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Oh no, no, angry mobs shouldn't decide things, no. I'm sure there's some other way to pursue the removal of a monument to bigotry, treason, and the oppression, slavery, rape, and murder of great swaths of the population's ancestors -- including a lot of us white southerners, 'cause it ain't like however many greats grandpappy kept his hands off the "help" too well -- that was on the table.

Not like the NC legislature would have passed laws that made it illegal for the local officials to choose to do something else.

I'm currently just trying to wrap my head around the concept of a member of the fourth estate that wouldn't be throwing themselves at a story like that like a shark pit at a twenty pound pile of chum. At least three, four different local sources have reported on the protest walkabout, and not a one have mentioned anything involving the flag, and, like. The setup for this would require them to not be doing something that would gain significant brownie points with their local consumers, rile up all sorts of the shit the media loves 'cause it makes them money, and for... what, exactly?

Somehow the media decided to about face and clam up in complete defiance of literally everything they've done over the last, like, 50 years. Some of those local sources were spreading the bloody nazi shits' response to what kicked this all off, but not mentioning their own area's flag being burnt in front of city hall? What the blazes am I supposed to be seeing, here?

Add on that apparently an anti-fascist bunch had the balls to replace and burn the county flag in the middle of the day, right outside the minneapolis city hall, in front of cops and firefighters (who put out the effigy that the flag was claimed to be burned with, for bonus points!), and seem to have not both recorded that and immediately posted on the internet, and you got something that, if nothing else, makes you wonder what the hell is supposed to be going on, here.

'Cause the local ground game being this quiet, for this long after the proposed fact, in relation to the event being claimed, is what can accurately called hypnotoad kegger shit.

Just... shit. It's 20 goddamn 17. Anything's possible. But this is doing its damnedest to twist my suspension of disbelief in knots and set it on fire.

E: And in the latest update of 2017's possible events, in this corner we have the POTUS, after a barrage of accusations of entanglements with white supremacists, publicly announcing he's seriously considering pardoning joe arpaio. Known best for his history of farcical caricatures of racism and police malevolence, all made worse by none of it being intended to be a caricature.

Oh also, Hennepin County Minnesota.

Protesters in solidarity with Charlottesville apparently brought down the County flag, replacing it with an antifa flag, and burned it.

I think these guys might burn all of their newly gained public sympathy in one night.

Weird it seems to have happened after the protest dispersed, and with what seems to be no official comment, including from the cops that had eyes on from start to finish. Only news source that's put up anything the right time frame doesn't have pictures of it, even though they do have the effigy on fire -- hell, poking around, since I checked that at least one new report even has pics of the thing on fire with what twitter seemed to identify as the flag beside it, without mention.

Would think something like that would have stopped being quiet by now, but the only thing that seems to be pushing it is twitter and pol. Be interesting to find out what's going on, I guess.

The good, in this case, being that it's not in florida, mind you. That's the floridian good. Not being here. By its existence, other places in the country are made better by simple dint of not being the hellswamp.

Don't worry about that, man, folks got you covered like damn. You don't have to say a thing, just make vague waving motions towards the people babbling about soros psy-ops.

Kill Six Billion Demons. Webcomic. The plot is in the name. The backgrounds et al are among of the clearest examples of scenery porn I have ever seen.

E: ... also it looks a lot like the last time I caught up with it was in 2014. Huh. I guess there's a reason there's 280 or so unread messages in my KSBD rss thing.

Though yeah, sleep is probably a good idea.

... what part of "I get the sentiment and everything" was so hard to grasp?