It's called "vibrancy" and certain people are pining for it.

The one other thing I sympathize about with people who live in ghettos, is how hard it is to fall asleep. Gunshots, loud music, neighbors screaming (my neighbors were somewhat mentally ill), it can be loud anytime, but usually 3-7 AM is quiet.
 

For a short time I had to live in a poor area with lots of black people, if I got tired of gunshots and such, then I can’t imagine how tired the locals were

You would think but in a lot of areas it is shot spotter that calls them in.

The one other thing I sympathize about with people who live in ghettos, is how hard it is to fall asleep.

It's not just ghetto areas. Black people are loud in general. I was in a college and a Black guy had actually put speakers outside his dorm. I guess he thought that entire block wanted to hear his rap music. A lot of the RAs in college are small nerdy types and they have to deal with talented tenth athletes blasting their rap music late at night. First college I went to had Blacks playing basketball at 2 AM and doing their whoops.

When I lived in the Alleghenies we spray-painted big orange X's on the dairy herd at the start of hunting season, so the idiot, liquored up city folk from DC and Pittsburgh who invaded our county with their thousand-dollar Mossburgs wouldn't try to murder them. Lots of locals took deer (illegally) year-round because they were an important food source. That is legitimate hunting: the ethic was never to kill something you weren't planning to eat. Well, all right, so we didn't eat groundhogs, but I shot them so the livestock wouldn't break their legs in their burrows, and the cats always got the internal organs and the dogs got the carcasses.

Communism in Eastern Europe had evolved in a direction, ((they)) were not happy with. For ((them)) it was a failed experiment. Indeed Eastern Euro Warsaw pact countries were becoming more and more traditional (Social Realism movement the exact opposite of the Cultural Marxist project in the West) and nationalist (as Hitler had predicted about Russia). Failure in the East so lets have a new attempt in the West.

Who is right?

All of them. Same as in 1917 Russia and 1930's Germany and 1920's Italy.

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You’ve said that Antifa and BLM are revolutionary socialists and new Bolsheviks. Other writers have said that BLM is funded by the Ford Foundation, that they and Antifa are proxies and useful idiots for certain business interests (like Amazon).
 

They’re attacking the symbols of state power. They are challenging the legitimacy and authority of the government, the judiciary and the people that are employed to enforce the law.
 

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Sorry, but Mike has lost it again.
To suggest that these current shenanigans are comparable to Russia 1917 & the Bolsheviks is jaw droppingly wrong-headed.
"These are hard-boiled extremists with a penchant for violence. They are not to be trifled with. "
"These are smart, motivated people who know what they want and have an almost-instinctive grasp of the times in which we live. They will not hesitate to impose the dramatic changes they seek if they are given even the slightest opportunity."
These people are "smart" ? Are you kidding?
They have no plan. They have no policy. They have no structure. They have no Party. And they have no genuine Leaders. They are a mob formed around a loose collection of nonsensical catch-phrases such as "defund the Police".
In the beginning, in response to Floyd, there may have been somekind of genuine spontaneous reaction to the Establishment. However, that "reaction" was quickly co-opted by anti-Trump forces (for want of a better description). As Mike himself references there is a core group of usually white agitators who provoke the violence, which is then opportunistically copied by the mob. It is this small cohort usually said to be "antifa" who are agents for the organised anti-Trump Establishment.
How do we know this ? Isn't it obvious ? 99% of the MSM ignores or distorts the violence. Police forces , often in Dem cities are told to either stand down or make half hearted attempts to control the situation. Does anyone actually believe that the Police could not do a far BETTER job were they ordered to do so, & given the resources ?
Given the absolutely massive extent of the violence & damage, given how long this has been going on & given that most people are absolutely fed up with it all, doesn't it seem strange that the authorities do so little? No one is suggesting a blood bath, but the Police have numerous ways of dealing with rioters that full short of actual gun fire.
This is not about Bolsheviks or 1917 -- its the same anti-Trump program that has been going on from the day he won the election.
I will agree with Mike on one aspect here: there is a chance that the Mob might slip their reins. But given the coming cold weather & the increasing chances of a Biden victory my bet is that the Mob will lose its usefulness & either wither away or be liquidated.

