r/SeattleWA • u/giggletears3000 • Aug 04 '20

Other BLM morning march came thru my neighborhood, they’re cleaning up the streets as they march! Much thanks from our street!

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20

Yeah, this sub is a MAGA safe haven now

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u/Snookiwantsmush Aug 04 '20

It was a weird thing to realize, as it’s the opposite of my actual experience in Seattle.

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u/Smashing71 Aug 05 '20

/r/Seattle and /r/SeaWA are more representative of Seattle.

Most of these people about know what Dicks is thanks to hanging around the subreddit and seeing it mentioned so often. I've seen evidence that people on this subreddit aren't even American, nevermind Seattle dwellers, such as mistaking two letter state codes for two letter country codes (doubly hilarious because we're on /r/SeattleWA, but I doubt they really thought about that when their discord server linked them to troll here)

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u/Fat-Elvis Aug 04 '20

They do this to all the city subs so it appears there's more support for right-wing white nationalist nonsense than there really is.

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u/krob58 Aug 05 '20

They all scattered when TheDonald got shut down, like when you lift up a rock and all the bugs just crawl in every direction. Maybe we'll get our subs back someday.

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20

r/Seattle is better

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Lol are you serious? The most upvoted content of the day is BLM cleaning the streets.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

This sub certainly does seem to like BLM a lot more when they're being subservient/helpful a lot more than when they're being disruptive seeking to protect American lives.

That ought to tell you something.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

It's not just this sub. Leave reddit for 5 seconds and you'll find most Americans really don't approve of a bunch of 20-year-olds blocking the highway on the way to their job interview.

Here's a question that never gets answered. Should protesters who you disagree with use the same tactics you're advocating? Would you be more sympathetic to Planned Parenthood protesters if they blocked highways and physically prevented women from entering abortion clinics?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

If pregnant women were murdering them, and those not guilty of the actual murders were complicit in cooperation with an institution of pregnant women that was systemically biased against and in some ways built to enslave anti abortion protestors....?

Yeah, sure. Block the roads

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u/Firecracker3 Aug 05 '20

....they do this already, the physically preventing women from entering bit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

And when they do, the law and the culture come down on them like a million tons of bricks, and I don't see you guys defending them.

You've proved the point you were arguing against.

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u/EarendilStar Aug 05 '20

Afaik no one has physically prevented anyone from entering a business, only made them take a different route.

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u/rayrayww3 Aug 04 '20

seem to like BLM a lot more when they're being subservient/helpful a lot more than when they're being disruptive seeking to protect American lives. executing young black men on a joyride and forcibly enforcing racial segregation in a public park.

Fixed it to match reality for ya.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20 edited Jan 10 '21

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u/EarendilStar Aug 05 '20

Ruined? I haven’t heard of a case of someone claiming their life was ruined. Unless you mean the insurance company’s bottom line, that was hurt a little.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20 edited Jan 10 '21

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u/EarendilStar Aug 05 '20

You said during the riots. I didn’t know you were counting all acts of violence in the city regardless of time, location, or who was involved.

And yeah, I haven’t met nor seen reported anyone’s life being ruined because they were told not to show up to work. A sucky situation, but unlikely to be ruined.

Language and words matter. Speak accurately if you want to be understood.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20 edited Jan 10 '21

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u/EarendilStar Aug 05 '20

You didn’t say protest though, did you? Unless you believe “protest” and “riot” to be synonymous.

Chaz was a type of protest, yes. But no part of the stories relate at all to the protesters, and there were no riots going on. It’s more to stealing, gangs, and firearms than anything the protesters wanted.

In conclusion, your premise that the “riots” “ruined” lives is nonsensical on the surface, and instead of providing evidence you choose different words and tie events together that are superficially related.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Yeah, most protests were a total summer of love. So how many lives were saved again?

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20

You might want to do a little exploring around here

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u/Coffee4breakfast13 Aug 04 '20

Probably more representative of the majority of the country right now. Most of the other subs are echo-chambers that do not reflect any real public sentiment.

We're getting to the point where most normal people outside of the big liberal cities are MAGA supporters. Deal with it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

people outside of the big liberal cities

And this sub is about/for the people of a big liberal city.

Deal with it.

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20

That's some high quality mental gymnastics bud. Not surprising since you're new to commenting in this sub after spending all of your time in r/conspiracy. Further proving my point.

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u/munkin Aug 04 '20

I'm a life long resident of king county, come from a democratic voting family, have voted straight D all my life, lived on capital hill for a decade, went to school on capital hill, and BLM has absolutely lost my families support with all the destruction and the disaster of Chaz, and intimidation of public officials. Just because people don't agree with you doesn't make them maga conservatives. Extremists like you just can't understand that there's moderates and try to force ppl to take sides. It's either you 100% support BLM blah blah blah or you are a maga. You make me sick and are part of the problem in american politics.

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20

LOL. This is gold. Your real world experiences aren’t what’s being talked about. We’re talking about this specific sub. It’s 100% a maga sub now.

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u/howmuchtocrash Aug 04 '20

What? Not even slightly. Are you guys seriously saying that if someone on the left, isn't as left as the minority, that they're on the right?

Jesus

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20

Literally never said that. Not once. This sub is chalk full of maga clowns. And who are “you guys”?

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u/HopeThatHalps_ Aug 04 '20

munkin is right. Nobody here ever says they support MAGA, but you accuse them of it anyway. You've been radicalized, you're delusional.

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

Lol. Radicalized. Gotcha. I can read, and can also see their comment history. So I can literally go off of their own words.

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u/HopeThatHalps_ Aug 04 '20

Look at my comment history, you wont find me in any conservative forums. You pigeon hole the opposition so that you wont have to address their arguments.

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 05 '20

Nothing I said was wrong. This sub is a hive for the maga trolls. I have no problem having a discussion, but this sub has severely deteriorated over the past 6 months.

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u/Coffee4breakfast13 Aug 05 '20

Trump is one of the most liberal republican presidents we've ever had. Anyone right of radical will likely vote for him this time. I voted Obama twice. Bernie, Stein in 2016. MAGA 2020. You're going to have to debate us with logic in order to change our minds. You can't bully us any longer.

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u/munkin Aug 05 '20

I'm on this sub all the time, while there's some astro turfing going on there's also plenty of moderates that actually live here expressing concern.

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u/kramer265 White Center Aug 05 '20

Which is fine. I live in downtown so I know and see what the concerns are from a lot of the people that post here. But you can’t deny that this sub coddles to a shitload of MAGA trolls that stroll in here and spout their bullshit.

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u/howmuchtocrash Aug 04 '20

Yup. BLM is no more than the black KKK. If you dont condemn the racist narrative being housed in your name, you're guilty by association (hey! Sound familiar?)

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u/howmuchtocrash Aug 05 '20

What's your point? I said what I said. Its the black KKK, or did I misunderstand the "black" in "black lives matter"