Infidelity or kinky sex? Sure. A crime like rape? No. I’m don’t think that marital rape is something that one should be allowed to bury. I would like a president where that isn’t a question.

Again I can see the validity of your feelings about this particular case, but FOIA requests are critical to journalism, which is critical to democracy. I really don’t understand why you don’t see the value of that in general.

The gentleman in question may be given control over nuclear weapons in a couple months. His temperament under stress is an issue. So, survival of civilization vs. one woman’s right to privacy. You comfortable with giving the right to privacy greater weight?

I mean personally, I don’t like the idea that the media could unseal a private file just for public interest.

Look at those scary black men up there with their guitars, smartphones, bicycles and office chairs. How do you expect hundreds of police in riot gear to be able to cope with that?

Crazy. I moved a few months ago from about a mile away from where Scott was shot, and I worked a few blocks from these latest protests. Sad to see your city torn apart. There are some serious issues with policing and institutionalized racism. This country is fucked up, and has always been fucked up, but some people…

Surely we can trust that the party that refuses to release evidence that could exonerate them is telling the truth.

One of the potential sanctions for spoliation of evidence in court is an instruction to the jury that the alleged fact for which the evidence has been destroyed be deemed proven. Until I see otherwise, the police’s failure to release the video proves that there was no gun in Keith Scott’s hand.

ah, i see, people WOULD support protest if it was absolutely 100% peaceful at all times and no butterflies were harmed or blades of grass were stepped on but apparently someone farted too loudly so THAT’S the reason why the rest of america is opposed to the protests and not rampant virulent racism, good to know.

Oh, well, if the police said that is what happened, that is good enough for me. I am sure the public will be extremely understanding about they can't see the video for themselves. Very good.

Ever get the feeling that the police may be operating in their own interest rather than the public’s?

One of the worst consequences of these events is that, with so much law enforcement engaged in quelling this disorder, transgendered people, in defiance of laws thoughtfully created and passed by the North Carolina state government, are now free to cause bathroom anarchy in many areas and use whatever gender bathroom…

black people who kill each other are generally prosecuted, people give more of a fuck about killings with no consequence

Yes there is. And if the two probabilities were even remotely close, then this would be different. But we’re talking about a difference between roughly 35% of deaths, and <1% of deaths.

I’m guessing we could save more lives by teaching people to be better drivers than by police profiling of Muslims.

Except that about 35,000 people die and well over 4M a year are injured by / in cars. What are the annual numbers on terrorism again? Also, shit doesn’t just happen. In the vast majority of what we like to call “accidents”, someone is at fault. That car didn’t come out of nowhere and hit that person.

So not only is your equivalency still false, you don’t even know what one is. HamNo is correct to compare those things because they are all risks to our lives in one way or another. They are also random and unpredictable. That is what he’s saying. That’s not false.

The sad thing is (coming from someone who lives in the middle of the country where no terrorist would ever come), we elect these tough talkers and they focus on this misguided terrorism bullshit that accomplishes nothing. When we should be voting for people that will help us with the actual issues in the Great…

This seems like a natural evolution of what Trump has done to the Republican party.

That would be cancer. So yeah, voting for a candidate who wants to boost cancer research might be a good plan...