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  1. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Aug 29, 2020
    the police k--- tons of white people every year—more than non-white people by pure volume—but black people (and latinos, and indigenous people) are killed at a higher rate, just as they’re indicted and convicted at a higher rate than white people for comparable crimes, just as they receive, on average, longer prison sentences. so in that sense it is about race.
     
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  2. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Aug 29, 2020
    I hear people saying we should defund the police???

    Whats next? Defund the military?

    Then what? Use that money to help people???
     
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  3. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jul 28, 2020
    I'll buy you a pizza hut gift card if you register and vote in this election
     
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  4. Oldboy
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    Oldboy

    Jun 21, 2020
    Also. My years of internet bullying and chasing peasants has developed my ability to spot cucks

    agentorange is literally a cuck. If i had to put money i would say he cuck using the secret service men
     
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  5. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jun 9, 2020
    I get what you mean. Possibly the scariest thing about his presidency to me is how he's warped the meaning of truth in our country. Anything bad about him he just says is a lie over and over to the point that it hardly matters what's true and what's not true because a large sect of people will believe him no matter what. I think it's healthy to be a bit of a skeptic in terms of most news sources because they all have their biases but he's warped public perception of virtually all media sources.
     
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  6. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 9, 2020
    said it before: we’ve had plenty of presidents as evil as trump but none even remotely as dumb
     
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  7. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jun 9, 2020
    how does anyone stand by this piece of s---
     
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  8. Oldboy
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    Oldboy

    Jun 9, 2020
    Yikes at first two mins

    first of all. Even if we assumed floyd is the biggest piece of s--- ever. This is about the injustice to black people, it doesnt matter which symbol created the trigger
     
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  9. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Jun 8, 2020
    Michael....

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  10. Goku187
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    Goku187

    Jun 8, 2020
    you should be embarrassed
     
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  11. Boos
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    Boos Nova Nation

    Jun 6, 2020
    Does he think anyone is gonna read that
     
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  12. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jun 6, 2020
    Went to a march in ATL today. The route was not made public beforehand so there were no cops aside from two I saw blocking a street along the way. Everything remained 100% peaceful. No property damage. No tear gas. No broken glass. No violence whatsoever.
     
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  13. Oldboy
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    Oldboy

    Jun 6, 2020
    space monkey and @Donkey Kong Cuntry relationship reminds me of that scene in movies where a character hates a character for so long then a third character comes along and ask the first character why you hate the second character so much. Then the first will look up the sky and let out a smile and says i dont even remember anymore


    If i had to guess based on movies. Sm and c---- will end up best friends
     
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  14. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    Jun 5, 2020
    I had so many people defriend me on Facebook after Kony. Every year I would post #Kony2013, 2014, etc maybe the hashtag will work this year guys. Kony can't k--- children when you add a hashtag to his name
     
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  15. Dew
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    Dew سيف الله

    Jun 4, 2020
     
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  16. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Jun 4, 2020
    snitch!
     
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  17. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 2, 2020
    andy you have to understand though: whether by you or by local news anchors, the goalposts for approved/acceptable protests will always keep being moved no matter what protesters do. i'm too tired to get back into it but the reason i kept pestering you to explain how they "should" act is because there is no course of action they could take that would guarantee (or even strongly predict) a lack of escalation by the cops and a huge backlash in a lot of media. musing about a rebellion's "shortcomings" is a choice you're free to make but your suggestion that a movement could inoculate itself against that is simply not true.

    when protesters in minneapolis did nothing other than occupy a freeway a few years ago, a big trend in local news was the question of whether they could/should be collectively charged with homicide when their presence inevitably prevented someone from getting to the hospital––this despite there being video of them swiftly and without incident letting an ambulance pass through.
     
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  18. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Jun 2, 2020


    someone please torch Ben Shapiro’s house for the love of god.
     
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  19. Dew
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    Dew سيف الله

    Jun 2, 2020
    this is a WPG stan account
     
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  20. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jun 1, 2020
    I don't want playgrounds to be burned. I don't want homes to be burned. I wish nothing had to be burned and I wish no one had to be murdered.

    As @Enigma said, I'm more interested in asking larger questions such as: why did it have to come this far in the first place? I've said this before and I'll say it again: as a general rule I'm against stealing and burning things down. But why didn't our government do anything sooner? Why was curbing police brutality not a priority?

    People protest peacefully and try to make their voices heard by doing so in places they are visible to millions of people such as football games and awards shows. People didn't like that. Cops continued to brutalize and murder citizens. We hit a breaking point and people began to mass protest. Protests are escalated by cops (and before people get on me for this: yes, I know that protesters have escalated things too). Riots break out. Things get burned and things get stolen. Cops are attacking medics and children and journalists and legislators. Trump is going to call in the military to stop protests.

    I just think we're sitting here being all like "oh my god, why is this happening? It doesn't have to be this way!" and you're completely right. It didn't have to be this way.

    If we had a government that cared about police reform it didn't have to be this way.

    If the so-called "good cops" were actually good cops and didn't defend the bad cops, it didn't have to be this way.

    If we allowed people to peacefully protest and cops didn't try to curb people from marching, it didn't have to be this way.

    But the sad truth is that none of the above happened and this is where we are. I don't want it to be like this, but I'm at a loss.

    And so I ask you: what's the alternative right now if cops protect cops, courts protect cops, the government protects cops, and people are cannot peacefully protest en masse? I genuinely do not know. I just want you guys to understand that I don't think this is an ideal solution by any means. I just think that, unless someone proposes a better way that's actually viable, it's more important to show solidarity to our fellow citizens than to focus on theft and such. Because I'd rather a playground get burned down than another innocent person murdered by the police.
     
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