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Winkie01 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I88Gtsr4mzI To paraphrase Trump, it's going to be sad. A mess. I am simultaneously looking forward to, sickened and fascinated by the up coming poo poo-show from both sides.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Condi Rice would sooner light herself on fire and run naked down Broadway at rush hour than set foot in Washington again. The RNC is a week before the DNC, if Trump wins on the first ballot he could surprise pick Hillary as his VP before she's officially chosen!
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James Garfield posted:The RNC is a week before the DNC, if Trump wins on the first ballot he could surprise pick Hillary as his VP before she's officially chosen! Well there has been conversations recently on how Hillary and the DNC red to move to the right and pick up moderates.
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El Disco posted:Kid seems like he's destined to be a cop. Emptying magazine into fleeing person, spouting conservative catchphrases and showing complete lack of empathy to the point of mockery... story checks out.
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I hope Terry fucks them over this but who knows. Those guys have been absolute trash for years.
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So in Illinois they're proposing social media bans for teenagers convicted of certain crimes.quote:Senator Mulroe says the bill is about protecting the minors. Hmm I wonder who this could be targeting
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Zeroisanumber posted:Condi Rice would sooner light herself on fire and run naked down Broadway at rush hour than set foot in Washington again. Especially for Trump of all people ahaha
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quote:More: Virginia GOP leaders announced Monday they have hired an attorney and will contest governor's executive action allowing more than 200,000 convicted felons to vote in November - AP
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May 2, 2016 16:35
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Luigi Thirty posted:So in Illinois they're proposing social media bans for teenagers convicted of certain crimes. It says right in the article. Kids that are currently charged with certain crimes are prohibited from associating with gangs and gang members. If the kid is found to be violating this they get into more trouble. This is supposed to be an extension of that. Is this bad or good? Beats me. Could someone with more knowledge on gang related laws and effectiveness of them weigh in?
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Radish posted:He's probably has slightly better aim than the average LEO. Correct. quote:The "rare" hail of gunfire that erupted in a quiet east London
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Winkie01 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I88Gtsr4mzI So the guy that was hired by the state to prosecute criminal cases also prosecuted domestic abusers? Wow! A real advocate for women.
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Hmm a boy was shot by the police because he was holding a gun and ran from two plains clothes officers which according to the police department is an act worthy of lethal force and something "the community would expect them to do." Of course the obvious answer is to ban replica guns, not ask why kids holding guns apparently means that police are free to try and execute them in the street. Toy guns are the issue here not systemic racism and bloodthirsty cowards. Seems weird that police only seem to shoot certain kids with toys but let's not ask questions otherwise we might infer that blue lives don't matter. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-replica-guns-20160428-story.html Thankfully though the boy won't be charge for causing his own shooting so horray the system works! http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-boy-no-charges-20160430-story.html Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 16:57 on May 2, 2016 |
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Mr Hootington posted:It says right in the article. Kids that are currently charged with certain crimes are prohibited from associating with gangs and gang members. If the kid is found to be violating this they get into more trouble. This is supposed to be an extension of that. Basically, as I read it: This is just a way to add more charges onto black kids when they manage to find "gang sign" images on their snapchat/instagram/twitter. Something so hilarious and cliched that no one is actually doing it seriously or at best a symptom of dumb kids being dumb kids and trying to look tough. Which is something that happens regardless of race but for some unknowable reason people only get scared at black kids posing with airsoft guns and not at white kids posing with 15 swords and airsoft guns. Basically this:  Will get you extra jail time or lose you probation. Whereas this:  Will not.
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Thankfully real guns cannot be painted bright colors otherwise bills to require fake guns to be painted as such would be even more idiotic than they already are.
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The brazenness of the gun lobby being successful in their messaging that guns need to be literally everywhere or people will be unsafe juxtaposed with police constantly and successfully using the fear of toy guns on black people even in areas with legal open carry as a reason to attack them and absolutely no one in Serious positions pointing out this outrageous blatant conflict of ideology, if not actively supporting the police, drives me absolutely crazy.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Thankfully real guns cannot be painted bright colors otherwise bills to require fake guns to be painted as such would be even more idiotic than they already are. (I know you're being factious, I'm just using this as an excuse to post these)   
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Crain posted:(I know you're being factious, I'm just using this as an excuse to post these) I don't think a post could better encapsulate the wrongness inherent in people viewing guns as toys rather than tools.
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Radish posted:Hmm a boy was shot by the police because he was holding a gun and ran from two plains clothes officers which according to the police department is an act worthy of lethal force and something "the community would expect them to do." Of course the obvious answer is to ban replica guns, not ask why kids holding guns apparently means that police are free to try and execute them in the street. Toy guns are the issue here not systemic racism and bloodthirsty cowards. Seems weird that police only seem to shoot certain kids with toys but let's not ask questions otherwise we might infer that blue lives don't matter. This is the video that plays for that article: 
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Turn back, thread, the month is far too young to catch gunchat cancer! In foreign policy news, the first US-based cruise ship in what, 57 years, has docked in Cuba. It's cool to see things opening up so quickly. There's a certain romanticism about Cuba's whole "time capsule" existence with all the old cars and old architecture that makes me really want to visit and watch a baseball game in a language I can't understand (or even speak - I can't do the trilled R thing) even if it's a completely unfounded imaginary image of the place.
