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fucking hell, CE
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Capn Circus posted...

Or how about the court of law that carefully examined all evidence?

Do you feel the same way about court decisions against Trump, or Joe Arpaio? How about the court that ruled OJ not guilty?

Capn Circus posted...

Unfortunately, it came true---only after the individual pulled a gun on the officer.

Why did the gun only have the cop's DNA on it?
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metralo posted...

because most american cops are american whites and american whites are typically aggressive and antiblack

This is a huuuuuuuuuuuuge oversimplification. The problems of American policing are systemic, not the result of white cops with Nazi tattoos.
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About the case in question:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/15/st-louis-tenses-for-verdict-in-murder-trial-of-former-police-officer/?utm_term=.d95283da69e6

According to the probable cause statement, Stockley was caught saying he was "going to kill this motherfucker, don't you know it" and was heard telling another officer to drive into Smith's slowing car.

The court document, submitted by the St. Louis circuit attorney, said Stockley then approached Smith's window and fired five times into the car, hitting Smith "with each shot" and killing him. In addition, prosecutors say, there was a gun found in Smith's car, but it was later determined to only have DNA from Stockley.

Judge Timothy Wilson, the circuit judge who heard the case in a bench trial, acquitted Stockley on the murder charge as well as a charge of armed criminal action in a 30-page order released Friday morning.

Wilson wrote that he was "simply not firmly convinced" of Stockley's guilt, saying that "agonizingly," he went over the case's evidence repeatedly. Ultimately, Wilson said, he was not convinced that the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Stockley "did not act in self-defense," as the former officer had said.

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Spooking posted...

How are these people able to leave their jobs to protest like this?

It's 7 p.m. on a Friday.
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DanHarenChamp posted...

I had project cars 1 but you honestly can't play it for shit with a controller, you need a wheel.

Everything I've read about 2 so far suggests that they've really improved gamepad handling. One guy said it seemed to come at the expense of wheel handling, actually.

I do not have a wheel, myself.
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Lol, I tried to make this topic yesterday.

I got sucked into Forza pretty hard a couple years ago, and that led me to watching/being interested in racing more. I try to keep up on Formula One, and if there's like an Indycar or IMSA race I'll watch it. WEC and WRC seem really cool, but it's hard to figure out how to follow them from the US

Games-wise, I've been playing F1 2017 a bunch lately, and I'm hyped for Project Cars 2

@Chill02 likes racing games, I know that.
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I looked it up, we're talking about fucking DWS here? Christ. Yeah, sure, throw her in space jail or whatever you wanna do. You're not going to find me defending the honor of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

But is there a source that isn't Worldnetdaily on this?
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What the fuck is an Awan
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/upshot/the-minuscule-importance-of-manufacturing-in-far-right-politics.html

Donald J. Trump’s electoral victory, Brexit and the growing prominence of anti-trade and anti-immigration far-right political parties in Europe appear closely linked in timing and motivation. Some have interpreted this to mean that Trump voters and supporters of far-right parties in Europe must be the losers of globalization in jobs like manufacturing.

There is no denying that there have been large-scale layoffs and job losses in manufacturing in recent years. Those should be put in context, however. Workers are laid off much more frequently in sectors like construction, retail and even professional services. And data show that the people more likely to have suffered losses in jobs and income from trade are no more likely to vote for the far right.

Before the election, it was possible to use Gallup’s survey data to analyze who held a favorable view of Mr. Trump and who didn’t. Surprisingly, “production” workers — who are typically in manufacturing — were only slightly more likely to hold a favorable view of Mr. Trump compared with workers in other occupations. Moreover, the people living in the areas most negatively affected by manufacturing decline were no more likely to support Mr. Trump.

Postelection data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study confirm these results. Fifty-eight percent of workers in the manufacturing sector voted for Mr. Trump, compared with 45 percent of nonmanufacturing workers.

That is hardly overwhelming support and is no higher than the share of workers in the construction industry, which does not compete with low-income countries, and lower than the share of workers in mining and agriculture, sectors in which the United States has a trade surplus with China.

