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Anteater 08-25-2020 03:16 PM

Lol

Business Insider - Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer: "I plan to vote for Joe Biden in November."

Lucem Ferre 08-25-2020 03:17 PM

OMG it's basically diet Trump at this point.

SGR 08-25-2020 03:26 PM

https://i.redd.it/uw5ioopwyvi51.jpg

OccultHawk 08-26-2020 05:37 AM

Counter-protestors or agitators, perhaps self-identified as “libertarian” who are white, shoot 3 protesters killing two of them. It doesn’t look like they know who the shooter(s) are.

Psy-Fi 08-26-2020 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132748)
Counter-protestors or agitators, perhaps self-identified as “libertarian” who are white, shoot 3 protesters killing two of them. It doesn’t look like they know who the shooter(s) are.

Two killed, one injured in shooting during third night of unrest in Kenosha

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In a series of videos from the shooting, it appears a group of men had surrounded another man carrying a semi-automatic weapon. The man with the weapon is on the ground when he opens fire on the crowd.

SGR 08-26-2020 06:25 AM

This should all be great for Trump's campaign ads.

Psy-Fi 08-26-2020 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2132754)
This should all be great for Trump's campaign ads.


OccultHawk 08-26-2020 11:57 AM

Looks like Galveston is about to get demolished.

Exo 08-26-2020 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132782)
Looks like Galveston is about to get demolished.

Galveston should be renamed "Hurricane Bitch".

OccultHawk 08-26-2020 02:16 PM

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A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were shot to death during a third straight night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.

Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was taken into custody in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. Antioch is about 15 miles from Kenosha.
The AP

There are a few different angles on YouTube.

SGR 08-27-2020 11:28 AM

Pelosi says there shouldn't be any debates between Biden and Trump

Uh-oh. The Dems are getting scared. Must be because Trump is starting to push for drug tests before the debates.

OccultHawk 08-27-2020 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2132874)
Pelosi says there shouldn't be any debates between Biden and Trump

Uh-oh. The Dems are getting scared. Must be because Trump is starting to push for drug tests before the debates.

What is it mayweather pacquiao?

SGR 08-27-2020 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132875)
What is it mayweather pacquiao?

Nah, Trump is suggesting that the reason that Biden did much better in his last primary debate was some kind of drug that he's taking. I think Trump is on drugs too - but because he knows the Dems will completely balk at the idea of a drug test before the debates (if there even are debates), it's an easy optics victory for him.

OccultHawk 08-27-2020 11:52 AM

It seems like Trump would want to debate.

I watched some of the RNC. SMGDH.

180,000 deaths and it’s Trump beat covid!!!

SGR 08-27-2020 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132879)
It seems like Trump would want to debate.

What gives you the idea that he doesn't want to debate?

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132879)
I watched some of the RNC. SMGDH.

180,000 deaths and it’s Trump beat covid!!!

Of course that's how they'll frame it - that's politics. I've only been watching the highlights though and I haven't seen the RNC speakers talk about Covid at all. Just like the DNC speakers I saw didn't talk about the riots.

OccultHawk 08-27-2020 12:41 PM

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What gives you the idea that he doesn't want to debate?
Sounds like the drug test thing is a stall.

SGR 08-27-2020 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132883)
Sounds like the drug test thing is a stall.

I highly doubt it. Like I said, I think he knows they won't agree to do it - but he's not saying that it's a requirement for him to debate. He just wants them to publicly refuse to do it so he can get a cheap optics victory and (as unlikely as it might seem) if Biden actually does really well in the debates, Trump can claim that it's because he's taking some kind of drug and on those grounds, it was an unfair debate (typical Trump whining)

OccultHawk 08-27-2020 01:04 PM

Yeah

It bothers me that taking mental health medicine would matter but that’s neither here nor there.

OccultHawk 08-28-2020 05:36 AM

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The White House said in a story published Thursday that it was compiling a "very large" dossier on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter and others who it said are a "disgrace to journalism and the American people."
He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice

SGR 08-28-2020 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132936)
He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice

Sounds a lot like Nixon's "enemies" list.

Anteater 08-28-2020 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132936)
He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice

I'll give 'em points for honesty. Previous administrations made lists and compiled dossiers and went after journalists and didn't say a damn thing in advance. :laughing:

Psy-Fi 08-28-2020 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2132944)
Sounds a lot like Nixon's "enemies" list.


Lucem Ferre 08-30-2020 07:24 AM

https://www.newsweek.com/cloudflare-...utages-1528601

All my favorite streaming sites are down and the ones that don't use cloudflare suck dick.

