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|    rbowman to Jos Boersema    |
|    Re: Huge Riots in USA ? Small protests,     |
|    02 Jun 20 22:39:30    |
      From: bowman@montana.com              On 06/02/2020 05:36 AM, Jos Boersema wrote:       > P.S. More people in America need to stop with their hyperbole,       > and give the numbers. How many people in that protest, how many buildings       > where burned, how many protests became riots, what where the largest       > protests, etc. Nobody knows what you are talking about, unless you start       > giving numbers that have meaning. It means nothing when an American       > says that "the sky fell down" because Americans seem to yell that at the       > slightest provocation. As far as I could tell, from the numbers listed       > for the protests: almost nothing was going on. It was mostly peaceful       > very small to failed protests, with a few of them that went into riots       > and arson, with possibly the police themselves doing some of the arson,       > in order to make it seem worse (for political reasons).              Right. Burning businesses and police cars, looting the stores they don't       burn, shooting police, a couple fatally, that's just business as usual       in the US.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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