Fotbawmad
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42 minutes ago, Mortar Bored said:
I'm sorry, you claimed one thing, I asked for evidence, you quoted a dubious (at best) website which cited entirely different data. If you've got a genuine point to make, make it. I'm not the bad guy in this.Cops are.
I would say it's more the policy makers who're the problem here, as what you see at the bottom is a reflection of what's going on at the top. A big part of the problem is having a system which protects bad cops and persecutes good cops. I'm just sick of people using incidents like this as an excuse to advance other motives.
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6 minutes ago, Mortar Bored said:
Firstly, a "5 things" site is hardly the most credible data source, but I concede your data source cites other sources.
Worryingly, it doesn't provide links to those sources.
That aside, you are talking shit. Here is the relevant quote in your link.
4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.
Not what you stated! Discharge of a firearm does not always result in a shooting. You are trying desperately to be right. Try again amigo.Lol, saying I'm "trying desperately to be right"? That was the first result that came up in a search. Whether you don't believe it out of choice or are "desperately" trying to frame the debate in a way that suits your narrative is of little consequence to me. But the whole white racist KKKops narrative is both wrong, destructive and more importantly a massive distraction from much more important issues related to police brutality in America.
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12 minutes ago, Mortar Bored said:
Can you provide a data source for your last sentence? I'd be very interested to read it. It will obviously include the ratio of black officers in that area?http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler
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From speaking to dozens of black people online, a lot of them don't like BLM and don't view it as an organisation that speaks for them. In many ways I don't see it as a whole lot different from those feminist, LGBT and climate change movements. They're mostly used as a front to advance their hard left wing agenda. They only care when a white man/cop shoots a black person and ignore all the senseless killings that happen in their own communities. A little fact for those who like to race bait. A black cop is twice as likely to shoot a black person than a white cop is.
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Is there not evidence that not selling paracetamol in big packs (or multiple packs) makes a difference?
I'm pretty sure tighter gun laws would have some sort of impact on suicide rates.
The highest suicide rates are generally found in South-East Asia, which have very strict gun laws. The only place in the world which tops that is Greenland.
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It takes more thinking time to work out how to kill yourself if you don't have a gun lying around to stick in your mouth. There's a fair chance you might change your mind.
Suicide is generally mulled over a long period of time. So I don't think a viable method would be that hard to come up with for most people.
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After San Bernardino, I read a fairly brutal fact that more Americans have died in domestic gun violence since 1968, than have died in all of the wars America has ever participated in.
If you're talking in terms of "gun deaths", then you're being intellectually dishonest. As the vast majority of them are the result of suicide. If someone wants to kill themselves, or someone else. They'll do it by whatever means.
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This act is part of a very obvious trend to introduce legislation as widely drawn as possible to increase state power. The only supporters of it are those to thick to grasp this basic critique, so much of P&B then.
TBF, it was knee jerk legislation that was rammed through parliament. After one particularly heated OF game in 2011. What pisses me off most about stuff like this. Is that it was done in the name of feel good politics. In an attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator who don't follow or know much about football. The only reason it didn't face much resistance was because 99% of the population are unaffected by it.
However, look on the bright side. Chances are it will get repealed in the not too distant future, and it's much easier to achieve. Given that it was passed at Holyrood; and not Westminster or the EU.
Support your team in an appropriate manner and you have nothing to fear from the Act.
Sorry, I don't take well to the "If you've done nothing wrong. You have nothing to fear" talk. As the chances are, it will effect you or someone you care about down the line. Anything that's vaguely written in a way that could make anyone a criminal is worrying. Especially if you happen to get people in power who become abusive with it. By using it to target their political enemies or people they don't like in general. I'm sure you've probably heard of that quote in relation to Nazi Germany when the everyday person wasn't bothered about government overreach. As long as it didn't effect them.
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Lol at people trying to bring up sectarian singing in an attempt to point score over The Rangers fans. Yes, it has a place, but that's relegated to an almost irrelevant side issue. When you consider what took place after full time. You have alleged assaults; damage to pitch and goals; fighting on the pitch between fans as well as the massive hold up that caused to the cup ceremony.
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I understand the Hibs fans pitch invasion, but I don't understand why The Rangers fans were doing it as well.
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I know you have a tendency to write long tedious posts as a way of deflecting and most of the time most folk on here, including myself, cannot be bothered to reply. But not this time.
