The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN, cited in the article) is a multi-country collaborative effort that includes US researchers and has had several earlier vaccine candidates, including a couple that made it to human trials. There are certainly huge amounts of money pumped into HIV research, but the reason we don’t…

Honestly, I can’t jump on the conspiracy bandwagon - as tempting as it is to agree, and add that in addition the people most likely to have HIV are black and poor, I honestly don’t think the entire Western world’s medical scientists are that disinterested in solving HIV or cancer.

Yes, I’ve heard this “medical researchers are evil” argument before, and I was just as unmoved then.

Or this medicine business be some hard shit?

I’m a religious pacifist, but I’m also a gun owner because I live in a rural area and keep livestock, so guns are sometimes necessary for humane emergency euthanasia or to protect my stock from predators. I also take the responsibility of gun ownership extremely seriously and have had extensive training. My guns stay…

Again, this guy is a POS but warning shots and shots to extremities is not how it works. A warning shot into the ground or air can kill someone you are not meaning to kill. The point of shooting someone is to neutralize a threat. A shot to the shoulder or knee, besides being an incredibly difficult feat to pull off,…

If your life is threatened (which his doesn’t seem to be by the police report (no physical altercation and suspect wasn’t armed according to the police) you are and should shoot to kill. Hitting a moving target in the legs is hard (meaning you are likely going to miss and send bullets past the target) and potentially…

Listen, I’m 100% with you on gun control and how this guy is a POS but you need to learn something about guns. Real life is not a movie. There is no such thing as shooting someone’s knee or leg. When one fires a gun, they shoot for center mass. The point is that it is the widest area, least likely to miss, and the…

aimed for the kid’s shoulders, knees or feet

Right — if the kid had a gun and was threatening him with it, this is a very different story than a “hate crime.” It sounds like Means was the aggressor, and if he was armed and threatening violence, he was certainly also at fault. But then the way Pulliam acted after it happens is extremely bizarre. So this is an odd…

I’m confused on the same points. It sounds like the victim crossed the street to continue the argument. And did the victim actually have a gun that he flashed? If both of those thing are are true, it’s a different story. However, the accused absolutely should have stayed there and talked to the police.

Means (who, at 15, was a boy, not a man), crossed the street to Pulliam, but Pulliam’s assertion the boy was armed seem unsubstantiated at the moment.

Wait I’m confused. I read this as Means (the victim) was the one that crossed the street toward Pulliam (the shooter). I’m also reading this as BOTH men were armed and acting aggressive.

This is fucking tragic and Pulliam is clearly a POS so please don’t read this as me excusing shooting ANYBODY but let’s at least get…

When 85% of KaceyTrons stream is her boobs, there should be no surprise those words are common. You cant even see the game play, you just see cleavage.

How does that explain the hundreds of Caucasian sympathizers that obviously have better lives in thier western home countries joining these animals in thier squalor in mosul and raqqa?

France has the biggest Muslim population in Europe. Every month now there have been arrests relating to terrorist attacks. It’s not just a few bad apples, it’s way more than that.

I think it’s really something that the people here are blaming the countries for encouraging terrorism by not treating their Islamic population well enough, instead of the terrorists themselves. You want to know why half the US and half the Western world is railing against progression? This is why.

I think it’s because how proudly secular France is and how it alienates Muslims which in return radicalizes some of the Muslims.

tl;dr: Pandering toward the intended Conan/male power fantasy audience, yes; offensive, no (to me).

Did you know that the women aren’t real? Did you?