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by spurgistan
Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:23 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: main reasons to implement a cashless society
Replies: 51
Views: 9202

Re: main reasons to implement a cashless society

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Stack up silver, cash and 6 months of food by December.

As seen in Chicago looting ...
by spurgistan
Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:09 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Fort Sumter, Portland
Replies: 35
Views: 6454

Re: Fort Sumter, Portland

Apart from some crazies, the demand is not to get rid of the police, but to (a) make them more accountable (b) stop asking them to do things which they are not trained to do (c) not equip them like an occupying army.

So, I'd take minor issue with the use of 'crazies' to mean 'people who've maybe ...
by spurgistan
Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:27 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Fort Sumter, Portland
Replies: 35
Views: 6454

Re: Fort Sumter, Portland

What do they think those bad cops are going to do once they are unemployed and have no department to slow them down.



Well, not be able to murder people without facing legal consequences, for one thing. I'm curious how qualified immunity and having a union that fights for your right to terrorize ...
by spurgistan
Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:40 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Yet another racist killing by US police
Replies: 314
Views: 84120

Re: Yet another racist killing by US police

I guess were I to tell my kid "There's nothing I like about you," that would be harsh (and also not true, even hypothetically speaking) but there's more direct ways to convey that something is a murder and requires top-down reform to ensure that it doesn't happen. It's a weirdly neutral way of ...
by spurgistan
Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:21 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: The MSM is Actively Lying, Censoring, and Spying
Replies: 128
Views: 26133

Re: The MSM is Actively Lying, Censoring, and Spying

Yeah, hydroxychloroquine doesn't work and the right wing sound machine's focus on pretending like it does to make Dear Leader happy has direct health consequences even for those not susceptible to meme science, since people who think they're invulnerable to CV aren't going to take precautions needed ...
by spurgistan
Mon Jul 20, 2020 6:38 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Are the police in the USA too soft on rioters?
Replies: 5
Views: 1474

Re: Are the police in the USA too soft on rioters?


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Agreed, good article about the problems sometimes caused by the state and city police in the USA being too soft on rioters.

In a nearly 1,700-word statement, Mr Wolf blamed state and city authorities for failing to "restore order". He said their response had "emboldened the violent mob as it ...
by spurgistan
Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:55 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: China vs India... who would win?
Replies: 36
Views: 7209

Re: China vs India... who would win?

nobody
by spurgistan
Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:59 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: coronavirus - The Legacy
Replies: 854
Views: 317056

Re: coronavirus - is this real or hype?

I think the fact that Florida and Arizona are the new American hotspots kinda runs in the face of the "sun kills it" idea...
by spurgistan
Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:57 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Breonna to get JUSTICE
Replies: 6
Views: 1195

Re: Breonna to get JUSTICE

1. It's not justice until they get jail time. Her family better not be paying for their pensions, neither.
2. I think jimbo was making an oblique reference to the fact that some people object to using American sources for international news.
by spurgistan
Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:10 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: One officer ≠ US police.
Replies: 56
Views: 10899

Re: One officer ≠ US police.


Resisting arrest isn't a capital offense, dude. A man running away with a taser is not...
... a threat to anybody's immediate safety - the only reason to use deadly force.


Define “immediate”... because depending on how you define that I may agree or disagree.

I’m not saying the death was good ...
by spurgistan
Tue Jun 16, 2020 12:03 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: One officer ≠ US police.
Replies: 56
Views: 10899

Re: One officer ≠ US police.


Ok. So I saw the video of the police shooting in Atlanta. I'm going to be straight up. I'm a miltary veteran. And have been on both sides of the law. I have been arrested 5 times, no violent crimes. I am a 2 time convicted felon and everytime I got in trouble it was my own doings. Nobody made me ...
by spurgistan
Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:11 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: What does a police-free future look like?
Replies: 97
Views: 19608

Re: What does a police-free future look like?

A world where mental health is performed by funded mental health professionals, not cops with an incentive to focus on punishment instead of treatment. A world where conflict resolution involves people not trained to use a legal monopoly on the use of force to solve problems. Where violent crime is ...
by spurgistan
Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:05 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: What does a police-free future look like?
Replies: 97
Views: 19608

Re: What does a police-free future look like?

A world where mental health is performed by funded mental health professionals, not cops with an incentive to focus on punishment instead of treatment. A world where conflict resolution involves people not trained to use a legal monopoly on the use of force to solve problems. Where violent crime is ...
by spurgistan
Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:33 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: coronavirus - The Legacy
Replies: 854
Views: 317056

Re: coronavirus - is this real or hype?

