06-04-2020 01:17 PM
#28351
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06-04-2020 01:20 PM
#28352
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First of all, I agree with what he's saying | |
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06-04-2020 01:42 PM
#28353
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06-04-2020 01:47 PM
#28354
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06-04-2020 02:14 PM
#28355
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I feel like saying "current events are orchestrated" paints a very wide brush that includes organized peaceful protests, and organized agitators inciting otherwise peaceful protests into confrontations, and organized looting and other criminal acts. | |
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06-04-2020 02:29 PM
#28356
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I think he was either genuinely emotionally distraught, or was trying to portray as much in the video. There are moments where it looks like he's about to cry. There are abrupt jump cuts that are not his usual editing style, so it feels like this was more off-the-cuff and thrown together than his usual manicured style. | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 06-04-2020 at 02:37 PM.
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06-04-2020 02:51 PM
#28357
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I think you're looking at things a bit too cynically. To take it to the extreme, one could argue the events were orchestrated by the left who paid this cop to murder Floyd. I don't think anyonew would buy that no matter how many spliffs they smoked. | |
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06-04-2020 02:52 PM
#28358
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06-04-2020 03:12 PM
#28359
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06-04-2020 03:22 PM
#28360
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06-05-2020 10:49 AM
#28361
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In the interests of random... | |
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06-05-2020 11:49 AM
#28362
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Ong, your thoughts on black people in America are difficult to read. | |
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06-05-2020 12:02 PM
#28363
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When a star goes supernova, it emits more power than the entire rest of the galaxy. | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 06-05-2020 at 12:05 PM.
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06-05-2020 12:09 PM
#28364
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Supernova rather than white dwarf? | |
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06-05-2020 12:18 PM
#28365
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White dwarf is a stellar remnant, what is left of the star after the supernova. | |
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06-05-2020 01:54 PM
#28366
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06-05-2020 02:00 PM
#28367
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06-05-2020 03:07 PM
#28368
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Leaving Earth isn't enough for that, ong. You'd need to leave the solar system. | |
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06-05-2020 04:27 PM
#28369
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I could get abducted by aliens and taken out of the solar system. | |
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06-05-2020 04:46 PM
#28370
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06-05-2020 07:33 PM
#28371
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"If we can't even knock out an old man who's peacefully protesting, then this isn't the job we signed up for!" | |
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06-05-2020 07:36 PM
#28372
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Meanwhile, Capt. Retard is at it again. | |
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06-06-2020 04:18 AM
#28373
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06-06-2020 11:15 AM
#28374
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Well, apparently I was wrong on this. | |
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06-06-2020 11:33 AM
#28375
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No one is saying that arsonists, looters, and people assaulting police officers by throwing rocks at them are not criminals. | |
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06-06-2020 12:09 PM
#28376
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Cool, happy to be correct for once | |
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06-06-2020 01:56 PM
#28377
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update: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1269...316442625?s=20 | |
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06-06-2020 01:58 PM
#28378
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06-06-2020 02:29 PM
#28379
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06-06-2020 03:31 PM
#28380
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Ong presidents don't make laws, governments do. In the case of US, the congress sponsors a bill, which needs a simple majority to pass. It then goes to senate and if they agree to it the president can still veto it. If he doesn't he signs it into law. The president can sign executive orders, which the next president can change at will. | |
06-06-2020 05:45 PM
#28381
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Best graffiti ever... | |
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06-06-2020 05:48 PM
#28382
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06-06-2020 06:20 PM
#28383
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https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/st...30545974132736 | |
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06-06-2020 06:27 PM
#28384
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^ I should add the tweet says the protesters knocked the policeman off the horse. That isn't true, the traffic lights took him off the horse. Why the horse bolted is open to debate. | |
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06-06-2020 06:40 PM
#28385
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06-06-2020 06:42 PM
#28386
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The same horse went on the trample a pedestrian in its panic. | |
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06-06-2020 06:42 PM
#28387
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Turns out the "policeman" is a she. | |
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06-06-2020 06:44 PM
#28388
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At this point you should kinda notice yourself that you're being hyper sensitive when it comes to men in nice boots, but when a black guy gets murdered you're like: let's wait until all the evidence is in! | |
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06-06-2020 06:45 PM
#28389
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06-06-2020 06:47 PM
#28390
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It's pretty perverted to get off on someone getting seriously injured for sure. | |
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06-06-2020 06:51 PM
#28391
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06-06-2020 06:53 PM
#28392
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So much for social distancing. | |
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06-06-2020 06:57 PM
#28393
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06-06-2020 06:59 PM
#28394
