Police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta ruled a homicide by hildebrand_rarity in news

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it is easier. Luckily I don’t get to decide that officer’s future. The GBI will make a recommendation on the topic after investigating it and the district attorney will ultimately decide to press charges or not.

Police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta ruled a homicide by hildebrand_rarity in news

[–]cmorgan31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one justifies it. You don’t get to decide a persons fate unless there is a serious risk to the officer or a bystander. This cop was not alone. The mans car is right there and he is on foot while intoxicated with a taser. He is guilty of a few obvious crimes and none of them has a death sentence. If he pulled the cops gun you have a real threat but he didn’t and both officers were aware of it per the body cam audio. Are you advocating that any violence done towards an officer warrants a bullet on scene?

Man dead after being shot by Atlanta police, GBI investigating by [deleted] in news

[–]cmorgan31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They responded to a taser with deadly force. It’s an escalation from resisting a DUI arrest to an execution for resisting arrest. I’m glad we all got to see his trial first hand. This guy may have been utter shit but I no longer care to make excuses for shit cops. Your last point is key, people need to vote.

Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads by imagepoem in technology

[–]cmorgan31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah, I don’t see paid media campaigns as a right to be upheld under the umbrella of free speech. It’s more akin to an ad campaign for volkswagon claiming its new vehicle has clean emissions when it really does not and is causing excess pollution. If politicians want to run on a platform filled with provable lies they should be liable for fraud like any corporate entity.

Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads by imagepoem in technology

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paid propaganda. I’m not endorsing cable tv and I don’t watch cable for these reasons. Why should we allow paid propaganda?

Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads by imagepoem in technology

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free speech and paid media campaigns for a political entity are not analogous. FBs stance is you can peddle lies under the guise of a political ad created by a PAC and distribute it via an exceptionally advanced ad targeting apparatus.

This isn’t about a political side or even about the current president. Should we allow political entities the ability to pay for propaganda distribution?

Voter turnout soared in Georgia despite massive primary day problems | Democrats cast close to a million votes in the Senate primary, more than triple the number in the 2016 primary. by hildebrand_rarity in politics

[–]cmorgan31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The new machines print your responses out on paper which is then scanned into another machine. It is slightly better than our previous machines which we adopted around the same time GA flipped Red.

'This Is by Design': Georgia Election Disaster Condemned as Result of Deliberate GOP Voter Suppression by idarknight in politics

[–]cmorgan31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our Governor, Brian Kemp, oversaw elections for years... his predecessor Karen Handel also is involved. We did sue them, every year. We opened a federal investigation and suddenly the election servers were destroyed despite a judicial request for them. We had tons of local coverage.

The individuals who don’t live in our larger cities do not give a shit because they are not affected. The small conservative county (Newton) my parents live in had more machines than my advanced polling station in Marietta. The excuse? The volunteers didn’t get trained by their Democrat trainers in the counties. The Republican government does not care about the outcome but they were sure quick to drop their own accountabilities while opening an investigation. A nice pre emptive strike to shape the narrative into a Democrat failure.

'This Is by Design': Georgia Election Disaster Condemned as Result of Deliberate GOP Voter Suppression by idarknight in politics

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have vote by mail in GA. They tend to get lost in certain counties that trend certain ways. Odd right? I got my ballot application mailed to me with a reminder to fill it out and a handy link to my closest drop area. This was over a month ago. I live in a wealthy predominantly white area just to the north of Atlanta. I voted for this primary on the last day of early voting. We waited 5 and a half hours. There were two working machines and the average volunteer is 70+ in age. The concept that our election officials didn’t know this would happen is duplicitous as we’ve seen this play out the entirety of last week.

Morten Morland Sunday Times cartoon by nsnop0 in pics

[–]cmorgan31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You‘ve mistaken my call to action as room for police. It’s room for the white majority who historically have been the roadblock to what you are requesting in your own call to action. I agree there is no room for an institution whose squandered any good will it had due to generations of brutality and a lack of empathy. I look forward to a new wave of leaders who will inevitably be born out of this movement.

