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Funny to see this. Saw a small group of people protesting at the Kerr county courthouse earlier this evening and was ecstatic. Most looked like Schreiner U students and you could tell they had been ou

Longhorn
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Then get the fuck out. Adios mofo. Go find somewhere else to live.

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That President and AG tried to take the tiniest steps to fixing the conditions that resulted in the unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore. In response, racist morons like you lost their shit and elected th

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1 hour ago, burntorangebongos said:

Unless you are a 1%, why would you wish to continue with a system rife with systemic racism and failure to function properly? Dipshits who support Trump who aren't wealthy fuck themselves when these thieves work to not only keep what they have but take what you have too. Because they can and because there is never enough. Militarized Police is one of the tools that they wield against us all. If your skin isn't black then you aren't among the first of the citizens abused, but if the elite decide immigrants or Hispanics are next then what is to stop them? Oh wait, that already happened. Anything that might disrupt their power is what they will attack. 

Keeping us in different camps and against each other is also a tactic. We should see that whether we are conservative or liberal, having militarized police who operate with impunity is wrong and a danger to our republic. We all should want to fix that and kick out those who sold themselves to protecting the corrupted system. We can have true differences in how to design policy or philosophical differences but right now our house is burning and we need to come together to put out the fire and try to save the house. 

There are plenty of people that either think that “others” are Holding them back from long term success or they’re stuck on the unattainable goal of fairness.  They see affirmative action when in the exact moment, someone else may get an extra benefit. However they don’t want or care to think about systematic benefits they’re received over a lifetime or via a previous generation.

instead they fall back on the reply that they personally have not be involved in racist actions so can’t we put this behind us.

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I dunno what kind of coverage I want to see right now, but another Cuomo press conference ain't it. 
I don't like his voice and that he sits through these. Are you FDR? Do you have polio? Stand up when you're making a speech, son.
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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

 

For me, maybe the most alarming element of government/police action is the orderliness with which Floyd was murdered, reporters arrested, citizens maced, and citizens fired upon while on their own front porch. These are not mistakes made in haste or under threat. These actions are carried out calmly. The cop murdering Floyd is having a good time and seems very much to be persisting in his tormenting of Floyd to defy and enrage the citizens pleading with him to stop.

That's raw fascism. Anybody trying rationalize a way to defend the action of the cop or generally condemn the reaction throughout the country are, indeed, party to the rise of fascism. This is not hyperbole. It should be hyperbole; I wish it were hyperbole, but it's not.

Wow that place sounds really bad. They need new leadership. Who’s in charge there?

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4 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

Wow that place sounds really bad. They need new leadership. Who’s in charge there?

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Lt. Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, took the stage prior to President Donald Trump at a downtown rally Thursday night, praising the president for standing behind law enforcement.

“The mayor said the President wasn’t welcome but the Police Federation of Minneapolis begs to differ,” Kroll told the rally crowd.

Kroll, the president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, wore a bright red “Cops for Trump” T-shirt, and spoke at Target Center about how the president supports police departments across the country as they face scrutiny following years of high-profile police shootings.

“The Obama administration and the handcuffing and oppression of police was despicable,” Kroll said. “The first thing President Trump did when he took office was turn that around … he decided to start let cops do their job, put the handcuffs on the criminals instead of (on) us.”

The Minneapolis police union began selling the “Cops for Trump” shirts this week as a form of protest against a new city policy that bars officers from wearing their uniforms in support of political candidates.

Kroll says the new policy, which was announced the same day as the date for the “Keep America Great” rally, was politically motivated. He says that when President Barack Obama came to town, officers were allowed to stand behind him in uniform. City leaders, on the other hand, say that the new policy takes politics out of policing.

The proceeds from the “Cops for Trump” shirts are going to charity, the police union says.

“Debate the facts with the left,” Kroll closed. “And when their facts don’t hold up for their debate, wait to be called a racist. That’s the easy way out, right? Label. The all-accepting left, ‘Everybody’s welcome here, if you think like we do.'”

Hours later, Kroll was called back up on stage by Trump to cheers from the audience.

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Man, someone should vote that police union guy out of office. Oh, that's right. Whenever the public or politicians want to discuss police reform, they are met with bullshit like "it's just a few bad apples" and "BACK THE BLUE". All of which are attempts to quell any legitimate discussion on how to make things better. Again, Obama was the worst thing ever because he took an actual critical approach to policing versus "well, I back the blue". 

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8 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

Wow that place sounds really bad. They need new leadership. Who’s in charge there?

This spans states. This is a failure of leadership from the top down. The guy you won’t vote for but will totally vote for, the piece of shit trump. 

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1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Your last paragraph should inform the idea that the entirety of the first part is nonsense. I will be here in November to point and laugh at all of you who think an election result is going to lead to the edge of civil war.  It won’t. And it says more about you than the people you are taking about. 

And if I’m wrong then it says I’m the biggest naive gullible fool in America. But I’d rather give myself an infinitesimally small chance of being that than contour up absurdist scenarios where my fellow friends and neighbors revolt and storm the castle trying to create an autocratic

dictatorship when their guy loses. 

I don't think we're going to have a civil war but I'm certainly not going to blame people if they think the people who stormed government buildings over being able to get a haircut might react violently if their orange shitgibbon god doesn't win.  Weren't you the one talking about how "principled conservatives" would keep Trump in line over on the old site?  

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That....is fantastic. Seriously. We often speak grandly about how sport transcends, sport speaks to what makes us all better, etc. To that, I say “exactly.” And so does Kap. He gets more right every day. He is on the right side of history.

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That....is FANTASTIC. And y’all note, that is a leading voice of “rough em up” conservatism espousing these principles. Sure, he was speaking of the Iraqi people at the fall of THEIR repressive regime...but goose and gander and all that.

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I don't think we're going to have a civil war but I'm certainly not going to blame people if they think the people who stormed government buildings over being able to get a haircut might react violently if their orange shitgibbon god doesn't win.  Weren't you the one talking about how "principled conservatives" would keep Trump in line over on the old site?  

“Principled conservatives.”

Thanks, I needed a chuckle today.
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We have abandoned and scorned the world....but they haven’t abandoned us. It may not seem like much, but it matters.

Also...this is growing and spreading. The Arab Spring started with a single Tunisian vendor. What this will be called, we don’t yet know. But we know it has begun.
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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


We have abandoned and scorned the world....but they haven’t abandoned us. It may not seem like much, but it matters.

Also...this is growing and spreading. The Arab Spring started with a single Tunisian vendor. What this will be called, we don’t yet know. But we know it has begun.

Dumb Civil War

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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


We have abandoned and scorned the world....but they haven’t abandoned us. It may not seem like much, but it matters.

Also...this is growing and spreading. The Arab Spring started with a single Tunisian vendor. What this will be called, we don’t yet know. But we know it has begun.

Even after all of our decades of wars, CIA ops, and Team America fuckery, we are in such bad shape that the world pities us.

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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


That people who JUSTIFIABLY feel that way haven’t burned all of our cities to the ground is a miracle, a testament to restraint....and maddening that we still refuse to listen, and to CHANGE.

Yes.

The history of racial violence in America is a story of black people's astonishing capacity for restraint and patience.

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