lobotomybeats
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To all of you going out to protest, please be safe!
- Jul 20, 2009
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Cool, I agree, this thread is not the place for our petty nonsense.
Plus I am in no mood to listening to your lecturing ******** again about how I spend my time on NT. You once told me to leave you alone, and I granted you that wish, I will continue to do so.
- Oct 13, 2001
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Thoughts on this?
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We have kickstarter, Go Fund me and such resources now.
We don't need them. We are in control.
- Apr 16, 2005
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i have been thinking about this & related stuff since this been going on such as what happens to the small innocent mom&pop spots that were unfortunately affected
- Jul 20, 2017
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we’re not suppose to burn our community down. Only their businesses. All the racist nail shops in our community gotta go, all the non black business gotta go if it’s in our community.
Other than that, I haven’t seen our community up in flames yet, only downtown areas.
- Mar 24, 2001
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Can't help but laugh at the irony of his location being santa Monica. But he's not wrong. You look at the cause and then the effect and can't help but think all of this isn't an accident
WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA!!!!
Let's take a step back shall we...
Being a cop was actually considered PUNISHMENT!
Policing in Colonial America had been very informal, based on a for-profit, privately funded system that employed people part-time. Towns also commonly relied on a “night watch” in which volunteers signed up for a certain day and time, mostly to look out for fellow colonists engaging in prostitution or gambling. (Boston started one in 1636, New York followed in 1658 and Philadelphia created one in 1700.) But that system wasn’t very efficient because the watchmen often slept and drank while on duty, and there were people who were put on watch duty as a form of punishment.
Night-watch officers were supervised by constables, but that wasn’t exactly a highly sought-after job, either. Early policemen “didn’t want to wear badges because these guys had bad reputations to begin with, and they didn’t want to be identified as people that other people didn’t like,” says Potter. When localities tried compulsory service, “if you were rich enough, you paid someone to do it for you — ironically, a criminal or a community thug.”
As the nation grew, however, different regions made use of different policing systems.
In cities, increasing urbanization rendered the night-watch system completely useless as communities got too big. The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to other places, says Potter. These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good.”
In the South, however, the economics that drove the creation of police forces were centered not on the protection of shipping interests but on the preservation of the slavery system. Some of the primary policing institutions there were the slave patrols tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing slave revolts, Potter says; the first formal slave patrol had been created in the Carolina colonies in 1704. During the Civil War, the military became the primary form of law enforcement in the South, but during Reconstruction, many local sheriffs functioned in a way analogous to the earlier slave patrols, enforcing segregation and the disenfranchisement of freed slaves.
SO
In summary...
Cops aren't nor have they ever been here for public service.
They are an have always been a taxpayer funded private security force for rich white people in power.
How the U.S. Got Its Police Force
For National Police Week, a brief history of policing in the U.S. and how societal changes shaped the evolution of the force
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- Jul 20, 2017
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not Whole Foods, I need my organic oat milk.
- Mar 24, 2018
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We went from toilet paper to Louis Vuitton in 2 months.
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double
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Imagine ordering some groceries from Whole Foods and waiting on it the whole day, just to find out it’s burnt down.
- Jul 25, 2012
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cover y’all faces too. Facial recognition is real
- Jul 30, 2017
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WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA!!!!
Let's take a step back shall we...
Being a cop was actually considered PUNISHMENT!
Policing in Colonial America had been very informal, based on a for-profit, privately funded system that employed people part-time. Towns also commonly relied on a “night watch” in which volunteers signed up for a certain day and time, mostly to look out for fellow colonists engaging in prostitution or gambling. (Boston started one in 1636, New York followed in 1658 and Philadelphia created one in 1700.) But that system wasn’t very efficient because the watchmen often slept and drank while on duty, and there were people who were put on watch duty as a form of punishment.
Night-watch officers were supervised by constables, but that wasn’t exactly a highly sought-after job, either. Early policemen “didn’t want to wear badges because these guys had bad reputations to begin with, and they didn’t want to be identified as people that other people didn’t like,” says Potter. When localities tried compulsory service, “if you were rich enough, you paid someone to do it for you — ironically, a criminal or a community thug.”
As the nation grew, however, different regions made use of different policing systems.
In cities, increasing urbanization rendered the night-watch system completely useless as communities got too big. The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to other places, says Potter. These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good.”
In the South, however, the economics that drove the creation of police forces were centered not on the protection of shipping interests but on the preservation of the slavery system. Some of the primary policing institutions there were the slave patrols tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing slave revolts, Potter says; the first formal slave patrol had been created in the Carolina colonies in 1704. During the Civil War, the military became the primary form of law enforcement in the South, but during Reconstruction, many local sheriffs functioned in a way analogous to the earlier slave patrols, enforcing segregation and the disenfranchisement of freed slaves.
SO
In summary...
Cops aren't nor have they ever been here for public service.
They are an have always been a taxpayer funded private security force for rich white people in power.
How the U.S. Got Its Police Force
For National Police Week, a brief history of policing in the U.S. and how societal changes shaped the evolution of the forcetime.com
I'm on the go right now..P4L
- Jul 30, 2017
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I wonder if they're going to start rioting her in Nashville
- Aug 24, 2017
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Black Americans needs people of all races to stand up and let their voice be heard, whether it's in a protest or on media platforms. But the black community also needs THE BLACK COMMUNITY to speak up.
I'm still seeing IG thots of minority races out here twerking for likes as if nothing is going on. Gonna tell their kids one day that while there was a fight for race equality they were showing their ***** on their private story for $20
I'm still seeing IG thots of minority races out here twerking for likes as if nothing is going on. Gonna tell their kids one day that while there was a fight for race equality they were showing their ***** on their private story for $20
- Dec 13, 2018
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queuing BARACK OBAMA.
This is where he shows whose side he is actually on, quelling the argument on both sides. Not Black, radical enough versus not born in the US, then never should have been elected in the first place.
MICHELLE, push his narrow *** out there!
This is where he shows whose side he is actually on, quelling the argument on both sides. Not Black, radical enough versus not born in the US, then never should have been elected in the first place.
MICHELLE, push his narrow *** out there!
- Jan 20, 2002
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ppl are also out there on ig and tik tok as well recording and tagging each other
- Aug 24, 2017
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Newark, NJ
Harlem, NY
Staten Island, NY
3 new protest areas today. NY/NJ area is showing up when it matters. Proud of my communities
Harlem, NY
Staten Island, NY
3 new protest areas today. NY/NJ area is showing up when it matters. Proud of my communities
- Jul 25, 2012
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Look back at all the revolutions. History always repeats itself. When you become one (euro/African/Asian/Aztec..etc) empires will crumble.
Imo better to sort it out after. Yes, a new regime will come about but this isn’t A one race country where Numbers dominate. Dominant in capital (whites) but not in population.
Unemployment is high, people getting evicted left /right, families being torn apart, police brutality, bourgeois uprising, pandemic deaths, homelessness high...etc..
There’s a bigger picture on hand
Imo better to sort it out after. Yes, a new regime will come about but this isn’t A one race country where Numbers dominate. Dominant in capital (whites) but not in population.
Unemployment is high, people getting evicted left /right, families being torn apart, police brutality, bourgeois uprising, pandemic deaths, homelessness high...etc..
There’s a bigger picture on hand
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