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Watch CA2 before Thor2 for better context on Avengers. CA 2 is where Shield gets shut down.
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You assume wrong. By acknowledging that it's a problem of a police force first and foremost serving itself (rather than the people), aided by laws and regulations that give officers far too high of a special status and legal privileges above "normal" citizens, the political left might find themselves faced with inconvenient questions about why they don't rally for (and where they are in power, enact) political change in that regard (which they don't want to, because it would conflict with their long-term dream of an all-powerful government apparatus centrally managing the lives and livelihoods of a submissive citizenry stripped of individual power). On the other hand if they can spin the issue as "systemic racism by white people (except of course themselves)", they can feel all good and heroic about themselves and engage in symbolic action and moral grandstanding ("raising awareness", "addressing issues") without actually having to enact any political and legal change (because there's nothing that laws could change). So that's exactly how they're gonna keep spinning it. Interesting points raised. I do think this seems to be a systemic issue within the police force as you mentioned and not institutionalized racism by the police...and of course I won't deny there are elements of racism or rather racial profiling. But don't you think any Police force does need certain elevated privileges in society in order to do there job when it comes to dealing with violence? So for example when the Police can use deadly force is not the same as a normal citizen? The problems come from the fact that you are elevating somebody over somebody else. It's very easy for a police officer to justify why he's doing 120 on the interstate in his cop car to try to get to an off duty job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBHOTK4sQPY The thing about the current system is that the courts and public attorney's are so overloaded that there's no real check on the police at the local level. They can (literally) get away with murder unless there is a deliberate public outcry at the national level.
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Isn't that like the difference between saying "I killed somebody in cold blood because they bumped into me" and "I dealt with a disrespectful **** who invaded my personal space"? Censorship is a nasty subject. We all want to perform it when our particular side is the one who's in power and can censor, but when somebody else tries to censor us, it's a bad thing. However, if you begin to censor what can and can't be said based solely on your personal view of how the world should work and react, you begin to cut down on the scope of knowledge that can be legitimately learned by the future members of society. Sure, I want to censor people like the Discovery institute (who pushed for intelligent design in the schools) because I think their ideas are garbage, but they still need to put forth the idea so that the world can also see the rebuttal from the scientific community about their topic of choice. In the modern era of the "entitled millenial" we live in a world where people are more connected than ever, but ultimately it allows people to reaffirm their own biases that much more. Politically and socially it is much easier to find a website or twitter feed that will do everything to affirm your beliefs as they were taught to you, and only through serious upheaval will you end up seeing things from another point of view without the viewpoint feed from your "side" providing color to it. The Baltimore Riots are a perfect example from this. On one end of the political and philosophical sphere you have several people declaring that what's happening is the ultimate outgrowth of a broken justice system and these riots were the only way to draw attention to this bias and abusive system. On the other you have people who've never been in those conditions seen within Baltimore, saying that ultimately there's no reason to commit arson, riots, and violence against anyone becasue we have a democratic system that works. Neither side is going to give up their ideals because they haven't been in the other persons position. The Rioter feels like there's no way for him to change the world without explosive action that causes a huge ripple, while the outsider feels that the world can change because it happens every day within their life. To get this back to GamersGate, the problem is that a lot of the people on either side are having their bias reinforced. Early on it was all about Anita and Zoe being bullied, with news feeds being filled with different reports about this or that fringe element being responsible for this threat or that one, which made those who supported the "GamersGate is fake and people are looking to establish sexism in the industry as standard!" people ammunition to keep right on trucking believing in the garbage that Anita was spilling and the tales that Zoe tossed out, while ignoring the fact that the other side was stating (That games journalism was an incestuous mosh pit of reporters who will push foreward a narrative to suit their needs and sell the most products rather than actually try to provide the news without that specific slant). Now it's starting to skew the other way where the Anti-GamersGate are having THEIR fringe elements used to demonize and steretype the entire movement (As with the DC bomb threat). Part of our interconnectivity via Facebook and Twitter means that we can "quote mine" people and movements rather than just what they said. Taking what fringe elements say and use that as an example of what we think the majority is telling you. The fringe gets the most press because what they say is so unpalatable to most people that both sides use the other's fringe elements to try to undermine their opponent. Thus you end up with the entire GamersGate crew, and anti GamersGate crew being cast as swatting sexist(for different Genders) ****, while an actual discussion is no longer taking place. And it's not going to get any better (from a sexism standpoint) because girls are being told that women should be waited on hand and foot and treated like queens by their men because they work so hard. The best example of this sort of sexism is probably Meghan Trainor's "Dear Future Husband" where she's basically going to have her "Strong independant woman" cake and eat it too. In her song (and especially the music video) She's basically saying that she's going to be the busness woman with a full time job, while the guy also holds one down. But the hubby is gonna have to cook, not see his family as much, apologize for everything, and basically worship his wife if he wants to have a chance in her bed.
