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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Didnt BT of all people post his criminal record and it had no burglary charge on it?

He was charged with a disorderly while carrying a weapon and accused of prowling or some shit. Did they establish during the trial he was a convicted violent burglar? Isnt that a felony?

Not sure what you mean by that comment. I don't think I have ever lied on this message board or posted anything that wasn't provably true

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Rittenhouse is a piece of shit but frankly biscuit is not wrong on the facts of this case. Like, if you don't like it then unplug for a bit but I have been horrified by people who are mispresenting the case because it is conduct I expect from Republicans.

It's always funny to me when people finally realize that people that are too mindless to form their own politcal opinions and instead rely on tribalism, are all equally hypocritical regardless of what particular tribe they desperately seek membership in.

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Nothing in that picture makes any sense

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Do you have some sort of script that makes all of these posts?

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I have never heard the term "radical centrist" before, and I am curious just what a contradictory statement like that entails, and what part of your ass you pulled it out of

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Also, I thought people changing their name IRL to a video game character was just a 4chan joke, whoda thunk people actually do that. Cringe x 1 million

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Dua Lipa is one of the only pop artists these days that is putting out good music

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Anything and everything can be considered "disrespectful" to transgenders and the answer will change daily and depending on who you talk to.

I suspect your 14 year old daughter is already posting on Reddit about how society needs to cancel you

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The best part about the whole Brie Larson saga is the fact that you can tell every single person she was doing media tours with were absolutely sick of this living breathing Karen, but noone could say anything because they would immediately be labelled "sexist" by blue haired Twitter users

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In other rabbit hole news, because people were making a big deal of the judge's ringtone of a song made in 1984 that was really popular after 9/11, turns out Len Greenwood did a version of the song called God Bless You Canada which is absolutely terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf3e9Cl1-Bs

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Maniac64 posted...

So the lawyer is playing into the perception that the trial is unfair and that's why he is failing.

If you look on Reddit, even on general subs like r/news, the top voted comments are all people who get their news from Twitter complaining about how the justice system is broken and Rittenhouse should be flayed alive

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Also sounds like Grosskreutz was part of some anarcho-communist cult, so I guess that goes to show what we're dealing with here

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I saw somewhere that people were calling the 3 people Rittenhouse shot pedophile/abuser and such, and wow, I had not actually seen any of this:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/11/rittenhouse-victims-records/

tl;dr Rosenbaum was jailed for 15 years for sexually assaulting 5 children while Huber threatened and assaulted his brother/sister/grandmother. Grosskreutz only had minor items on his rap sheet, aside from one occurence of him being drunk while armed, so not sure where you're getting the violent robbery from.

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This trial is a great example of what happens when you let mob mentality try to dictate how the criminal justice system works. I'm actually surprised the Chauvin trial went down as it did, given how ballsy it was to go after a murder charge instead of the more appropriate manslaughter, but I think the people involved in that trial were more concerned about more riots than they were about laying appropriate charges.

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Well, it isn't that surprising when you look at the statistics of crime committed by race. The lesson here is that people either don't understand statistics, or ignore them when it doesn't suit their preferred political tribe's narrative

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I can sympathize being frustrated with braindead fast food employees, but there's no need for assault

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Every one and a while I like to dip my toes into Reddit echo chambers, and it's amazing how distorted even the simplest facts become once they go through the mindless tribalism filter. The most upvoted comments in a lot of places are people whining because Rittenhouse won't be charged with murder and how "rigged" the trial is. It truly is amazing how "woke social media" users suffer from the exact same lack of critical thinking skills as the "MAGA" crowd

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I think the worst part about modern tribalist "left versus right" political discourse is the "all or nothing" idea, that nothing is worth doing unless your side gets to dictate precisely how it gets done. The original bill was a bloated mess that the next 2 generations would be stuck paying off

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https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/11/10/youtube-hide-dislike-count-across-platform-dislike-button-will-remain-active/

A friend sent me this article and I had to laugh when they listed the NSO bullshit as a contributing factor in them making this decision

