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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So many closet racists. Good god.
I've noticed that a lot of racists don't seem to actually believe in the existence of non-racists. They use "political correctness" to convince themselves that everyone else believes the same things they do, but simply aren't allowed to say it. So they imagine themselves to be a silent majority that's being oppressed by both minorities (who of course they also imagine to be racist) and political correctness itself. I mean, given the Trump campaign this isn't exactly a novel insight, but they seem to honestly think that by sounding the call to arms they'd get a huge racist majority on their side.
Which, well, hopefully the election will disprove, but I just find it fascinating how convinced they are that everyone else secretly agrees with them.
I'm having Spanish RT in the background and they are painting a piss-poor portrait of President Obama. In short, and with quotes from 'representatives of the Black Community', "blacks in the US thought Obama would save them, but he was too friendly with the whites and did nothing for them, and stood aside as blacks were killed by police and did not do enough to relieve their oppression or live up to the HOPE he presented". "He should stop spending so much money around 'spreading democracy and freedom' when both are so badly needed in his own country: how about he spends a little less on his military and a little more on training his cops not to shoot blacks?"
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The fact that a lot of racists spend all their time online that isn't on Stormfront, the chans or Reddit on social media doesn't help. Yes, the fact that a lot of Facebook pages claiming to be representative of chan boards that aren't /pol/ are actually being run by /pol/ posters (with all that implies) doesn't help.
If they weren't trying to do anything else, I'd be expecting keys to a T-14 Armata...
Justice Ginsberg has all but said that she will be replaced by the next president.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-donald-trump/index.html
Yeah, the US is fucked beyond repair if Trump pulls off a win.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Yup, a Trump win would give the court a conservative majority to last for 20 years until Roberts and Alito got old enough to retire. You're probably seeing Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kennedy go in the next 8 years. Who knows what kind of damage a 7-2 conservative SC majority could do in that amount of time.
If i'm right and those three retire, along with the missing Scalia slot, it flips to a 30-year 6-3 liberal majority (assuming Thomas lasts the 8 years and we finally get another Republican president in 2025).
@RT: They are obviously indulging in Malicious Slander. Problem is, a lot of people buy what RT sells.
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Not necessarily. There's always the possibility that Trump could be... indisposed, if you know what I mean. Not that I would condone such actions of course.
edited 9th Jul '16 9:00:59 AM by kkhohoho
Don't even joke about this. Besides being taboo, and for very good reason, the last thing we want is a Trump martyr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.FF Shinra: "Another attack on cops in Missouri, this one during a traffic stop. What the fuck is up with this week?"
Bonsai Forrest: "Now some dumbass is shooting random people in cars because he's angry about police shootings. I'd like to see Obama scream "THIS ISN'T HELPING YOUR CAUSE YOU MORONS!" It would deflect a lot of criticism of him from racists, and maybe even get some people to listen."
It's the copycat effect. When attacks like the one in Dallas occur, it tends to motivate like minded people. After the Columbine shootings, another school shooting occurred only eight days later
. Or to use a more recent example, a day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, a man stabbed two police officers to death in France
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So, Hillary and Sanders collaborated on a Health Care Plan today.
I'll be fucking damned if that shit didn't have me giddy. Reasonable, nuanced,not all that unrealistic, and
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/sanders-praises-clinton-health-care-plan-225328
Sanders is playing ball.
I NEEDED this news after the shitty two days.
New Survey coming this weekend!Dallas sniper profile: Micah Johnson was sent home from Afghanistan
: Man who shot and killed five police officers was accused of sexual harassment by female soldier in 2014
The government of the Bahamas has issued a traveling warning for its citizens, particularly young men, regarding the recent police shootings.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/bahamas-issues-rare-u-s-travel-advisory-after-shootings-1.2980132
I think it's pretty clear at this point that Sanders was staying in the race 1) in order to ensure that the Democrats still had a viable candidate if Clinton was indicted; and 2) in order to push Clinton towards more progressive policy positions. The former was a reasonable contingency, and the latter seems to be succeeding to at least some degree, so I'd say he made the right call.
I'm actually really glad that didn't happen. It would have been great if Sanders won, but being picked as a default choice isn't really winning and could have damaged the morale of the party. Having that happen to either Clinton or Sanders would have given Trump one hell of a line of attack, and we shouldn't be remotely confidant enough to give that guy any advantages.
edited 9th Jul '16 3:25:09 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."

So, a few days ago there was a shooting in NYC that didn't get nearly the attention the other recent ones have. According to the story told by the cop, an off-duty officer going home after his shift was involved in a road rage incident, attacked by another guy, and shot the guy after being hit several times.
Except now footage from a store's security camera shows that the moment the guy came over to the officer's car, he was shot without doing anything. Linking to Daily Mail only because it seems to be the site with easiest access to the footage
Delrawn Small, 37, a father-of-two died after being shot by officer Wayne Isaacs on July 4 following a near-miss car accident in Brooklyn.
Witnesses had claimed that Small went over to Isaac's window and 'wailed on his face' before Isaac pulled out his service weapon and shot him, but new footage seems to counter this claim.
In the footage, obtained by the New York Post, Small can be seen climbing out of his car and walking toward Isaac, who is sitting in his car.
A split second after bending down to look in the window, Small stumbles backward, staggering across the road before collapsing between two parked vehicles.
Another car, sitting parallel to Isaac, speeds off across the junction while pedestrians on the sidewalk run up the street.
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The footage directly contradicts an earlier account from the owner Touch of Glass, who said his CCTV cameras had captured something very different.
The business owner told the New York Post: 'The video shows the guy coming out of his f***ing car, running up to [the cop's] car, going in the driver's side window and just punching the s*** of this poor cop. Then all of a sudden you see sparks.'
He added that Small 'was wailing on [Isaacs'] face, like pow, pow! He was looking to knock this guy out, punching and punching. Maybe four punches. It was big haymakers.'
Police had put forward a similar account of events, though chief Bill Bratton had urged caution, saying it was too early to tell whether the shooting was justified.
However, construction worker Lloyd Banks, 43, told The Daily News: 'Delrawn and the cop's car almost hit each other. And Delrawn got out of the car and the cop just jumped out and started screaming.
'He just shot him right there on the street. Delrawn was unarmed. His wife and kids were still in the car. They saw everything.'