One point that's been made many times before but not in this thread, is that national media has been rather critical of policing in recent years but that local media--supposedly due to the need to maintain access-- seems to not be at all and basically always just parrots whatever the official line is in controversial cases. I'm sure there are counter examples but I don't know what they are.

lololol NYT and WAPO as left wing. they are conservative status quo outlets that repeatedly attack the left and carry water for the warmongering right.

I have no idea what my rating would be against actual tournament players--probably 1700ish. I feel like I plateaued when I was around 17 and never took the time to get any better. One guy I played once who dropped out of high school to play chess professionally beat me in three straight games but said I could make some money in tournaments somehow as a total unknown betting, but he was probably over rating me. I think if I would need to study a lot of opening theory to improve.

I keep trying to make this point and have about 2 or 3 threads devoted to it, but nothing helps

Don't you think you're the one incapable of nuance? I feel like I handle nuance just fine. Do you have any examples of where I'm lumping a bunch of things into one basket? We can talk about it.
I mean I do enjoy your posts and stuff, but I don't think you're familiar enough with my posting to claim that I can't handle nuance.
But as Victor says--NYT and WaPO are on the right, not left of center.* And I wonder what it is that is nuanced in thinking otherwise.
*center still being largely a myth and yeah sure that's a pretty absolutist position.

1700 would make you an above-average tournament player.

My peak published rating was 2002 USCF in 1987 when I was 29.

I dropped from there as low as 1800. Haven't played an official rated tournament game since 2009.

Still play a lot of blitz, mostly online.

If your sister came to you and told you some guy at a party forced himself on her. Kelhaus would say “who knows if that’s the truth or if that’s the narrative the MSM wants your sister to believe about her experiences.”

You’re a ****ing clown my guy. The fact anyone waste any time entertaining you and your fetish for the British National Enquirer (The Daily Mail) just shows how freaking bored people actually are these days

Bless your little heart

No, won't even go to trial, even with police cam. What they did was completely legal, as ****ed up as it is.

Still wondering why someone as smart as you are believes in conspiracy theories.

Local media is mostly low quality hacks who live off of what local governments and police feed them. They understand not to bite the hand.

What motivates someone to dedicate enormous mental energy to pushing ridiculous theories about why an obviously racist lynching was not?

There was nothing racist about it at all. Heck, the only thing racist is you referring to it as a “racist lynching”.

Hi Luckbox,

I clicked your link and read your post and I honestly have no idea what the **** you're talking about. There's a bunch of stuff about a shooting there, and I guess you're claiming someone (Merritt? The media?) is making something up about it, but it's all very Pepe Silvia-esque and impossible to follow. It appears other posters told you this at the time, and you went all-in on "uh sorry I don't have time to explain this right now." So, jumping back to today, I'm a bit at a loss trying to understand the point you're getting at here.

As I am approaching this story fresh, perhaps this is your chance for redemption. Can you try to explain, in a coherent manner this time, what the **** you're talking about? While you're at it, maybe take this opportunity to consider how you got to a point where you link to an old post of yours that you think is making a great point while the general audience you posted it for finds it utterly incomprehensible.

Thanks!
goofy

I just believe in the ones that are true though

I definitely never claimed that that link was making a great point. Not sure how you gathered that.
I simply find it interesting that the same lawyer involved in the Dallas stuff is also involved in both cases being discussed here. And I'd be happy to discuss the Dallas stuff more but that should be done in the media thread. Needless to say, there are lots of issues with the story involving the supposed murder of Joshua Brown--as in I think it did not happen, and Lee Merritt went on to represent Joshua Brown's family as well as Botham Jean who was the person supposedly killed by Amber Guyger.
And I should add--just because there is a conspiracy in the Dallas stuff and one of the same lawyers is involved in these stories, doesn't automatically mean that these stories aren't legit.

They occasionally seem to write more details because they are careless about vetting information.

It's definitely dangerous to equate "put more details out there quicker" with "better journalism."

I mean, TMZ gets details out there super quickly. Half the time it's wrong, but whatever.

If he had been white they still might have run him down, butvtheyd never have shotbhim.

It does seem odd that they would have a no knock warrant when the two prime targets did not live there. I don’t really know how those conditions are set, but it seems reasonable that they would be knocking giving the circumstances.

Big breaking news stories tmz is pretty elite.

Can't believe everything you read in court documents bro. That's what they want you to think.

Almost Daily Mail level.

Please keep the conspiracy theory nonsense out of this thread.

Today the guardian has a video of local police harassing the hell out of arbery some years earlier. Forbthosevthat dont understand how policing in rural Ga works it might be instructive.

Racists will be triggered because arbery has on no shirt or shoes and his pants are too low.

So the guy complies with verbal commands and get tazed anyway ?

We really should have let those useless eaters leave the union when they wanted to.