Like playing a modern EA game without any patches or DLC.

[Edited to add: I tend to over intellectualize, and I apologize for this. I’m not trying to be a snooty-snoot, even if I come across that way. I really liked, and am envious of, the more personal, heartfelt style of your post]

Let me clarify. We should wear masks but I think I meant that the fear is over dramatic. It shouldn’t be a “I wear masks because I’m scared” or whatever, but that’s how it is being perceived, so the strong-willed feel they need to show they aren’t scared, which makes the actual pandemic worse.

Turned into an essay so I tldr at the bottom.  If you read the whole thing, the tldr is actually my final sentence to the whole thing.

1) if you think nobody on the left is hateful or racist, you are sadly mistaken

The pandemic is overblown, that is a fact, but that doesn’t mean we need to go around trying to get others killed.

I want to share my story, here. I don’t know if I am in the greys, but all bitchy Karens need to hear this:

I see a LOT of absolute trash on Twitter that doesn’t get stopped, so when I see racism & hateful comments from the left (and sometimes on the right) that are left up, then they say Trump’s account is suspended, I can’t even remotely consider that Twitter is a neutral arbiter of morality and peace.

Do you... not... actually realize.... that this is a possibility and has been for... many years?

So this is where it begins.  Those science fiction stories that tell of a bleak future where all creatures are dead and all that remains are robotic copies...have taken their first real step into reality.

They are, it’s just that they’re also nearly $10,000 and then you have to ship them from wherever they’re made.*

Thank you for the two articles. I understand there is a lot of frustration and we absolutely need to find the problem and fix it, but—and this does not even only happen with police killing black men—we stop when we find the first problem and try to fix that rather than find the underlying reasons behind why the…

If 100 black people are stopped by police (with or without reason) and 1 is murdered, that is 1%.

LOL

Once again, a very thoughtful and considered response. I sincerely hope that you make your way to some kind of influential career, if you have not already.

I read your entire comment and I have a few things to say, but I won’t be nearly as involved and detailed as you:

No cop should ever fire on a violent offender/suspect?

“Black folks get carded, harassed, stopped, and searched in greater numbers than white folk”

See? That would be interesting.  IT would also be interesting if every season or every episode they had completely different jobs and there’s absolutely NO comment about it in the story.  They could re shoot some flash back scenes if they wanted, or they could even keep them as cops in flashbacks then have Boyle make…

This isn’t slippery slope, this is “already happened” and “already happening” slopes and you just want to be an egregious ignorant fool who believes anything that the social majority will say so that you can feel confident and powerful and strong or whatever absolute piece of trash bullshit you want to stuff at people.