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Meltdown May ended a week ago, but I guess nobody told her.

This is the guy who was pushed: https://twitter.com/martingugino
https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/martin-gugino-buffalo-man-pushed-by-police-is-long-time-activist/

Martin Gugino. Sounds like a really rad dude, glad to hear he's doing better.

Seriously. I was hanging with family and protesters shut down I-95 around 4 and they were all worried about it.
Hour and a half later, I drove home on I-95 no problems.
Must be watching too much cable news...

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Politicians: "We have a pandemic, and the people are rioting because they want us to stop killing them with the police! What should we do?!"

Doctors: "Give in to their demands."

Politicians: "WHAT. THE. FUCK."

Politicians: "Yeah, we're just going to use ALL OF THE TEAR GAS!

Doctors: "But, actually, that increases the likelihood of respiratory infect-

Politician: "F*** you plebs, you can eat tear gas canisters!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Dz8vAcMpA
Fools, conventional weapons won't hurt God. Not right away: you have to roast him by telling him what a stupid jerk he is first! Be as specific and detailed as possible.

The United States sure is.

Naan is so good. The only thing that keeps me from eating all of the naan is everything else you can get at an Indian restaurant.

You're talking about a presumably online test and not linking it?
Amateur.

The Bills decided not to cut him, because NFL.

I think the fact that he and Zeus were just awkwardly punching each other in spite of the fact they both clearly have much more efficient means of fighting was meant to be a joke. It was meant to be stupid and awkward, but it didn't land with me.

The Phoenix Person fight was freaking awesome though, and he legit had a Rick-like arsenal. That laser battery was just more than Rick had the tools (on hand) to handle. The important thing to remember with Rick is, that, as powerful as he is, he's also lazy and overconfident.

Yeah, just a reminder that we had a black democratic president and a black democratic attorney general, and there was tons of police brutality going down, and all they could muster was the occasional sad statement and a nationally-coordinated campaign to crush Occupy Wall Street and the Standing Rock protests.
And Obama is most likely to Joe Biden's left.

It's worth mentioning "modern" racism was invented (unintentionally) by the Spanish, to justify persecuting Muslims who had converted to Christianity(moriscos) after the fall of Granada(the last remnant of Islamic Iberia) and the general carnage and brutality happening in the colonies, and, soon after, the slave trade.

Before that, religion was the go-to excuse, especially for Abrahamic religions, though the Zoroastrian Sassanids cruelly persecuted Christians as well(their calculus was simple: Christians = Roman sympathizers) and plenty of wars were justified by Buddhism and other eastern faiths(the Chinese in particular would kind of cycle through tolerating (or even promoting) Buddhists or persecuting them).

Before THAT, it was more ethnocentrism. Like, if you're an Ancient Greek from Athens, then you would think the Greeks were better than everyone else, and of course Athenians were the best Greeks. Alexander pissed off a lot of his original army by promoting Greeks and adopting Persian and some Persian customs, for another example.

At the end of the day, all of these explanations are just excuses to be terrible to outsiders, and we would/will come up with new ones if/when we didn't have them.

voldothegr8 posted...

Ok episode but one of the best quotes of the whole series

"Isn't it obvious Morty, I fucked a planet"

Oh, I'm not saying it was bad. That's a fantastic one-liner, there's that one scene where Rick finds Summer and Morty after they crash into the Zeus's head that's gold, and the post-credits stinger is goddamned hilarious.

Heist episode sucked, Dragon Episode and Rick had sex with a planet were okay. The toilet episode was a great Rick plot dragged down by a mediocre B-plot and a terrible C-plot.
Rickdie Rickpeat, Rattlestar Ricklactica(snakes!), The Vat of Acid Episode, and Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri were all phenomenal episodes. Everything I didn't mention was good.

Good though I think I recall seeing they would need the state government's blessing to do something like that.
Most police departments are not much more than state-sponsored gangs.

Killing a baby is always wrong, there was no guarantee Adolf Hitler would be, well....Hitler.

Also, the idea that there would be no fascist movement in Germany without Hitler is preposterous on its face: it was quite literally born from Germany's defeat and unleashed a firestorm of illegal(yet tolerated and sometimes celebrated) violence against communists after the failed Spartacist uprising in Bavaria in 1919.
There are a few essential factors which fed into Dolchstolegende ("the stabbed in the back myth"), including but not limited to:
1) Entente forces never entered German territory proper before Germany's surrender
2) The German military had largely succeeded in keeping the truth of what was happening on the Western front secret(and also they immediately started blaming the defeat on feckless bureaucrats and social democrats to cover their asses).
3) The British kept up their cruel, suffocating naval blockade even after the armistice was signed to force Germany to accept whatever peace the Entente offered.
4) The peace completely stripped Germany of her colonies
5) It also put large German minorities into newly-created states like Czechoslovakia and Poland
6) The reparations failed to account for the fact that the war had utterly ruined the German economy, a situation exacerbated by strong anti-German animus in France, Belgium, and other countries which had experienced occupation which shrunk demand for German goods even further
7) The ridiculous "war guilt" clause was essentially the Entente rubbing salt in Germany's wounds, just because it could

