It lets you feel like you’re watching it along with a friend, which I imagine is huge for people who are lonely. They do nothing for me, but they seem to make some amount of people* happy, so whatever.

I always have to laugh when some of my liberal brethren mistake Burr for an out of touch centrist, or worse, sympathetic to the right. I always tell them you really haven’t listened to his material then, as it’s obvious he is firmly a liberal that doesn’t suffer idiots, especially on the right. It’s his shtick to come…

Exactly.  If you leave because you are being asked to actually “Protect and Serve”, then you never should have been a cop in the first place.

“require peace officers to give notice before entering premises”

So, if I recall correctly, the point of no-knock warrants was to prevent the destruction of evidence, the classic example being a drug user flushing drugs down the toilet.

“The unintended consequences will be so severe, likely a mass exodus of great cops all across this Commonwealth”

Basic fact: people will reasonably try to defend themselves during a no-knock warrant process, because how the fuck are they going to know those guys breaking in with guns are cops when they don’t announce it? Then you end up with injuries and loss of life, including on our precious widdle cop bodies.

I’m sorry, but we “canceled” fucking Nazis back in 1945. My grandfather didn’t die killing those fucks so people like this asshole and you can have a “difference of opinion”. He should be punched in the face at every opportunity. As for your “both sides” comment. Your Gamergate is showing. Fuck off.

If there was justice in the USA, all officers who participate in one of these activities would be tried and jailed (following orders is not an excuse).

I actually think Roberts sees the writing on the wall as well as since he is Chief Justice, the court will be known as the Roberts Court by historians. He doesn’t want something that is so obviously growing in power to consign him to the dustbin of history as a horrible bigot and jurist like many consider Taney to be…

Funnily enough as the article and subject matter were in regard to racism in the US I didn’t feel a burning need to mention Indigenous Australians but to answer your question they are pretty much in the same boat as black Americans. Did anything I say imply otherwise or were you just fishing for an argument?

Again.

These fucks should get the civil war they so desperately want.

Sure, but if we’re just going to hit the reset button back to 2016 without fixing any of the underlying issues that got us here, then expect to be back here again before the end of the decade.  

It’s not that you have nothing to look forward to. This will end eventually, as these things always do. The point is that if you are holding out hope that this is going to be over in two weeks, it’s a false hope, and you’re only hurting yourself with it.

I don’t mean forever. But it would be foolish to pin our hopes on specific end dates. 

I will never understand why so many old white guys are obsessed with children's genitals.

Sure, but the prequels didn’t have a cohesive vision.  They were the ramblings of an old man who claimed he had a story for 20 years but didn’t

Dunning-Krueger is a real motherfucker.