drsmooth wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:You can't be blind to the knee-jerk reaction every time a black man is shot by a non-black cop. It's good that we're weeding out the bad cops - it's not good that we celebrate criminals as heroes or victims. That's the pendulum thing.

wow, you are wildly exaggerating here. Where's the tidal wave of "celebrating criminals as heroes or victims"? That's utterly ridiculous.

You may be familiar with this case: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014 ... oting.html

Again - a ton of good has come from the aftermath, exposing a rotten system in Ferguson. But Michael Brown - a criminal who assaulted a cop after a petty theft - becomes the victim and symbol of a movement. Yes, we can understand why that happened - you and I and folks not so close or so scared. But again - how can you be blind to the reaction of ordinary people when a significant swath of America is calling for the head of the cop and lionizing the criminal, while the MSM acts as cheering section?

Pedestrian effort, tp. There are a myriad of issues with that but I'm not going to bother. It's a waste of my lunchtime.

This election is so fucking frustrating. I guess this is the backlash of having a black president for the first time. The "other" has risen to the top and now the people who have always held those positions want what was "taken" from them.

But even beyond the racism and other isms and the browncoat approach of Herr Trump, it's really a killer to see poor white people support the very people who put them in the mess they're currently in. Reagan promised them things would trickle down and they didn't. It can't be that Saint Ronny was wrong, it must be that them liberals caused it. Even beyond that, this is what happens when being educated is seen as something bad. Better to be poorly informed and vote with your gut.

ok, that post was all over the place

TomatoPie wrote:But again - how can you be blind to the reaction of ordinary people when a significant swath of America is calling for the head of the cop and lionizing the criminal, while the MSM acts as cheering section?

A significant swath of america isn't "calling for the head of a cop" - it's calling for its public authorities to find a way to carry out their duties in a way that doesn't involve harming and even killing people unnecessarily with such jarring frequency

Ordinary people are stupid a lot of the time. I'm not blind to that.

tp must work for a struggling strawman emporium

lol

mozartpc27 wrote:...But to reduce these places to that and only that is to continue the abdication of a societal responsibility to do more to bring relief to economically depressed....

I'm no champion of Williamson, and we're only getting a fraction of his paywalled article in the excerpt that was posted. But the notion that there's a 'there there' in many of the kinds of enclaves he alludes to that ought to be "salvaged" in some fashion, by "someone", is just too...sentimental, in my view.

Soren wrote:tp must work for a struggling strawman emporium

How are you not in the HoF?

slugsrbad wrote:

Soren wrote:tp must work for a struggling strawman emporium

How are you not in the HoF?

I dunno man. I even slipped this year.

Lack of campaign funding.

more elitist bullshit from the National Review
what a turd of a publication.

JFLNYC wrote:Lack of campaign funding.

Really need to inspire some grassroots type backing next year.

Soren wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Lack of campaign funding.

Really need to inspire some grassroots type backing next year.

maybe you just need the backing of (super) pac

JUburton wrote:

Soren wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Lack of campaign funding.

Really need to inspire some grassroots type backing next year.

maybe you just need the backing of (super) pac

we were on opposing sides this cycle

Soren wrote:tp must work for a struggling strawman emporium

Really enjoyed the "liberals put the anti-PC people in a corner" argument. We are such terrible people for treating gays and blacks like people. We're fucking monsters, why didn't we think about middle class white people?

The thing about police officers is that there's no accountability for them when they do something wrong. On the off chance they're caught, they get a paid leave and the taxpayers have to pay for any lawsuit.

Actually, just yesterday I read an article about an nj police officer who brutally murdered his ex wife in front of one of their kids. In the past she tried to get a restraining order against him because he was a nutcase with a history of domestic abuse, but she was unable to get one because he was a police officer.

Accountability is the name of the game. We have none for police officers, politicians, and people who destroy the economy. It's a shame.

pacino wrote:more elitist bullshit from the National Review
what a turd of a publication.

so reverse racism does exist! just not from where you'd 'expect' it.

Soren wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Lack of campaign funding.

Really need to inspire some grassroots type backing next year.

Pretty sure Napalm and I voted for you...

I was going to before I forgot to vote