Yeah that helicopter pilot encapsulated the entire problem in once sentence.

I’m fully in support of BLM, and against institutional racism, but looting does happen during civil unrest. It’s a function of poverty, just like the high crime rate in black neighborhoods is a function of concentrated poverty, not skin color. However, I don’t particularly care about the looting, because I’m not a…

Looting isn’t violence. Violence is committed against people not objects.

I keep wondering why they come out in force for the protests at all. It seems to just rile up people’s anger. What would happen if the police completely ignored the protests? Traffic blockage, probably looting, but I bet a lot less violence. Or what if the police came out in just their standard uniform and openly…

David Terrell
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The Ghost of Orlando Pace

Wow, I never read that quote before. Kinda blows up the whole originalism constitutional philosophy.

The fact that these cops are taking it personally is kind of a reflection of the whole tribalism problem that causes the racist policing in the first place.

These cops are acting like police is a religion, or they’re all family, a brotherhood. It’s not. It’s a job. A job that almost a million people have in the US.…

I don’t recall ever seeing Pam Beesley eating.

It ties it in to the still-ongoing problem of seeing black people just for their bodies and not as actual humans. Ie, bodies used for picking cotton, bodies used for dunking a basketball, bodies fetishized for sexual purposes, bodies people attribute superhuman strength to, bodies people are afraid will attack and…

A nice plot of land for everyone would be great, if we could stop our global population growth (and maybe reverse it even!).

Well when you’re an hourly employee, you can generally take as many sick days as is reasonable, you just don’t get paid for them. It’s like a voluntary furlough for the company, I’m sure they don’t mind it. That’s why people like to work through them, losing a day’s pay is a big deal.

A+ dog

I feel like a requirement of working at Deadspin is being 0% conflicted about publishing this story.

Can’t they just go to like, a “1 second rule”? You have to maintain possession for a full second? In real time, you’d just go by a manual count, like refs do for 3-seconds in basketball. In replay, superimpose the clock over the image.

Selfish asshole because he was trying to help the team win?

John would probably be proud...he was sexist, and an asshole.

He looks like his skull is trying to rip its way out of his face. Like he’s using all his bodily willpower to keep his skin firmly in place. He looks like the character model for the aliens from They Live.

Many areas have few sports bar choices.

Seattle fans know they’re not actually part of the team, right?

“Que lastima”