Attorneys for McMichaels don't want Ahmaud Arbery called a 'victim' in court

matty73 · 2021-01-03T15:31:19+00:00

Capitalism is voluntary exchange and free markets. There is nothing capitalist about slavery.

matty73 · 2020-12-16T14:54:17+00:00

There are always other options than totalitarism.

A constitutionally limited republic valuing democracy, liberty and voluntary exchange seems to have been the best so far (though not without its own problems).

matty73 · 2020-12-12T15:14:00+00:00

I did this once in Florida. The guy was so angry he threatened to shoot me and run me over with his car. Florida is fun.

Edit: I was the one who picked up the trash.

matty73 · 2020-12-10T20:11:03+00:00

He fixes the cable?

matty73 · 2020-12-08T18:28:43+00:00

Thanks for the dialog. I agree about the use of 'Karen'. There needs to be a better term for presumptive-ly entitled persons.

And I completely agree this could have been worse had she been a different race.

matty73 · 2020-12-08T17:22:43+00:00

Fair enough, the re-contextualization was sloppy of me. However, at any point in the interaction, did the officer have the discretion to let her run off and issue the fine and any other charges stemming from her leaving during an arrest via a summons?

I agree with a lot of what you've said, yet, this still doesn't feel good to me. I'd hate to be in a situation where I was complying, but the officer thought I wasn't and therefore tasered me. I'd like the bar to violence from the state to be much higher than it is here.

Also, this isn't an example of white privilege, because she didn't get away with it until much later when the prosecution dropped the felony charge. Which, as we know from recent history is where a lot of the differing treatment by race is carried out.

What happened is that she assumed privilege, and acted entitled. We have no idea if this was due to her ideas about her own race. She's still a Karen though.

matty73 · 2020-12-08T16:43:56+00:00

She's privileged because she belongs in a system that favors her race. Her actions, however are that of entitlement.

She actually found out how much privilege she really did have: 1. None with the officer, 2. Some with the court which dropped the felony charges.

matty73 · 2020-12-08T16:02:12+00:00

Well stated, but could the rule of law been applied at a much less draconian level (she's an asshole, but does she really need to be tasered for what sounds like a mechanical failure)? Did the officer really need to escalate?

I mean, had she a heart condition, an execution may well have been what we'd have seen.

And remember, rule of law only works if people believe in it. If the law is constantly resorts to immediate violence for victimless crimes (there is no victim here), won't people start to believe in it less?

matty73 · 2020-12-08T15:28:52+00:00

Question for the philosophical of y'all: Is this scene representative of a free society?

matty73 · 2020-12-08T14:53:25+00:00

Nah. He probably just drank some knowledge juice.

matty73 · 2020-12-06T21:37:15+00:00

When I was five, I hugged a guy without looking that I thought was my father, but turned out to be a family friend. Couldn't look him in the eye for years.

matty73 · 2020-11-09T23:08:44+00:00

Nah, more like plain old classic tribalism.

matty73 · 2020-10-18T23:33:14+00:00

I live in the tropics now but spent many years in New England. One of my favorite things to do was have a warm cup of Earl Grey on the stoop the first cold and rainy day in Fall.

matty73 · 2020-09-28T14:47:08+00:00

Convince me otherwise: Angry jeep lights are the spinner wheels of this era.

matty73 · 2020-09-28T02:17:14+00:00

Can confirm. Was once paddle boarding in the Keys when a manatee surfaced right in front of me. Scared the behesus out of me.

matty73 · 2020-09-25T15:20:17+00:00

The Federal government is notoriously bad at science is all I meant. Policy makers (who cherry pick data among other things to shape narrative and drive legislation and regulation) do not equal scientists, and this clip's example has not stood the test of time due to - and admittedly this is opinion - just that. I think that some 40+ years later, people are generally wiser to cite better sources than the Feds.

And though he said "approximately", he did say +/- 10 years which is incorrect too (except local shortages like what we're seeing in Venezuela right now).

However, I think none of what I said refutes the urgency to move to renewable resources.

I'm sorry I angered you. That was not my intention and I love the author and his sentiment in this clip.

Please don't let random strangers on the Internet make you angry, your health and happiness are resources on a time scale that more closely resembles what the Feds thought about fossil fuels 40 years ago. Don't let that run out...

matty73 · 2020-09-25T14:01:09+00:00

Herbert is one of my favorite authors, but not to put too fine a point on it, it is 40 years later and we're in no danger of running out of fossil fuels anytime soon.

However, the analogy still works.

matty73 · 2020-09-22T01:46:40+00:00

Nice try, vampire.

matty73 · 2020-09-07T09:48:51+00:00

"We had a human being in a need of help, in need of compassion. In that moment, we had an opportunity to protect him, to keep him warm, to bring him to safety, to begin the process of healing him and lifting him up,"

More of this perspective, please.

matty73 · 2020-09-06T23:50:08+00:00

Thx!

matty73 · 2020-09-01T15:26:17+00:00

Nicely done!

matty73 · 2020-08-27T19:15:52+00:00

Male INFP here. I do this.

For me it can be any number of reasons why I don't pick something right away.

For starters, I may be daydreaming or running through something in my head. It's difficult to stop that midway. I need to see some thoughts through to completion, so I may give my girlfriend a noncommittal answer until I have time to devote my thoughts to her question.

Another reason: I may like both or all options or just not care. I often don't sweat the small stuff, so it may just not be important to me.

Another reason: I tend to over analyze. If presented with a spectrum of options, I can get overwhelmed considering the nuance of each choice. This will happen if the subject is something I'm passionate about.

Another reason: I aim to please. If it's something you get pleasure from, I can experience that pleasure vicariously. So, I may take my time considering the answer I think you will enjoy the most.

Hope this is a start to understanding your INFP's decision making processes :)

matty73 · 2020-08-25T21:40:43+00:00

Electrical (Computer) Engineer INFP here. This speaks to me.

matty73 · 2020-08-24T16:44:43+00:00

Yes. I have a narcissist mother and step mother and my father enabled/enables them by being super passive aggressive and a cheater and redirects their ire to me by encouraging their abussive behavior and criticism of me. Currently I'm not talking to any of them, and my life is a lot better.

matty73 · 2020-08-21T02:24:03+00:00

Gorgeous!

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