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6 minutes ago, chenGOD said:

I was reading that earlier on reddit. Pretty messed up and confusing situation with little clarity right now.
Some people were claiming “a great victory for community justice”, but this is a dangerous mentality to have, mob enforcement and justice lacks any sort of oversight, no accountability at all, and can easily be used against communities. I know a lot of that can be said about police in America, but there is some oversight and accountability and the movement there is prompting some of the people in political positions to make changes. You can’t make those changes on a mob. 

yeah.. agreed. it's super fucked and that pendulum swings both (all) ways. mobs of vigilante justice has a snowball like trajectory some times and that's how things like Tulsa massacre happened. all the more reason people need to see the gov't as being proactive with police reform and listening to civilians and responding to communities. 

that being said my first thought was the missing children in atlanta back in the day which was portrayed in season 2 of MindHunters show on netflix. lot's of missing kids and multiple pedophile rings and no one getting down to business to sort it out. if that happened today i can't imagine the outcome. 

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Good article about the Florida hearing on masks:

https://thebulwark.com/floridas-idiocracy/

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In the 2006 movie, Idiocracy, Mike Judge imagined “a dystopian world where commercialism has run rampant, mankind has embraced anti-intellectualism, and society is devoid of such traits as intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, justice, and human rights.”

Or maybe Judge was just predicting what would happen to Florida if a global pandemic ever hit.

On Wednesday, Palm Beach County held a public hearing. Its purpose: with the number of coronavirus cases spiking in Florida, the county commission wanted to hold a vote on mandating the use of masks in public (as Broward and Miami-Dade counties have). The vote came after a two-hour public hearing, during which angry opponents held up Trump signs, threatened the county board with citizens’ arrests, invoked the wrath of God, and held a festival of crazy.

 

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1 hour ago, hijexx said:

Good article about the Florida hearing on masks:

https://thebulwark.com/floridas-idiocracy/

About 15 years ago, I worked with a guy who said he disliked Idiocracy because he thought it was too over-the-top and missed an opportunity for meaningful social commentary. I sure wish that opinion was relevant.

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meanwhile, faux news has more important matters to address while you guys keep harping about the fake kung flu virus

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1 hour ago, Nebraska said:

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meanwhile, faux news has more important matters to address while you guys keep harping about the fake kung flu virus

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It would be so nice if that were the most pressing issue of the day. 

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1 minute ago, chenGOD said:

It would be so nice if that were the most pressing issue of the day. 

indeed. america is full up of serious things to confront. if we manage to defeat trump and get him out of office there will be so much to unwind.. EPA, SEC, FCC and on and on.. if biden wins i hope he and his people are up for it and hit the ground running because amidst everything there's real steps toward climate change mitigation that we'll need to push or everythign else is just the band playing as the titanic sinks. 

but yeah.. 

 

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Just now, ignatius said:

indeed. america is full up of serious things to confront. if we manage to defeat trump and get him out of office there will be so much to unwind.. EPA, SEC, FCC and on and on.. if biden wins i hope he and his people are up for it and hit the ground running because amidst everything there's real steps toward climate change mitigation that we'll need to push or everythign else is just the band playing as the titanic sinks. 

but yeah.. 

 

Yeah the climate change thing really really should be top of the list. New green deal to both stimulate the economy and save the planet America fuck yeah. 
Apparently Biden and Sanders have a number of committees that they’re meeting on to already have the administration hit the ground running on a lot of those issues. Something along those lines. 
World is counting on you Americans. No pressure. 

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15 hours ago, ignatius said:

saw a story the other day about local health officials resigning because of this kind of stupidity. they're getting doxxed by alt right idiots saying 5g blah blah blah.. and getting threats for doing their jobs and giving health advice to local leaders. 

these people should have their technology taken away.. no phone, no tv, no computer.. for 6 months to detox then if they can't prove themselves to have basic common sense they get  dropped in a swamp. 

As a former Floridian, I can attest that living there is akin to being dumped in a swamp. 

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10 hours ago, Nebraska said:

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meanwhile, faux news has more important matters to address while you guys keep harping about the fake kung flu virus

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Is he using the Donny tan-in-a-can??

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1 hour ago, apriorion said:

As a former Floridian, I can attest that living there is akin to being dumped in a swamp. 

same. grew up i miami. in the early 90s it seemed like it started getting hotter and hotter every year. i couldn't take it anymore. now when i visit.. ugh.

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21 minutes ago, ignatius said:

same. grew up i miami. in the early 90s it seemed like it started getting hotter and hotter every year. i couldn't take it anymore. now when i visit.. ugh.

Damn, I feel you on this. Not only the weather but the way people treat each other really caused me push hard to get out. Now I'm in Milwaukee

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11 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

emotionally soul-stirring speech in his head didn't get the response he was expecting. i wonder what his version of events is

 

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On 6/5/2020 at 10:09 AM, joshuatxuk said:

jello did a great series on how the police riots recently

 

I just dove head first into this and damn it's good.

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https://www.ftbagency.com/

Moms and dads you guys.

You can send them images in their chat, shame I didn't save whoop's content

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America seems like a country full to the brim of total fruit loops from every possible part of the human spectrum. But in extremities. And with fucking guns. Hell yeah!!!

(who can I kill next) (which one)

 

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On 6/24/2020 at 10:29 PM, Nebraska said:

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meanwhile, faux news has more important matters to address while you guys keep harping about the fake kung flu virus

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Maybe Tucker is trying to come out, finally.

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