Coffee and TV

Maybe you can understand Dave Chappelle better. https://youtu.be/3tR6mKcBbT4?t=1335

The public didn't choose George Floyd, Derek Chauvin did. Same for this situation.

Trump is a deranged person, is that what you meant to say?

Yes, for plenty of reasons beyond that though.

Will someone please think of those poor insurrectionists! People are calling them stupid on the internet! It's so uncivilized!

I'm really not saying either way and I didn't mean to stray from the topic. It's 4 pages full of talk and recent activities of the police nationwide and people discussing reforms. I added a story that's very relevant to the topic at hand, but it's not a "see these cops are all insurrectionists trumpers", simply that the article reveals an unusually high number of police belong to those doing the most illegal of acts 4 months ago. So does that mean 20% of them supported it? I won't make that conclusion, but it speaks to the culture of police when you have one or two similar occupations making up that large of a percentage. Here's a portion of AWS' lawsuit into why they dropped them, so make of that what you will. Please don't make me defend amazon any more than i have to though.

Yeah sure, totally wasn't the hate speech and the conspiracy to commit treason parts.

Then I'm not quite sure you get what I'm saying then. If 20% of the insurrections came from gomeangreen.com then the site would probably be shut down, the same way that action was taken against parler on the app stores. UNT would probably be under a ton of scrutiny purely for the loose affiliation with them, and I bet a lot of us would be banned from UNT sporting events rightly or wrongly. If 20% of the insurrections are police or military, then what does that say about the culture, training, and standards that are currently set for these institutions?

There's not really a correlation or a line I'm trying to draw here. This is a thread about police abuses and reforms, I'm asking why that high of a percentage of insurrections turned out to be police or military, and asking what that says about the standards of who is in the police force. If you can find info that says 40% of them graduated from Indiana State or 35% were accountants, then you'd probably be asking the same questions.

I'm focusing on the fact that we don't seem to have very high standards for policing if 1 of every 6 of the insurrectionists was either a current or former police officer. If you want to believe they're just good upstanding U.S. citizens who are only guilty of doing what they thought was right, then no, we'll never meet in the middle on that. If you want to know how it got to that point then the answer is plain as day: unregulated "news" readily available on facebook and gab and twitter at their disposal 24 hours a day. lol

Okay you focus on whatever names I call them instead of the reality that an extremely high percentage of cops or former cops bought into the big lie that they were somehow in the right when committing an insurrection.

Then it just proves how low our standards are for policing if they're that stupid and gullible?

not directly related to the original post, but very much related. Number of Capitol riot arrests of military, law enforcement and government personnel rises to 52 So 52 out of the....300 or so indicted at this point? Pretty high percentage of those who swore to uphold and protect the law leading the charge of an insurrection at the highest level. But sure, it's just a few bad apples.

Not holding people in solitary confinement for 2 years without trial until they kill themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder

Ah, this thread is already headed exactly where I knew it would.

Everybody upset with this decision just go ahead speak up so I can block you now. Don't just give me a downvote or an eye roll, speak up please.

I would think so, have you ever seen a women's softball game? Hell we just had a pitcher that struck out every batter ala Steve Nebraska.

what's this mean, who's they?

Ah good, we're back to the good ole days of this forum where we're playing psychoanalyst and insulting one another. Tell us more about SWB bringing race into a thread specifically about the racial issues behind UT's alma mater.

Not until we hit about 100 million vaccinations at least. I mean I'm just throwing out a number, but with the right attitude and determination we can throw out all our masks by this time next year. I hope anyways.

3 downvotes for a guy saying he likes his Japanese truck that was probably assembled in the U.S. Y'all kill me lol.

This is a lot of it for me. I'm still tuning in to the sports that have mostly stayed normal despite Covid: MLS and Formula 1, but I can barely even bring myself to watch college football with every other game getting postponed or cancelled. Baseball was insanely weird to watch without fans, like it made the game feel 10x's slower than it already does.

Ah okay, well here's my thoughts about that then.

Work. Am i right folks?

Is this allowed or is it too political?