SteaminWillieBeamin

People make mistakes and should be allowed to live another day to learn from mistakes. Cops are not are the execution squad.

Phillando Castille - who was murdered by the cops over a traffic stop - had been stopped over 49 times in the prior 13 years for 'equipment violations.' Most of them were dismissed in court. He ended up murdered when he legally owned his gun and notified the cop. The discriminatory enforcement of these types of laws leads to more police interaction and then these 'accidents' happen.

Maybe you wouldn't know... but that is also victim blaming. That's pretty ugly. The warrant didn't get him killed. The 26 year experienced officer killed him through a mistake. The struggle didn't kill him. The warrant didn't kill him. The person in charge with the gun did. That is a ridiculous mistake... When a person is systemically criminalized, they tend to have more reasons to gain a warrant without knowing. Truancy leads to court and warrants - but often times it is a 17 year old trying to hold poverty at bay and they need to work. Shit happens. But you COULD very well have a warrant and find out via a traffic stop - for some unpaid parking ticket that you never knew about. You would find out by a letter in the mail most likely and not from a bogus reason for stop and search.

Yep. But this is where we fall to see eye to eye.. i was only speaking about the reason to stop and search. The air freshener on the mirror allowed that.. then all else followed. You'd never get pulled over for the same infraction.

You read the second article wrong - I think. It is saying that the ban isn't discriminatory, but it's enforcement may lead to more ill interactions with police. It's like the ban on things hanging from mirrors in cars. Sure, keeping things out of line of sight while driving is a good thing. But it gives the police another reason to selectively stop a portion of the population that does need to have air fresheners and infant-sized-Jordans hanging down from the mirror. Just like we saw with Daunte Wright. That mirror law allowed for a legal stop that then led to discriminatory enforcement. That is just how I read it though. Can't stop making laws because you can't trust the police to not use it correctly - or can you?

I mean, fair question? The two murders i saw live streamed were cops murdering black men in Minnesota.

Pretty poor examples though. NRA is in bankruptcy and MyPillow is near dead. Parler wanted to work on non-ad revenue. Their model was to profit off "influencers" peddling crap in content. However, they saw very few real "influencers" move over.. since products pay way more on twitter and Instagram. Parler didn't have a good business plan.

Hard to high paying when you don't have revenue. They had no advertising dollars or user fees. Parler was never going to make it with their content model.

Join the MGSF: https://meangreenscholarshipfund.com/benefits.html It says that at $300 level you get a blue parking pass. At that point, it is first come situation. Only the black, green and white lots are assigned parking.

What decade did you get that? That is early 90's insanity.

Doesn't look like new developments. Seems to follow what we all know - except now there is a recording of the ad execs post conference call talking about their feelings about him as a person (how they think he is not a good face of the company - they think he lacks introspection and is a racist at heart). Now - maybe/likely the conference call was leaked as a setup to force bad press, but the conference call itself was no a setup. No one made him drop the N word. He was riffing and let the n-word fly casually. I am not here to cast judgement on that, but a company board can vote out members and fire a CEO. That is what happened and follows what we know. It's odd for him to admit to it first, then go conspiracy on it, then admit he struggled to rid the N word from his vocabulary.. then all this press release driven mumbo jumbo.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31190553/alabama-basketball-fan-death-prompts-covid-19-contact-tracing-indianapolis Go to nearly every game - pictured WITH a mask but never on. Close to random people everywhere. Dead at the age of 23, before he finished college. Sad stuff. Seemed like a good guy.

Congratulations!

