I taught for two years inner city students. A 1 hour lesson in Aikido was recommended by the principal. It literally solved this problem. The police officers responded to serious situations, but if there was a fight, I could easily restrain two students. Defensive martial arts is great if you want to be breaking up…

It takes a good guy with a gun to stop Republicans from beating minorities...wait...that’s not it...

But what that driver did was monstrous.

I think you are missing my other two points and focusing too much on the illegal action. (Also, while in my younger days I was quite reckless with driving, but am I the only one that actually stops at stop signs? I haven’t roll-stopped in 5 years probably.)

I gave you the basis in my first answer.

We don’t have to defend to motorcyclist to correctly judge the driver, right? The “Driver was being totally safe” stuff is just ridiculous. He was being incredibly reckless. He was being offensive in his driving with no safety gear on and broke a pretty reasonable law. Absolutely, he should have passed safely to be…

If a Republican wins...maybe...

My wife rocks the professional settings with the kid. Stays poised and cool and is more professional with it because she is compensating for the kid. I’m panicked, not because “classic goofy dad”, but just because I can’t find the way to balance it and don’t care on compensating for the kiddo at all.

one that employs a familiar batch of tropes, favors incumbents, and in a circular way justifies the punditry

The pundits take a wider view. It isn’t “Who won the debate?” (which is a stupid poll question by the way), it is “Who most helped their chances of being the party’s nominee at the debate?” Martin O’Malley won the debate last night (seriously, he did). But did he get any closer to being President by doing so? Nope.…

If I had to carpool in an Uber, I would feel much more comfortable if I knew that the passenger was trained in the use of a weapon and had access to it. Train and arm all Uber passengers.

What is he “spot on” about exactly? He didn’t even make an argument, Jones was the only one making actual points. I’ll logic chop it for you so you can at least die on a decent hill for your BS position.

If the guy had a gun, I would organize the rest of the people to rush him. Maybe he’d kill me but he couldn’t kill all of us. America.

more to a question of why in the u.s. can we not have multiple categories operating at once?

We need to not fight here. I took another look at it and we’re on the same side on 90% of this (and fighting over a 10% that shouldn’t cause such disagreement). I’m sorry for being so tense about the situation (it gets on my nerves). You and I, though, agree on a lot of this:

It is really busy to campaign for a job as a Fox News consultant. You have to come up with new crazy shit to say every. single. day.

I am willing to concede that no matter where on the earth the actor is, he will have a different relation to the particular racial oppressive structure in that society. Yes, he will have different identity positions in different countries. If that is a really important point, then great.

isaac is also white.

I was responding to this claim: “The Coens are simply uninterested in telling stories about any non-white characters” which is specifically about telling different stories. I agree with your point to a large degree.

I am sick of the racial policing that hispanics get constantly from all sides. As a half-hispanic man, it is ridiculous how people think that just because I am light-skinned that I “fit” perfectly into white society and never dealt with similar prejudices and background as other hispanics. It was fucking hard to…