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Syrian Lannister posted:In good news, that Dallas cop who shot the guy in his own apartment is being charged with murder, and not manslaughter This isn’t necessarily good news. They might be able to convict a cop of manslaughter because it’s way easier to prove than Murder in this case. Juries are (thought to be at least) hesitant to convict cops of the most serious crimes. Charging her with murder probably made it easier to beat the rap.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Uhhh the grand jury made the decision? The DA files the charges, and decides what the charge is. Not the Grand Jury. And a Grand Jury win doesn’t mean poo poo really since they only see and hear what the DA has to say and show. They have a 95%+ win rate at the Grand Jury in a lot of jurisdictions. Also in some jurisdictions the accused has the right to appear before the Grand Jury.
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Dec 2, 2018 00:55
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Dec 2, 2018 07:08
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Yeah seriously this is a huge loving nothingburger.
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Dec 2, 2018 12:29
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Does anyone know how much it would actually cost to implement Medicare for all? It’s gotta be in the trillions. Then again so is the F-35 program when it’s all said and done. 1.5 trillion or so for the F-35. But that’s spread over the next 50 or so years. I’m not against UHC. I’m just curious what it would cost. Something tells me it could be afforded if we had the National will for it. I’ve always been a fan of passing laws and regulations that make health insurance not for profit, and heavily (completely, probably.) subsidize the costs for people with less or no income and charge reasonable prices for everyone else. I don’t know how the gently caress you can reform Medicine costs from the pharmaceutical industry. There’s so many facets to the healthcare problem, I have the hardest time imagining congress fixing healthcare in my lifetime. My bet is that it’ll be a lot like weed is now, some states have good reasonable laws and regulations, others are bullshit. So red states will probably continue to shoot themselves in the foot and blue states will have different laws and access to healthcare. Just look at how hard it was to get the ACA through a Dem controlled congress and White House. How in the wide world of gently caress are we ever gonna have universal healthcare? I wish AOC the best of luck in congress, she’ll hopefully go on to do really good things. Getting Medicare for all, however, or any UHC proposal for that matter seems impossible. Would love to be proven completely wrong by congress, but who are we kidding?
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Dec 2, 2018 21:22
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We could probably use some kind of Universal program for dental as well. Too many people can’t afford dental care and the outcomes can be awful.
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Dec 2, 2018 21:37
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Defenestrategy posted:True, but who the gently caress benefits from an F35 when its all said and done? I feel we'd get more economic utility out of 1.5 trillion given to hospitals to treat poors than 1.5 trillion given to Boeing. I never worked with the F-35, I retired before it finished testing, so I’m only familiar with its capabilities from news reports and wikipedia. So I can’t comment on benefits outside of the normal talking points you’d see. Hell, even if I did know I’m guessing it’d still all be classified.
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Dec 2, 2018 21:43
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mods changed my name posted:there is no economic utility of the f35 for like 99.9999999% of people in the USA classified or not Since when did we measure military utility against private economic utility? Quite literally everything in the military could be said to have no economic utility. And that’s perfectly fine.
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Dec 2, 2018 22:05
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mods changed my name posted:You don't think that it's a little hosed up that we hem and haw about spending money on keeping citizens in good health (and this could be argued for Natl Defense, it has precedence) while being just A-OK with unlimited military funding with questionable utility to society at large? I don’t hem and haw on spending money on healthcare for our country. I’m not A-Ok with unlimited military spending. Not even close. Who the hell are you arguing with man?
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Dec 2, 2018 22:15
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Godholio posted:I dunno, they were pretty rabid about NDT and Bill loving Nye a couple of pages ago. Did he get #metoo’d? I must have missed that one.
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Dec 2, 2018 23:17
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There is zero reason any of this raping/drugging accusation should be tried in the court of public opinion. It should be criminally investigated. By the cops. And if there’s truth to the accusations then they can prosecute and convict him. Accepting either persons story over the others is... Problematic. At best. It can become something much uglier pretty fast from there.
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Dec 3, 2018 05:46
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TF CURES GENERATOR posted:I'm pretty sure that's actually a thing It is. If I go off my meds and get real bad you’ll notice a ton of parenthetical statements. Broke brain Shim loves some parentheses!
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Dec 3, 2018 21:44
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Uh that news article isn’t really in English so much as moon language peppered throughout.
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Dec 4, 2018 00:11
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bob dobbs is dead posted:pot to keep you awake? Yea, some strains give you a body high, others give you a head high, and some just keep you on the level and high functioning. It’s all about product potency, dosing, tolerance, and strains of cannabis. Before I gave up weed for school, I found that without a few rips of Hash in the morning would leave me tired as poo poo by lunch time. Rip a few bong hits in the A.M. and I’m magically good the rest of the day. YMMV.
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Dec 4, 2018 00:15
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my kinda ape posted:We can't even make self driving cars that don't run into anything, if you think we're anywhere close to fully automated farm equipment then lmao Uhhh, when I stopped farming to join the military our tractors and combines all drove themselves essentially using gps and lasers. Still had to be in the cab but you were just baby sitting the machine. I can’t even imagine how much farther the technology has gotten.
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Dec 12, 2018 02:57
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Sand pits were always fun in any piece of equipment. Making me feel loving old for growing up on '60s cabless 3010/4010s dragging a chisel plow left over from the paleolithic. What's left of the family farm can be pulled with a JD 7720 harvester. And the grain markets being completely hosed doesn't help that, especially the beans. The only thing worse is Rice farming. loving rice.
