Quote from: Rhedyn;1133723You may say I am jumping to conclusions, but for me the line was attacking press corps, on camera, where everyone could see them. There is unconscious bias and then there is viewing anyone the orange-man has a problem with as enemies that should be violently assaulted and shot at with crowd control less lethal devices. One lady in particular lost eye. For me, those are neo nazis. I've criticized the press and have many problems with how they do things, but at no point are they a threat that requires violence. If the cops want to be anti-constitution, then those cops are actual nazis. Aka racist fascist. Racist because a lot of the violence is explicitly against black people and fascist because they undermined our freedoms. There was an FBI report that warned against the secret infiltration of the police by white supremacist groups and the results have lined up with their predictions.

Oh and the cop who pushed over that old year 75 man. Idc that he was white. He has the right to assemble and the "just following orders" excuse gives no right to harm a harmless old guy. It wasn't a good enough excuse for the actual Nazis and our own military is required to disobey illegal orders. The cops shouldn't be less restricted than our armed forces.

I was all in favor of protests against police brutality, and working towards improving the conditions of the places they patrol, instead of militarizing the police. But thanks to Antifa and BLM, this has become about their pet politics and the talk about reforms are lost in the din of black owned businesses being looted, and blacks being killed by the rioters.

I was in some big store, I think it was a Target or Walmart, and these two kids run by me to the toy aisle, grab some action figure or whatever, and talk among themselves about how cool it is.  Then run back past me with the toy to their parents and begin harassing them in Spanish to buy it.  That's what clearly showed me the "the immigrants aren't assimilating!" argument was completely wrong, since those kids were using English as their native language.  It's going to further muddy up the whole definition of Latino in years to come, since it's already stretched thin between Mexicans, Cubans, Central Americans, and South Americans, who aren't at all similar but get tossed in the same basket anyways, and now you have a generation of US-born kids who look "Mexican" but grew up immersed in US culture and English language.  I think that's why Latino is just used as whatever is most convenient to the person trying to score points from it; it's already a pretty meaningless identifier of any sort of ethnicity or culture.  I especially love whenever some dink tries to use Latino for people like Antonio Banderas.  Dude's fucking Spanish.  He was born in goddamn Spain.  He's European.

I actually quite like seeing the Press getting their fair comeuppance from the Police.

If the Press wanted to be treated like neutral reporters of the facts then they should have stayed neutral reporters of the facts.

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1133651It's Cultural Imperialism and racism disguised (poorly) as good intentions. I don't need nor want their Lilly white asses to "save" me thank you very much.

It's the white man's burden and they can stick it up their arses.

In my daily life I couldn't care less about your color/sex/sexuality/culture unless you're trying to impose things on me. I happen to think there's no such thing as Latino Culture, because Mexican's don't really have much in common (culturally) with say Argentinians besides almost the same language (Pendejo here is an insult, there it isn't), and being Catholics most of them.

The same goes for any other Latin American country you care to mention. Almost nothing in common with their closest neighbors, much less with the ones farther away. Hell wanna make an Uruguayan mad? Call him/her an Argentinian. And they share an accent, cuisine and yes even the music and Gauchos.

Don't worry, Geeky, the only thing I've gonna save you from are those tasty, tasty burritos

Quote from: Spinachcat;1133660I wonder if the hot/crazy scale is a American thing, caused by spread of American culture, or universal to humans.

100% real. Hottest girl I ever dated was Romanian and she was a psychotherapist's dream. Shouldn't have spent more than ten seconds with her, but I was 1) young and stupid, and 2) she was insanely hot. Why are dudes so dumb...

As for 75 year old activists getting knocked down by an advancing brigade of cops.....had he not been old and frail he would not have fallen, and WTF is he doing out trying to catch the covid and overwhelm the hospital system?  

    I dont think he should have been shoved at all, but he showed he is stupid as dog shit to walk up to people he feels are overly violent and get his frail self directly in their way.  Darwin got him.

Quote from: oggsmash;1133828As for 75 year old activists getting knocked down by an advancing brigade of cops.....had he not been old and frail he would not have fallen, and WTF is he doing out trying to catch the covid and overwhelm the hospital system?  

    I dont think he should have been shoved at all, but he showed he is stupid as dog shit to walk up to people he feels are overly violent and get his frail self directly in their way.  Darwin got him.

There is a LOT of speculation as to what he was actually doing. He's got a rep as a shit-stirrer and his blogger profile practically has 'I fought the law' hashmarks on it.

There's been some discussion that he was trying to use his phone (along with some other electronics) to try and grab the cops' radio frequences. Which strikes me as a remarkably stupid thing to do, but then, leftists are not usually smart. Plus, moving your hand anywhere near a cop's gun is seriously asking for trouble.

Quote from: Shasarak;1133765I actually quite like seeing the Press getting their fair comeuppance from the Police.

If the Press wanted to be treated like neutral reporters of the facts then they should have stayed neutral reporters of the facts.

That is an unortunate truth. News has instigated the riots against them for ratings and of course some are going to want to take it out on them. This is also part of this damn 20 year cycle as about every other one seems to have its version of media vultures riling people up for ratings. Sure was in the 70s.

Quote from: tenbones;1133731Well WotC is banning their own Magic Cards for having the word "black" in them in reference to to the color of the affected.

Am I the only one who's first thought on hearing this was "Hmmm... time to build an all-black deck? WotC's ensuring it will be INVINCIBLE!!!

I do not disagree, I also think if a vigorous shove sends you flying, you are living in some fantasy world about being a "freedom fighter".  What is with these people?  They say/feel they are brave, and fail to realize brave is only a thing when you know the consequences to your actions.  Not knowing there are consequences makes you stupid, not brave.

Quote from: Ghostmaker;1133823Don't worry, Geeky, the only thing I've gonna save you from are those tasty, tasty burritos

LOL, save me, please save me! You're welcome to as many as you can eat my friend.

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1133850LOL, save me, please save me! You're welcome to as many as you can eat my friend.

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Quote from: Brad;1133826100% real. Hottest girl I ever dated was Romanian and she was a psychotherapist's dream. Shouldn't have spent more than ten seconds with her, but I was 1) young and stupid, and 2) she was insanely hot. Why are dudes so dumb...

There's enough Spanish-sounding cognates (false and not) in Romanian that it threw me for a loop -- and that was while I already knew it is a Romance language (along with hearing Romansh in Switzerland).

Are we sure it is not the language itself, or the blood? I do hope it's in the blood, at least in my blood, because then by magical logic that insanity should then also make me insanely hot! Just my luck though it probably doesn't work that way.

Quote from: Brad;1133826Why are dudes so dumb...

Because the penis is our primary frontal lobe. The one in our head is a secondary backup for when our wanker isn't focused on the situation at hand.

Based on the insane stories I've heard from my gay bros, the "penis brain" is universal in males.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1133940Because the penis is our primary frontal lobe. The one in our head is a secondary backup for when our wanker isn't focused on the situation at hand.

Based on the insane stories I've heard from my gay bros, the "penis brain" is universal in males.

I am assuming this was unintentional and therefore I find it incredibly hilarious...