraqis he was sent to kill than the suits that sent him to Iraq. Now is the time for Americans of all races that have been ignored and disenfranchised by their government to unite and demand a seat at the table. I don't hope for any harm to the innocent but, as has been pointed out multiple times in this very thread, all their peaceful protests have been ignored and when a ruling class does this then history tells us that the general public will eventually choose to fight back.
No single ordinary person should be condemning these protests. Protests like this don't happen when the system works, it happens when the majority of people within a system have had enough of being ignored and treated like shit. Now is the time for people of all races to realise that they have more in common with each other than they do with the people in power and do what is needed to demand change. I can't think of one moment in history where real change didn't come from mass protest.
The real facade that is bring highlighted here is the idea of 'democracy' when the governing class represent a minority of 'important' people over the majority.
I remember a speech by an Iraq veteran where he said that he realised he had more in common with the Iraqis he was sent to kill than the suits that sent him to Iraq. Now is the time for Americans of all races that have been ignored and disenfranchised by their government to unite and demand a seat at the table. I don't hope for any harm to the innocent but, as has been pointed out multiple times in this very thread, all their peaceful protests have been ignored and when a ruling class does this then history tells us that the general public will eventually choose to fight back.
No single ordinary person should be condemning these protests. Protests like this don't happen when the system works, it happens when the majority of people within a system have had enough of being ignored and treated like shit. Now is the time for people of all races to realise that they have more in common with each other than they do with the people in power and do what is needed to demand change. I can't think of one moment in history where real change didn't come from mass protest.
The real facade that is bring highlighted here is the idea of 'democracy' when the governing class represent a minority of 'important' people over the majority.
Probably was originally. The alt right dont make things, they just adopt them
Chitown
Don't you see Rado, if they just hang on for a little bit longer it's all going to work itself out. Keep in mind that the most effective protest is the one which doesn't inconvenience anyone.
Boogaloo is something that's been used to put on the end of made up sequel titles for a long time, I've never known it to be an alt-right thing, so I guess it depends on how it's used. It's been used plenty here over the years, just from a quick search
Alternatively you’ve just discovered a vast alt-right conspiracy on RedCafe.
Racists, the lot of them.
They did what they always do man... appropriate shit and ruin it for everyone
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795366630/boogaloo-is-the-new-far-right-slang-for-civil-war
You’re right, it has been used in the past as a riff off of the 1984 movie, but if you see it used today, it is 99.9% in relation to the alt-right. Do a Google search on ‘boogaloo bios’ & how they are coordinating shit to both help & hinder the protests, it’s quite shocking.
idd that @Silva chap is clearly right wing
Am I alt-right now?
Anyway it's memetic usage predates the alt right
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/electric-boogaloo
Did y’all really not know about them stealing boogaloo to talk about the sequel to the civil war or are we just screwing around here?
I’d never heard about it to be fair. Although it’s been a long time since I visited 4Chan so I’m not really in the loop on what the nerd-Nazis are upto these days.
This is literally the first time I've known it to be used other than making up fun made up sequel titles.
I hate to be the one to break it to you...Am I alt-right now?
I saw it when I was lesson planning to teach about the resurgence of Neo-Nazism in America. Check out the NPR interview I linked to up the page a bit.
Genuinely never knew this.
I didnt even realise it was jokingly added to movie titles either
Didn't know, honestly Carolina.
In a twisted way, that’s what they’re doing with it, too.
LA protests in Fairfax area is nuts. Police cars on fire. Not too far from Beverly Hills.
Even Silva has got sucked in!