@MentORPHEUS Honestly, it’s becoming hard to decipher where it was I put my line in the sand in regards to what level of power or authority I permit the state to have over me. That’s the game though, right? A million different formulas concocted in smokey rooms by unknowable men in suits all perfectly executed on in the right order so as to discombobulate the world views of the weary masses.

An influx of immigrants here, a progressive agenda undermining the purpose of unions there and hey presto, your white working class union man is now firmly right leaning.

A bit of gender studies here, a bit of identity politics there and hey presto your educational institutions are completely compromised and pumping out ideologically brain dead peons.

None of it makes any sense, and the positions will change again before we’re done.

What we won’t do, however, is make sense of it in the chaotic minutiae of senseless deaths contrived by all of this nonsense in the first place.

These events are only serving to entrench everyone in their fox holes, and the truth is out there in no man’s land.

@Stigma One problem of today's news coverage (both by official media and non mainstream sources) is that we get individual incidents made into very big things. This is essentially a war on a very large corrupt group. It a big battle fought all over the state. No battle plan ever goes off quite as planned. It is very rare that a battle is won without some casualties that may not have been necessary.

People on both sides argue themselves silly over small moments that were judgement calls.

Wise law abiding citizens stay away from officers of the state doing stressful jobs and making fast decisions on limited data. Officers of the state try to avoid harming those who are not the direct targets of action. But in the end life is not perfect. I don't see many people saying this. Its either "this saintly man was jilled unfairly" or "this bad man was fairly shot". Not "This guy got into a tense law enforcement situation and it really backfired on him. No one wanted this but this is what can happen in these situations. Let this be a lesson to those who get involved in others' battles. It may become your battle without you realising it". You might also add "Do you really want to be a martyr for a group who are ripping your country off?"

We do need to grow up and see reality. Casualties are inevitable in battles.