[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Olympian1010 7,975]

I’ve heard some journalists have been standing in same sport for over an hour while the protest passes  (No way to really verify that claim of course, but it’s big no doubt)

 

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 https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1271535485467283457?s=20

 

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[Agger 1,663]

On 12/06/2020 at 09:02, heywoodu said:

Don't mention don't mention the war, this is now banned in the BBC because wrong or something. 

 

 

As expected, it's already back

[Federer91 2,795]

One of the best episodes of comedy television in history! All of Fawlty Towers is truly amazing. E V E R Y T H I N G is perfect just the way it is.

[heywoodu 15,141]

3 hours ago, Agger said:

 

As expected, it's already back

 

Unedited and just the way it was shown at first?

 

Wow, they learn  

[Agger 1,663]

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Unedited and just the way it was shown at first?

 

Wow, they learn  

 

Yeah. They just included a small warning.

[Monzanator 4,502]

Even female chiefs of police are forced to resign amid BLM protests. Guess feminists will stay oh-so-quiet here?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53037953

[heywoodu 15,141]

26 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Even female chiefs of police are forced to resign amid BLM protests. Guess feminists will stay oh-so-quiet here?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53037953

This is about the guy who resisted arrest and then even thought it'd be a good idea to grab the officers' taser weapon, I guess? I wonder if this will lead to the same kind of protests as George Floyd's death, so far this one seems a whole lot less psycho-like than what Chauvin did...I mean, he grabbed a weapon for crying out loud.

[Monzanator 4,502]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This is about the guy who resisted arrest and then even thought it'd be a good idea to grab the officers' taser weapon, I guess? I wonder if this will lead to the same kind of protests as George Floyd's death, so far this one seems a whole lot less psycho-like than what Chauvin did...I mean, he grabbed a weapon for crying out loud.

 

You're applying too much common sense. Since the police chief resigned then the fact this guy grabbed a police taser makes no difference. Unless maybe a policeman gets shot dead it won't make any difference IMO (and even then I'm unsure whether the BLM protesters would care). Police is reduced to mere whipping boys now, whatever they do, it will be a wrong decision.

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15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This is about the guy who resisted arrest and then even thought it'd be a good idea to grab the officers' taser weapon, I guess? I wonder if this will lead to the same kind of protests as George Floyd's death, so far this one seems a whole lot less psycho-like than what Chauvin did...I mean, he grabbed a weapon for crying out loud.

*A non-lethal weapon.
 

This is a little more defendable then many of the other cases of police brutality that we’ve seen, but it still represents something inherently wrong with our police culture. Our police place too much emphasis on confrontational, violent methods ending conflict, and too little emphasis on positive problem solving techniques that would have much better outcomes for all parties.