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Crain posted:Basically, as I read it: This is just a way to add more charges onto black kids when they manage to find "gang sign" images on their snapchat/instagram/twitter. Something so hilarious and cliched that no one is actually doing it seriously or at best a symptom of dumb kids being dumb kids and trying to look tough. Which is something that happens regardless of race but for some unknowable reason people only get scared at black kids posing with airsoft guns and not at white kids posing with 15 swords and airsoft guns. Yeah I get that, but do gang association restrictions work? Or Do these kids still end up in the gangs or dead by gang violence? Honest question. I know for some of the kids it seems like the only way to get ahead and life and it is depressing.
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FAUXTON posted:Turn back, thread, the month is far too young to catch gunchat cancer! Cuba owns and you should go before it opens up more. The "romanticism" and you know, the other "r" word "repression" is definitely part of the mystique. It is fundamentally weird there and that makes it amazing, plus there's the typical South American Spanish colonial thing going on.
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Mr Hootington posted:Yeah I get that, but do gang association restrictions work? Or Do these kids still end up in the gangs or dead by gang violence? Honest question. I know for some of the kids it seems like the only way to get ahead and life and it is depressing. No, gang association restrictions don't work. They only ever give an excuse to increase jail time.
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FAUXTON posted:Turn back, thread, the month is far too young to catch gunchat cancer. Sorry, I just thought it was amazing that a guy was showing how much toy guns look like real guns, while standing in front of a counter that has pink revolvers.
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fosborb posted:Eh, my experience is that it's the same set of horny 20-somethings you'd find anywhere but in DC they're more likely to be wearing cufflinks. Right, the dating scene is uniquely horrible in every city. DC has ambition and people coasting on the "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" principle but if the local dating pool weren't that way you'd just end up having another problem define them. Here in Austin the primary complaint I get from women friends is that the dating pool is stuffed with underemployed or unmotivated man-children. Hell if there was no issues people would probably complain about how it isn't possible to choose between all the people they want to date.
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A Gravis poll of Indiana likely voters came out today showing Trump up big (+17). This follows yesterday's NBC/WSJ/Marist showing him at +15. I told a work buddy way back in October that if Trump gets the nomination I'd buy both him and I a "Make America Great Again" hat. Guess I'll go ahead and get that ready.
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Boon posted:A Gravis poll of Indiana likely voters came out today showing Trump up big (+17). This follows yesterday's NBC/WSJ/Marist showing him at +15. At least buy a bootleg one. Don't give Trump the money.
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Poor Johnnyquote:PPP's newest Ohio poll finds voters in the state are getting sick of John Kasich's Presidential campaign. Only 38% think he should stay in the race, compared to 49% who think it's time for him to drop out. Those numbers have shifted substantially from early March when 52% of voters wanted him to continue on in the race and just 34% thought he should drop out. And the numbers for Kasich when it comes to dropping out are actually even worse for him with Republicans than they are with Democrats- 58% of GOP voters in Ohio think it's time for him to let it go, compared to only 33% who think he should stay in. Maybe you shouldn't have voted for him then in your primary hmmmm?
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Did they just give everyone who posted in USPol April a Yoda avatar? This is Trumps doing, isn't it?
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Dexo posted:At least buy a bootleg one. Don't give Trump the money. I'm not going to gently caress him over on it (he's a Trump supporter), but I'll double the donation to Hillary's camp and buy myself a bootleg version. Boon fucked around with this message at 17:45 on May 2, 2016 |
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archangelwar posted:How could this possibly be granted cert? Well, they'll have to use state courts, I'm pretty sure, since the grounds for their lawsuit is the state constitution. Here's the relevant passage: "Virginia Constitution posted:The Governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law; to grant reprieves and pardons after conviction except when the prosecution has been carried on by the House of Delegates; to remove political disabilities consequent upon conviction for offenses committed prior or subsequent to the adoption of this Constitution; and to commute capital punishment. Relevant passage bolded. They are going to argue that the governor cannot communicate the particulars of every case of pardon granted if he's giving out blanket pardons, and that all pardons must be case-by-case. I'm not certain how likely this is to meet with a warm reception in the courts, and I'm sure T-Mac talked this over with the AG and other legal authorities before he went ahead. I will note however (which I noticed halfway through writing this post) that what he's doing here isn't actually pardons, it's "remov[al of] political disabilities consequent upon conviction," and the Constitution doesn't actually require him to communicate those specifically. That's the one entry that's left out of the required-communication list. Interesting. Quorum fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 2, 2016 |
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CommieGIR posted:Did they just give everyone who posted in USPol April a Yoda avatar? This is Trumps doing, isn't it? Maybe all the bad posters. 
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Grundulum posted:Maybe all the bad posters. I'm just happy to be part of a group.
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Radish posted:I'm just happy to be part of a group. It is the USPOL gang
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Grundulum posted:Maybe all the bad posters. counterpoint
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CommieGIR posted:Did they just give everyone who posted in USPol April a Yoda avatar? This is Trumps doing, isn't it? Well I haven't gotten one 
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Good news: http://reut.rs/1NP0Z29 The Supreme Court denied cert to a lawsuit over Seattle's $15/hour minimum wage, leaving in place a lower court's decision to uphold the ordinance.
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