I served (20+ years and combat) and the flag isn’t more mine than any other citizen. Hell it’s a symbol of the injustices that people are protesting.

You can repeat yourself as often as you like, and you’ll still be wrong.

If you keep looking under the same rocks, you’re gonna keep getting the same worms

Nobody should want to hear someone championing the feelings of racists and sexual harassers over victims’ feelings

The problem is that most of the cops actually want to be cops, not to help their communities, but because it makes them feel important.

And virtually all cops have been convinced by their training that they are in the most dangerous job in the world and that everyone is coming after them and going to kill them, so to…

Thank you for reminding me why I stopped commenting on this site

I’m guessing that probably 1% of the police force of the US “actually does” the things that they get vilified for, yet the other 99% have to deal with that crap circle the wagons and defend the ones that break the law, making them complicit.

Maybe if beat cops weren’t so busy with their broken windows policing and relentless harassing of minorities for minor offenses, homicide detectives might find people more eager to talk.

Complacency.

I’m going to take it up with the howling #bluelivesmatter maniacs who act as if they are the first verse of First They Came... whenever anybody suggests that the police should be held accountable.

Right, the whole thing with cops is that they are part of the state monopoly on violence. Superheros often are outside that purposefully.

No one really cares what cops want to do, they care about what cops actually do.

So they aren’t cops.

Disney is not The Left, and the people complaining about this were not The Left.

they need to hide some Germans on their team

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I know that Beyond was...I guess “polarizing” is the term frequently used for such things. I’m on the “fucking loved it!” side of that polarization, so the notion of Pegg getting a shot at writing another Trek film really excites me.

“Many contemporary reviewers could do with beginning to understand not everything is necessarily intended for them personally”

He didn’t get a new heart, he got the shrapnel surrounding his heart successfully removed.

Too old probably? I’d guess they want to go with a rebooted teenage Kitty.