Best Posts: America is burning

  1. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Jun 20, 2020
    This dude is posting essays by nazi apologists lol.
     
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  2. Kon
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    Kon

    Jun 20, 2020
    feel like there's gonna be deaths in Tulsa tonight tbh, hope I'm wrong..

    My guess is after the rally is when it'll get craziest, that's when all the Trump supporters are most fired up after having seen him and it'll be dark by then too.
     
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  3. Lil Squeed
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    Lil Squeed French Montana Stan

    Jun 17, 2020
    I'm mainly advocating for them because I ordered some NAV masks from his last album and they won't ship for another 2 weeks or some s--- so I need them to stay cool so I can wear them when they get here.
     
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  4. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 15, 2020
    well, no, it's provable through a ton of metrics
    it very literally is––refer to the white house tapes enigma mentioned
    untrue
    "law and order" initiatives usually create more "crime"
    we stop it because it's designed to imprison people, often black and non-white
    is this your same outlook on the pharmaceutical industry?
    the way police are trained creates more violence during civilian interaction than it prevents; of course racial biases exacerbate this
    first of all, no you haven't. second, we've seen time and again that the police will murder even the black people who are following procedure and doing everything properly. so why would they assume good faith on the part of the cops?
    "black on black crime" is exactly as real as "white on white crime"
    the both-sidesism in america is so exhausting and so stupid; of course there are right and wrong sides to some issues
    blm is a constant presence in most major cities
     
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  5. Boos
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    Boos Nova Nation

    Jun 15, 2020
    Yea the one on the left is a protest put together by a bunch of citizens that deemed the injustice to blacks in our country is more important to bring awareness to over the risk of corona. The one on the right is an irresponsible decision made by the most powerful man in the universe to put together an unneeded rally for an election in the midst of a pandemic.
     
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  6. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Jun 14, 2020
    This is a fundamental misunderstanding for a lot of people. Systemic racism doesn’t require individuals to hold like white supremacist beliefs. No one believes every single cop is a racist on a personal level. It’s the system, or in other words, their training, protocols, & laws they enforce that are racist because they disproportionately impact people of color. A person can join the police force with purely good intentions but are still contributing to systemic racism because that’s how the system is set up.

    In regards to the man shot here, I don’t know anything about the personal beliefs of the officer who shot him. However, his training led to him shooting an African-American man in the back while running away. That’s not a “mistake,” we see this happen far too often. That is how the system is set up to work.

    CC: @Michael Myers because he could learn a thing or two.
     
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  7. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 11, 2020
     
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  8. Zeugma
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    Zeugma thugger thugger my brother

    Jun 11, 2020
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  9. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Jun 11, 2020
    I didn’t go live, my pregnant fiancé is in the hospital and has been since Friday.
    So I didn’t go to the protest
     
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  10. lil uzi vert stan
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    Jun 10, 2020
    so, quick research, i dated ur familys origins in canada to the mcgill family from scotland. paull... we need to talk:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McGill

    "As a fur trader, slave owner and land owner, he further diversified his activities into land speculation and the timber trade."
     
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  11. Lil Squeed
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    Lil Squeed French Montana Stan

    Jun 10, 2020
    take it out of their armored vehicle budget
     
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  12. Goku187
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    Jun 10, 2020
    that's not what he's saying, at all. Some of these reforms that people are rightfully demanding (like body cameras for example) actually cost money
     
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  13. Lucy
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    Lucy #1

    Jun 10, 2020
    i always knew andy would turn on WPG one day, this is fantastic
     
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  14. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    Jun 9, 2020
    lol

     
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  15. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jun 9, 2020
    I just found out my friend's brother (who is schizophrenic) survived a gunshot wound to the head from a cop responding to a mental health crisis. This is why I don't care about "8 can't wait" because how is that going to stop this from happening? A centimeter difference and he could have been dead or permanently brain damaged. Why are we sending a guy with a gun to respond to this?
     
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  16. Kon
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    Kon

    Jun 8, 2020



    more f----- up behavior by the MPD..
     
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  17. Buddha
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    Jun 8, 2020
    I’m not sure what y’all think of John Oliver, but last night he talked about some realistic police reform that many people in the country can probably get behind. The first half of the episode he spends talking about all the police brutality from the past week and how we got here (from a historical perspective).

    But the 2nd half of the video is where he dives into some of the ideas y’all are saying, stuff like defunding police and diverting that money to departments that specialize in dealing with issues like homelessness, addiction, and mental health. He talks about using de-escalation techniques instead of resorting to physical violence, getting rid of qualified immunity so individual officers can be held accountable when they commit crimes, explains the major issue across the nation with police unions being way too powerful, etc.

    Here’s a link if anyone is interested. I recommend it.
     
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  18. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jun 8, 2020
    I don't have a 25-point proposal any more than you had one for an alternative to the protests/rioting. Maybe "from the ground up" wasn't the best phrase to use because I'm sure there would be resources and other bits and pieces that would cary over to whatever you would call this more community-based approach of public safety. What I mean is that I don't think it's possible to truly reform "the police" as we know it so in my view it needs to be defunded, disbanded, and those funds reallocated to things like mental health services, social services, public housing, etc.

    The police is largely reactive—and don't get me wrong, there's a time and place for reactive measures and we need a specialized group to respond to things like shootings, hostages, etc.—but I think reinvesting this money in the community is a proactive measure that can help stop people from committing certain crimes in the first place, making sure our citizens feel seen and cared for. And then having more money for social services and such can ensure a more specially trained person can arrive at a scene instead of "guy with gun" being the default response for every call (obviously if it's a potentially dangerous situation we wouldn't send a social worker in on their own or at all depending on the severity of the situation).

    I agree with you that that's open to interpretation and of course it's hard to get people protesting in 50 states on the exact same page. Different cities will have different results. People are fighting for different things...but from my experience at protests so far it feels like the goals are becoming more and more focused...I'm hearing more 'defund the police' and less '8 can't wait' yesterday vs. last tuesday. And just like with the slacktivist black square bs it's even more of a reason to get out there, let your voice be heard, and help guide the movement to something meaningful in any small way you can.
     
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  19. Oldboy
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    Jun 8, 2020
    Oh ok

    can someone link me gri stream
     
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  20. Lucy
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    Lucy #1

    Jun 7, 2020
    yeah now nobody says anything lmfao. f--- them covid a--- yello n----s. thanks for proving everyone else point here though; you're a contrarian autistic fa---- who gets mad when he doesn't have the last word.
    same with youy "HEY GUYS. DAVID DORNER. HUH?! HUH!? YEAAAAH. HYPOCRITS!" when it was discussed for like 8 pages already and every shared your viewpoint on it you dumb r-----ed c---- lmao

    this is just fucken weird. "the only thing that would faze me is a critical rebuttal of my views"

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL get off the internet you fucken virgin freak c----
     
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