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We gave cops tasers and batons specifically so they wouldn't need to just shoot all of their problems away. Guns should never, under any circumstances, be used for non-lethal hits. Even assuming you don't miss the smaller target and accidentally hit whatever or whoever's standing behind the suspect, the limbs have their own major blood vessels and you're still risking death or permanent crippling to the suspect if used against them. If you're in a situation where pumping half a dozen bullets into the guy's chest isn't the best response, just don't use your gun! poo poo, there's probably a good chance you can talk your way out of any violence. And that means actual diplomacy and negotiation, not screaming at the person to get on the ground or be killed.
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Has there been any reaction from Freep on Trump agreeing with Clinton on some level of gun control? Or did they just let that go in one ear and out the other?
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Sep 27, 2016 14:54
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Cythereal posted:The ironic thing is, porn aside Playboy historically has been a distinctly progressive publication for anyone who actually reads the articles. They stopped with the porn because they realized this is the internet era, they simply can't compete with the internet's limitless supply of free porn. Seriously, go buy some old Playboys. Issues from the 1960s and 1970s are only a few bucks, especially if you find them at flea markets. It's almost difficult to find the porn in them because the magazines are 95% interviews, editorials, letters, movie and restaurant reviews, etc. The nude pictures get a small section shoved into the middle. The issue I picked up at a flea market had an interview with John Lindsay, the Republican mayor of New York City at the time of publication. It's startling to see how incredibly different the Republican party was back then compared to now. Lindsay comes off as a moderate Democrat by modern standards, supporting black-owned businesses in Harlem and coming off as a very reasonable conservative. The same issue had letters from homosexuals talking about the harassment they got from cops (this was I think just a few months or a few years before Stonewall) and slyly suggesting that some of the undercover officers propositioning them to lure them into an arrest were repressed gay men themselves. Old Playboys are a brilliant look at the culture of their time, and it's a shame they get discarded with a reputation as just useless porn.
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Sep 28, 2016 14:02
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How are u posted:What was Dale Reeds last Freep post? quote:Breaking! US Swimmers can leave Brazil on one condition
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Sep 30, 2016 13:54
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"Prosecute him!" ".....for doing his job legally and correctly?" "PROSECUTE HIM"
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Oct 3, 2016 22:53
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Icon Of Sin posted:Found in the USPol thread: Holy poo poo, a "blue collar billionaire". Even assuming Trump is a billionaire and hasn't been bullshitting for years, the guy went to private schools and got a loan from his dad bigger than most of us will ever see in our bank accounts. The guy's collar is white as the hoods worn by his supporters.
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Oct 4, 2016 18:29
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McGlockenshire posted:To: All This may be my favorite one. They're suggesting that the good strategy is Trump immediately throwing out all rules of decorum and yelling at the moderators to try and establish dominance.
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Oct 5, 2016 19:46
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McGlockenshire posted:The worst thing, though, is that they've worked themselves into a corner. The only escape route is moderating their views, but this is impossible to them. Purity of thought must be maintained. Well, Prester Jane is also one of those who pointed out just why we're not really in any massive danger of a revolution or anything: by and large, the radical right-wing is afraid to actually kill and die for their beliefs. You saw it with Malheur, where only 30-40 identified occupiers were ever spotted and the Bundys couldn't claim more than 150. They got a lot of "I'd love to join your revolution, but this darn knee's been bothering me since my high school football days and I'm reliant on Social Security to keep the heat on." It takes a lot of guts to leave behind your comfortable, relatively safe life as an American citizen with full access to government benefits and start shooting black people or federal workers or going Red Dawn and living out in the woods making sneak attacks on gas stations or something. Of course we're going to see some level of radical behavior after Trump loses, be it a mass shooting at a federal building or another Malheur. But modern America is a generally stable society that's not exactly prone to mass revolts or coups. I'd be more worried if this was Iraq or Thailand or something.
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Oct 11, 2016 14:32
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Zipperelli. posted:You know, it won't be FReepers, but I am legit scared for what some of these fringe, extreme right-wing nutjobs will do when Trump loses. Like, a "revolution" is way too strong a word, but people committing terroristic acts on US soil in the name of "FREEDUMB" and misguided rage is a very, very real possibility. There are enough psychos who think that those kinds of actions would be a good idea to make me honestly believe that poo poo will actually go down, and the threats made thus far have at least some base in reality. I mean, Obama's election was also the "last chance America has!" and there was a lot of talk about revolution, but all we got was 5 people dead in a Walmart shooting two years later and a failed occupation that only resulted in one dead terrorist at the beginning of 2016. For every one person willing to commit violence and sacrifice their life for the cause, there's 500,000 who can't be arsed to get off the couch or give up Social Security.
