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WWWP 05-28-2020 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2120257)
Are we agreed those cops are getting off? Like they probably won't be reinstated (I stand open to being wrong on even that) but they'll still get off on a reasonable doubt cause juries are suckers for seeing cops as being in a warzone where any level of brutality is excusable so long as it's possible that the victim could have eaten a can of spinach and murdered them if they so much as relaxed for a second. At best they'll get five years with four on probation or something.

100%. Maaaaaaybe the actual murderer will get a kushy sentence/early retirement. The other three will go on to work in another county.

I was released from Jury Duty for saying I disagreed with the statement "cops are honest people." lol

The Batlord 05-28-2020 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2120263)
I was released from Jury Duty for saying I disagreed with the statement "cops are honest people." lol

Nice. I just got one of those jury questionnaire letters so I'll make sure to say all cops are bastards.

Or I'll go the Doug Stanhope route for the lulz.


Frownland 05-28-2020 07:10 PM

What got me out was telling them that standalone testimony is an unreliable form of evidence unless it's supported by other forms of evidence.

The Batlord 05-28-2020 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2120263)
I was released from Jury Duty for saying I disagreed with the statement "cops are honest people." lol

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2120266)
What got me out was telling them that standalone testimony is an unreliable form of evidence unless it's supported by other forms of evidence.

Well that's depressing. I guess if I said that CSI Miami was my Bible I'd be a shoe-in.

Frownland 05-28-2020 07:25 PM

Such is life.

Lucem Ferre 05-28-2020 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2120231)
In other news, somebody started shooting at cops in Ogden.

Okay, so dude didn't just start shooting at cops as framed.

Cops were responding to a call from his wife saying that he was going to kill her. Cops showed up and he started shooting at them.

Norg 05-28-2020 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2117173)

I couldn't even get a girl to make eye contact with me and speak 2 me much less get married at 12 :P :beer:

WWWP 05-28-2020 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2120267)
Well that's depressing. I guess if I said that CSI Miami was my Bible I'd be a shoe-in.

Oh they want dumb people for sure. They want dumb grumpy old retired middle class white people with nothing to do but bitch about their neighbors yards on the nextdoor app. They're the ones who will fall for a real emotional defense or prosecution tactic, they don't want anyone who knows the term "deductive reasoning."

I'm a piece of **** though lol my number got pulled first so I got to go sit in the jury box for most of the day and I took EVERY opportunity to raise my hand and explain my "strong feelings" about the healthcare system and the court system and mental health and pharmaceuticals. I had a blast, but I think ultimately they knew I was too over-eager.

Norg 05-28-2020 10:21 PM

why does U tube have 24 hour live stream coverage of the riots ..???

Lucem Ferre 05-28-2020 10:22 PM

Why not?

Frownland 05-28-2020 10:26 PM

The 25 hour schedule was just too impractical.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2120293)
why does U tube have 24 hour live stream coverage of the riots ..???

To save me money on viagra.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 03:13 AM

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Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station Thursday that the department was forced to abandon
Run little piggies

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 03:25 AM


Lisnaholic 05-29-2020 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2120263)
I was released from Jury Duty for saying I disagreed with the statement "cops are honest people." lol

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2120266)
What got me out was telling them that standalone testimony is an unreliable form of evidence unless it's supported by other forms of evidence.

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Originally Posted by WWWP (Post 2120292)
Oh they want dumb people for sure. They want dumb grumpy old retired middle class white people with nothing to do but bitch about their neighbors yards on the nextdoor app. They're the ones who will fall for a real emotional defense or prosecution tactic, they don't want anyone who knows the term "deductive reasoning."

^ That is so sad that it's almost funny, but ultimately not. At-trial miscarriages of justice have tragic consequences. :(

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 10:14 AM



CNN crew arrested on scene

Exo 05-29-2020 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2120399)


CNN crew arrested on scene

We are China now.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2120402)
We are China now.

We wish

Plankton 05-29-2020 12:45 PM

Former MPD Officer Derek Chauvin In Custody, Charged With Murder In George Floyd’s Death

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2120402)
We are China now.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...gious-services

CDC Quickly Changed Its Guidance On Limiting Choirs At Religious Services

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The warning was part of new guidance for leaders of faith-based organizations that the CDC had posted last Friday. It stated that they should:

"Consider suspending or at least decreasing use of a choir/musical ensembles and congregant singing, chanting, or reciting during services or other programming, if appropriate within the faith tradition. The act of singing may contribute to transmission of COVID-19, possibly through emission of aerosols."
But that wording disappeared over the weekend, apparently because the White House had not approved it. The passage was deleted because it had been published by mistake, according to a federal official, who didn't want to be identified because they were not authorized to speak about the changes.

"CDC posted the wrong version of the guidance," the official told NPR, adding, "The version that is currently up on the website is the version cleared by the White House."

So the CDC is taking orders from Trump and not science based evidence.

