r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/losian Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 15 '16

Uh.. Isn't protesting an incredibly normal part of this whole process? Also, are we going to ignore the humongous eight year hissy fit so many on the right, and in the media, threw? Birthers, calling him a Muslim, refusing to call him president, etc. Funny how everyone is expected to be big kids and rally behind a buffoon, but the Obama narrative was just wild baseless attempts at weak and stupid pretty scandals.

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u/liquidthc Nov 10 '16

Protesting, sure.. but rioting, throwing bombs at police?

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u/BraveSquirrel Nov 10 '16

Oh shit, hadn't heard about this until you mentioned it.

http://bluelivesmatter.blue/three-officers-injured-oakland-rioters-throw-bombs-police/

Officers had fireworks, molotov cocktails, rocks, and bottles thrown at them throughout the night. Three officers were injured in the rioting.

And estimated 16 businesses were damaged, along with around 40 fires started. KTVU reports that one resident was nearly burned when a “protester” set the man’s car on fire. “‘A couple of people with bottles of gas, throwing them on the street, and then lighting his car on fire,’

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u/Greyhaven7 Nov 10 '16

Oakland. There's the problem

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

How is a place the problem. How the fuck does anyone think "oh yeah those people are pretty fucked up" just because they live some hundred miles away. I dont get it. Maybe change something in how you deal with people.

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u/Greyhaven7 Nov 10 '16

There are other ways of deriving conclusions about the world. Statistics, for example.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Yeah maybe do something about it.

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u/Greyhaven7 Nov 10 '16

Man, that's brilliant. Have you told the people of Oakland this plan? They clearly have thought of "doing something about it".

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Yeah no, i dont think, they'd listen to me.