Yeah, like the Wiimote's ability to sense motion was actually pretty limited, and the nunchuk's ability to sense motion was virtually non-existent(I can't count the number of times it failed to sense movement when using the grapple beam in Metroid Prime 3, for example, which is a shame, because literally ripping shields away from enemies was pretty gratifying).

Plus everything else people said about it being much easier to just press buttons.

cmiller4642 posted...

Tom Cotton is definitely going to be the face of the Republican Party after Trump

He's exactly what Republicans want in a leader

Him or Josh Hawley, who is almost as bad but less obviously fashy, which would appeal more to what's left of the business wing.
In any case, the next Republican president is bound to be about as evil as Trump, the problem is that there's almost no way they could be less competent or more blindingly unfit than Trump.

They even have a Trans Pride flag, so theres probably also a Pride flag off-screen.

In any case, we have a long way to go if were ever going to catch up to Puerto Ricos protest game.

Bio1590 posted...

Common opinion seems to be that King losing basically secured this seat for the Republicans, because as shitty as he is Feenstra is still electable.

(Unless Trump gets destroyed and it affects down ballot voting THAT much)

It would have to get really, really bad for Iowa to be in danger.
I don't think Iowa or Ohio are going to come back.

RoadsterUFO posted...

It is a chicken and egg thing. If the candidate does not have executive experience, is at least a rich, or at least a well known entrepreneur, the media is not wasting their time. The people who think Austin Petersen would have done better than Gary Johnson are absolutely absurd, the general public would have immediately dismissed him for having no notable accomplishments.

Conversely, CNN had Marianne Williamson and everyone else polling within the margin of error on for a town hall, which was a great thing that I hope they do again. They probably won't, of course, because liberals wail and gnash their teeth over how Jill "1.2% of the national popular vote" Stein "robbed" Hillary, and they would be absolutely hysterical if CNN let Howie Hawkins or whoever go on national television.
I guess the libertarians have a slightly better shot because of that.

It would be really nice if the media adapted the "undercard" strategy they use for primary debates to give minor candidates a platform at least once.
Or at least do a town hall with them individually.

I remember long ago telling a coworker I had a crush on I was going on a vacation from work, and for some reason, I took her hand in mine.
She responded by putting her other hand on top of mine.
When I got back, I was going to ask her out, but she looked at me glumly when she saw me and told me she had gotten a job back home in Atlanta and would be moving in 2-3 weeks.
Sucked, but holding hands is powerful stuff.

Another time, I learned I was getting fired from my job at the same time as learning a coworker was getting promoted, so I went to give her a high five, but as soon as my hand touched hers, she closed her hand around mine and looked me in the eye with a pained expression. She was a quiet one, so I know that meant a lot.

Yeah, the biggest difference between Feenstra and King is that the latter won't say the quiet part so loud it makes his fellow Republicans uncomfortable.
Imagine being so openly and virulently racist that the Republican House Leadership strips you of committee assignments! It boggles the mind!

Fun fact: the sigil used to summon Hunson Abadeer is a crude scribble of series creator Pendleton Ward.
And, as previously noted, he is voiced by Martin Olson, Marceline voice actress Olivia Olson's IRL dad.

I live in CT, so if me not voting for Biden results in Trump winning the state, then Biden is getting Dukakised anyway LOL my vote is literally never going to matter, and neither is yours.
It's absolutely ridiculous to assert an individuals decision to vast a vote for Biden(or not cast it) is representative of some terrible moral failing on their part. The only way it affects anything is if that happens en masse, and if it happens like that, then you're going to have to find a better explanation for why they all came to the same conclusion Hint: it may actually be the candidate's fault! Weird concept, I know .

To all of you people furiously typing away, trying to shame people into voting for Biden, just stop. It doesn't work. Donate to your precious hairy-legged girl-sniffer, or, even better, go out and knock doors and talk about all the great things Biden will do in office to people who haven't already made up their minds.

I love Bjork and everyone should listen to her.

Short album? I don't remember if I posted in the last topic, but...
Wax Fang - Repetition

1337toothbrush posted...

Vote for Joe "Crime Bill" Biden. He'll change everything!

That's Joe "Shoot to Maim, Not to Kill" Biden to you, chief.
He does literally want to hire more cops.