It's in damn near every article.. And it's just how studies work when trying to back port to children. This isn't a wild conspiracy. You'll read that they are studying effectiveness, but that's been answered, it's dosing for second phase trials.. "...going to be doing a second phase of studies, which will be dose finding, and these will be in the younger age groups - so going down to the 2- to 5-year-olds and then to the 6-month-old to 2-year-olds. And the idea there will be to start at a very low dose of vaccine and see if the children tolerate it." How The COVID-19 Vaccine Trials In Children Are Going To Work https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979340096/how-the-covid-19-trials-in-children-are-going-to-work "Pfizer launched the pediatric trial of its Covid-19 vaccine to determine the safety, effectiveness and proper dosage for children ages 6..." https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/pfizer-launches-pediatric-trial-test-covid-vaccine-children-rcna500

I get your point - not sure why I got the eye roll, but that is just my fan club, I guess. I agree, if you don't get the vaccine when the data shows it is a safe, then that is on you. You run the risk of getting exposed by your grand-children. So it goes. But at the same time, if there is little risk and high reward for getting your child vaccinated - why wouldn't you? Unless you are in the same thinking as the grandparents and are anti-vax or vax-skeptical. I can't say. I say "you" in the "royal you" sense. Not you, you. I was just giving a reason for a push to get children vaccinated and how it is good for the population. 1. Can help keep the risky but non vaccinated safe. 2. Can prevent catching Covid, thus eliminating the worry about long term complications from an asymptomatic case.

I feel like you just *want* to disagree with me. Your article says what I said -- 100% effective - therefore they are NOT testing the effectiveness *anymore*. They already know it works in children. That is what I said. Now they are testing dosing - to see if children can maintain the effectiveness at a lower dose. Those are the ongoing trials now.

There are a few assumptions in your question. 1) That enough adults will be vaccinated to offset the spread from children. Only 60(?)% of 60+ aged people are vaccinated, but that 40% can get decimated easily. If the grandchild is vaccinated, then the outlook looks good. 2) That although asymptomatic outwardly, children do show some 'damage' internally from Covid. We do not know long term how the inflammation may affect later life. Maybe there are pulmonary implications? Or harder hit by pneumonia later? So the thinking is to try to prevent spread entirely. Children are in tests right now - they are testing dosage in children - not effectiveness. They hope that children can go with half dose and get the full protection.

I don't know who she is, but I like her.

If you don't think minstrel music and tarbabies belong in the same conversation - I really have no way of connecting the dots for you. I don't know who Amos and Andy are. I don't l know what "rale" is either. I don't recall starting this thread - that by the way - is explicitly talking about minstrel music and race. I did not bring it up. Somehow me having the audacity to comment in the thread fits your angry SWB narrative that you have invented. But when the topic of race is the (um) TOPIC OF THE THREAD, it is appropriate to talk about it. When talking about your favorite doctor youtuber, I did not bring up race. When talking about vaccines, I don't bring up race.. It's really confusing. Is it the color of the man in my avatar that makes you get defensive and think I am playing the race card? This is curious. I don't think this is about me though. When the topic of race comes up, even in the appropriate context (as in this thread), you see it as anger. That is on you.

@greenjoe is on a roll lately!

As for your interpretation of my "anger and hate" - that is all on you man. All in how you cast my voice in your brain. I don't insult people personally or call anyone names. Never have as far as I can recall. I didn't call you out personally in commentary - don't see why you always feel the need to try and call me out. I think you enjoy the angry narrative you have created for me. My life is very happy. I have a successful life and a happy family. There is no anger in my tone. Some annoyances? Sure. I do get annoyed when the obvious isn't obvious. Like this one, the music is offensive, some people wanted it put to pasture... much like those Tarbaby cartoons that were around in my childhood. Some people really still love the Tarbaby. I get it. There's no anger. I have not called any Tarbaby or minstrel music fan a racist.

That's pretty much what I said - let me phrase it for you again. I don't drag other races down with historical heritage (or college memories of minstrel jams), because I wouldn't want others to do that to me.

I wouldn't want my race dragged around in "historical heritage," so I am doing unto others as I would want done to me. That is the "Golden Rule." Not sure which rule you are talking about...

I see some potential gmg trolls on there with backhanded "encouragement." I can only imagine they are gmg people...

I'm not mad at Harvey. He was a hired (water) gun.