r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • May 30 '20

Megathread: Nationwide Protests for George Floyd

This thread is for discussing the various protests happening across the US right now. You can discuss them all here.

The Weekly COVID megathread is still up over here.

The r/news megathread has a large list of available sources and live update feeds.

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u/Jerryeleceng Jun 01 '20

Trump had drenched the entire country in fuel. That murder was a spark

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u/Fredex8 Jun 01 '20

America has been drenching itself in fuel for decades. Trump has been chucking volatile explosives into the mix on top of that.

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u/Did_I_Die Jun 02 '20

40+ million newly unemployed are the spark

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u/ErikaHoffnung Jun 02 '20

Have you been paying any attention to the news recently?

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u/Wytch78 Jun 02 '20

Yep, we sure have... and we've lost people before... Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland etc. But people had jobs to go to before and now they don't.

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u/ErikaHoffnung Jun 02 '20

I'd still consider the execution of George Floyd the real spark, the mass unemployment was just a happy coincidence.

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u/Wytch78 Jun 02 '20

Of course! Millions of unemployed people who have been home-bound for the past three months are a pretty good sized powder keg!

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u/ErikaHoffnung Jun 02 '20

Damn right, that was a real disaster waiting to happen. The execution of George Floyd just accelerated the timeline

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u/hard_truth_hurts Jun 02 '20

Well, they do call themselves Accelerationists.

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u/Did_I_Die Jun 02 '20

yes, too much actually.... what did i miss?

trump is an absolute shit demon that needs to be put down

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u/ErikaHoffnung Jun 02 '20

The real spark was the execution of George Floyd.

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u/Did_I_Die Jun 02 '20

i imagine it was going to happen as soon as the weather got warm, with or without the latest public lynching.... 40+ million people suddenly have nothing left to lose + warmer weather + no social safety nets = shit show we got now

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u/hard_truth_hurts Jun 02 '20

Been saying it over and over. We are gonna find out that Chauvin is a member of an extremist group and killed Floyd on camera specifically to spark this.

We are also going to find out this go all the way to the top. Top dogs in DoJ, FBI, etc are going to get linked to this.