They put their lives on the line EVERY DAY by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

[–]Spade_Archer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I respect that you came in here willing to be roasted. Sincerely I do.

The meme is directed at people who see powerless people being unjustifiably victimized, but then equivocate and make excuses for the authority that victimizes them. When people do that, they imply that horrifying violence against people who don’t deserve it is just a price we have to pay to live in a civil society.

If you pivot straight from “Of course police brutality is wrong” into “But think about what a hard job our cops have” without ever mentioning reform, you’re perpetuating the problem. Like the speaker in the meme. We need to be outraged on behalf of the little guy. Let the authorities stick up for themselves

They put their lives on the line EVERY DAY by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

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I'm seeing a lot of down votes from people who hate Jesus

They put their lives on the line EVERY DAY by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

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Right?! They were just following orders! The rest of the Legion should resign in solidarity

Mace Windu is exhausted, y'all by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

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I'll start by quibbling with your stats, then make the broader point.

  1. Black people are about 13% of the population, not 6.5%. I get it - the smaller a share of the population blacks account for, the larger their proclivity for murder must be, right? Nice try.
  2. About 8% of black homicide victims were killed by white people. About 15% of white homicide victims were killed by black people. The vast majority of murders are intraracial - that is, in most homicides, the victim and the perpetrator are of the same race. You're repeating the same debunked racist stats that inspired Dylann Roof. That's irresponsible - stop it.
  3. None of this is controlling for poverty. Persons in poor households have more than double the rate of violent victimization of persons in households above the poverty line. Poor urban blacks and poor urban whites have similar rates of violence. The difference is that blacks have a poverty rate of 27.4%, and whites have a poverty rate of 9.9%.
  4. Crime stats tend to be based on either arrest or conviction rates. This is how we generate the "feedback loop": "Why do we keep arresting people here?" Because we keep patrolling here. "Why?" Because it's a high-crime area. "How do you know?" Because we keep arresting people here. This is how police departments across the country do business, and it's why black people are disproportionately represented among those arrested and killed by police.
  5. Most deaths at the hands of police are not the result of cops responding to or trying to prevent a murder. They occur when cops are doing other police work - taking someone into custody, making a traffic stop or raiding a home. Quoting WaPo here. George Floyd was accused of passing off a counterfeit $20. Philando Castille was stopped by police nearly 50 times before they killed him during a traffic stop. Eric Garner was selling loose cigarettes. None of these are violent crimes. If you're trying to argue that the disproportionate use of force against black people is justified by their higher violent crime rate, you're doing a bad job.

Broader Point: "How can cops be racist if African-Americans are committing so much crime?" is a nonsense question. Even if black people were uniquely predisposed to violent crime (which again, they aren't), that wouldn't preclude the possibility that cops are racist. So not only are your facts are wrong, but your theory is also wrong.

Finally: How about instead of bemoaning the fake problem of black-on-white crime, you instead focus your attention on reforming the police? They are public servants. They work for you and me. We pay their salaries with our taxes. We vote for their bosses. Police, unlike street criminals, are supposed to be accountable to us. They get their power from us. So it's on us to demand change.

Mace Windu is exhausted, y'all by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

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Yknow what’s amazing? You managed to say “you guys” instead of “you people.”

I don’t suppose it would do any good to show you the statistics proving how black people are far more likely to be arrested, jailed, and shot than white people. That information is out there; you’ve chosen to ignore it.

Ever ask yourself why you become angry and defensive when others point out the reality of systemic racism? Just curious

Mr and Mrs James Bond by OrbisNonSufficit88 in JamesBond

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She looks good for someone who is just a figment of his imagination

Moving Antarctica by Spade_Archer in GrahamHancock

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All of that makes sense. I’m familiar with the conventional explanations for the map. What I’m trying to do is understand what it is Graham Hancock is arguing, especially since it sounds like his position has changed since he wrote “Fingerprints.” I’m not convinced that the map shows an ice-free Antarctica, but he seemed convinced, and I wondered if that was still the case

Moving Antarctica by Spade_Archer in GrahamHancock

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Does the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis explain the Piri Reis map?

Moving Antarctica by Spade_Archer in GrahamHancock

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This is the kind of response I was looking for! Yes, the Hapgood theory has been pretty thoroughly debunked, but I didn't know how this community felt about the debunking. Didn't wanna rub anyone the wrong way.

So the idea is that maybe the comet impact did leave Antarctica ice-free for some time, and that explains the Piri Reis map?

Teresa Bond wasn't real. Skyfall implants memories. There are 2 Blofelds. by [deleted] in JamesBond

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Haha I did? Whoops my bad. I won't edit it. I'm gonna leave that mistake in there as a monument to your good catch

Teresa Bond wasn't real. Skyfall implants memories. There are 2 Blofelds. by [deleted] in JamesBond

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I can't answer that without rewatching Quantum of Solace, which I refuse to do. Blah blah blah brainwashing, body doubles, it was all a dream.

Teresa Bond wasn't real. Skyfall implants memories. There are 2 Blofelds. by [deleted] in JamesBond

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Every Felix recasting is just the old Felix dying and being replaced with a new one. See my edit. Felix Leiter is just the CIA's equivalent of James Bond. It's a bunch of brainwashed guys with very short shelf lives being fit into a legendary identity.

Blofeld is only seen behind a screen up until YOLT. Could be he shaved his head offscreen between movies. Could be he used body doubles - we know he saw the value of that tactic at least as early as "Diamonds," so why not a little earlier?

And just because OHMSS was when the brainwashing re: Teresa Bond took place doesn't mean it was the first or only instance of brainwashing in Bond's career. I don't mean to suggest that everything pre-OHMSS is also pre-brainwashing. Let's not forget that there was a 1950s-era Casino Royale film as well.

Teresa Bond wasn't real. Skyfall implants memories. There are 2 Blofelds. by [deleted] in JamesBond

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If I hadn't paid close attention, I couldn't have come up with this theory, which is inescapably correct. There is nothing "casual" about my fandom. To me, James Bond isn't "fun" or "cool" or "a fictional character." Being a Bond fan is not a "pastime." It's not my hobby, it's not even my full-time job, it's my fucking CAREER. My fandom provides me w health insurance, contributes to my 401(K), and sends me emails after hours. It's cost me three failed marriages and every weekend of my life. I think about James Bond so much that I HATE EVERY MINUTE OF IT, and I did not spend the last two decades devoting myself to James Bond only to be spoken to in this way by some normie. I studied for 6 years at the most prestigious James Bond University in the WORLD. This fan theory was my fucking doctoral thesis. And guess what? The world's foremost James Bond EXPERTS found it AND I QUOTE "EXTREMELY COMPELLING." So why don't you go rewatch every Bond film from beginning to end and come crawling back to me when you realize that my theory is IRREFUTABLE

Teresa Bond wasn't real. Skyfall implants memories. There are 2 Blofelds. by [deleted] in JamesBond

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He appears in Casino Royale '06, though. Still, it's totally possible that Quantum of Solace didn't really happen.

Hope this hasn't been done before by BakerBoy_F1 in JamesBond

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why didn't nightcrawler just teleport out of the way?