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Brisketexan

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  1. 1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

    it sure is if you are getting pulled over because of the color of your skin.  

    Bingo.

    It's easy to rant about how everyone should RESPECT THE AUTHORITAH of Officer Tinydick when Officer Tinydick doesn't pull you over 5 times a year for bullshit because of your race.  And of course, it's also swell to utterly ignore and deny the numerous instances -- literally fucking recorded on audio and video - of cops issuing contrary instructions like "don't move" and "get out of the car" and stupid shit like that.

    Go back to licking boots.  The submissive pose is your home, you should stay there.

  2. 1 minute ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    Lulz. I don’t lick boots. I’m just a respectful person to all until otherwise dictated. I don’t live my life trying to send messages like you SJWs. 

    You're just cool with armed officers of the state arresting people for disrespecting them.

    That you don't see that this makes you the biggest gutless pussy around puts me in a conundrum: what's more pathetic about you, your ignorance, or your gutlessness?

  3. 2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    He thinks Un has a great and beautiful vision for North Korea because Un has the same vision for North Korea that Trump has with the United States.

    WILDCAT GETS THE PRIZE!

    Seriously, the POTUS is sucking off totalitarian dictators -- totally normal, totally cool.  This is what you are, GOP.  This is EXACTLY what you've become.  Syphilitic autocrat-fellating sycophants of a dotard.

  4. 13 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    I hate cops with a passion but this is flawed logic. Cops have guns. Why would they ever let a dog successfully maul them to death? Of course there are going to be zero incidents of a dog killing a cop. Because when they are attacked, they put them down. As they should. I know the nutty dog culture we have in this country puts a dog's life over humans many times but I have zero issue with firing at a dog attacking you. Any dog that attacks in general needs to be put down anyways. No place in society for dogs who do that (although the owners will 95% side with the dog and say he was "provoked"). A cop should never be mauled by a dog because he has means to diffuse the situation. Now I am not condoning shooting a dog just because it's looking at you but if it is attacking you with blood on its mind, sure. Stray dogs are an issue in many cities (South Dallas being one). These dogs are no longer domesticated and are functioning on pure survival skills and will eat anything it can, including humans. Any dog off a leash that is attacking is pretty dangerous. 

    Back to the actual shooting, though. There was a witness who swears it did not go down like this and that this shooting was foul and the cop is covering it up by mentioning the dog. Yeah take it with a grain of salt but with how cops have operated in the past, definitely won't dismiss it. Because there were so many questions with the original story itself. Curious to see what comes of this, if anything.

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    Well, if he literally shit her, I don't know if I want to see that bodycam video.....

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  5. 48 minutes ago, LonghornJudas said:

    Look, the the dude is a piece of shit and looks/acts exactly as you would expect. HOWEVER, the old man did take off his hat and wanted to scrap, so...

    Be smart. There are better ways to combat these assholes.

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    19 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The old man did everything he needed to do to get the young guy arrested, so props to him.    Would be funny if a bunch of folks lured more Trumpkins into getting arrested.

    Of course, that Trumpkin has probably had to answer “yes” to the “have you ever been arrested” question during interviews long before that, but every little arrest helps.  

    Second post is spot-on.  In my practice, I occasionally REALLY piss off the opposition.  Twice, I've had someone come at me, with witnesses all around.  Both times, I lowered my hands to give him a free shot.  Because that way, I get a bruised jaw.....and he gets a felony charge.  Oh, and the judge in our case sure as hell knows about it.  I win, big. My client wins, big.

    Both times, the other guy's attorney and/or buddies stopped him.  But make no mistake, giving the other guy a chance to serve himself up for a felony is a winning move.

  6. I would love for Mitch to fuck around with SS and Medicare, and see which of us is right.

    No....you don’t want to see that.
    People will suffer. They will be suckered into voting for the people who did it to them. And things will get worse.
    Because stupidity has won.
  7. The olds absolutely won't give up their SS and Medicare.  They feel they earned it, and a lot of those olds are absolutely terrified of losing their homes/trailers/whatever in old age.  A lot of them don't want to wind up as Walmart greets or receipt checkers.
    And they show up to vote.

    They’ll suffer.

    And they’ll blame the socialist communist dumbocrats for it.

    And show up to vote for Trump, who has promised to save them from the evil dumbocrats.
  8. Fair point.  But I think the point still stands that trying to remove prejudice and the effects of prejudice from society is really in everyone's interest, not only in the sense of equality and basic fairness, but you kind of never know when the tables are going to turn, whoever you are.

    Well, all that takes is faith in humanity, and believing that they will engage in long-term thinking.

    Good luck with that. I had three whiskey sours tonight. My time was better spent than a second spent hoping that will happen.
  9. Just now, BrickHorn said:

    All of those are good tactics.  I would categorize my approach as part of (4).

    And good luck to you.

    I fucking loathe them too much to even try.  I think they are a lost cause.  But go for it.

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  10. Just now, BrickHorn said:

    Yeah, yeah.  You gave up hope long ago.  Stay curled up on the floor.  Some of us are trying to prevent the civil war you think is inevitable.  

    Oh, we should try to prevent it.  I just think our efforts are better spent on 1) doing all we can to increase turnout among folks who oppose Trump, 2) fighting voter suppression and disenfranchisement efforts, 3) lobbying the handful of undecided voters out there, and 4) doing all we can to diminish the enthusiasm of Trump voters, so some of them stay home on election day.

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  11. 1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:

    You’re clearly a better person than any Trump voter.  You should let them know that.  I’m sure that will inspire them to be more like you.

    The challenging aspect here is that Trump supporters have demonstrated themselves to be not just resistance to facts, but repelled by them.

    Telling us to reason with Trump supporters is like telling us to communicate with Sentinalese tribesmen by continuing to speak English to them, but this time, YELL IT.  Facts and reason only piss them off.  It's pretty damned difficult to get over that hump.

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  12. 12 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    The umpire/balls/strikes analogy is nonsense. If there is an analogy there, pretend that some pitchers have to stand further away from the plate than others. That might be a start on a discussion of people whose parents or grandparents were literally denied the right to attend college or who were denied jobs and promotions because of skin color. You really think that doesn't have generational effects when compared to families who never faced that? It's fun to pretend that it was ancient history, but plenty of folks are alive today who had to drink from different water fountains.

    Start the conversation after reading this:

    https://www.brookings.edu/research/following-the-success-sequence-success-is-more-likely-if-youre-white/

    It has some simple and easy to understand facts in there.

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    Lowry suggests that black Americans would be better served if Coates made his readers aware of a “little secret” set out in previous research by our colleagues, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, which assesses the likelihood of economic success conditional on achieving three middle class “norms,” which they call the “success sequence.” Lowry correctly reports that about three-quarters of Americans reach the middle class provided that they:

    Graduate from high school;

    Maintain a full-time job or have a partner who does; and

    Have children while married and after age 21, should they choose to become parents.

    Unlike Lowry, we are able to further breakdown the number of people who reach the middle class or follow the norms by race using the dataset from in the original paper by Sawhill and Haskins, updated for 2013. The bottom line is that even when black Americans do follow all three norms, their economic prospects are worse than whites.

    .......

    What happens to those who do follow the norms? If Lowry is right, and black Americans simply need to take responsibility and follow middle class norms, it should be the case that blacks and whites who follow all the norms reach the middle class at similar rates. The data suggest otherwise.

    Among those who follow all three norms, blacks are significantly less likely to reach the middle class than whites who do the same. About 73 percent of whites who follow all three norms find themselves with income above 300 percent of the federal poverty line for their family size, while only 59 percent of blacks who adhere to all three norms fare equally well:

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