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if police weren't casually murdering black people every single day

I was curious about this so I did a little research:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Interesting numbers. Obviously there's a disproportionate number of minorities in that list, but given all of the screeching in the last year, I would have figured it was far more biased. This leads credence to my point about police brutality being an accountability issue rather than a racism issue. Also ignoring the fact that a percentage of the people on that graph were probably justified in being shot (hostage situations, active shooters, etc)

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Here's my 20 in roughly the order I like them best to worst, keeping in mind that I'm looking at this from a pure gameplay perspective with no consideration for "historical impact"

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Final Fantasy VII
StarCraft II
GoldenEye 007
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario 64
Super Mario World
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metroid Prime
Doom (2016)
Gunstar Heroes
Portal
Metal Gear Solid
Shadow of the Colossus
Dota 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Street Fighter II Turbo

Major games missing from the list that weren't in the 200 that would definitely be in my top 20:

Starcraft
Mega Man 2
Mega Man X/X2
Donkey Kong Country 2
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 6
Final Fantasy 14
Rocket League
Age of Empires 2
Mass Effect
Metal Gear Solid 2

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Dancedreamer posted...

Yep. It's only a matter of time before someone decides to go to a protest and mow down a bunch of people and try to claim self defense. Then people will say "Nothing we can do to prevent this!"

The Alt-Right will treat him like a hero. His act will be glorified. It's already being glorified. It's absurdly frustrating that people can treat people's death with such callousness. But then again, that's why the protesters were protesting in the first place. George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, so many lives treated with such callousness. Self-Defense should be something that nobody wants to do, yet we have people who fantasize about gunning down people in 'self defense'. It's insane. Our culture is truly fucked up.

Not sure why you put self defense in quotes there, this is the MOST clear cut case of self defense I have ever seen. You're not wrong that crazy people will be encouraged to do the same thing, but let's not forget that this all could have been avoided if people weren't violently rioting in the streets, assaulting innocent bystanders and destroying small businesses.

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Incorrect.

Experience informs us that if the situation were reversed the same people might well have been killed by cops who feared for their life before even confirming they had guns.

Depends on if they were threatening to kill innocent bystanders with a knife or kidnap their children

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Just once I wish people would make a top x games that was focused purely on the quality of the game. Mainly because it would filter out garbage games that aren't fun to play, like BotW

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People saying Rittenhouse should not have been where he was with guns are correct, but they are also missing the fact that none of the people involved should have been there with guns. The rest of the people involved in the confrontation were just as combatitive and "looking for a fight" as Rittenhouse was, but if the situation were reversed nothing would have come from it, because it would have been "non-PC" to go after people committing crime under the BLM banner.

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ExThaNemesis posted...

Fair enough, you guys are pretty measured about this.

I think the bigger problem when the verdict is read and he walks is that there is an entire subset of people being spoonfed a curated version of reality that are going to be completely fucking shocked and furious and think it's some huge miscarriage of justice.

Social media is gonna be nuts when it happens and I feel like there are going to be more riots up there over it.

It already happened, last year, when the original videos of the incident leaked, and the details of how big of a dirtbag Jacob Blake was. It blows my mind, because the same people that ignored all the confirmed details, and instead continued spreading misinformation and edited videos, are the same people that were complaining that the fine MAGA folks were doing the exact same thing.

The level of absolutely ignorant hypocrisy at play last year was nuts, and I part of me will take great pleasure in the same happening once this trial wraps up.

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Kenri posted...

My take on the case is "none of these fucking people should have had access to guns (also the police are corrupt)"

In other words, standard USA horseshit

Finally we get to the real truth here. Sometimes I like to imagine the alternate reality if the US had sane gun regulations like every other developed nation in the world. The entire world would literally be different and much better off

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That media spin is identical to the internet reaction to the original videos getting posted on Twitter after the shootings happened. People were saying it was cold blooded murder and I was sitting there saying "Are you watching the same clip I am?" I do know there was an editted version of the video that removed the one guy coming at him with the skateboard that was making the social media rounds, so all I can assume is that people saw the heavily redacted video and due to their lack of critical thinking immediately made an incorrect judgement and ignored the voices of reason by calling anyone who disagreed a "racist".

