And, of course, the police department isn’t paying for their fuck up. And neither will the police union. Nope. That came out of the city’s coffers...you know, the taxes paid by people who have no control over law enforcement hiring policies or procedures. But I’m sure those officers will totally learn their lesson…

A ponzi scheme is — checks notes — a scam? Who could have possibly known??

And, of course, the police were totally chill for it. Because *THESE* racist ass clowns are the people the police ‘serve and protect.’ For everyone else, it’s tear gas, pepper spray, firehoses, batons to the face, etc, etc.

Masks to hide their identity is for *THEIR* safety (personal or professional). Masks for diseases is for *OTHER* people’s safety, and the ‘other’ is the enemy. Or, as the *REAL* American motto best sums up:

Oh, there’s an aisle...it’s just engulfed in the flames deliberately set by Republicans. You would *THINK* that Democrats would get wise, but they just keep reaching across it and getting burned. Worse, after watching Obama fight with Republicans for EIGHT ****ING YEARS, you’d think Biden would know better than reach…

That mentality is exactly why the US is spiraling into an authoritarian theocracy. It’s wrong for the same reason you don’t meet killers ‘half way.’ It presupposes that ‘both sides’ are equally legitimate, and they AREN’T. Democrats compromise, while Republicans hold the country hostage to their demands. There’s no…

The problem is that Biden is trying to play soccer while Republicans are playing Calvin ball. If they won’t play by any rules that they can’t on won’t subvert or change on a whim, and Democrats won’t adapt to this reality, no amount of carefully worded or incendiary speech — for as long as anyone is allowed to freedom…

America’s institutional racism does indeed have a shockingly effective PR department.

It’s the classic blunder of all ‘us vs them’ situations — there is never an ‘us’ so uniform and united that a ‘them’ can’t be carved out of it and attacked by their former allies. And it happens every single time someone uses the ‘us vs them’ mentality to further their agenda. Even in an ‘us’ of two, one will turn on…

Yes, it does essentially mean that. If a flagrantly illegitimate court, comprised of sexual predators, liars, and cultists, can unilaterally decide to throw out Roe on a whim, they can throw out *ANYTHING* based on case rulings, which is nearly all rights, most laws, and basically the entire regulatory framework in…

If it’s built from a bunch 1970s hardware, using 1970s design paradigm, how does SLS qualify as ‘next gen’ in any capacity?

The older adults in charge today are the children of the flagrantly, violently racist adults of the 60s. Children, and the attitudes and beliefs they internalize, are most often and most strongly influenced by their parents. The apple, as it were, rarely falls far from the tree. Which is why America is still a racist…

And moose have *legendary* bad tempers. Anything bigger than song birds give them a VERY wide berth. Getting close to a moose is just as dumb as trying to pet a grizzly bear.

It’s not a question of provocation or fear. They’re just generally ill-tempered. Most large animals are like that, in fact. Cows are actually an exception rather than the rule, and that’s because we bred them to be that way for over a thousand years.

Well, that’s the *CLAIM* as to why the stop was done. But there are countless instances of cops pulling over black drivers *because they felt like it*, fabricating a reason for it after the fact.

On the flipside, a black man being pulled over in the US has cause to fear for his life, and fleeing is a perfectly understandable response. The cops initiating a high speed *CHASE* on the other hand (hint: it’s not a chase if the police don’t pursue), over what were misdemeanors at best, is *NOT* understandable or…

“Our officers are highly trained marksmen. They don’t just shoot to kill. That’s too easy. They shoot to dismember, pulverize, and obliterate. If your loved ones don’t need to be reconstructed before they can be identified, we aren’t doing our jobs.”

The only way to fix the government is to cripple the GOP.

Exactly. Unity is *WHY* Unreal and other engines have pushed themselves so hard and opened up their monetization models for more people.

His entire shtick is that he’s a ‘succesful’ CEO, ignoring the fact that his entire track record of ‘success’ was during a fail-proof economic period. In reality, his ‘track record’ is even less meaningful or relevant than the kind participation trophies people him like to scorn and mock. His entire *LIFE* is a…