-Do not allow cops to carry fire-arms unless they are responding to a shooter
-Confiscate all military equipment
-Reduce funding overall and put it towards programs that have a better track record of reducing crime(education, housing, etc.)
-Lengthen police training and reconfigure it to emphasize de-escalation techniques, negotiation, and basic psychology and de-emphasize fire-arms
-Body cams are required and are to be on at all times when the cop is on duty. Turning it off for any reason must result in disciplinary action. If a cop who has turned off their body cam is involved in violent action, they are to be terminated and referred towards the prosecutor
-Any officer who shoots an unarmed subject is terminated immediately and referred to the proper authorities for criminal charges immediately.
-National database of cops who have been terminated for incidents.
-Naitonal database of incidents of police violence. Both must be publicly accessible.
-Mandate that at least 50% of all cops must live in the communities in which they work
-Racial and ethnic quotas: the cops should look like their community
-Fire qualified immunity into the sun.
-Free and mandatory psych evals for cops who are involved in justifiable violent incidents
-Require ongoing training and education. This would, of course, be free.
-Thorough third-party review of all violent incidents
-End civil asset forfeiture, full stop.

The scary thing is that it's really not going to get better in near or medium term.

gamer167 posted...

The civil rights movement had leaders.

Not a bunch a kids posting videos to their Snapchat story.

Leaders who mostly ended up getting murdered, and were all absolutely hated as long as they were alive.

A solution designed to appeal to people who thought cutting the baby in half was the reasonable and fair decision, and are mad that Solomon didn't go through with it.

Even sleepy old Connecticut is/has been seeing big protests in every major city. Stamford, Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven(where protestors have shutdown I-95). Smaller protests in lots of other places as well.

CapnMuffin posted...

Stock up on stimulus checks before going into the next dungeon.

Man, I'm hope you didn't start as an American then, triggering additional stimulus checks for them is rough. You have to fight a giant demon turtle...

SocksForWoksMAX posted...

Its going to that much harder for those that destroyed their community and these riots definitely likely spread more virus...

Cops destroy their communities all the time, it's weird you suddenly care about that.
I mean, we're all aware that communities are made of flesh-and-blood people, right?

In any case, it was always going to be a long time, because our pandemic response was and still is hilariously inadequate.

Dont count your chickens before they hatch, especially with Joe Biden.

https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266618525600399361
https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669
Some one get these animals under control.

Vyrulisse posted...

Another keyboard commando.

Do you know I'm referring to the cops, or do you not?

There wouldn't be a problem if the pigs could behave themselves, but they're a bunch of violent, racist trash who have been protected from virtually any and all accountability for basically forever and get off on terrorizing people.
If you sow the wind, know you will reap the whirlwind.

BatmanWTtP posted...

Yes, Republicans refusing to anything Obama and Democrats tried to do is why you shouldn't vote for Biden

No, I'm pretty sure Obama and Biden also did not give a damn, because cop worship is bi-partisan.
Remember Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor who was arrested for allegedly trying to break into his own home, and Obama had him and the arresting officer in to the White House for beers, because, like, LOL, anyone would make that mistake in Cambridge, right?

I'll just....not vote for Trump. But also not for Joe Biden. If you're going to ask me to endorse a dumpster fire of a human being, the least you could do is give me an air freshener.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Marceline? She is a pretty important character later right?

Oooh, very! She might just be my favorite character, in fact. AT, much like Steven Universe, will peel back that onion's layers real slow like...

https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Protest-over-death-of-George-Floyd-peaceful-in-15305562.php?src=posthpcp
Here's a CT Post article about the protests: sounds like there are big protests up in Hartford as well.

Also, it references the murderous cop I referred to: James Boulay, who shot and killed 15-year old Jayson Negron in 2017. His sister is Jazmarie Melendez, and she spoke to my class back in February(along with a few other advocates, including a black guy whose name I can't remember because I'm dumb who got shot in the chest by cops, but thankfully survived).

I would be shocked if it wasnt. I go to Housatonic Community College (right off I-95 Exit 27C) and one of my classes had a Bail Bond group in, and one of the women talked about how a Bridgeport cop fatally shot her 14 year-old brother(he was unarmed and fleeing) and how thats just one of many instances of Bridgeport PD murdering people.
Needless to say, the cop wasnt even fired. I bet shes out there, and I hope she and everyone else is safe.

A former coworker of mine organized a protest in Stratford this afternoon, but I didnt go because I had to work, and, in fact, need to go clock back in right now.

Yeah, a cop straight-up murdering a black dude in broad daylight (again) was the spark, but there's a lot more fueling this, including that this has been going on for decades and nothing has been done and no one's really proposing to do anything to even attempt to solve the problem, because both parties worship at the altar of "law&order".