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Why doesn't he just wear a kippah as he evidently does the rest of the time?
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Feb 9, 2021 22:33
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Jiro posted:Oh God really? Who is it? Marjorie Taylor-Greene. 
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Feb 9, 2021 22:59
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Cry more Mr. Lee, and when you're done: eat poo poo.
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Feb 11, 2021 01:33
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mdemone posted:The only thing that surprised me that day was the relative lack of bloodshed. Everyone I know was texting and saying I was right. Of course I was right, it wasn't hard to see coming. But the fact that only a few people died, and mostly incidentally aside from Babbitt, is a minor miracle. How capable the police are at actually doing their jobs without shooting and killing people, when they actually want to?
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Feb 11, 2021 02:07
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To me, ACAB is less of a judgement on individual people who choose to be police officers, and more of a recognition that the basis of policing is corrupted and flawed, and as such has the power to make good people do bad things. The truth is that a good officer like Goodman, who is without question a hero for his actions, is no less vulnerable to that corruption, which is why we need to reform the institution itself. It's not a judgement on him to say that; it's the reality that policing has been designed to prey on human psychology, and much like advertising, propaganda, hazardous attitudes in general, etc.: the trick is to realize that no one is above them, no one is so pure and righteous that they can entirely withstand the influence. Therefore, I think it's consistent to both celebrate Officer Goodman for his actions, while maintaining a steady dislike of the police as an institution.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:40
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Not Goodman, but Hodges (the guy crushed in the door): “It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection and I’m glad I was in a position to help. We’ll do it as many times as it takes.” It exists in most every police agency. You know the good cops we all wish there were more of? If you talk to them, the number one complaint they have is the organization, and I know this because I have friends who are cops and who speak honestly with me about it. I've heard "yes, we need to defund the agency, and get rid of the people who are here for the wrong reasons or just plain loving incompetent, and fix the leadership structure." I've not heard "this is a well-run organization full of perfectly sane, excellent people." The truth is that officers like Eugene Goodman or Hodges exist to some degree in every police force. Good people, who are legitimately interested in a clear public good and indeed willing to risk their lives for it if necessary. The problem is a structure which causes them to act in ways which are contrary to the public good, and an organization that encourages them to do bad things. It really is a case of "a few bad apples" but in the sense the phrase was originally meant: "a few bad apples spoil the bunch." As long as the bad apples are not taken out ASAP, the bunch is, to wit: spoiled.
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Feb 11, 2021 06:47
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Well I'll be goddamned, Collins was finally concerned enough to do a thing.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:42
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What is going on McConnell? He does realize he just voted 'not guilty," yes? "I hate what he did and it was bad and it was within my power to hold him responsible but I didn't!"
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Feb 13, 2021 22:11
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Rabble posted:Mitch says today that Trump should be tried in the courts not the Senate, but I guarantee when Trump is tried in the courts he'll be talking about how Trump was already acquitted in the Senate. I think in all likelihood what he wants is Trump to be convicted by people whose vote to convict him will not colour his [McConnell's] own political fortunes, because above all he's an avaricious, venal piece of poo poo.
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Feb 13, 2021 22:39
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Gumball Gumption posted:He wants to be in power but not govern. This is a very good way of stating it, actually. Stealing it for later.
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Feb 13, 2021 22:43
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Everyone who claims to be pro-life in any sense but supports a president who sped through a series of executions at the end of his term, is going to Hell.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:37
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1360715132943405059?s=20 That's a demented position. You need a strong, capable, and principled opposition. In the Democrats' case, what they need is that, but from the left.
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Angry_Ed posted:I'm having trouble thinking of something "conservative" thought does that's beneficial but that's mostly because conservatism has largely been replaced by regressivism so I don't know what conservatism looks like anymore. Moderate Democrats are beneficial, sane conservatives. The US discourse has become deranged to the point that they are derided as socialists and radicals, but this is not the case. What is needed is a political stage where the moderate Dems represent the right wing, the progressive Dems represent the centre, and there's actual representation of the left wing. EDIT: To put it in more concrete terms, I want to see a situation where Biden is the right wing, Warren is a hint right of centre, Bernie is a hint left of centre, and AOC is the rightmost of a leftist group.
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