As soon as S Korea realised it had more than just a small handful of cases among international travellers it immediately banned all mass gatherings and events, shut its schools etc. The growth of new cases in South Korea has not quite flatlined but has completely dropped off. This is in contrast to ...
by spurgistan
Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:48 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Lemme 'splain something'
Replies: 24
Views: 7491

Re: Lemme 'splain something'

To be fair, ever heard of the spanish flu?

The WHO's guidelines for naming new diseases say that naming them after a country or region should be avoided. Same for naming them after people or animals. Doing so creates an unnecessary stigma attached to whichever place/person/animal the disease is ...
by spurgistan
Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:25 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Is it time to end the quarantines?
Replies: 87
Views: 16014

Re: Is it time to end the quarantines?

mrswdk wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
jimboston wrote: Make sense?


Yes. Although I'm not sure if the cost of the fix exceeds the cost of the potential problem.


What do you think the USD value of someone's granny's life is?


Not to mention that once we start running out of healthcare capacity, it won't just be people's grandparents dying.
by spurgistan
Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:01 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Is it time to end the quarantines?
Replies: 87
Views: 16014

Re: Is it time to end the quarantines?

mrswdk wrote:lol ‘demonstrably failed’. The quarantines have demonstrably worked in China, the only country that has had them in place for any significant amount of time.

What is Duk’s Plan B?


I mean, South Korea did it too, only with a less intrusive security state.
by spurgistan
Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:26 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: coronavirus - The Legacy
Replies: 854
Views: 317056

Re: coronavirus - is this real or hype?

I find it interesting that the hardest hit American.states all didn't vote Trump in 2016.

Coincidence?

Incompetent voters manifest incompetent governments.

If Iowa and.North Dakota were hardest hit you can bet CNN would lead with "TRUMP VOTING STATES MOST IMPACTED BY CORONAVIRUS."

Yes, the ...
by spurgistan
Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:13 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Let's talk Harvey
Replies: 12
Views: 2672

Re: Let's talk Harvey

Harvey Weinstein is a product of the industry

There are always Harveys around which are basically, Sith

We need more Jedis in the industry. Women need to stop watering the tree of future sexual crime as they try to pick career fruit

He had a reputation and maybe this heros should have done ...
by spurgistan
Sun Feb 16, 2020 6:51 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Jonesey's fame spreads to Australia
Replies: 4
Views: 1415

Re: Jonesey's fame spreads to Australia

Congrats, man!
by spurgistan
Sun Feb 16, 2020 6:07 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Andrew Yang fails to buy votes!
Replies: 19
Views: 4083

Re: Andrew Yang fails to buy votes!

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/ ... rural-base

Trump would probably sue him for copyright infringement, except Trump's idea of just giving piles of money to swing state voters is better than Yang's idea of giving some money to all Americans.
by spurgistan
Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:10 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: coronavirus - The Legacy
Replies: 854
Views: 317056

Re: coronavirus - is this real or hype?

China is locking down 7 cities and building a hospital to hold 1,000 patients IN 6 DAYS. Is this a big deal?

We're not sure yet. It obviously has the potential for an epidemic. Too soon to tell if it will become one, but after the embarrassment of SARS they're not going to take chances. If it ...
by spurgistan
Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:26 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Facebook Has Crossed The Line
Replies: 93
Views: 33051

Re: Facebook Has Crossed The Line

Facebook is apparently using the far left wing "fact checker" Politifact. They wanted to remind me that an old post I made about the Clinton body count is clearly false because no evidence has been found (because everyone who had that evidence was killed by the Clintons, duh). It's nice to see they ...
by spurgistan
Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:21 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Shift to right driven by ignorance
Replies: 85
Views: 19114

Re: Shift to right driven by ignorance

No dude. Zorro wrote that point that truckers have their finger on the political pulse of the country. Hoping he'd explain. Guess not

Sorry, I must have missed that. Would you like a full length thesis, or an executive summary?

⋅ Truckers don't over "fly over" country; they go through ...
by spurgistan
Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Trump NOT Impeached
Replies: 66
Views: 12899

Re: Trump Impeached - Senate to Acquit Momentarily

HitRed wrote:I never would have voted to impeach Obama for the same things.


I would have, and seeing as Republicans spent 3 years trying to figure out if Obama was born in the United States (with no proof, mind you), I'm skeptical that the Republicans would have been ok with Obama doing actual crimes.

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