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Neither Antifa/BLM nor ANY of the protesters/rioters are BOLSHEVIKS - Whitney is thoroughly confused!!
Whitney is trying to make parallels between Marxist/Bolsheviks & these protesters. WRONG!

Genuine socialists (who barely exist in US Capitalism) want EQUALITY between the top wealthiest 10%/1% Multi-millionaire/billionaire class AND the masses. INSTEAD, the US has the greatest disparity between THEM vs. US.

If those protesters were Bolsheviks, they'd be out burning down BANKS, Corporatized Giants like Target, Walmart, Amazon warehouses and MOST of Silicon Tech Giants.

We know these protesters are funded by:
George Soros
The Ford Foundation
Amazon
Big Tech
Big Banks
Nike
Adidas
T-Mobile
Amazon
and ALL the other vulture capitalists that thrive in this environment.
Whitney, needs to start reading about the history of Socialism; Marx' acute hatred against Capitalism, Lenin, Others. Then and ONLY THEN will his preposterous statements reveal him as the usual ILLITERATE American.

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BLM of Bolsheviks Lenin and Marx members have stated themselves that they are trained Marxists

"You’ve said that Antifa and BLM are revolutionary socialists and new Bolsheviks. Other writers have said that BLM is funded by the Ford Foundation, that they and Antifa are proxies and useful idiots for certain business interests (like Amazon). Who is right?"

Like most people, you are unaware of the history of the Tax Exempt Foundations, which were investigated by Cox & Reese back in the 1950's. But, for some reason, people just can't seem to wrap their heads around the truth, that the richest capitalists in the world hate free enterprise and think that only they should be allowed to own property.

http://www.channelingreality.com/Hearings/cox_and_reese_hearings.htm

https://enigmose.com/enigmose_political/leftist_ford.html

"The Ford Foundation is a part of an extensive network of leftwing philanthropists and foundations dedicated to undermining the American way of life, destroying traditional family values and collapsing the free enterprise system that made its very existence a possibility. Their objective is to destroy the constitutional foundations which helped make America Great and demote it to a Socialist dictatorship.

Groups, whose very existence were made possible by capitalism and free enterprise such as the Ford Foundation, it's protege organizations.

The Tides foundation, National Lawyers Guild, Rockridge Institute, Social Venture Network, Urgent Action Fund and dozens more all support the lunatic elements of the American political arena which are steadfastly becoming mainstream.

Founding and Leftist Infiltration of the Ford Foundation
The NY based Ford Foundation is a private foundation whose mission was supposed to be the advancement of human welfare. Created in the 1930s by Edsel and Henry Ford. After their deaths, the foundation owned 90 percent of the non-voting shares of Ford Motor Company.

The Ford Foundation, has long since been commandeered by left wing liberals, socialists ,the lunatic fringe has taken the lead . Its level of funding of liberal and leftist causes is nearly fifteen times the amount that the 3 largest conservative foundations provided to right wing causes combined.

Henry Ford II was the head of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 till 1979. He left the Ford Foundation board of trustees in 1977, and made a statement exposing his distaste with the Foundation leftward leaning philosophy.

The foundation exists and thrives on the fruits of our economic system. The dividends of competitive enterprise make it all possible. A significant portion of all abundance created by U.S. business enables the foundation and like institutions to carry on their work.

In effect, the foundation is a creature of capitalism, a statement that, I am sure, would be shocking to many professional staff in the field of philanthropy. ....

'...It is hard to discern recognition of this fact in anything the foundation does. It is even more difficult to find an understanding of this in many of the institutions, particularly the universities, that are the beneficiaries of the foundation grant programs.' "

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Exactly. You people need to realize that America is still just a string of colonies and plantations. It is not "your country", too big to be just one country, and sitting on a couch with Fox News opinions will not actually project you into all times and places by colorful thought bursts and 2 second sound bytes.

You are not everywhere, and it is not "like a house", it is like a continent. You are not BIG at all, just a few scattered people emotionally linked my a media network, with huge fantasies of omnipresence.

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big dan,

No, but you could definitely say Vladimir Vysotsky is the voice of all russians.
 

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