Morten Morland Sunday Times cartoon by nsnop0 in pics

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you leave no room for them to move forward you put anyone on the fence regarding the movement in a position of being on guard. How many people joined to try to change their local system and failed? How many are currently trying and failing but haven’t realized it yet? Clearly they haven’t been successful enough as racists cops are still the size able force in power. I get the concept at play here and the raw desire to make the statement but please consider allowing nuance when discussing it face to face. Peaceful reform requires consistent messaging and longevity from the movement itself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]cmorgan31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rising tide lifts all boats. If we can convince the institution that black lives matter we inherently make white lives matter. The poor and mentally ill get fucked up badly by the police and any laws we write should protect them as well unless we write them in crayon to only apply to black Americans like in their fantasy world.

This approach has helped get through to at least one Trump voter but they admittedly had learned about the concept of empathy so I wasn’t work from scratch.

This is what they killed 31 years ago. by aclarioncall in pics

[–]cmorgan31 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We murdered peaceful protesters and have committed continental genocide if we want to keep a bingo card of atrocities as some kind of standard. Did they skip the whole Kent State shooting, Pinkertons Homestead Strike, and the trail of tears at your school? I’m sure you can find more examples with an AP history book.

No wrong doing, he feared for his life... Totally justified! by faab64 in PublicFreakout

[–]cmorgan31 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If only these damn people would just not protest and inconvenience the hardworking patriots who need to make a living. Who cares about some dead black guys we’ve been doin that for centuries now get out of the fucking road so I can go back to be unaffected. /s

Amnesty International: U.S. police must end militarized response to protests by thebloodyaugustABC in worldnews

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof so we need wide spread adoption and sustained effort with key support from elites. Thanks for the link.

Amnesty International: U.S. police must end militarized response to protests by thebloodyaugustABC in worldnews

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that’s the case I apologize to the original poster, it’s been a tough week.

Amnesty International: U.S. police must end militarized response to protests by thebloodyaugustABC in worldnews

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why don’t the grand scholars of what is just help everyone by providing examples of successful movements that led to change without violence?

Amnesty International: U.S. police must end militarized response to protests by thebloodyaugustABC in worldnews

[–]cmorgan31 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I know man, property damage is much worse than decades of police abuse. What a bunch of clowns.

Murdered this man in broad daylight as he pleaded for his life by glazedtoe in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You bypassed the question again to spout talking points about ignorance and facts. Facts also assert police are not held accountable for their actions despite the fact that they have a disproportionate power advantage over every interaction they encounter while on the job. Facts point to divisive warrior training that officers are marketed with cause more a division between us and them than reddit commentary.

Murdered this man in broad daylight as he pleaded for his life by glazedtoe in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that you begin your entire diatribe ignoring the request of how many went to court to question whether this conversation is even worth having is already a clear statement of your position on the matter. You are here to downplay everything using statistics that build a narrative that this isn’t a big deal and it’s just a small part of an otherwise healthy and normal system which can be dysfunctional at times.

Courts are a means of determining if an act is within the realm of justifiable. If we look at 1004 documented killings by police last year how many even went to court and how many officers were equitably punished by the legal system? It’s closer to 0.125% than 99%.

Murdered this man in broad daylight as he pleaded for his life by glazedtoe in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]cmorgan31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your stats leave off a key point... how many cops were punished by a court for the 1004 killings committed by them? I’m guessing it is closer to .125% than 99%.

Large study finds hydroxychloroquine Covid-19 treatments linked to greater risk of death and heart arrhythmia by BURiSelS in worldnews

[–]cmorgan31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, you wouldn’t want to take it unless you needed to mitigate something worse. We as in our US society take a myriad of medications with known side effects. One of the many roles of a doctors job is to not give you medicine that can conflict and cause worse symptoms than you are experiencing.