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Originally posted by MrFun View PostOne way cities and towns can prevent riots such as these, is to seriously reform their police forces to weed out the racism, corruption, and cronyism. You know . . . like actually thinking in the long-term in solving problems.
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostThis and the Ferguson riots have done an outstanding job of reinforcing everyone's worst prejudices.
Help me reconstruct this train of logic because somewhere along the way I got lost:
Black guy dies in police custody -> ???? -> rob stores, commit arsonTo us, it is the BEAST.
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Originally posted by N35t0r View PostI'm sorry, but isn't things like this (overthrowing an oppressive government) the main reason for supporting the second amendment? Why do you complain when people actually act upon it?To us, it is the BEAST.
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostBaltimore PD is over 50% black. Baltimore itself is 60% black. The mayor is black, the city council is black, and the police commissioner is black.
Where exactly do "crackers" come into this picture?To us, it is the BEAST.
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostBaltimore PD is over 50% black. Baltimore itself is 60% black. The mayor is black, the city council is black, and the police commissioner is black.
Where exactly do "crackers" come into this picture?
I don't think the problem here is necessarily straightforward racism in all incidents. The black community in this country, to the extent that there is such a thing anymore, is seriously messed up. Something like one out of five black men is incarcerated. Around seventy percent of black kids grow up without a father. I don't think anybody really knows what to do about these problems, or even wants to think about them all that much. It doesn't help that blacks are pretty well the ***** of the Democratic party, so there's no good political reason for anybody to pay attention to their problems. The Left, AFAICT, chalks up all problems to racism, maybe throws them a bone on affirmative action every now and then, and then goes back to invoking the memory of their greatest struggle to expand a tax privilege to two percent of the population. But even that is better than the Right; four years ago Gingrich offered to speak at the NAACP and kindly explain to them how they needed to stop being lazy ******s and start using paychecks instead of foodstamps. He was running for president at the time and, bafflingly, his run did not immediately end the next day.
I'm not saying it's right or sensible to riot and burn; I'm saying that, in their position, I might just snap and start burning **** too.
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Originally posted by Berzerker View Postneither is...nevermind
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Originally posted by MrFun View PostThe media unfortunately, ignores the peaceful protesters, and how those peaceful protesters have actually tried reaching out to police.
They highlighted the picture you posted with the kid.
They showed a mother dragging her kid home.
They showed some ministers telling people to chill and go home.
And others helping police up that had fallen.
They also covered a few of the non violent protests too.
To while I agree that the new does like to highlight the violent part, they aren't completely one sided.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O
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Originally posted by spambot View PostNirvana is still better than Led Zeppelin.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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I feel embarrassed about that time I incorrectly explained the origin of the phrase "once in a blue moon" to my classmates in second grade. I don't feel embarrassed over correctly stating that Led Zeppelin is superior to Nirvana.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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