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wins32767 posted:This may be a sign that perhaps kneejerk responses aren't the best idea. This isn't doing anything for the victim, if they were doing anything for the victim we wouldn't have another dead black American. Manslaughter charges haven't stopped cops from using excessive force to the point of death, and depending on what the result of the ongoing trial against Derek Chauvin results in, you can read the room on what these charges will result in.... Right now, there is a literal army being fielded against protestors who RIGHTFULLY are protesting multiple police killings against Black Americans, and their "punishment" for protesting these travesties of justice is.....more violence against them. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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There's a really important shipment for me on the Ever Given, and her getting delayed (like all other stuck traffic) was already causing massive headaches for me and people that earn several times my salary, so the news of her getting seized made a bunch of folks bleed from the eyeballs today when I casually broke the news from WaPo before they had heard of it. But it's all good, I don't have to worry about it for the near future because I got put on sick leave this afternoon for a potentially slipped disc. 
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Apr 14, 2021 17:33
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Awwwwww yeeeeeeeeeeeee there it is Doesn't that phrasing imply that they aren't already.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:33
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wins32767 posted:This may be a sign that perhaps kneejerk responses aren't the best idea. Literally any other person in the US that killed a random person with a gun would have been immediately arrested and in jail awaiting trial.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:34
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hobbesmaster posted:Doesn't that phrasing imply that they aren't already. Yeah, I'm kinda confused, us being there hasn't done jack against the Taliban and ISIS rebuilding, because they mostly train and build up elsewhere, and they've been pretty successful at attacking Afghan troops even with us being present.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:35
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If their claim of mixing up the taser for their firearm is true this would be the appropriate charge right?
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Apr 14, 2021 17:35
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RFC2324 posted:I read this as Han Solo at first and was suddenly far more interested in F&F. His alias was "Han Seoul-Oh."
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Apr 14, 2021 17:35
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PookBear posted:Literally any other person in the US that killed a random person with a gun would have been immediately arrested and in jail awaiting trial. They should've thought about that before they decided to murder someone without going through a police academy first
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Apr 14, 2021 17:35
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PookBear posted:Literally any other person in the US that killed a random person with a gun would have been immediately arrested and in jail awaiting trial. White people get away with claiming self defense in killing non white people in ridiculous circumstances all the time.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:36
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I'm kinda confused, us being there hasn't done jack against the Taliban and ISIS rebuilding, because they mostly train and build up elsewhere, and they've been pretty successful at attacking Afghan troops even with us being present. Even then, what is the alternative? Build Afghanistan into a robust economic and politically stable country so the locals don't have a reason to turn to the Taliban for protection or economic advancement? Pssh, we can barely do that for ourselves.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:36
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Defenestrategy posted:Even then, what is the alternative? Exactly my point: We cannot do nation building, and we cannot defend the Afghanis, we really are not doing any good by being there. Honestly, the CIA "warning" reads like a pathetic outing that the CIA can't do anything either without the US Army being deployed.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:38
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hobbesmaster posted:White people get away with claiming self defense in killing non white people in ridiculous circumstances all the time. I know. And they have qualified immunity in almost every jurisdiction too.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:39
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Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan doesn't mean we stop droning weddings, does it?
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Apr 14, 2021 17:39
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan doesn't mean we stop droning weddings, does it? Look into your heart....
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Apr 14, 2021 17:40
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hobbesmaster posted:White people get away with claiming self defense in killing non white people in ridiculous circumstances all the time. Yeah, but they get arrested for it if it looks like a murder, even if the courts rule in their favor
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Apr 14, 2021 17:40
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Current Event: SGT Chowdown has a nemesis.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:40
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So the US foreign policy position is in the awkward place where we bomb the poo poo out of people to create anti-American radicals which eventually leads us to invade a few countries and now we can’t leave or else we will create more anti-American radicals which will cause us to invade a few more countries which will create more anti-American radicals which means we can’t leave or else we....
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Apr 14, 2021 17:41
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I’m sure we’ll keep bombing Afghanistan regardless of whether or not there are troops stationed there.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:46
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Retrowave Joe posted:Current Event: SGT Chowdown has a nemesis. He should be eating Sgt Chowdown's head.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:46
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Duzzy Funlop posted:There's a really important shipment for me on the Ever Given, and her getting delayed (like all other stuck traffic) was already causing massive headaches for me and people that earn several times my salary, so the news of her getting seized made a bunch of folks bleed from the eyeballs today when I casually broke the news from WaPo before they had heard of it. Y'all need to file an insurance claim and re-order whatever was on the shipment. Cause I think Evergreen said gently caress it, you deal with it when presented with the nearly billion dollar bill. The $900m bill is pretty small compared to the actual cost of the stuck canal, imo, but that's the cost. Either Evergreen ponies up the cash, or that poo poo is going on the auction block. I don't have a source handy and this may have came from a fever dream, but I recall reading something yesterday that Evergreen was not going to pay Egypt. That ship isn't going anywhere for a while.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:48
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hobbesmaster posted:White people get away with claiming self defense in killing non white people in ridiculous circumstances all the time. And against other white people (me) so long as they were "justified" in using a gun on someone black.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:49
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Mr. Nice! posted:And against other white people (me) so long as they were "justified" in using a gun on someone black. I was thinking about you when I read that post also.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:50
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hobbesmaster posted:I’m sure we’ll keep bombing Afghanistan regardless of whether or not there are troops stationed there. I'm enjoying the articles today about Russians encroaching on Ukraine and China breaching Taiwanese airspace and both aggressors telling us to keep out of it. Quality world news entertainment.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:53
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hobbesmaster posted:I’m sure we’ll keep bombing Afghanistan regardless of whether or not there are troops stationed there. And I'm sure the next Republican president will find a reason to send an "exploratory force" there to keep the cash register ringing. If there were Burger Kings and Subways on bases in Vietnam in the 60s we'd probably still be there. There's too much money to be made ensuring are truups have the "comforts of home" in the purest  way possible."We won't pay *you* any more money for risking your life, but we'll subsidize fast food companies out the rear end to serve you $1000 burgers for MSRP in a warzone."