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Oct 12, 2016 21:16
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Zanzibar Ham posted:But don't worry, there's a lot of powder and it's very dry. Again, we've thought this for a long time. I have no doubt that we'll see some kind of response, like increased hate crimes, but I don't think we're at risk of an attempted revolution or anything (at least nothing bigger than Malheur, which was a few dozen unprepared ranchers and suburbanites who forgot to bring food and mostly ran away as soon as it looked like they'd get arrested). For all the crap we get, the United States is a pretty stable first world nation with little danger in daily life. We're simply not the kind of society that's susceptible to mass uprisings or an American Spring or anything like that.
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Oct 12, 2016 21:45
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McGlockenshire posted:As it happens, NFL ratings are down by a huge chunk. An NFL internal memo got leaked last week... Is this just covering television network ratings? I think TV in general has taken a big hit because of the ease with which it can be watched at your leisure online now, so people are becoming less tied to the TV to see stuff they're interested in. I know the Olympics this year suffered a big ratings hit because everyone just kept up with online streams and whatnot.
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Oct 12, 2016 21:59
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Night10194 posted:Wouldn't being attracted to a transwoman as a guy just make you straight? I mean, they're a woman. Not if you think trans women are just mentally ill male perverts.
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Oct 13, 2016 20:38
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Finnankainen posted:TIme to check in on good ol Lazamataz "Yeah bro, I'd totally have Mozambique'd those darkies if I brought my gun! They were lucky I was held back, man!" Their baseball caps are as sideways and their collars as popped as the guys at the club, it seems.
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Oct 13, 2016 20:49
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Jagged Jim posted:To: Morgana I was curious about the "Hillary defended a rapist in court and laughed at the victim!" claim because it's so stereotypically evil. Turns out that she had actually tried to refuse the case because of how obviously guilty the guy was, but the judge refused to rescue her. Because she knew that she would have to try and defend a guilty man in court, she convinced him to plead guilty instead of trying to drag it out. The "laughing" part was a reflection years down the line, where she laughed about how naive she was to think that justice was as easy as putting an obviously guilty man in jail. So the common story that gets told is actually the complete opposite of reality, as is expected.
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Oct 14, 2016 23:21
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:This has got to be the only time I've seen anyone unironically endorse that film: Hey now, he could be endorsing the musical! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZCpSVTWCs
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Oct 17, 2016 20:35
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McGlockenshire posted:So the other day, Obama told Trump to stop whining and just admit that he's going to lose fair and square. Supposedly Clinton's campaign has requested that tonight's debate skip the handshake and families/guests meeting at the beginning, specifically because they think Trump is going to pull some crazy bullshit like when he tried to force Bill Clinton to confront those women last week and are trying to head it off at the pass.
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Oct 19, 2016 14:52
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Freepers: Bad Hombres
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Oct 20, 2016 02:26
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In the end, all he did was tie the noose around himself and let Hillary kick the stool out from under him.
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Oct 20, 2016 03:49
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McGlockenshire posted:To: 2ndDivisionVet I'm sure a lot of the awful things Trump said during the debates will go down in history. Just not for the reasons Freep thinks.
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Oct 20, 2016 13:43
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MeLKoR posted:She's a loving politician, if you gave her a soapbox she could go on for hours on whatever topic. I still can't get over the anti-intellectualism here. It's considered bad to have a comprehensive understanding of a subject instead of just going with gut feelings and ignoring everyone telling you that you're wrong.
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Oct 20, 2016 14:19
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McGlockenshire posted:To: Trump20162020 "The polls don't match my beliefs. Therefore, polls in general are unscientific and we should stop using them."
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Oct 24, 2016 13:49
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Kavak posted:This is because it was a jury trial, right? They only deliberated for five hours, too. The jury complained that one of the jurors was a former BLM employee, even though he admitted this during jury selection and made it all the way to deliberations, and so the judge kicked him off. A new jury was formed and deliberated for only a few hours before declaring not guilty on all charges, despite the judge's orders to start from square one. The only way this could have ever made sense is if the jury agreed beforehand to decide on a "not guilty" for every charge regardless of the facts.