That video getting posted on the Board 8 discord and me saying "well that was pretty clearly self defense" resulted in me getting banned from Discord, so it's especially delicious to see this case absolutely falling apart.

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Their employer is the municipal government. The general population doesn't employee the police, the municipality does because they need a force to stop people from messing with society. Government is a business, selling us services like infrastructure/police/fire and medical care in countries that aren't stupid. We pay for those services with taxes. In this relationship, we are the customer, not the business owner.

And 99% of the time these days, unions prevent companies from punishing employees that are useless and/or malicious and deserve to be fired/demoted/whatever

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As long as there are stupid people that are too poor to afford a TV the other 364 days of the year, black friday door crashers will continue to be a thing.

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Is there anyone in 2021 still using WinRAR instead of 7zip? Not only is 7z a superior format, 7zip can handle rar files

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Also lol @ the tankies pretending that a police union is "not a real union". This is as great as them claiming that every single incarnation of socialism/communism is "not real socialism/communism".

The sole purpose of a union in 2021 is to protect their members from personal responsibility. Nothing else. Unions were needed in the early 1900s because there were no government regulations or oversite in how labour was managed, resulting in exploitation. All of the good things unions wanted have been codified in laws, and they have outlived their usefulness.

Seriously, either you people have never had the displeasure of having to work in a union shop where the worst employees on the planet can't get fired and cause the entire workplace to suck. Either that or you are the said worst employees that noone likes and the reason you like unions so much is because they stop you from being deservedly fired.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Who enforces body cameras in this scenario? The police?

Like any other situation with the police, Internal Affairs and ultimately the rest of the criminal justice system. If a situation comes up that needs body cam footage, and none exists where there should be, stiff penalties (and jail time) for the offending cop, their superior, and whoever at their precinct is in charge of body cam compliance would all be brought to bear.

The only reason this painfully simple and obvious solution hasn't been implemented is because the people asking for change are asking for solutions that just make the problem worse, and no sane person would get behind. The whole "defund the police" 'movement' which thankfully has apparently died down, was advocating for the cutting/abolition of police forces, despite the fact that CRIME DISPROPORTIONATELY VICTIMIZES THE VERY MINORITIES THEY ARE TRYING TO PROTECT. Try to wrap your head around how "solving" the ~1000 police shootings against mostly criminals is worth adding on to the 16,000 or so homicides of mostly innocent every day people in the same year?

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Again, the only reason these things happen is because police are not accountable to anyone, and corrupt labour unions are to blame. Why do police need a union? The only purpose a union serves in 2021 is to make sure that none of their members ever have to face any personal responsibility, so you can see how adding this to the occupation that is supposed to protect and serve will cause major ramifications if left unchecked.

Eliminate police unions and suddenly cops have personal responsiblity again. Enforce body cameras to make sure they are behaving appropriately, and it will serve both the purpose of protecting citizens, but also protecting the police against bogus claims. It is literally win-win, and cops will benefit from never having to give part of their paycheque up to a bunch of corrupt jerk union reps

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Also, the protests should have been centered on Breona Tayler which was an egregious and unacceptable level of incompetence that everyone understands, rather than on George Floyd.

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The police were keeping the peace. None of the videos I saw from the riots showed excess force, and the "ACAB" screechers on Twitter/Reddit only contributed to the root problem with their lack of critical thinking.

The whole situation is solved in 3 easy steps:

1. Eliminate police unions to increase accountability
2. Enforce body cameras and strict penalties for not following guidelines (i.e. turning off or blocking them)
3. Arrest each and every person using police brutality as a justification to rob their local Target

Police brutality in the US is a lack of accountability issue, not a racism issue

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You people are insane. Thanksgiving is the best holiday, and turkey with all the traditional sides is easily the best meal of the year.

This year my brother brined the turkey for 24 hours before they cooked it, and it was the best turkey I have ever eaten

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