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Apr 14, 2021 18:03
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They weren't wasting time. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1382379372259143688
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Apr 14, 2021 18:08
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wins32767 posted:This may be a sign that perhaps kneejerk responses aren't the best idea. Don't.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:15
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BIG HEADLINE posted:And I'm sure the next Republican president will find a reason to send an "exploratory force" there to keep the cash register ringing. If there were Burger Kings and Subways on bases in Vietnam in the 60s we'd probably still be there. Your reward for low enlisted wages and deployments is VA disability and education benefits. As long as the war machine grinds, the VA pays. The minute the war machine starts winding down is the minute the rewards are dialed back. Keep the war effort up and you continue the nonstop pandering to "da troops" and no politician will dare vote against your benefits if they want to keep their seats. We'll officially be the united states of corporations before we make any real cuts to the military. My state will be run by a weed corporation.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:17
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Another cop not charged in a civilian shooting....and it’s totally fine in this case
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Apr 14, 2021 18:25
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ef;b The officer should've never been even looked at for charges, but it's good they've put an end to the investigation. Dude probably saved lives by popping her and keeping them away from the barricades a little bit longer.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:26
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facialimpediment posted:They weren't wasting time. Someone help me out here because I'm somewhat surprised: Are they "throwing her to the wolves" (i.e. doing what should be done in every loving case) because she's a woman and thus probably not a member of the tightly-knit alpha-male good-ole-boys club in the department, or am I completely off-target here? Because I can't seem to recall a precedent for an incident where the course of action by a PD went from "lol poo poo happens" to "whoops, this is real lovely publicity" due to the media coverage.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:30
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facialimpediment posted:ef;b The officer should've never been even looked at for charges, but it's good they've put an end to the investigation. Dude probably saved lives by popping her and keeping them away from the barricades a little bit longer. Yeah that guy owns. I understand they had to for standard procedure reasons, but that guy deserves a medal. Babbitt’s self own will never stop being funny to watch. What a total dipshit.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:30
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Another cop not charged in a civilian shooting....and it’s totally fine in this case One of the few times that the correct response was engaging with lethal force.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:31
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Someone help me out here because I'm somewhat surprised: Are they "throwing her to the wolves" (i.e. doing what should be done in every loving case) because she's a woman and thus probably not a member of the tightly-knit alpha-male good-ole-boys club in the department, or am I completely off-target here? Nah, she's 100% a member of the good-ole-boys club, she's the local Union President! And the Police Chief defended the hell out of her to start with! This is all because there's video, it's obvious negligence, and the "whoopsiedoodle, killed a black kid by accident, she's so very sorry" defense just doesn't work when there's plain video everyone can see. Minnesota is already on edge to lovely cops with the Chauvin case being tried right now.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:34
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CommieGIR posted:One of the few times that the correct response was engaging with lethal force. And also one of the few times a shooting could have won the grand prize on America’s Funniest Home Videos back in the day.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:35
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Mr. Nice! posted:Y'all need to file an insurance claim and re-order whatever was on the shipment. Cause I think Evergreen said gently caress it, you deal with it when presented with the nearly billion dollar bill. Evergreen hasn’t made a statement either way and it’s unlikely they just say gently caress it and walk away. But yeah, my professional advice is order a replacement, even when the ship gets released it’s going to be a while before the cargo is released too. Hope you had GA coverage. 900 mill is an absolutely outrageous sum.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:36
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facialimpediment posted:Nah, she's 100% a member of the good-ole-boys club, she's the local Union President! And the Police Chief defended the hell out of her to start with! Welp. I mean, in my defense, I guess I expected Matryoshka-doll-levels of shittiness.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:37
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So nothing is going to happen to her most likely, if the Floyd trial wasn't happening right now you'd never have heard of kim potter among the background noise of cops regularly popping minorities, because her body cam would have mysteriously malfunctioned or something.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:38
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FrozenVent posted:Evergreen hasn’t made a statement either way and it’s unlikely they just say gently caress it and walk away. Also assuming the Egyptians don’t try and seize the cargo for “compensation”…although that might be a legit option, sadly I could never get into the maritime law class the one or two times it was offered in law school. I figured it would be a fun adventure into obscure rear end law.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:39
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CommieGIR posted:One of the few times that the correct response was engaging with lethal force. Watch this channel PoliceActivity to see a lot of "good" shoots (meaning justifiable uses of deadly force, not "good" in the fact that someone was shot). I think people are underestimating the amount of times where deadly force is justified in police shootings. There's a lot of bad shoots out there, and way too much police brutality. But there are plenty of legally justifiable shoots where guys are shooting at police or charging at them with knives. The channel also shows some really bad fuckups in some videos, too - bad tactics, bad deescalation attempts, or bad shoots, or shoots that shouldn't have happened at all had different tactics been used. Don't read the comments though, they're cancerous. Warning: people get shot in these vids https://youtu.be/Kzz5yDAu6c0 https://youtu.be/ha5AHSPps18 https://youtu.be/G8LzNSbPhZA Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 18:39
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FrozenVent posted:Evergreen hasn’t made a statement either way and it’s unlikely they just say gently caress it and walk away. 300m in reputational losses 
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Apr 14, 2021 18:42
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