100,000 dead

China is not intentionally spreading a virus that threatens lives all over the planet. We are.

The Batlord 05-29-2020 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2120460)
China is not intentionally spreading a virus that threatens lives all over the planet. We are.

OMG shut up. Strawberry jam on french fries can suck for different reasons than ketchup salad dressing but that doesn't mean we have to constantly compare the two just so everyone knows which one you hate most. We don't care.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 05:10 PM

China is constantly used as the benchmark for poor and oppressive governance. How long did we have to listen to the supposed existential angst of the Hong Kongers because of this horrid behemoth breathing down their throat? Hong Kong is just a mini-USA wannabe and we’re the bad guys. If it weren’t for fools like you sympathizing with Hong Kong and its disgusting virulent capitalism I wouldn’t constantly be making the case that everything they stand for mimics what we stand for and we stand for destroying the planet.

Frownland 05-29-2020 05:19 PM

Two things can suck at the same time, Chula.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2120468)
Two things can suck at the same time, Chula.

Fine. Except I also feel like China offers some hope to humanity. And they gave us Mao.

The Batlord 05-29-2020 05:25 PM

I mean you only care about this **** cause you care mostly about how this affects you personally so throwing Hong Kongers under the bus for a situation you have no stake in is about as self-absorbed as anything the Koch brothers have ever done. I'm all down with giving America the finger for being a capitalist individualist nightmare that trains its citizens to think of themselves first and last for the sake of producing compliant workers who care only for getting themselves through the next workday but All Governments Are Bastards.

All governments are led by a wealthy elite who on some level play the game of exploiting poor citizens for the benefit of themselves and other wealthy elites who they are economically tied to. How is China exempt from this? Hong Kong might be a capitalist ****hole but mainland China is not trying to save them from themselves, it's simply trying to bring them to heel so that they can be exploited, and Hong Kong has every reason to resist what is essentially a foreign invader trying to colonize them.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 05:30 PM

Hong Kong 100% belongs to China. Saying otherwise is ridiculous. So does Taiwan.

China is taking what’s theirs and there’s nothing American do about it. And if America wants war we’ll get it. And lose badly, thank god.

The Batlord 05-29-2020 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2120472)
Hong Kong 100% belongs to China. Saying otherwise is ridiculous. So does Taiwan.

China is taking what’s theirs and there’s nothing American do about it. And if America wants war we’ll get it. And lose badly, thank god.

Is this what an anarchist sounds like? Supporting superstates and ownership of populations by their nations (as in the literal definition of "nation": a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory)?

Does that mean that the states belong to America? If Virginia decides to secede and govern itself according to its own interests because the local population believe they have the right to decide their own fate without the interference of an empire does that mean you support America invading and suppressing revolt because we simply belong to the cultural American collective and have no right to separate ourselves?

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 05:53 PM

Consistency is for the simple minded. I change my opinions because my mind is free to roam not enslaved by a single ideology.

The Batlord 05-29-2020 05:55 PM

You change your opinions cause your mind is soup and you are incapable of proper analysis. Don't bull**** like it's an elevated form of thinking, it's just laziness.

Frownland 05-29-2020 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2120478)
Consistency is for the simple minded. I change my opinions because my mind is free to roam not enslaved by a single ideology.

Too much post-truth for you.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2120479)
You change your opinions cause your mind is soup and you are incapable of proper analysis. Don't bull**** like it's an elevated form of thinking, it's just laziness.

Laziness is just sticking to one thing even the mind is complex and goes where it goes on its own accord.

OccultHawk 05-29-2020 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2120481)
Too much post-truth for you.

That is much more insightful.

I mean when can’t even trust the CDC. I even called them.

The Batlord 05-29-2020 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2120482)
Laziness is just sticking to one thing even the mind is complex and goes where it goes on its own accord.

Compartmentalization is for Aushwitz guards. ****in' Nazi.

Anteater 05-29-2020 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2120469)
Fine. Except I also feel like China offers some hope to humanity. And they gave us Mao.

Lol I don't get looking to China at all. Why not look to Denmark?

Norg 05-29-2020 06:12 PM

must be fox news fanboys :P

The Batlord 05-29-2020 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2120487)
Lol I don't get looking to China at all. Why not look to Denmark?

My inner Marxist anarchist doesn't look at Denmark as an end goal but I'd still vastly rather live in Denmark than either America or China. Too bad I don't speak Danish.

Anteater 05-29-2020 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2120491)
My inner Marxist anarchist doesn't look at Denmark as an end goal but I'd still vastly rather live in Denmark than either America or China. Too bad I don't speak Danish.

Rosetta Stoneeeeee

The Batlord 05-29-2020 06:44 PM

Is there a PDF?

WWWP 05-29-2020 07:31 PM

Opinion: Maybe That Police Station Shouldn't Have Broken the Law

Raime 05-29-2020 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2120487)
Lol I don't get looking to China at all. Why not look to Denmark?



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