If you want to decriminalise incest then, in the opinion of rational people, that means you think it is OK. I could have said you were in favour of incest but you have not posted to that effect. I'm trying to be fair to you here.
Ditto sectarian songs.
People just need to look at your 'defence' of Carmichael to form a view on this.
People just need to look at your view on university tuition fees to form a view on this.
If you think that there are only three universities in Scotland then your statement on this is a lie.
So no lies to me. Five lies to you.
I notice that you don't deny you will stand for election again. As someone who has stood for public office three times and been successful on every occasion my advice to you is please do it again. It's fun watching you crash and burn.
Not that I'm defending Ad Lib, but I take issue with your reasoning. Decriminalizing something does not mean you approve of something. It just means you don't believe people should be arrested, fined or imprisoned for it. We need to focus on pursuing the most serious crimes and avoid involving police or courts for what would be considered a non-violent offence.
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The McManus, Ding match trumps the Hawkins O'Sullivan match in terms of overall standard IMO. I must admit this Worlds has got me questioning if there is really that much difference between the top players anymore.
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I'll bite.
This a stunning example of a miniscule amount of knowledge being a dangerous thing.
I think by "countless studies" you mean Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice.
Even a 16 year old doing the sociology module of Higher religious, moral and philosophical studies it was incredibly easy to debunk the shitty conclusions Gilligan comes to.
Her sample size of 50 women from homogeneous western culture to reach her conclusions is absolutely worthless in determining certain behaviors as being linked to X and y chromosomes and if anything actually strengthens the case for saying certain behaviours are attributable to gender norms of the particular society sampled. Don't take my word for it though serious sociologists have lined up to rip her conclusions up for arse paper.
So why is there careers that have great imbalances between the men and women who are doing them?
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^^^ idiot found
I have three little words for you "prove me wrong".
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Gender is indeed a social construct, you seem to be very slowly on the catch up here.
There's been countless studies been done on the differences between men and women and they're practically a different species once you get down to it. The most fundamental difference being the care based morality women have; and justice based morality men have.
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No one's taking lectures on anything from you, Prophet of the Apocalypse.
This coming from the guy who says anyone who disagrees with him on the issues relating to homosexuality is a homophobe. Talk about intolerance there.
Scientifically speaking of course, there's no such thing as race. It's made up.
I take it gender is a social construct too?
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If you say "I don't debate with Israelis" then you are antisemitic.
Xenophobic yes; sectarian no.
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I don't think anyone could live with Ding the way he was playing in the opening frames of the match. However, credit to McManus for hanging in there. I do feel bad losing my coupon on Higgins in the previous round, but I'm definitely rooting for McManus now. There is no reason for him to be worried about Selby. Should he face him in the final.
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As I said, a complete and utter mouthbreather, whose historical 'interpretations' will be duly filed in the bin where they belong.
Your "paraphrasing" doesn't even remotely match that statement. No attempt to ask for clarification or further explanations, and the one question that has come up is the least relevant. The lining of questioning would have been "What do you mean by civilization cycle?" (admittedly I should have used a different term, because trigger word culture is awash on this forum". Followed by "Can you provide a case study? and then "Can you provide further examples?" However, being faced with instant dismissals, strawmans and character assassination. I have no option, but to end the debate out of principal.
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I don't think you know what "Zionism" means tbh; hardly surprising given your 'homosexuality sparked the collapse of the seven great civilisations' marked you out as a mouthbreather tbh.
Whoa! talk about putting words in my mouth. Zionism is about being in favour of a Jewish state, with some people being supportive of it for their own hateful reasons. Take it you and just about everyone else on here has never heard of the Havara agreement?
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Hitler was most definitely a Zionist. Some of the biggest Jew haters out there are Zionists.
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Hawkins, O'Sullivan has definitely been the best match of the tournament. and it's unlikely we'll see a better match than that. If Hawkins is able to maintain that standard. He could go onto win the tournament.
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There was a lot of complaints about bad cushion bounces over the last couple of days, but a more pressing issue is those middle pockets. Is it me or are they playing unusually tight during this Worlds? Even the best players seem to be missing cuts into them on a regular basis.
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4th favourite at 8/1 with bet365
I just placed a bet on him and got 9/1. These are overpriced odds IMO. When you consider his form and how his side of the draw has opened up.
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Yet another US shooting
in The General Nonsense Forum
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I've never even heard of Dailywire until today. As I explained earlier that was the first result I came across.