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Citizen complaint of the day: Supporter of supposed law-and-order candidate breaks the law in South Boston
By adamg on Sat, 08/22/2020 - 3:52pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about a Trump supporter running around with a can of yellow paint, as demonstrated on Day Boulevard at M Street in South Boston.
Update: Either the city or DCR responded quickly.
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Amusing data in 311 complaint
Amusing data in 311 complaint: "Offensive: Yes"
This town needs an enema!!!
This town needs an enema!!!
I'm sorry the truth amuses
I'm sorry the truth amuses you.
But you probably never grew out of bullying nerds, either.
I think you missed the point:
I think you missed the point: that having a field in the database called Offensive with a value of Yes is funny.
Where do you get bullying needs from this?
Has any Rep politician or candidate
Expressed their support of this vandalism or attempted to rationalize it.
That the major difference here Adam.
Not so much
The big difference is that it is illegal conduct, post political signs/ads on state owned property. The road is maintained/owned by DCR making it state land. BLM is not a political campaign but rather a political cause.
Fair is fair because BLM was
Fair is fair because BLM was painted too.
with city permission
with city permission. this was not.
big difference
Sanctioned apples and
Sanctioned apples and unsanctioned oranges.
Legal? no. Fair? debatable
Legal? no. Fair? debatable.
huge difference.
If you owned an empty plot of
If you owned an empty plot of land, and your neighbor owned an identical plot of land next to it, your neighbor secured all of the permits to build a house on his and you did not but built an identical house on yours anyways, guess who gets to keep their house and who doesn't? It has nothing to do with fairness.
They both do...
and the latter pays a 'fine' and happened to get it all done a lot cheaper. Clearly you are not familiar with how development works in this town.
predictable, boring
rote, dull, tedious, drab, tiresome, insipid, trite, uninteresting
words that describe this conversation
This is State Property
This is State Property
Not Fair
As far as I know BLM does not say Biden 2020.
Very interesting, though...
...that a Trump supporter apparently believes support for Trump to be in opposition to Black lives mattering.
BZZZZZZZZTTTT!
Wrong answer.
(sad trombone)
We appear to agree that "the
We appear to agree that "the police shouldn't murder unarmed Black people" is an anti-Trump position. The difference is that I think that's an argument against Trump, and you think it's an argument that Black lives don't matter.
Shouldn't we be more
Shouldn't we be more concerned with who authorized overtime to remove this when there are so many other priorities. This could have been done on a regular shift. Seems the Democrats are scared in their strong hold. I don't support it or BLM painting if that helps.
Convention boost?
The Democrat convention provided a big boost...to President Trump! No surprise that some people might get a little carried away with enthusiasm.
right on
Trump 2020!
20 for treason
20 for fraud
I like where you're going with this Budd!
My thought along those lines, Yellow Paint + Roller ="Dump Trump 2020" Problem solved!
Possessed?
What compels a person to support a man who sides with extremists? A man who gives carte blanche to the enemy to kill American soldiers for bounty payments? A man who is incapable of seeing the difference between good and evil?
Oafish-L Xmas list
Now we know what to get Oafish for Xmas. He could really use a glass navel, so he can see what's going on.
Oh, honey
Are you ever going to have an interesting week.
Damn
They already cleaned it up, damn.
Was gonna go down there tonight and stencil in "for Prison"
DCR gotta go fast.
Trump is the new LaRouche
There will always be folks, who by non-stop traumas, a bad combination of nature and nurture perhaps, who can not see evil, but are deceived by evil into thinking it is good.
Yeah, but
Larouche people have always been pretty much on the fringe. Trump people are pretty much mainstream.
Larouche never got even close to being nominated for president, and he didn’t get the support of the ultra rich. Evil for sure.
Not any more
Not any more.
No?
I hate to burst your bubble, but even if Trump loses on November 3 (not a given) and retreats to Mar-A-Lago and never shows his face again (we should be so lucky), there will still be plenty of "Trump people" to take the lessons they've learned from him and apply them with a little more subtlety (which shouldn't be difficult).
It's a pretty safe bet that once he's out of office, the mainstream corporate media will treat Trump as an aberration and give a mulligan to the rest of the GOP, which means it's entirely likely that we're going to be seeing white nationalist/authoritarian "Trump people" in the mainstream for a while to come.
paging Nikki Haley
and her associate Tom Cotton
...really?
I could be wrong about this, but I think the point of the previous comment was that Trump was drawing support from the mainstream, i.e., people who aren't completely crazy. While he has in the past drawn support from people who selectively blinded themselves to the obvious implications, I think that's increasingly not true. His current adherents are unapologetic white supremacists, dominionist Christians, and authoritarians. And yes, a lot of people learned how well the dogs will jump when you blow certain whistles - but they were able to function because of the corruption of institutions (perhaps most notably the police) and because of legal ambiguities and loopholes. The ousting of Trump will provide, at a minimum, the opportunity to change that. So yes, if we sit here on our dumb asses moaning about it and don't actually do anything with that opportunity, I'm sure there are enough toxic, unscrupulous barbarians to try it again. But I disagree that it's a given.
nah
this is in essence the goal of the lincoln project. by making trump seem extreme—which, to be clear, by the standards of the modern GOP he isn’t—they aim to shift the overton window to the right, so that jackasses with half baked ideas like tom cotton seem reasonable.
This is what happens when
This is what happens when vandalism goes unchecked and the citizenry gives tacit approval. We have no one to blame but ourselves.