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I don't think it's funny, I just don't see the outrage. Nobody's being a hypocrite. Black people aren't strangling themselves. This is self inflicted. That is someone who didn't need to be on a horse falling from a horse. Happens all the time. I fell off plenty of horses plenty of times. Both figuratively and literally. | |
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06-06-2020 07:03 PM
#28395
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Surprisingly, you're largely wrong here. Horses are resilient as fuck when it comes to these matters, that's why they've been used in battlefields for as long as they've been domesticated. But I don't care how resilient you are, if you're a horse and a bottle hits that massive dick of yours, you're gonna bolt. Occasionally it happens, but for the most part they are very well trained. Even then, injuries are usually more serious if you fall off a horse, rather than get trampled by one. | |
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06-06-2020 07:07 PM
#28396
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I didn't say they panic all day every day. But the one who took its rider into a sign was clearly in a panic. Their flighty animals - no matter how well trained they are, when the switch goes off, there's no reining them in. | |
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06-06-2020 07:08 PM
#28397
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I wasn't directing that at your specifically, rather the protesters who were laughing. | |
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06-06-2020 07:12 PM
#28398
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I couldn't tell you specifically what advantage horses have over dogs, but when it comes to controlling football hooligans, horses are effective. The problem with dogs I guess is that if you let them off the lead, they could cause too much harm. | |
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06-06-2020 07:18 PM
#28399
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If I were a cop I'd rather they gave me a dog than put me on a horse. The dog's not going to take me anywhere I don't want to go, like face first into a sign. | |
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06-06-2020 07:19 PM
#28400
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There might even be an element of training going on. I mean, these horses won't have had any human contact for some time, due to the fact there has been no football, or any other large public events where they are deployed. The police may have decided it was a good opportunity to get them up to speed, perhaps underestimating the motives of the crowd. | |
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06-06-2020 07:19 PM
#28401
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IDK if the optics are different in the UK, but police bringing threatening dogs to a protest in the US would be so much worse than simply saying there are vicious dogs protecting the White House, which there probably are. | |
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06-06-2020 07:21 PM
#28402
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You would not ever get me on a horse. Fuck that. I like dogs a lot more. Horses are ok, but if I share a field with one, I'm aware of where it is at all times, and I'm never directly behind it. With that said, people who work with horses would not agree with this comment of yours. | |
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06-06-2020 07:23 PM
#28403
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Normally I'd agree with you Mojo, but we're kinda beyond optics at this point I think. | |
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06-06-2020 07:24 PM
#28404
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06-06-2020 07:25 PM
#28405
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06-06-2020 07:27 PM
#28406
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06-06-2020 07:28 PM
#28407
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06-06-2020 07:28 PM
#28408
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Yeah. The optics of having people dressed like police and acting like police, but not clearly marked as police was enough to get the mayors of those places to call it out, so really bad optics, too. | |
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06-06-2020 07:31 PM
#28409
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06-06-2020 07:32 PM
#28410
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St Louis has mounted police. The horses are trained to be familiar with city noises and smells, and are often seen near any large gathering of people. I think the advantage is mostly a higher vantage point above the crowds for police, and slightly more mobility. Plus, like ong said, people will generally get out of the way of a horse. | |
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06-06-2020 07:32 PM
#28411
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06-06-2020 07:34 PM
#28412
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AFAIK, most police dogs are trained for their noses, not their teeth. | |
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06-06-2020 07:39 PM
#28413
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They don't use alsatians for their noses. | |
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06-06-2020 07:51 PM
#28414
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We need more protesters like this guy. | |
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06-06-2020 08:00 PM
#28415
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06-06-2020 08:04 PM
#28416
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This is beyond parody at this point. | |
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06-06-2020 08:16 PM
#28417
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Alsatians are German shepherds, and yes they're used as basically attack dogs. They would possibly assist cops who are going to break down a door and go charging into a house. Or, if you were going to use a dog for crowd control, this would be your guy. | |
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06-06-2020 08:29 PM
#28418
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Apparently the most common dog in the UK police is the Malinois, a breed I'm unfamiliar with. It's a shepherd dog, they use them to guard the White House. They have good noses, so maybe we don't use hounds all that much. I just assumed we would, they have the best noses iirc. | |
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06-06-2020 08:57 PM
#28419
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Cool. Thanks. | |
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06-07-2020 07:45 PM
#28420
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Wow. | |
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06-07-2020 08:47 PM
#28421
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Yeah. It's not exactly what it sounds like, AFAICT. | |
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06-10-2020 05:07 AM
#28422
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Racism, by definition, is prejudices based on race or color. We all have prejudices, they're an inherent property of our minds. Our brains have limited capacity, and the intricacies of human interaction and everything we interact with in the world are complex, it takes a lot of effort to fully understand them, weigh all things individually and apply them to all of our decisions and actions. | |
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06-10-2020 05:59 AM
#28423
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06-10-2020 06:01 AM
#28424
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06-10-2020 07:20 AM
#28425
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