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Hank Kingsley

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  1. 7 minutes ago, Chrispy said:

    Yeah, I saw a lot of that. I saw zero crack, that was in another stratosphere. 

    Crack is just cocaine.  White people targeted black people for their use of crack and made it seem like it was much more dangerous and scary.

    The majority of my friends were popping pills and doing cocaine in the Paradise bathroom in college.  But pills and coke are attached to white people, so no biggie.  Just part of growing up!

     

  2. 4 minutes ago, Chrispy said:

    Yes, let’s compare high school tomfoolery to smoking crack. Jesus.

    So driving while intoxicated (not me, was with a friend), kicking cop cars and threatening to kick a cop's ass(not me, with a friend),  and carrying marijuana (guilty) in high school is "tomfoolery"?   Luckily, the cops that stopped us all agreed and let us go. 

     

  3. 2 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

       No. I personally have two uncles. One on my mom's side and one on my dad's side. Both of those uncle's got huge sentences for getting caught smoking crack. One was a firefighter. One was making good money working for GM. Both lost everything, and due to the felonies that came with it, were never able to return to their former glory. One has since died(not from drugs). The other is just doing anything he can to try and keep his head above water. Neither was selling drugs, but both lost their lives for a reason that could've solved by getting them help. Both were married with two kids at the time.

    Fuuuuuck. 

  4. Hillary lost because she ran a terrible, tone-deaf campaign.  The blame should focus 100% on Hillary, her staff, and the Democratic party for doing an awful job.  Blaming minorities, 3rd party voters, or people that didn't show up to the polls is flat out wrong.

     

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  5. Spanky, you are not supposed to "hang your head in shame" regarding privilege. That's your defensive reaction to it.  But you should try to  recognize and be fully aware of it, and take appropriate action moving forward.  All of us should.

    I'd love to get into the rest of your post, but I'd spend way too much time typing it up.  Maybe later but I'm sure others will chime in with thoughts that echo mine.  Catdaddyhorn touched on one of them. 

     

  6. 3 minutes ago, Amobie said:

    I'd put this on the shoulders of the manager much more than the cops.  If the manager is saying they are trespassing and they don't remove themselves from the property, law enforcement is supposed to do it.  

    Coffee shop managers don't have much experience with these types of situations.  They get mad or scared and make an emotional decision.  They weren't hired on their ability to deal with trespassing scenarios and laws.

    Cops are supposed to be the professionals. They're in these situations on a daily basis.

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  7. 12 minutes ago, Texas_Rocks said:

    This is just nuts. Those officers could have easily avoided this by sensibly informing Starbucks that these men were just waiting for a ride and that forcibly removing them WILL NOT LOOK GOOD. But Cops!

    How hard would that have been for anyone not focused on the fact that these men were black?

    Unfortunately law enforcement typically considers any interaction a success if they "didn't do anything wrong".  

    Doing the right thing rarely enters their mind. 

     

  8. My best friend's dad is a great dude. We talk on the phone 2-3 times a week during football season.  All of his children are wonderful people.  His youngest son played safety/linebacker at a Group of 5 school, and he befriended a lot of the African-American players and their parents.  That same son just got engaged to an Iranian girl, and he's become close to their family and enjoyed his indoctrination into Persian culture. 


    Then there's his twitter account.  He tweets shit out like "No one in the media can claim Trump is morally unfit! Hypocrites!" and "Trump will eat up Mueller! Trump is too smart, experienced and successful! Mueller is an arrogant asshole!", then retweets all those silly "RT if you want to build a wall!" or "RT if you think Obama was the worst president ever" comments. You'd think he was a Russian bot until you noticed he only has 19 followers. 

    The threat is real. 

  9. 2 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Say what you will about typical politicians lying, dissembling, spinning, but never in modern memory has it been so bad, so bald-faced, so shameless, and so widespread among a major political party.   This is the kind of shit you see in tinpot dictatorships and wonder how they can say these things with a straight face.  But these are the people currently in charge of our country. 

    And this country's political discourse will never recover unless all of these shitheads are removed from office or formally charged for any criminal offenses. 

     

  10. 4 minutes ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    "this movement" has nothing to do with the lunatic fringe, but the left would love to paint them that way. The same as the "white ethnostate" nazi larpers aren't the average Trump voter.

    The movement is real people buying the bullshit from lunatic fringe commentators. 

     

  11. Mojo - Exactly. 

    Alex Jones hired Paul Joseph Watson, a total fucking weasel that has the hears of many people you'd consider "normal" if you had brief interactions with them.

    Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Mark Dice, Stefan Molyneux - all Trump or alt-right extremists - have been interviewed numerous times on Alex Jones' show.  

    And then the Cheeto King himself did an interview that absolutely validated Jones as well. 

     

    These people can't just be ignored because too many real voters are buying their bullshit. Their nonsense needs to be beaten down, heavily criticized and removed from this country's conscience as a viable opinion.  

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  12. 3 hours ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    He will be fine, he's an asset. He is just playing a character. These bums aren't going to be able to sue him for shit.

    Fake news "asset" for a group of people who complain about "fake news".  What a world. 

     

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