Lucem Ferre 08-30-2020 08:42 AM

It's back up now I can finally continue my Sopranos.

Psy-Fi 09-02-2020 06:58 AM

Airline pilots reported seeing 'a guy in a jetpack' flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles

Psy-Fi 09-02-2020 05:08 PM

Thai king frees jailed concubine to join ‘sex soldier’ harem amid pandemic :pimp:

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His 'sex soldiers' are said to be assembled as a military unit called the SAS like Britain's special forces - with the same motto, 'who dares wins'.

OccultHawk 09-03-2020 04:04 AM



This streaking black man who they’re saying was dusted had a spit hood put over his head after he was handcuffed. Then the pigs go full Ted Bundy on him. He died from being suffocated after he was already restrained.

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Then the officers slam Prude’s head into the street. One officer, who is white, holds his head down against the pavement with both hands, saying “calm down” and “stop spitting.” Another officer places a knee on his back.

“Trying to kill me!” Prude says, his voice becoming muffled and anguished under the hood.

“OK, stop. I need it. I need it,” the prone man begs before his shouts turn to whimpers and grunts
-AP

SGR 09-03-2020 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2134009)


This streaking black man who they’re saying was dusted had a spit hood put over his head after he was handcuffed. Then the pigs go full Ted Bundy on him. He died from being suffocated after he was already restrained.



-AP

Happened back in March. I'm sure his family, releasing the bodycam footage now, has only the purest of intentions. To prove it, they've started a Gofundme page and have collected over $10,000 within 24 hrs.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-daniel-prude

The Batlord 09-03-2020 06:17 AM

And he was dressed like a slut too, right?

Frownland 09-03-2020 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2134014)
Happened back in March. I'm sure his family, releasing the bodycam footage now, has only the purest of intentions. To prove it, they've started a Gofundme page and have collected over $10,000 within 24 hrs.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-daniel-prude

And how pure are your intentions for pointing this out?

SGR 09-03-2020 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2134016)
And how pure are your intentions for pointing this out?

I'm rather cynical, so probably about as pure as a moderately diluted whiskey.

Frownland 09-03-2020 07:19 AM

Same deal for me asking you that question, so fair game.

OccultHawk 09-03-2020 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2134019)
Same deal for me asking you that question, so fair game.

Idk

Before we call it square maybe SGR should get to watch a family member get murdered on video to make sure he has a pure perspective.

SGR - you need help. That’s not cynicism. That’s just cruelty on your part. Cynicism is how you would feel if it was your loved one murdered by the state.

Really I’d be banned if I said what you deserve to hear.

SGR 09-03-2020 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2134021)
Idk

Before we call it square maybe SGR should get to watch a family member get murdered on video to make sure he has a pure perspective.

SGR - you need help. That’s not cynicism. That’s just cruelty on your part. Cynicism is how you would feel if it was your loved one murdered by the state.

Really I’d be banned if I said what you deserve to hear.

Is it really necessary to bring my family into this in some sort of twisted appeal to emotion?

If you believe that the family of victims of police violence/brutality/negligence always have unassailable intentions, that's fine. I don't.

I don't think bringing up the possibility of doubt when it comes to their intentions is "cruelty" - insensitive? Probably. But cruelty is a little hyperbolic.

I will grant you that casting doubt on their intentions is premature. We don't yet know when they received the bodycam footage. If they received the bodycam footage recently, I'll retract all casting of doubt.

Frownland 09-03-2020 09:23 AM

I give you the benefit of the doubt, but casting such a doubt as the purity of the intentions of the source of the video drives the conversation away from the fact that somebody died.

SGR 09-03-2020 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2134033)
I give you the benefit of the doubt, but casting such a doubt as the purity of the intentions of the source of the video drives the conversation away from the fact that somebody died.

I appreciate that. As I said, my casting of doubt was entirely premature, and as you noted, tangential.

The implication of my doubt-casting was that they were doing this to make money - in all likelihood, this money is going to be used to pay the legal fees to take the state/officers to court.

OccultHawk 09-03-2020 09:36 AM

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Is it really necessary to bring my family into this
Yes. There’s a straightforward video of a man being murdered and you **** talk his family. So yes. Take some time to visualize your family member getting murdered on film and try to get to the core of how that would make you feel. Because that’s what happened to these people. So yes, since you can’t get that, dig ****ing deeper.

The Batlord 09-03-2020 01:35 PM

I wonder if SGR would give Tucker Carlson the benefit of the doubt if he'd said it.

Psy-Fi 09-03-2020 03:35 PM

Pascha: One of Europe's biggest brothels goes bust :pimp:

The Batlord 09-03-2020 04:19 PM

Tits up?


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