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Kris60

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9632 on: September 26, 2020, 02:15:44 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 26, 2020, 01:58:42 AM
Unarmed? 
According to a Washington Post database 9 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2019 compared to 19 unarmed whites.  If you take into account the total of encounters police have with the public an unarmed black man has a better chance of being struck by lightning than being killed by a cop, but it gets played up like it’s a daily occurrence.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9633 on: September 26, 2020, 08:06:49 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 26, 2020, 12:29:31 AM
I wonder if George Floyd had been white if 4 officers would have knelt on him.  His death, his murder, enjoy your status.
4 officers knelt on him? Or was it ONE?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9634 on: September 26, 2020, 11:38:20 AM »
As old as I am I still managed to learn something new the other day

I'd opened up a can of Planters mixed nuts and was kinda looking at all the different kinds

there were pecans, almonds, Brazil, hazel peanut and cashews

I got to thinking all these nuts except one you can buy unshelled

you never see cashew nuts in their shell

that seemed strange to me so I looked it up

the reason you never see cashew nuts still in their shell is that the shell is poisonous

that blew me away

anyway now you guys know something more then you did

dont you feel smarter


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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9635 on: September 26, 2020, 12:11:05 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on September 26, 2020, 08:06:49 AM
4 officers knelt on him? Or was it ONE?
It was one obviously.  It was heinous, to me, but whether race was a factor I don't know.  One can make everything about race, or some things when there is evidence for it.  Those things do exist obviously, but not everything that happens is about race.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9636 on: September 26, 2020, 02:26:54 PM »
Quote from: Kris60 on September 25, 2020, 09:43:23 PM
Idk. If Kyle Jackson would have put his hands up and peacefully walked toward the officers like Rittenhouse did then, yeah, maybe.  It’s amazing  when you obey commands and don’t show yourself to be a threat how much the outcome changes.

We'll set aside the sort of large question of if you just obey exactly what the government says, only then are you absolved of responsibility for your own death. The bolded is a deeply generous interpretation of what the young man did. 

First he jogs toward the cops with a long gun. He raises one hand as if to wave someone down. Then he raises the other. Then he drops his hands, putting one on the gun. Then he raises them again. Then he puts them down again, one on the gun. Raises, drops, raises, drops one toward the gun again as cops pass. Then the cops ask him if someone is injured and eventually pass him. He even drops his arms again as he approached the last cop car and then is told something that had him hop back. 

I don't know if dropping your hands to your long gun is OK in front of all cops. Maybe it's fine, but I wouldn't want to test it. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9637 on: September 26, 2020, 02:27:53 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on September 26, 2020, 11:38:20 AM
As old as I am I still managed to learn something new the other day

I'd opened up a can of Planters mixed nuts and was kinda looking at all the different kinds

there were pecans, almonds, Brazil, hazel peanut and cashews

I got to thinking all these nuts except one you can buy unshelled

you never see cashew nuts in their shell

that seemed strange to me so I looked it up

the reason you never see cashew nuts still in their shell is that the shell is poisonous

that blew me away

anyway now you guys know something more then you did

dont you feel smarter



I wish you'd said this before and not after I gnawed on a cashew shell because I was curious about the taste. Shoot. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9638 on: September 26, 2020, 11:40:15 PM »
@longhorn320 be careful! https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/26/us/brain-eating-amoeba-found-in-texas-water-supply-trnd/index.html
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9639 on: September 27, 2020, 08:53:15 AM »
We went out to eat the other night in the marina restaurant and sat outside. I forgot to spray my legs.

I am a f'ing bloody mess right now. GD No See Ums suck.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9640 on: September 27, 2020, 05:35:14 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 26, 2020, 12:11:05 PM
  Those things do exist obviously, but not everything that happens is about race.
When has anyone suggested this, ever?

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“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9641 on: September 27, 2020, 05:35:34 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on September 27, 2020, 08:53:15 AM
We went out to eat the other night in the marina restaurant and sat outside. I forgot to spray my legs.

I am a f'ing bloody mess right now. GD No See Ums suck.
In FL, they're called gnats.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9642 on: September 27, 2020, 05:35:55 PM »
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9643 on: September 27, 2020, 05:37:24 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on September 26, 2020, 02:26:54 PM
We'll set aside the sort of large question of if you just obey exactly what the government says, only then are you absolved of responsibility for your own death. The bolded is a deeply generous interpretation of what the young man did.

First he jogs toward the cops with a long gun. He raises one hand as if to wave someone down. Then he raises the other. Then he drops his hands, putting one on the gun. Then he raises them again. Then he puts them down again, one on the gun. Raises, drops, raises, drops one toward the gun again as cops pass. Then the cops ask him if someone is injured and eventually pass him. He even drops his arms again as he approached the last cop car and then is told something that had him hop back.

I don't know if dropping your hands to your long gun is OK in front of all cops. Maybe it's fine, but I wouldn't want to test it.
Yes.
And if he was black and ALL of the above was precisely the same, ZERO cops would have asked him for intel or driven right past him.

THAT is institutional racism.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9644 on: September 27, 2020, 05:53:08 PM »
Zero cops?  ZERO?

Huh.  I don't know how we know that.  Maybe it's a made up "fact" to fit one's prejudices?

A lot of the police around here are black, over 60%.  Maybe they would have behaved differently, if all the whites, every single one, is racist?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9645 on: September 27, 2020, 05:53:58 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 27, 2020, 05:35:14 PM
When has anyone suggested this, ever?


"And if he was black and ALL of the above was precisely the same, ZERO cops would have asked him for intel or driven right past him."

That comes pretty close.
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