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KirbyKhan posted:There's like 7 different angles I saw of a burning apartment building. I know proceedure is to wait for the scene to be secure, but that poo poo was secure for FD. When you are a city and a building is on fire you HAVE TO put water on the fire. It is a requirement for civilization. It is not a priviliage, it's not a resource, it is what a city has to do whether it starts from a ciggarrette, an electric blanket, or god damned godzilla. You don't just let it burn. Some boots on the ground said it was still under construction and therefore unoccupied - might be why FD didn't respond, especially given other fires in the area like the AutoZone, delicious chemicals in there.
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MrMojok posted:I really think a lot of the "elite" in this country have lived for a long time believing a number of false suppositions. And by "elite" I don't mean the people who make a lot of money and have nice homes. I mean the ones who make laws, and others who don't but whose whose wealth is nearly incomprehensible; some of whom who make policy directly, and some who greatly influence policy. We are a nicer Mexico, not a crappier Sweeden.
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# ? May 28, 2020 12:10 |
I didn’t enlist because any type of patriotism. But man does it feel like my time in is getting poo poo on these days or what.
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# ? May 28, 2020 12:12 |
Goddamn that video was so much worse than I was expecting. Something about all the people in the crowd yelling to stop killing him while he just dies is really upsetting. It's almost like being stubborn is the whole point.
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# ? May 28, 2020 12:21 |
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It’s about entitlement. America’s greatest problems can all be traced back to entitlement. We think we are better and just deserve things, whatever they may be or however much they may support our murderous egos.
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# ? May 28, 2020 12:57 |
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It's because conservatives are a death cult and when shown that video grew tumescent hth. The violence is the entire point
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ded posted:I kind of wish there was an Aldi near me. I've never been to one. The experience varies greatly based on where you live. When I was growing up in a blue collar, racially diverse area of the city I went to the nearest Aldi and it was grim. Dingy, poorly stocked, felt like I was shopping at a food pantry run by people who didn't like you. A couple years ago, a friend of mine (white, low six figures household income) said that Aldi was actually awesome and I should give it another chance. So I went to one near where I work (not far from the area where I grew up, also blue collar and majority African American) and it was still the dingy land of dented cans and wilted lettuce. So gently caress Aldi. And don't tell me that grocery stores are all like that because they aren't. I go to the other stores near where I work all the time and they're just fine.
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Stultus Maximus posted:And don't tell me that grocery stores are all like that because they aren't. I go to the other stores near where I work all the time and they're just fine. Someone else with a better degree than mine can probably spend hours discussing the vicious cycle of treating people like they are garbage leading to people who internalize that they are garbage leading to a hosed up society.
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stealie72 posted:
Systemic racism. As someone that isn’t affected by that, but has been heavily influenced by a culture of selfishness and individualism, the system was also built to brainwash white people into not giving a poo poo. Racism is in all of our roots. Woofer fucked around with this message at 13:28 on May 28, 2020 |
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Also classism.
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Woofer posted:Systemic racism. As someone that isn’t affected by that, but has been heavily influenced by a culture of selfishness and individualism, the system was also built to brainwash white people into not giving a poo poo. Even for those who aren't out and proud jackboots, expect to hear a lot of tut tutting about this from the neoliberal crowd. Cmon, yellowstone.
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# ? May 28, 2020 14:21 |
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According to Robert Evans, last night the boogaloo types were on the ground carrying weapons trying to bait the cops into firing at the protestors so that they can then fire back at the police and kick off their civil war. So, yeah, fun times ahead.
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# ? May 28, 2020 14:30 |
It's like letting those people walk armed into the capitol to protest emboldened them further or something. That Works fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 28, 2020 |
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:its because they dont want you to experience the fully legal rush of throwing old car batteries into the ocean Everything sucks and I hate the hellworld we're all living in but it's the little things that still make me chuckle. Thanks for this.
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I finally listened to It Could Happen Here last week. The timing feels wild. stealie72 posted:One could argue we have been a very rich third world country for a while. Massive inequality with a huge amount of people living in poverty, an increasingly kleptocratic ruling class, lack of investment in public goods... The only difference between the US and a banana republic is scale.
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Woofer posted:I didn’t enlist because any type of patriotism. But man does it feel like my time in is getting poo poo on these days or what. I felt pretty awful after my time in anyway, but I keep looking back on it as something more and more heinous.
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kraken! posted:
Same. My thought is a combo of “this is what it’s like to lose a war”, “my friends that were injured, it was all for nothing*”, and “the death cultists have taken over”. Speaking of death cultists...when “25 spectators” means 2,500 are allowed! https://www.newsobserver.com/news/rebuild/article243018751.html
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# ? May 28, 2020 15:44 |
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Senator Tim Kaine had the Rona. https://twitter.com/TalKopan/status/1266018561572646912?s=19 Rand Paul's neighbor continues to have done nothing wrong.