Trump voters are far more likely to disagree with statements like “I am angry that racism exists” and “White people in the U.S. have certain advantages because of the color of their skin.” Manufacturing sector exposure is among the least important factors in predicting Trump support.

In fact, Gallup survey data from August shows that American adults who approve of the way Mr. Trump is handling the presidency are actually less worried than other Americans about how trade competition will affect their job. Just 6 percent of employed adults who approve of Mr. Trump say they are worried about their job going overseas, compared with 11 percent who disapprove.

Nor is technology a big concern. Only 9 percent of Trump supporters are worried that their job will become obsolete as a result of technology compared with 15 percent of those who don’t approve of the president.

Likewise, exposure to trade competition played no apparent role in persuading Obama voters to switch to Mr. Trump. People who voted for President Obama in 2012 accounted for about 12 percent of all Trump voters, but again, these voters were not disproportionately involved in the manufacturing sector, either nationally or in swing states. Around 8.7 percent of Trump voters who also voted for Mr. Obama in 2012 work in manufacturing, compared with 9.5 percent of Trump voters who voted for Mitt Romney.

Exposure to trade is even less important for far-right voters in Europe than it is for Trump voters. Using data from the European Social Survey, I find that working in manufacturing raises the probability of voting for a far-right party in the most recent election by less than one percentage point, using no demographic control variables. Adding the same controls as above — religion, race, age, education, gender — eliminates even that small effect.

Make of this what you will.
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It's far more likely that people would just join the ~40-45% who don't vote. Democrats saying "what, you're gonna vote for those guys?" haven't exactly fared well of late
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Zikten posted...

Yes because they would be angry at the Democratic party if they didn't protect their family

How do you reconcile this thought with the fact that Obama deported more immigrants than any other president?
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The opposite of Mac world/culture
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Is there more reason to believe them this time, or
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908276308265795585
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The thing about Kasich is nobody actually likes him.
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davyheinz posted...

What do the Republican candidates do for work? I was curious after the small business owner and teacher inclusions. Guess I can go look it up, but have a short meeting.

Good question, I tried to look it up:

Darin Chambers is a "businessman" and Navy veteran
Steve Whalley is also a "businessman"
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Caution999 posted...

Imagine posting in a Benedict Antifar topic...

Whoops.

*Pirates of Caribbean guy voice*

You'd best start believing in Antifar topics...you're in one!
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http://theweek.com/speedreads/724301/democrats-pick-state-house-seats-oklahoma-new-hampshire-districts-trump-won-by-double-digits

In special elections on Tuesday, Democrats in Oklahoma and New Hampshire won state legislative seats vacated by Republicans in districts President Trump won by double digits. In New Hampshire, Democratic small-business owner Charles St. Clair beat Republican Steve Whalley, 55 percent to 45 percent, for a state House seat that Trump won by 19 points last November. Democrats last held the seat in 2012, and Republicans had a 12-point party registration advantage. In Oklahoma, meanwhile, Democratic school teacher Jacob Rosecrants beat Republican Darin Chambers, 60 percent to 40 percent, in state House District 46, a district Trump won by 11 points and where Republicans have nearly 3,000 more registered voters.

Democrats narrowly lost hard-fought national House special elections this year in conservative districts in Montana, Georgia, and Kansas, but they have fared much better at the state level. Before Tuesday night's flips, the Democrats picked up a GOP state House and Senate seat in Oklahoma in July, and another House seat in New Hampshire and a New York State Assembly seat in May. Republicans have picked up just one state seat this year, in a Louisiana district that swung so hard to the right that no Democrats ran.

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Duncanwii posted...

I mean if Woodrow Wilson or Eisenhower turned out to be Nazi sympathizers they'd be out pretty quick.