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Officially have new girlfriend and we went to other friend's birthday. Left early from the Gay Bar and drag show (which was fun) and ended up having sexy times on the floor of my apartment because neither of us has a bed bigger than a Twin. All in all, good night.
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Depends on your definition of "Overnight". I mean the Mark basically tanked in less than a year with some ridiculous inflation (because they just printed money to pay off their debt) during the Weirmar Republic.
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This happens in Most countries. Best Example I can remember in America is a woman who's amateur nickname was "Motel69Star" who was a Spanish teacher or something, that swung and made homemade porn on the side. Students find out and she had to quit and move pretty bloody fast. Partly because it's hard to teach and keep the respect of students (I'd expect) when they've seen you bangin for profit.
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Trevor Noah is gonna have a whole new news crew. Seems like most of the correspondents are departing anymore.
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Woot! Scored an interview next week with the GM of the local Ford dealership after impressing the Sales manager.
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I agree with what the News anchor is saying "You have to listen to opposing views and deal with it". But I find it Hilarious that that particular sentiment is coming from Fox News. On a games Journalism front: http://steamed.kotaku.com/steam-review-bombing-is-a-problem-1701088582/+nathangrayson He turns a question about "Review Bombing" into a piece about the indie dev documentary or whatever "Game Loading"
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
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I think that in the next 20 years there's going to be a political apocolypse, simply because the baby boomers are retiring and the Mellenials/GenX are taking their spots, which will be more polarizing... which will mean the 2 party system might die.
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He was a Democrat, but got so outraged at Truman for the race politics that he splintered the Southern members of the party, to create the Dixiecrats.
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I don't get it. Are Hispanics and Blacks incapable of being conservative? Not incapable, but there has been no visible reason for them to vote conservatively when the GOP are the ones constantly pushing laws into place to protect their congressional seats via white majority. Voter ID laws being the most recent example I can think of. And it doesn't help that the GOP is run by a bunch of guys who held Strom Thurmond up as a paragon of their party... a man who ran for president in '48 on a ticket of "Keep it Segregated". In 2002 the Senate Majority Leader (Trent Lott) declared which is so politically intractable that he ultimately lost his position as Majority Leader because of the outrage in general.
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Actually, it seems like I've got the biggest hatedom of any character in the game... there are Reddit montages of me getting nuked and eviscerated with the lines "Oliver Swanick is the only NPC programmed to feel pain!"
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And Steve King has decided that he wants to try to prevent the Federal Courts from even being able to look at cases involving Marriage.
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Calax you are a smart guy and a college graduate. Unless they are considering you to manage many stores getting this job would be an underachievement. I'm not picking on you here, you are way better than this. It's management, Store or Assistant STore manager would be the start but I'd try to make it to District Manager quick as I can. Right now it's not about getting a job that suits my degree etc. It's just about getting my ass employed.
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My big o'l hunk of annoying. Ze Kitteh I grew up with who still recognizes meh (taken in January)
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Went for an interview at ze gamestop. Won't know anything until next week.
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Yuuup... Worth it. Never thought I'd like a game where the blood of a fight stayed on the floor the entire match.
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I hope you realize Kiro... if you kill me I will find you and kill you... man to man... I will stick a Knife in you... >.>
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Well, had a good overall day where I spent most of my afternoon and evening with lady friend, Weds it's off to DSM for an interview to possibly run a gamestop.
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Watchd Guardians of the Galaxy featurettes.... and I want James Gunn to do a Star Wars Film... like an ACTUAL star wars film (Guardians is basically Star Wars with the marvel characters instead of the Star Wars characters). Also I almost has myself a girlfriend now.
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I don't think there's been a "Russian Alaska" since when America bought it from them.
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Remember 30 Rock?
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