The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

These counterprotestors are people in Chicago who pushed back against the protestors moving into the Englewood neighborhood, we're not talking about a 'Target looting weeks ago somewhere else'.

I'm sure you're aware of what's been happening in Chicago recently - from a Newsweek article:



It's not exactly looting alone that the counterprotestors are trying to avoid, as the guy said in the original article:

So he acknowledges the problem with the police but would rather push back against the people who aren't armed? Sounds like someone who's taking his frustrations out on the easier target cause he knows he doesn't have the spine to stand up to the real enemy.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

So he acknowledges the problem with the police but would rather push back against the people who aren't armed? Sounds like someone who's taking his frustrations out on the easier target cause he knows he doesn't have the spine to stand up to the real enemy.

He acknowledged that the BLM protestors have a probelm with the police, he didn't acknowledge that he did. He didn't take sides with either the police or BLM, it sounded more that he was simply counterprotesting so that BLM would take their protesting somewhere else.

[The Batlord]

If he knows the police will be coming down hard on the neighborhood the next day then that sounds like he knows what the police are about.

[OccultHawk]

https://apnews.com/2c2c9d4886526e6d304fe495dd62e29b

2 men charged in ’02 killing of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay

Jam Master Jay was a top ten most influential musician of the twentieth century.

“Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band”

-Chuck D

[OccultHawk]

Julian Lewis went out to get a grape soda for his wife on August 7, his family says, but he never came home.

Instead, the 60-year-old Black man was pursued by a Georgia state trooper on a rural road, his car ending up pinned between a tree and the trooper's car. Lewis died after he was shot in the head, his family's attorney, Francys Johnson, told CNN.

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[Psy-Fi]

Romanian pop singer killed by train while streaming to fans from car

Just a month before his tragic death, the singer had posted a message on Facebook saying: “One day, the wrong train will take you to the right destination.”

[OccultHawk]

AOC nominates Bernie Sanders, snubs Joe Biden in DNC address

[OccultHawk]

A movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few, at the expense of long-term stability for the many. And who organized a historic, grass roots campaign to reclaim our democracy.

In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crisis of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care, en el espíritu del pueblo, and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America.

-AOC

[Lucem Ferre]

So is Bernie still running then?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

So is Bernie still running then?

Nah. It’s just like a formality to acknowledge the states he won or something like that.