re: Protests blowing up in Downtown Birmingham

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That’s why you have a problem with oppression with parts of the justice system and police force in this country.

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I said that I wholeheartedly agree with Trump's threat of overwhelming force to break up the looters and rioters.

Where's your direct quote from me that says otherwise?

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But at the same time you are fine with an oppressive regime like China suppressing the rights of their people.

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Way to work that China thing in there. I knew you could it.

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You specifically said a communist country can handle it better than democratic countries.

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Yep, I sure did. And in relation to COVID-19, that's all I said. Check the latest charts and graphs, I win in a court of law.

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In this thread alone you admitted you were fine with use of oppression when it fits your views. So you admitted they were oppressive there too.

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Context dude, context. The more people are given options, the more people are expected to simply do the right thing, the more disappointing it can get. It's a human nature thing. The looters and rioters weren't going to simply get tired and go home, they were put out of business because they quickly ran out of options. Having a litany of options, during a pandemic has also put us on the wrong side of the charts and graphs with a bullet.

Having the "right" to make stupid decisions for yourself and others is not a virtue, just a "right."

No genuinely honest person can be on a democratic or republican side. Not if he thinks for himself and is willing to say it truthfully. That's rare and pretty much why you have a lot of difficulty framing your argument with me and trying to finish my thoughts.

The problems of the world are fundamental. The speed and clarity of this George Floyd movement is case and point. The spirit of discontent that the masses are feeling today isn't going away. It doesn't have to be about this particular protest, it's all about the inequality that people, in general, are feeling in all aspects of their lives. The great unrest in this country and others is the common thread.

Foolish talk about who has the moral high ground is like the antediluvian crowd debating who was sitting in the highest tree. It wasn't high enough.

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No genuinely honest person can be on a democratic or republican side. Not if he thinks for himself and is willing to say it truthfully. That's rare and pretty much why you have a lot of difficulty framing your argument with me and trying to finish my thoughts.

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You were praising the apparent success of an oppressive regime. Wishing that it would happen over here. I'm not finishing your thoughts, it's what you said. You said people "listen" to the government over there but not in democracies. Why? Because the people are under tight control. That is oppression. It's not like they decided to become that just because of the virus and stop after.

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The spirit of discontent that the masses are feeling today isn't going away. It doesn't have to be about this particular protest, it's all about the inequality that people, in general, are feeling in all aspects of their lives.

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And yet you kept on defending China. A country that controls its people to the point of mowing them down if they speak out. I keep bringing it up because you cannot talk about this while also praising a country being that at much grander scale. Then use that mindset to justify mob mentality which creates more unrest and division.

And you keep dodging the question of why you insist on using total deaths instead of per capita.

Just keep following that heart. You should stay busy running down all those rabbit holes.

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No genuinely honest person can be on a democratic or republican side.

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Well, you're half right.

Seriously, they have canceled all kinds of “cop” shows and fired people from shows. The world is already a scary place for kids...let’s not take a show away.

Good, because he absolutely did it.