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Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 3:34 pm
by zombie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... rc404=true
this is the same as saying that part of the solution to mass shootings is to stop making violent video games. educate those who partake (including law enforcement officers etc), to the nuance and context and history depicted in their entertainments, before you decide that they need to be done away with.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 3:35 pm
by zombie
Headhunter wrote:A disproportionate number of black people have been in jail for a long time because of minor drug offenses. Back when everyone was doing coke, white users went on to live normal lives and raise families and get good jobs. Entire generations of black men were locked up for doing essentially the same things.
America needs to reckon with how badly it has consistently fucked over the black community. And probably more than half of this country doesn’t even want to have those conversations because they’re by nature uncomfortable and they think their empathy means guilt, which is bullshit.
i didn't even think about the severity of the crime that they are arrested for. that's another good thing to discuss.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 3:39 pm
by Headhunter
zombie wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... rc404=true
this is the same as saying that part of the solution to mass shootings is to stop making violent video games. educate those who partake (including law enforcement officers etc), to the nuance and context and history depicted in their entertainments, before you decide that they need to be done away with.
Yeah that’s a no dawg.
Talking about entertainment does raise an interesting question: the idea of bad policing and corrupt cops have been pervasive in our entertainment for damn near a century. Everyone has been exposed to it. Do people just passively accept that as being part of the culture, or is there some real denial about it projecting into reality? Those writers and filmmakers didn’t just pull these ideas out of thin air.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 3:48 pm
by Headhunter
On an international protesting note, I would not be surprised if King Leopold statues in Brussels get taken down. No African colonists were more brutal than the Belgians, and Brussels is a very black city today. I doubt I’ve seen more mixed race couples and children anywhere in the world than I did in Brussels.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 4:03 pm
by zombie
Headhunter wrote:zombie wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... rc404=true
this is the same as saying that part of the solution to mass shootings is to stop making violent video games. educate those who partake (including law enforcement officers etc), to the nuance and context and history depicted in their entertainments, before you decide that they need to be done away with.
Yeah that’s a no dawg.
Talking about entertainment does raise an interesting question: the idea of bad policing and corrupt cops have been pervasive in our entertainment for damn near a century. Everyone has been exposed to it. Do people just passively accept that as being part of the culture, or is there some real denial about it projecting into reality? Those writers and filmmakers didn’t just pull these ideas out of thin air.
it seems to be a forgone conclusion that it is just a part of life. same as when corrupt businessmen or politicians are depicted in fiction.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 4:19 pm
by Headhunter
Also, there’s a real palpable feeling of change going on all over this country. Even the redneck backwoods towns from East Texas to the Panhandle are experiencing small protests. Being a part of it yesterday, I personally felt inspired and it was a great cultural experience to go through. Trump cannot win this culture war screaming “LAW & ORDER!” every day. He just can’t.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 5:09 pm
by Headhunter
Mitt Romney joining protests, echoing his father George’s involvement in the Civil Rights movement.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:23 pm
by showa58taro
I like Romney more and more these days
Also big step by Colin Powell. That was a very big voice for Biden.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 7:07 pm
by Headhunter
The BLM protest happening in Vidor, Texas that attracted a couple hundred people is pretty incredible. That’s a notoriously racist KKK stronghold in Southeast Texas that used to have signs warning black people to be out of town by sundown. People who drive that stretch don’t stop in that town for anything.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:16 pm
by Jmac Attack
Headhunter wrote:The BLM protest happening in Vidor, Texas that attracted a couple hundred people is pretty incredible. That’s a notoriously racist KKK stronghold in Southeast Texas that used to have signs warning black people to be out of town by sundown. People who drive that stretch don’t stop in that town for anything.
My dad had a picture he took back in the early 60s of a sign in Waverly, Ohio. It read "n****r dont let the sun shine on your ass".
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:22 pm
by Jmac Attack
showa58taro wrote:I like Romney more and more these days
Also big step by Colin Powell. That was a very big voice for Biden.
Good to see some conservatives having a backbone.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:29 pm
by Headhunter
Jmac Attack wrote:Headhunter wrote:The BLM protest happening in Vidor, Texas that attracted a couple hundred people is pretty incredible. That’s a notoriously racist KKK stronghold in Southeast Texas that used to have signs warning black people to be out of town by sundown. People who drive that stretch don’t stop in that town for anything.
My dad had a picture he took back in the early 60s of a sign in Waverly, Ohio. It read "n****r dont let the sun shine on your ass".
Sundown towns. They existed in every corner of the country.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:30 am
by showa58taro
Jmac Attack wrote:showa58taro wrote:I like Romney more and more these days
Also big step by Colin Powell. That was a very big voice for Biden.
Good to see some conservatives having a backbone.
The volume of pro Biden and anti Trump voices are becoming more pronounced. It’s incredible to watch.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:29 pm
by Headhunter
Ben “FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!” Shapiro, a supposed “conservative intellectual” who is an absolute pussy in every imaginable way, says he might be done watching sports because the politics are taking him out of his “place of comfort”.
No way there’s a bigger pussy alive than Little Ben Shapiro.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:40 pm
by zombie
Headhunter wrote:Ben “FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!” Shapiro, a supposed “conservative intellectual” who is an absolute pussy in every imaginable way, says he might be done watching sports because the politics are taking him out of his “place of comfort”.
No way there’s a bigger pussy alive than Little Ben Shapiro.
i needed a smile.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:43 pm
by Jmac Attack
Headhunter wrote:Ben “FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!” Shapiro, a supposed “conservative intellectual” who is an absolute pussy in every imaginable way, says he might be done watching sports because the politics are taking him out of his “place of comfort”.
No way there’s a bigger pussy alive than Little Ben Shapiro.
Can't stand the guy.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:46 pm
by Headhunter
zombie wrote:Headhunter wrote:Ben “FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!” Shapiro, a supposed “conservative intellectual” who is an absolute pussy in every imaginable way, says he might be done watching sports because the politics are taking him out of his “place of comfort”.
No way there’s a bigger pussy alive than Little Ben Shapiro.
i needed a smile.
If you want to turn it into a laugh, listen to his voice and imagine him launching into a political rant about masculinity being under attack.
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:48 pm
by Headhunter
Jmac Attack wrote:Headhunter wrote:Ben “FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!” Shapiro, a supposed “conservative intellectual” who is an absolute pussy in every imaginable way, says he might be done watching sports because the politics are taking him out of his “place of comfort”.
No way there’s a bigger pussy alive than Little Ben Shapiro.
Can't stand the guy.
How do the big truck driving, animal hunting, hard drinkin’ REAL MEN on the right listen to this guy and not want to dunk his head into a toilet?
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:38 am
by Headhunter
Re: Random Political Comments
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:50 am
by Reign in Blood
showa58taro wrote:The protests are essential. The exposing of police brutality during a protest about police brutality is the greatest part of all this.
I don't know. Now a lot of people are worrying about a second wave because of this. Weren't you all about the lockdown, masks,the greater good which is to help save other people's lives? People mass congregating in the filthy streets, spreading disease, not caring about any of the lives of the people right next to them, that's a p good part.