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Arven posted:According to Robert Evans, last night the boogaloo types were on the ground carrying weapons trying to bait the cops into firing at the protestors so that they can then fire back at the police and kick off their civil war. So, yeah, fun times ahead. So a triangle of fire? Also this is one of the most disturbing parts of the riots so far.
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# ? May 28, 2020 16:08 |
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There is video evidence of know racist asshats trying to get in with the protesters
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Woofer posted:I didn’t enlist because any type of patriotism. But man does it feel like my time in is getting poo poo on these days or what. Think about your time in as valuable to those you served with, not the people of this godforsaken shithole or any of the ungrateful politicians that gladhand vet orgs for photo ops. Because in the end, nothing matters and we're all going to die anyhow. Best you can do sometimes is think about how maybe you helped someone along the way. It might be hard to look back on now, but there's inherent good in the small communities we all traipsed through in the service. It's all about perspective. Of course there's a bunch of fuckos out there that are going to ruin it, there always have been, but we've also been rolling in that gladhand troop praise for years and it's not something we should celebrate, but that doesn't mean we should be overlooked, or overlooking, what's going on in the country now. This country needs to burn for a while, show our problems naked in the flames. Nothing is going to improve until the majority are feeling the pain, all we can do is watch and say, "I told you so" when it's all over.
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# ? May 28, 2020 16:34 |
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Anyone else notice that Trump retweeted a video from "Real Cowboys" this morning that explicitly said "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265855459719892993?s=20
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facialimpediment posted:Senator Tim Kaine had the Rona. Yeah he did. He only did it once.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's because conservatives are a death cult and when shown that video grew tumescent hth. The violence is the entire point I support any and all actions to disenfranchise and marginalize the hicks in this country. I used to care about my country as a whole but now I honestly could not give two shits about what happens to the yokels.
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# ? May 28, 2020 16:39 |
https://twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/status/1266015676788965376 Just a few bad apples led by and protected by a bad apple.
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# ? May 28, 2020 16:45 |
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loving KILLS me that the only decent union left in the US exists for the benefit of cops.
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You're forgetting prisons
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Milo and POTUS posted:You're forgetting prisons And Border Patrol
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# ? May 28, 2020 17:00 |
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Are those not in the cop unions?
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# ? May 28, 2020 17:03 |
Those institutions seem to have something in common but I can’t quite put my knee on it....
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https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1266029780123758594 To gently caress up so bad that the FOP won't defend you or even just put out a non-statement
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They'll hang these guys out to dry while quietly resisting any and every attempt to institute meaningful policy changes and independent investigatory bodies.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1266029780123758594 I’m cynical enough to think they know this is an uphill battle so they’re just gonna throw this guy to the wolves so they can maintain the pretense of actually giving a poo poo about police brutality. Kinda like how drug cartels will let one shipment get seized so that they can get 10 other shipments in.
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Fallom posted:They'll hang these guys out to dry while quietly resisting any and every attempt to institute meaningful policy changes and independent investigatory bodies. All the cops in the twin cities not barricading themselves inside their precinct were forming a human wall around the murder's house. I don't think they're going to hang him out to dry. https://twitter.com/theelovelylaya/status/1265899290825818112
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Immanentized posted:Anyone else notice that Trump retweeted a video from "Real Cowboys" this morning that explicitly said "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat" Oh, good. That's super cool and doesn't cause any problems at all.
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Immanentized posted:Anyone else notice that Trump retweeted a video from "Real Cowboys" this morning that explicitly said "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat" It's been commented on quite a bit by media, but there's a bit of a mitigating circumstance - he likely didn't watch the whole thing, or he's an idiot that didn't check, or his staff didn't watch the whole thing, or his staff is a bunch of idiots. Example: https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1265848008111001601?s=19 Dude saw a Lou Dobbs video, smashed the ol' comment-retweet button, then failed to recognize that the actual tweeter was a Media Matters For America guy. Edit: hey, an actual thing getting fixed that doesn't gently caress over are troops https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1266043527957483523?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 28, 2020 |
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Apparently Zuckerbot went on Fox News this morning to lambast Twitter fact checking Trump. https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1265790114455838731
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facialimpediment posted:It's been commented on quite a bit by media, but there's a bit of a mitigating circumstance - he likely didn't watch the whole thing, or he's an idiot that didn't check, or his staff didn't watch the whole thing, or his staff is a bunch of idiots. How hard would it be to make a law making orders that fall just short of benefit thresholds illegal?
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