How y'all doing?

Peaked interest, view thread. Disappointed.

That about sums it up for me.

Lol, as if days are sooooo boring and uneventful in this fluffshow dystopia we live in. Everyday is a doozy, my friend.

Plus I'm here. I mean, that's two things right there.

holy fluff he's back!

Vote Kayne!

What up D?? You coming back to play?? and fluff Kanye!!

Welcome back.

welcome back Derrick

now you can leave again

No lives matter. We are all insignificant!

I'm thinking about it. We'll see if I make it outta protection and farm some bots before anyone gets too excited.

Also, hopefully Kushner goes to jail for FEC violations assisting Yeezy's campaign. That would fluffin kill me. What an epic fail.

welcome back Derrick. :)

Im pitching a tent

I'll bring the sack lunch (pun intended).

Glad you got to live your dream of playing Diablo 2 irl .


How much did you loot? Find any uniques? How many sojs+high runes they worth ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp7IOr7Q9A

When your kids get to be 16-19 years old and you're living your lil quiet suburban life, and you see your lil ass kids on TV in trouble for smashing bottles downtown or doing graffiti, I hope your instant thought is not still that it was probably someone in their 30s who actually has to live in the city making a mess.

Just had this mental image of a bunch of 30s-40s old white guys running around town doing graffiti. Y'all have pretty wild imaginations lol.

Does licking Putin's boots get you high or something?

If I caught my kids doing that I would go down there and snatch their asses off the street myself.

Nobody cares Derrick

Make a country and start fluffposting if you want us to care

Confirmed.

Licking Putin's boots does get you high. Noted.

Haha, Russia first! Love it!

I'm not sure I follow Derrick, were you talking to me or Chevs?

In Philly, 80% of all arrests made at the riots were residents of Delaware and New Jersey. AKA the suburbs. My beer distributor showed me the video of his spot getting wrecked. Wasnt a PA license plate in the whole parking lot. After the first weekend back in what...May or whatever, there hasn't been any rioting or looting. I think moms and dads told their kids no they couldn't go protest after the "rioting" happened, not realizing they fully came here to wreck my city.

Yeah, that's an issue and they should be ashamed. Does that have any connection with Antifa as well? I would do what I could to keep my kids from doing that especially if they were still minors.

You could raise them properly

I feel like antifa is more of an identity or ideology rather than an organization or something. I think if you're like a teen who wants to smash up the Van's store and steal some sneakers, you call yourself antifa. Or maybe Fox calls you that?

To me it seems primarily focused by conservative media to make these suburban kids who wrecked my city somehow related to my 15 years of peaceful protesting ive done, so as to degrade the movement and cause it to lose viability. And I think that's why all the bootlickers here seem to think I would riot or loot because I've worked in direct action politics for as long as I have. In other words, I think it's working.

I haven't ever seen an antifa with the flag in the wild. But anytime a teen in all black spray paints on a building they call it antifa. Idk.

I think most people have separated peaceful protestors from looters/rioters. At least around here, we recognize the difference. Once you cross the line of property destruction/ theft etc. then you are no longer a 'peaceful protestor'. I haven't experienced people calling the actual protestors anything but that. I have seen a lot of criticism over the people who are peaceful protestors until it gets dark then convert into criminals.

Theres actually this funny story I have from the protests.

Schrodinger's Columbus:

On April 27th, a "troll" went to a Facebook group called SOUTH PHILLY BORN AND RAISED and said "Antifa is coming to rip down the Christopher Columbus statue." Naturally, in my neighborhood ripe with Italian pride, everything from nazis to proud boys to the Italian American club all came with bottles of liquor and assault rifles to "protect" the statue. Day became dusk, and as the bottles became empty, the amassed crowd became a bit more fiery. A journalist was attacked and had his bike tires slashed. A mother passing thru the park with her children had on video men threatening to rape her. As day 2 began, a group of indigenous counter-protesters came, and more than a dozen people were arrested for violence in the park.

Our city's solution? They encased the entire statue in a giant wooden box. And they told people that if they kept fighting over a statue that they'd take the statue away and also allowed the arts commission to rethink what sits in the park. And once Columbus was contained in a giant box, my neighborhood went back to peace.

So now, I'm pretty sure antifa is a scare tactic and not a real thing, and also my local park has a giant Schrodinger's Cat in it which I find hilarious.

I wouldn't really know I don't get involved in all that. Local leadership should be held accountable if they allow stuff to happen. I've heard some pretty horrific stories from NYC too.

But stay safe dude this year has been a crazy ride!

Yep. It's a hell of a time right now. Trump's "there were bad people on both sides" has reached max capacity. After the budgetary hearings at the beginning of July, nothing really happens policy wise in an election year. So I usually slip off the protest shoes and slip on the knocking doors for local elections ones (not easy in a pandemic haha). Think I've only organized one and been to 2 or 3 others since then. And it was primarily protesting Trump saying his Gestapo force was coming to Philly next. Then our DA signed an order that our local police could and should arrest DHS if they attempted to detain citizens. Trump backed off and that kind of ended. And that's called effective protesting.

Either way, I've just been sitting back and trying to find districts like the 14th here that we could pick off with progressive candidates. Not centre right Democrats of course. I'm talking workers family party haha. We got one on city council 2 years ago and she has been terrific. That will primarily be my focus until January. I'm safe in a safe city. We're the only metropolitan zone in the country where over 85% of people wear masks willingly. So we're doing better than expected with that which is nice. City is as safe as possible for what's going on I figure and the protests and counter protests have mostly died out. It's pretty chill here.

Very informative at issue here. Thanks for posting 👍