Politics And Current Events

[shafnutz05]

Liz Cheney and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are both wrong on concentration camps

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/19/opin ... _term=link

I cringe every time I see the comparisons. Ditto for the Obama "indoctrination camp" nonsense.

[shafnutz05]

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/06 ... e-of-isis/

@shad

Come on... This is like lowering the sheep into the TRex enclosure

[Gaucho]

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status ... 0296863744

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/06 ... e-of-isis/

@shad

Come on... This is like lowering the sheep into the TRex enclosure

Sorry, should have tagged your alt instead...

[Shyster]

With John McCain gone, it looks like Lindsey Graham is working even harder to press the neocon "never met a country I don't want to bomb" agenda.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lindse ... refineries

[Factorial]

Corey Booker is real puss.

[shafnutz05]

This is a really, really awful read.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/1868 ... zant-tampa

[Gaucho]

Corey Booker is real puss.

And Joe Biden is a stupid old man.

[Gaucho]

[Troy Loney]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/clim ... e=Homepage

Don't buy any coastal property.

[Factorial]

Corey Booker is real puss.

And Joe Biden is a stupid old man.

He's always been a gaffe machine, so yeah.

[Troy Loney]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... e=Homepage

In case you were wondering how a housing bubble is created.

[Troy Loney]

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/73424121 ... cial-media

Seems like one could draw the conclusion that racist people go into police work because they want to live out some racist fantasies.

[shafnutz05]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/clim ... e=Homepage

Don't buy any coastal property.

Yup...climate change is no joke.

Honestly, if you think about how wild the Earth is in terms of how much it changes, you realize just how fragile our existence is here. I mean, the last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago, with glaciers stretching as far south as Middle America. That is like a second ago in the history of the Earth.

[shafnutz05]

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/73424121 ... cial-media

Seems like one could draw the conclusion that racist people go into police work because they want to live out some racist fantasies.

Sadly, not surprising. I respect how difficult that job is, but unfortunately it draws a big portion of people that most of us wouldn't want anywhere near a position of authority. I've said it before....high school jocks and bullies.

[shafnutz05]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... ictim.html

Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable health care. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery...

Reparations by definition are only given to victims, so the moment you give me reparations, you’ve made me into a victim without my consent. Not just that, you’ve made 1/3 of black Americans who poll against reparations into victims without their consent, and black Americans have fought too long for the right to define themselves to be spoken for in such a condescending manner.

Well said. You want to drive a deep wedge between black people and (especially) poor white people even further? Because reparations seems like a great way to do that.

[Troy Loney]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/clim ... e=Homepage

Don't buy any coastal property.

Yup...climate change is no joke.

Honestly, if you think about how wild the Earth is in terms of how much it changes, you realize just how fragile our existence is here. I mean, the last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago, with glaciers stretching as far south as Middle America. That is like a second ago in the history of the Earth.

Yes, humanity is fragile. I feel bad for the next generations as these changes to the climate cause mass upheaval.

[Troy Loney]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... ictim.html

Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable health care. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery...

Reparations by definition are only given to victims, so the moment you give me reparations, you’ve made me into a victim without my consent. Not just that, you’ve made 1/3 of black Americans who poll against reparations into victims without their consent, and black Americans have fought too long for the right to define themselves to be spoken for in such a condescending manner.

Well said. You want to drive a deep wedge between black people and (especially) poor white people even further? Because reparations seems like a great way to do that.

The logistics of direct reparations would be....complicated to say the least.

I do think though that there is a case for some sort of collective action on the part of the government to attempt to rectify some of the things that were done, at the behest of government, that mistreated the african american population. Things like redlining have done so much damage to those communities.

[Dickie Dunn]

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/73424121 ... cial-media

Seems like one could draw the conclusion that racist people go into police work because they want to live out some racist fantasies.

Sadly, not surprising. I respect how difficult that job is, but unfortunately it draws a big portion of people that most of us wouldn't want anywhere near a position of authority. I've said it before....high school jocks and bullies.

I also think there are too many former military members that become police officers.

[shmenguin]

You know all those smart kids you went to high school with? Or the really creative, industrious ones? Or the compassionate ones who could read a situation and use their witts to diffuse it in a fair and understanding manner?

Yeah...none of them became cops. Police officer is either a coveted profession for wanna be cowboys or a compromise for people who couldn’t find anything better. The only way to crack this is to make the position appealing for more balanced individuals. Which means money.

[CBear3]

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/73424121 ... cial-media

Seems like one could draw the conclusion that racist people go into police work because they want to live out some racist fantasies.

Sadly, not surprising. I respect how difficult that job is, but unfortunately it draws a big portion of people that most of us wouldn't want anywhere near a position of authority. I've said it before....high school jocks and bullies.

There's a handful of people in this thread who would be disqualified for the job because of their postings here.

[Troy Loney]

If anything, the preponderance of racist cops should probably reflect the preponderance of racism as a whole.

[CBear3]

If anything, the preponderance of racist cops should probably reflect the preponderance of racism as a whole.

Preponderance:
the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance

Honestly, if I weren't as thick skinned as I am I wouldn't be on this message board anymore. Between this bullshit and the Cops Earning the Hate thread it makes me want to puke.

[AuthorTony]

I think most cops are decent people trying to do their best, but the notion that the job doesn't also attract power hungry dadholes is naive at best. There is not a preponderance of cops who are racist, but there are more than there should be. There is not a preponderance of cops who think their badge and gun give them the right to treat citizens (of all races) like crap, but there are more than there should be. There is not a preponderance of cops who shoot first and worry about the consequences (in the rare instance that there are any) later, but there are more than there should be.

[CBear3]

I think most cops are decent people trying to do their best, but the notion that the job doesn't also attract power hungry dadholes is naive at best. There is not a preponderance of cops who are racist, but there are more than there should be. There is not a preponderance of cops who think their badge and gun give them the right to treat citizens (of all races) like crap, but there are more than there should be. There is not a preponderance of cops who shoot first and worry about the consequences (in the rare instance that there are any) later, but there are more than there should be.

That's all I ask. Thank you.
The police earning the hate thread has 215 posts. Even if they represented 215 individual acts of police being very bad at their job, that's out of 700k law enforcement officers.
Yes, due to it's nature of exercising authority over those that are accused of a crime (and therefor seen as lesser by fragile souls), it attracts more fragile/inflated egos than the average job.

But we're commenting on an article that says 72 officers out of 3500 were put on desk duty. That's an absurdly low number if you look at how many possibly offensive memes flood my facebook timeline. While none of my Philly circle were caught up in this, I did hear that of those 72, one was put on desk duty for commenting on a post about a protester getting violent with a police officer with the comment "nothing a ball tap wouldn't fix" and a winky emoticon. A joke, about using extremely non-lethal force to subdue a person assaulting a police officer. But now he's a racist scumbag?