You have to ask yourself why it doesn't happen here.
Better safety net, minority groups are smaller, unarmed populace. The answer is probably very complex.
You have to ask yourself why it doesn't happen here.
Better safety net, minority groups are smaller, unarmed populace. The answer is probably very complex.
We don't have a shoot first, ask questions later culture enshrined in our social psyche.
By the way, if you do, the solution isn't shoot more. Obviously, I would have thought.
I’m not going to argue with you about the WHO. I will declare that I know a couple of people who work there in Geneva. Some of the so called “facts” about what happened are not really facts at all.China was the worst place in the world this virus could have happened because they control their media so tightly & are more interested in saving face & their booming economy than protecting the rest of the world. Whatever happened to those whistleblower doctors who were trying desperately to warn people via social media just how bad things were there?!! They vanished is what happened. WHOs response was weak & poor as they pandered to a nation that wields way too much power over them. No doubt they have have very little access to investigate why this outbreak happened. China cannot be trusted one iota & now the entire world is suffering. Our best hope is another virus outbreak doesn’t happen there.
China on the other hand is by far the most likely to be the place for the next pandemic to start but the irony of what has happened is that the vilification of China, however justified, will make that more likely rather than less.
What can you do about a nation that has no shame? I'd like to think if Australia inflicted this pestilence on the world through either unsanitary culture or weapons research, we would be at the very least sheepish and wanting to atone.
China on the other hand is by far the most likely to be the place for the next pandemic to start but the irony of what has happened is that the vilification of China, however justified, will make that more likely rather than less.
I’m not defending them but that is the sad truth.
A way too simplistic View of what is happening.Either the dead guy had a lot of friends or they're taking an opportunity to indulge their inner criminal.
A journo infiltrated a London mob in 2011 and asked why they were looting and burning. Answers ranged from boredom to "It's a chance to get some nice stuff for free".
Can't comment authoritatively as I've never been there. There's always been an undercurrent of tension that erupts periodically. They let O.J. off so the public wouldn't burn Los Angeles to the ground.
Yeah, it's complex. Coppers are being shot or run over every week in the US. Most of the bad guys have guns and some good guys have guns. If they're trigger-happy or hyper-aware of demographic factors, who am I to judge. It's not a job I'd volunteer for. I don't know for sure but have long suspected it's too easy to become a cop in the US. There doesn't seem to be the same respect for police as here.
Likewise, coppers are always shooting crims or suspected crims. They shoot twice as many whites as blacks. If you're unable to protest peacefully then maybe you shouldn't choose to engage.
On the other hand, the lot of blacks and other minorities improved steadily under Trump until the Wuhan virus. I reckon it's a bit like feminism - they're still angry even after they're wearing the pants.
Weapons research? Really? You're going to hold that line as well? The only people to claim that, without any evidence, are Trump, Fox and the rest of the MAGA idiots.
A way too simplistic View of what is happening.
I have received messages from friends in the US who follow smaller and independent news outlets lamenting that all we are seeing is the violence. Examples of what we are not seeing are things like
- many peaceful multiracial protests in Minneapolis
- articles about bus drivers refusing orders to drive arrested protesters to jail
- images of white woman forming human chains between police and black protesters to protect them
If we just watch the mainstream media we won’t know what is really happening. Maybe the examples I was sent are more representative of what is actually happening but they don’t make sensational stories?
I don’t know but what I do know is that saying everyone who is protesting has an inner criminal and wants to get stuff free is not true
By sheer numbers yes they shoot more white people but on a per capita basis (Trump can explain this to you) they shoot more than twice as many black people as white.
Do you think perhaps the mainstream media provides a warped perspective of Donald Trump?
You don't need the help of mainstream media organisations to get a true understanding of Trump. Just listen/read his own words, what he says, unedited, through multiple media platforms.
Warning: This is very violent vision.
Violence is not the answer. It will only escalate the hate.
If he was as bad as he is painted here, he would have no supporters left. The reporting is not balanced, in fact it's deliberately unbalanced.