Wilson invited the KKK to the White House, and Eisenhower oversaw Operation Paperclip
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Would you say they are problematic?
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Since I've been playing it today

https://kotaku.com/the-concept-art-of-xcom-2-1752586127
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Be against coal mining, not coal miners.
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My fear was that the faction leaders would be gamebreaking now (like the paladin they usually give you early in Fire Emblem), but the reaper at least is kinda tame, given the limited power of her rifle
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Is this way harder than the base game, or
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https://boingboing.net/2017/09/12/late-stage-disaster-capitalism.html

Miami-Dade's hurricane shelters experienced "chaos" during Irma, and the Miami-Dade schools chief Alberto Carvalho says that's because the Red Cross was missing in action.

The Red Cross is contracted to run 42 shelters in Miami-Dade schools, but in many cases, Red Cross personnel were late to show up, and in others, no one showed up at all.

Red Cross spokeman Robert Baltodano referred reporters to regional communications director Grace Meinhofer, who didn't reply to a query.

The Red Cross hired AT&T exec Gail McGovern to serve as CEO in 2008, and since then the organization has been plagued by mass layoffs, low volunteer morale, secrecy and suspicious accounting, massive executive paychecks, and an emphasis on "branding" exercises at the expense of serving the organization's core mission.

The Red Cross drew fire for its inaction during Superstorm Sandy -- having sucked up massive sums in government grants and private donations -- and it appears to have wasted nearly all of the $500 million it raised for relief in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Independent researchers say it spends 11% of its budget on overheads, a high figure for a humanitarian relief agency (the Red Cross says the number is 9%).

“In some instances the Red Cross showed up very late. In some instances, the Red Cross never showed up,” Carvalho said at a press conference at Shenandoah Middle School on Monday. “We made an executive decision that we would open the shelters on our own led by our principals and our custodians and our cafeteria workers.”

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During heated gaming moments, I mostly threaten my pets
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So, yeah, WotC is wild. That "lost and abandoned" mission was fucking massive.
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VandorLee posted...

Im simply for freedom of speech.

Then surely you are for the freedom of people to harshly criticize those who toss around racial slurs.
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When she's right, she's right
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https://twitter.com/katereadsbks/status/907631000267644930
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Dustin1280 posted...

what?
No, that's ridiculous

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Bush really went out of style after Katrina hit
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There's a good chance Trump's poll numbers are going to go up this week, just from Hillary's public presence.
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creativerealms posted...

As long as businesses can say marry Christmas again. That is all that matters.

Nothing is stopping them currently
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Remember when he held the rainbow flag, tho?
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nayr626 posted...

How long is that on your internet?

Currently chugging along at 30 mb/s
I'm at 11%

UncleBourbon33 posted...

wut game

XCom 2. I had preordered the expansion, but forgot to pre-load it.
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Here I am now
entertain me
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Guess I'm gonna be on CE for a while here.
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chill02 posted...

If the Nurburgring is in it and you can set it to snowy conditions, it would be the second game to do so, which is nice

I read one article where they said: the only weather/time thing you can't change is that the ice track is always going to be in winter.
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What impresses me about Project Cars is the tracks and the weather settings. Like, they'll let you race Old Monza in the snow if you want. And also the career mode is an actual career.
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chill02 posted...

2011 Kart 100CC

*flips table*

Is that a good *flips table* or
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Kelystic posted...

I don't have an Xbox so it's either this or GT sport

I don't have a PS4, but I really haven't seen much to excite me from GT Sport. Granted, I'm more interested in single-player than online, but it has the fewest cars and tracks of any of them
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Kelystic posted...

how's the roster? i'm a sucker for giant rosters

Forza's roster is way bigger, like 700 vs. 180. Project Cars is mainly focused on race cars, though, and many people feel Forza's lineup is lacking in that area. I'd say they cover different specialties in that department.

See for yourself
http://www.projectcarsgame.com/the-cars.html?lang=en
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TheDarkCircle posted...

and fuck all the kids

phrasing
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Oh, a solution presented itself to me: Gamefly's letting me come back for $1 the first month. Rent PC2, play the Forza Demo, decide from there
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One more bump
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