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  On 6/9/2020 at 9:58 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I don't know if you all follow Karen Attiah on Twtter but she's not only easy on the eyes but a provocative, intelligent thinker.  Here she asks a very basic question:  why are White men like this asshole in Whitefish, Montana, so angry?  
 

 

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well,  first there is chicago and also the fact that he’s not allowed to use the N word any longer but blacks can. 

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You can get by with a lot racist hatred in this country and not ruin your company’s brand if you don’t start every conversation with, “Look, as an attendee at the cross fit 6:30 class...I gotta lot of problems with the blacks and the Jews.” 

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One of the interesting unexpected results of the increasingly volatile cultural divide is that a lot of these douches are bringing their racism into the public eye instead of the 19th hole at their club. It's about the only positive benefit, because occasionally you see a POS rich racist get a tiny bit of comeuppance. 

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  On 6/9/2020 at 10:13 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Because he's terrified.  He sees that white America will soon no longer represent the majority, and it has rustled his racist jimmies.

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  On 6/9/2020 at 10:41 PM, Biff Tannen said:

This is the real answer.

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He's a little like Pharoah. This fella heard the lamentations but turned a blind eye to the injustice and oppression and he hardened his heart. That doesn't make for a happy ending regardless of whether one believes in the Bible or lives in Chicago or New York City or Lufkin. Sooner or later, sometimes a lot later if the smitings don't get you, the waters will. Better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a changing.

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  On 6/9/2020 at 11:17 PM, Brothahorn said:

 

When Shaun King is a voice of reason..

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I think that is a topic worthy of scrutiny and would guess that encompasses a lot factors.

- proportion of Dem v GOP urban run municipalities and comparative sample size

- size/density and likelihood of 3rd party video documentation

- likelihood of local population spreading/viralizing evidence of law enforcement abuse

- heightened antagonism of more conservative law enforcement culture operating in a broader more progressive culture of urban environments

- human nature's tendency to assign negative experiences with an exclusive "other" as characteristics of that group while assigning negative experiences with a mutual group as a characteristic of that individual.

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Worth viewing in its entirety. He pretty much wraps up the whole enchilada.

 

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It ends on a very powerful note.
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  On 6/9/2020 at 11:17 PM, Brothahorn said:

 

When Shaun King is a voice of reason..

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The only people giving him props for this are MAGA folks, and they blame Dem for any and everything. 

This is very illogical, but it’s par for the course for Shaun King which is why he doesn’t have a voice.  He also steals and has been a fraud, and that is well known.  

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  On 6/10/2020 at 2:11 AM, bolverk said:

Worth viewing in its entirety. He pretty much wraps up the whole enchilada.

 

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the last 3 minutes pack a hell of a punch...more than anything else i've seen, honestly. and she's 100% right...the US is lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge. damn. 

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  On 6/10/2020 at 2:29 AM, Pancho said:

 

The only people giving him props for this are MAGA folks, and they blame Dem for any and everything. 

This is very illogical, but it’s par for the course for Shaun King which is why he doesn’t have a voice.  He also steals and has been a fraud, and that is well known.  

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Actually it's very logical and speaks to my problem with the Democratic party and it's lack of accountability.

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He also steals and has been a fraud, and that is well known

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That part is true.

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  On 6/9/2020 at 10:33 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

My ex-wife had family in South Jersey and believe me those motherfuckers can be as racist as anybody anywhere except for maybe Georgia.
 

 

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I always got this impression from personal experiences but didn't know if it was a thing

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  On 6/9/2020 at 10:13 PM, jimmyjazz said:
Because he's terrified.  He sees that white America will soon no longer represent the majority, and it has rustled his racist jimmies.

I tend to think it is more complicated than this. Mediocrity across the board is unsettling. Maybe he thinks he deserves more or better and maybe he does, and maybe be bought the bankers lie. Maybe go fuck myself.
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  On 6/9/2020 at 3:01 PM, Brisketexan said:

FIF awful accuracy.

And if he loses in November.....the horrors of the next 5 months will pale in comparison to the horrors of his lame-duck 2.5 months till January 20th.

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So just a question.  If after he loses the election and goes batshit cray, say they 25th him.  Then Pence pardons him.  Can they 25th Pence too?  

  On 6/10/2020 at 12:09 AM, Grade of D as in David said:

Seconded

 

And I'll go first.

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Donald Trump

Lives in DC

Works in Fucks up the federal government.

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FIFY

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I've always wondered how this altering of the flag was seemingly acceptable in public discourse. 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/09/the-short-fraught-history-of-the-thin-blue-line-american-flag-309767

 

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As protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe. 

Recently, the flag was flown from the back of a car alongside protests in South Dakota, and burned outside the Utah State Capitol. When deputies hoisted the flag outside government buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Orange, California, the sheriffs in both communities were sharply criticized. Officers have worn versions of the flag on face masks while clashing with protesters in Baltimoreand Washington, D.C.

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Those who fly the flag have said it stands for solidarity and professional pride within a dangerous, difficult profession and a solemn tribute to fallen police officers. But it has also been flown by white supremacists, appearing next to Confederate flags at the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville. County officials in Oregon recently paid $100,000 to a black employee of a law enforcement agency there, after she said she was harassed by co-workers for complaining about her colleagues displaying the flag at work. 

Now, as police again become the focal point of a fight for racial equality in the U.S., the flag has returned to both mirror and amplify divisions.

But how did this flag come to be so pervasive? And what does it really stand for?

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In 2014, a white college student named Andrew Jacob was watching protests of police killings of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice. He had seen the image of the flag on patches and stickers, he told The Marshall Project, but not an actual flag. While in high school in West Bloomfield, Michigan, he had attended a memorial service for a police officer who had been killed on the job. 

Now, Jacob is the president of Thin Blue Line USA, one of the largest online retailers devoted exclusively to sales of pro-police flags, T-shirts, neckwear and jewelry. “The flag has no association with racism, hatred, bigotry,” he said. “It’s a flag to show support for law enforcement—no politics involved.” The company officially disavowed its use in Charlottesville.

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  On 6/10/2020 at 12:29 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

I've always wondered how this altering of the flag was seemingly acceptable in public discourse. 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/09/the-short-fraught-history-of-the-thin-blue-line-american-flag-309767

 

 

 

 

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The police station on the edge of my neighborhood is flying this shit directly below the American flag.  Even in the sticks, pigs are scumbags. 

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  On 6/10/2020 at 1:11 PM, Horn Dog said:

Yes all cancers matter.  So does it upset you when you see those pink ribbons in October when women try to bring specific attention to one of their leading causes of death?  Do you take that as a statement of women don’t care about lung or prostate cancer? 

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No, Breast cancer doesn't effect only women, and they don't tell men that they must be allies, or that they are sexist.

 

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First time I saw the 'thin blue line' flag I really couldn't believe it...total contradiction of the flag code, but the most obvious issue was the strict devision between the black and white stripes.

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  On 6/10/2020 at 2:30 AM, Pancho said:

 

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I have no doubt they are frustrated.  But this falls squarely in the "clean your own house" category.  If the cops had spent the last few decades making sure they were beholden to the same laws as the citizens they enforce the law against, then they wouldn't be seeing this kind of backlash.  Get in front of the problem officers, and show us what you're doing to make improvements in your unions and departments.  Until that happens, you aren't going to garner much sympathy if your just the one standing by tsk-tsk-ing while your comrades are suffocating citizens with their knees. 

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The cops are going to be dragged kicking and screaming into reform. Even the Senate Republicans lukewarm bill has provisions like more de-escalation training.

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