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07-08-2016 , 01:34 PM

#426

dessin d'enfant

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Presumably he thought BLM wasn't militant enough, but let's keep on blaming them anyway.

Pretty weak argument when the sentence is clearly ambiguous.

07-08-2016 , 01:38 PM

#427

Dids

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What the cops said the shooter said about BLM seems so meaningless. Either way it's not like you can place and blame on them. If he'd come out and said "Deray told me to do it" it wouldn't mean **** about BLM. It doesn't work as a refutation to Wichita's argument anymore than it serves as evidence against it.

07-08-2016 , 01:38 PM

#428

Huehuecoyotl

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[Paul] Ryan reiterated that "every Republican and every Democrat wants to see less gun violence," a statement that comes after a decision was made to indefinitely postpone a vote on gun legislation seeking to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists.

This is only true in the sense that I want to run a sub 5 mile without training.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...ampaign=buffer

07-08-2016 , 01:41 PM

#429

AZMountainHiker

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And the sound of crickets fills the White House...

07-08-2016 , 01:42 PM

#430

Dids

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Originally Posted by AZMountainHiker

And the sound of crickets fills the White House...

Weird sounding crickets.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...able/86842484/

07-08-2016 , 01:45 PM

#431

Huehuecoyotl

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But when will he mention radical Islamic terrorism?

07-08-2016 , 01:46 PM

#432

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In a twist not foreseen by me, I'm going to link a Daily Caller opinion piece, and say it's not terrible.

Mostly though I'm fascinated to see what happens in the comments. Like a sociological study in miniature.

07-08-2016 , 01:50 PM

#433

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dids

Weird sounding crickets.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...able/86842484/

haha, I read the comments. Good lord.

07-08-2016 , 01:53 PM

#434

CharlieDontSurf

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Newt is def gonna be Trump's VP

07-08-2016 , 01:58 PM

#435

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

haha, I read the comments. Good lord.

It's amazing what people are willing to put their names to in public.

07-08-2016 , 02:14 PM

#436

Dids

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

It's amazing what people are willing to put their names to in public.

Thing is those folks don't think they're saying anything shameful. I expect if you asked them they'd think most people agreed with them.

07-08-2016 , 02:19 PM

#437

Double Eagle

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Holy ****, DPD Chief's backstory is crazy.

o Brother killed by drug dealers
o Former partner killed
o Son with mental health issues killed a police officer and one other person before being killed himself (WTF???)

Oh and DPD has a great reputation for community policing under his watch.

07-08-2016 , 02:25 PM

#438

FlyWf

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Yeah Dallas PD had seen like enormous year-over-year decreases in excessive force complaints since he started, they really seemed like they were trying

07-08-2016 , 02:26 PM

#439

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A good friend of mine from college was a crime reporter for the Dallas Morning News for several years. He's only ever had good things to say about the Dallas PD (and he's the type who would rip them apart if he felt it appropriate -- very liberal and pro-BLM guy). They seem like a really good police force, certainly at least in relative terms.

07-08-2016 , 02:28 PM

#440

flabucki09

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Quote:

Originally Posted by flabucki09

KnockKnockKnock NRA trumpsters

Still looking for some guidance on this.....

I seem to ask this question a lot these days - and never seem to get a response. So here I go again...

NRA supporters (all 7 million of you) and trumpites - Can you please tell me why the citizenry needs the right to own assault rifles and automatic weapons? I don't believe any specific arms are guaranteed by the 2nd amendment.

07-08-2016 , 02:30 PM

#441

Loki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dids

OK so basically "Violent rhetoric is bad" and "wide sweeping generalizations are bad". Good strong novel takes that will find little objection from anybody.

Unless the shooter is white. Remember all the violent political rhetoric, shooting targets placed over democrats' pictures, etc., that conservatives assured us was in fact not bad?

But violent rhetoric is definitely bad from black people.

07-08-2016 , 02:30 PM

#442

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Is as it ever was

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business...-5-8348110.php

And we wonder why no response from NRA or the politicians they support. All lip service from Ryan. What an a$$hat.

07-08-2016 , 02:31 PM

#443

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Originally Posted by FlyWf

Yeah Dallas PD had seen like enormous year-over-year decreases in excessive force complaints since he started, they really seemed like they were trying

Or nobody else was trying even a little bit

07-08-2016 , 02:31 PM

#444

Tiltmonkey2

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Also posted this on fb:

https://facebook.com/DonaldTrump/pos...57277205810725

Which I don't seem able to just copy and paste, so enjoy the link!

He does mention the recent shootings as well as calling for more love and compassion. Whole thing reads like an adult wrote it, so no chance he has access to his accounts anymore.

How does that make trump supporters feel? That their preferred candidate is such a child that he can't even be trusted with his own Twitter account?

Probably sort of like Hillary supporters feel when it has been proven she can't be trusted with classified information. You know that whole email thing can be real tricky sometimes.

07-08-2016 , 02:41 PM

#445

TomCowley

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AsianNit

It's the INEVITABLE END RESULT of people asking police to stop shooting black people for no reason AND police not stopping shooting black people. When you get a sufficient number of people sufficiently angry, you will get inevitable outliers who are more militant. I would blame groups like BLM for this just as I wouldn't blame the mainstream anti-abortion movement for outlier members who kill abortion doctors.

This. Honestly surprised it hasn't already happened more.

07-08-2016 , 02:44 PM

#446

Marn

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How the right wing in the USA views Obama as such a divisive character, I will never understand. He seems to be communicating a text book 'calm the situation down' narrative, as always. In stark contrast to Trump.

Last edited by Marn; 07-08-2016 at 02:57 PM. Reason: spouting was the wrong word

07-08-2016 , 02:54 PM

#447

flabucki09

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Marn

How the right wing in the USA views Obama as such a divisive character, I will never understand. He seems to communicating a text book 'calm the situation down' narrative, as always. In stark contrast to Trump.

Totally right - but that doesn't play well when trying to deflect the hate mongering from the left.

07-08-2016 , 03:06 PM

#448

Jiggymike

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Interesting that people seem to think that this killing cops thing is some new-fangled BLM concept. Ummm Ice-T wrote a song about it in the early 90s.

What Goofy said is right about the complete idiocy of this shooter, just setting everyone back and preventing progress in order to fulfill someone's psychotic revenge fantasies.