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Dec 12, 2018 03:19
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not caring here posted:Yeah, harvesters are slow enough that you could outfit them with GNSS and lidar so they could pinpoint their location literally down to the centimeter Yeah this was a thing close to 20 years ago.
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Dec 12, 2018 03:28
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The less competent the CoS the more chaos reigns and the less effective the White House is in general. Having Kushner as CoS would be such a huge win-win. Nothing, and I mean nothing, will get done. That’s as close to a win as you can get in the year of our lord two thousand and eighteen.
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Dec 13, 2018 23:13
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Dec 16, 2018 06:14
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Can’t really understand wanting to see a guy nailed for killing a taliban bomb maker.
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Dec 16, 2018 22:58
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Edit you know what, I’m probably in the minority here.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:19
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:because it's a war crime? Was killing Bin Laden a war crime? He was unarmed. He was a suspect in the largest ever terror attack. We took his compound by force and straight up killed his unarmed rear end. Then we quietly dropped his body in the ocean. Why is a Taliban bomb maker more entitled to some kind of due process in an ugly insurgency but the guy at the top isn’t?
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Dec 16, 2018 23:25
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But really this guys biggest crime is talking about it. I know for a fact we have fellow “war criminals” around here. Rule #1 is never talk about it.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:27
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:my sgt shot someone who he thought was planting an IED. He was pumping water. from a water pump. Your sergeant sounds like a future green beret captain! 
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Dec 16, 2018 23:29
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psydude posted:Also the Bin Laden raid was a combat operation and this dude was already a prisoner of war? Like it's really an apples and oranges comparison. Is it really though? I’m of the opinion we didn’t need to kill OBL in Pakistan. He deserved the federal supermax treatment with a lethal injection. Saying it’s lawful to kill an unarmed terrorist on an objective but not an unarmed terrorist in custody is splitting hairs. The results were the same: Terrorist shot in the head and body quietly and secretly dumped. Everything else is window dressings on an ugly insurgency.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:35
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not caring here posted:I'm gonna say don't kill captives because, a) that's bad, and b) they've probably got intel that you can extract from them. Now here’s a good point. Maybe this guy had intel to give up in detention. Maybe. A lot of times though, it’s detention for a little while than a release back into the wild.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:38
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Fallom posted:Wait, you're covering for people you know executed prisoners? What in the gently caress? Dude, I bared my soul to CID, NCIS, and AFOSI years ago. Nothing came of it because the guys in these units are honest to god above the law in the eyes of very important and powerful people. Some of the shenanigans I was involved in got released to the public by Bradley Manning years ago and not a goddamn thing has come from it. Sometimes things are way more hosed up than you can imagine.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:45
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Fallom posted:You said “around here.” What do you mean by that? I don’t know of any Gippers killing detainees. I’m generally in favor of not killing detainees or prisoners without due process. But I’m also in favor of killing Taliban bomb makers with American blood on their hands too.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:53
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Dec 17, 2018 02:07
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If I ever get told I’m terminal I’m just gonna hang on to my family as long as I can, and probably try to rebuild all the bridges I’ve burned that I regret, but not to the detriment of spending time with my family. I’ve done enough killing, we all die eventually- so I have no fantasies about killing the rich. They’re just as dead as me eventually, and they don’t get to take their money and possessions with them anymore than I do.
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Dec 17, 2018 22:17
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McNally if you want them to pay attention you gotta MAGA up your message. These are simple morons who barely read what you write. You gotta somehow tie everything about your problem into their pre-determined talking points: Liberals, Illegals, and Muslims are your first stop on the MAGA train. Here let me demonstrate:MAGA McNally posted:Liberal socialist democrats want to give big benefits like ObamaCare and Welfare, and Social Security to illegal immigrants and radical Muslim terrorists rather than properly pay surviving spouses. Lying Nancy Pelosi and her gang of jack booted liberal thugs want the surviving spouses of our brave servicemen and women to pay for their survivors benefits out of their own pockets while Cuck Schumer is trying to get Illegals the right to vote in elections! Disgraceful! When you get your first message past 1k shares in the MAGA crowd you can thank me.
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Dec 20, 2018 06:43
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McNally posted:I honestly don't think I could copy/paste that without chasing it with a bottle of bleach. Can’t say I’d blame you, my soul is a dark black husk if it’s former self so I’m comfortable wading around in the MAGA deep end. You follow the right folks on FB and Twitter and you can be ahead of MAGA like talking points easily and know what Fox & Friends will be saying days before they say it. It’s utterly fascinating if you can stomach the Chuds. I take a Jane Goodall approach. These fucks must be studied.
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Dec 20, 2018 08:15
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Blind Rasputin posted:Actually a wall made of slats instead of concrete was proposed to the White House by a large group of particle physicists. So at least they’re listening. The physicists argued that if a wall is made of concrete the caravans will principally act as waves. However, if the wall contains slats, the caravans will act as particles as well. If the caravans act as particles then their precise position can be measured, as opposed to only their velocity relative to the wall if they’re functioning as waves. The nerd in me really appreciated this post.
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facialimpediment posted:Check the bottom of page 1. Holy poo poo everyone read this letter. The bottom 3 paragraphs of the first page are extra spicy.
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