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Oct 28, 2016 13:21
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Has Freep had any reaction on Trump openly encouraging voter fraud?
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Oct 31, 2016 03:15
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McGlockenshire posted:To: Scythian_Reborn Imagine being so angry that a Democrat winning an election hospitalizes you.
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Nov 1, 2016 23:55
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occupied ga actually seems pretty sensible here: when you start increasing the punishment for harming certain citizens based on their career choice, you start not-so-subtly implying that their lives are worth more than average...which leads to the logic that other people are worth less. And that's exactly what results in things like Black Lives Matter being necessary.
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This actually does make me wonder: what happens in a presidential election if one of the candidates dies or is arrested before voting begins, or before the votes are counted? Does the election automatically go to the next highest candidate? Does the party get to emergency nominate a new candidate, and if this occurs after early voting begins do those votes get to be re-done? I'm just curious about what would really happen if the Freep fantasy of Hillary being arrested tomorrow for treason was to come true. Or if Trump was to work himself up into a fatal heart attack out of rage.
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Nov 2, 2016 21:25
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They fear becoming a minority because they're afraid that if they do, they'll get treated like they were treating minorities.
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Nov 3, 2016 20:58
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Oh man, I love being reminded that there's a portion of the population in which the Satanic Panic never stopped. Satanic cults around every corner, witch covens trying to take down your favorite candidate, harmless New Agers being treated like they're nefarious masterminds in league with the devil. It's like I'm in the late 80's all over again! My fiancee is a witch. She's excited whenever she gets the chance to pretend to be a Satan worshiper and scare people.
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Nov 4, 2016 19:05
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DeusExMachinima posted:They really need to be careful with that powder. It's been kept so dry for so long it could be used as a desiccant by now. Any drier and it's liable to spontaneously combust. Not sure if this was meant to be a metaphor, but it's a good one.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Okay, I'm a pessimist, I admit. I'm still worried that Trump might pull off a win in the end. How do you predict that he'll get the electoral vote?
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Mors Rattus posted:She also did a more extreme version of that thing Shia the Beef did - one of her pieces was her sitting still next to a table covered in various objects, including a gun, with the express promise that no matter what was done, she would not stop or resist anything. This led to this amazing overview of her artwork. quote:When she and Ulay broke up, it was in grand style: they turned the death of their relationship into a piece called The Lovers (1988), in which they walked towards each other from two sides of the Great Wall of China – 2,500km each, over the course of several months – meeting in the middle "to say goodbye". If that's not devotion to one's art, I don't know what is.
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Tias posted:There's a sovcit thread? There's this one here for the Bundy trial.
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myron cope posted:My boss absolutely posts on r/The_Donald. Like, we found his account and it is definitely him. It's terrifying. From his comment rate he has slept like 8 hours in the past three days and responds to every post with some variation of vote and/or MAGA. See if you can sneak on his computer and check the history for any Freep. We did that with a guy at work once because someone else had to use his computer and we found out that he liked Boku No Pico.
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I don't even know if I want to read this thread any more. Watching the loving KKK gloat because their man got in the White House is depressing.
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Nov 9, 2016 14:47
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Whiz Palace posted:I mean, bait-and-switch is always bad, but if it had to happen, it couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people. Not to mention the LGBT community, which Pence and Trump have all but promised to roll back rights for.
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Nov 9, 2016 15:12
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Fathis Munk posted:Also women in general I guess. I don't know if he'll actually try and build some Great Wall of America or anything, but he's probably going to try and at least set up more fences and set up border patrols. Maybe even extend the distance border patrols can set up checkpoints and perform random stops so they harass even more American citizens!
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Nov 9, 2016 15:26
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Hillary having won the popular vote makes it sting even worse. She technically got more people who wanted her as president, but the way the system is set up means she still lost.
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Nov 9, 2016 17:27
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Jay Rust posted:This is morbid of me, and probably unhealthy, but I like remembering that these lovely people are old and will be dying soon If Civil War 2.0 ever comes to pass like Freep claimed, someone will probably make sure of that!
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Whiz Palace posted:I read elsewhere the suggestion that LGBT people arm themselves. I wonder what Freep would think of that? I actually have seriously begun planning to get a handgun and concealed carry permit (I'm already a firearms owner, just not handguns). My fiancee is an openly queer witch, so she's just one skin tone away from being prime fodder for the people I'm afraid this new political scene will bring out.
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