FEDIT POLITICS Thread

Larry David and Leon?

 

No...not at all. David's character, which is himself I guess, treats Leon as an equal. In all ways.
Pretty sure you missed the point here, along with your didactic friend.

 

Sincere question for y'all: do you believe George Floyd was killed because of his race?

 

I was kidding.

 

Aren't we all ?

 

No.
Killed because Chauvin is a psychotic scumbag.
Not race at all.

 

Yes.

 

So it's debatable at the very least.

Mouse, would you agree that race being the reason for Floyd's death is speculative?

If so, that leaves a significant possibility that he wasn't killed because it was black. Maybe it's because the officer was how Zoo described.

What I'm trying to get at here is that we all have different opinions on why this officer killed George. None of us can really know for sure... but the media, big corporations, sports leagues, streaming services, etc are pushing Mouse's (and many other people's) SPECULATION as FACT.

My follow up question to that would be: Do you guys believe a sufficient amount of evidence, public discourse and due process has been taken into consideration in order to confidently push/accept this matter-of-fact narrative that George Floyd was killed because he was black?

 

Not nearly enough.
At this time, probably an exercise in utter futility anyway.

 

I hope so.

 

Possibly a little of both.

 

every liberal will say yes in lockstep
sort of ignores the fact that the owner of the club where the cop worked for 17 years said they knew each other
and another guy that worked w them said they "butted heads" but has since recanted undoubtedly under pressure since why would he say it in the first place?
this is all about promoting the hatred amongst the citizens of this country
civil war is a small price to regain power and both sides are complicit
what i wouldn't give for a real journalist to actually ask the questions that should be being asked of the relationship of these men
if they hated each other it likely has zero to do w race and more to do w hatred
but who cares we have cities to burn and a country to flip
too bad people can't see when they're being used

 

because to even question it makes you a racist and who wants to be that?

 

Truth over facts and establishment endorsed riots over baseless accusations of systemic racism means good officers who do their job get terminated and charged for murder. Cops will lose their lives and communities will be less safe because the mob decided what the truth is and will destroy you if you even question it. And these mayors and lifer politicians are happy to go along with it because November is right around the corner.

 

Solid, entertaining effort as always!

 

i'm struck by how they engage this clearly inebriated man when he should have just been under arrest immediately
dude is clearly high game over
my guess is liberal policies gave him no option but go full cuck

 

Sure. And it's debatable if the Astros cheating helped them win the 2017 WS.

The statistics show there are systemic problems facing black people in America. Black men are 5 times more likely to be arrested in their lifetime than white men. Black and Hispanic people are over-represented in prisons by a huge number. The US prison population is ridiculously high in general. Research has been done for 100 years now on how to stop/reduce the problem, and the suggestions are the same every time, but they are largely ignored. Why?

Systemic racism.
Cultural racism.
Historical racism.

The truth is, I don't know dick about the cop who murdered George Floyd. For all I know, Orlando Hudson could be his favorite baseball player. But damn I find it hard to believe race didn't cross his mind at least once for the 8 minutes he was killing Floyd while other cops and bystanders watched. There must be some reason he thought he could get away with this, some societal reason he thought no one would care.

Now, as @LAdiablo mentioned before, George Floyd was no saint, and I think that's worth looking at too. But not for the purpose of dismissing this as "a bad cop kills a bad guy", but to ask the questions: Why are black people more likely to break the law? Why are black people more likely to carry weapons? Why are some assholes attracted to being police officers?

The proposed changes are out there: uplift poor communities, better quality education, more available health care and drug treatment, more available mental health services, take certain police duties (such as drug enforcement, homelessness, and mental health) out of the hands of police officers and move those to people trained in those specific areas, rethink what is criminal and the exploitation power of the justice system (like how @rube talked about crack and cocaine being treated as very different crimes, or the power DA's have in who to prosecute) - help people meet there basic needs and you reduce crime significantly. Reduce crime, keep families together, and you help future generations as well. You don't even have to think of it as a "black thing", as much of the focus is on helping people of lower socioeconomic status. You don't have to think of this as a Republican vs Democrat thing either, as Democrats have fucked this up plenty too. Holding prisoners in detention centers costs the US ~ $200 billion annually, and that bill could be reduced significantly by better services to stop criminality before it happens, which would have a snowball effect on uplifting future generations and saving even more money. But why is no one interested in prison/justice reform? Republicans like saving money. Christians like helping people. Democrats like singing "kumbaya" and patting themselves on the back. But then again, Black and Brown people make up 60% of the prison population, so I mean, who really cares?

You can disagree with any of this if you want, that's fine. What I don't like about turning this into a "Why was George Floyd really killed?" debate is that I feel like it can too easily distract from the real issues and opportunities ahead. This isn't just about George Floyd. #BLM