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What exactly did I write that made you think that I was suggesting the violence seen in the video was justified? Was it the part where I said violence should, in general, be condemned? Was it the part that I said to be wary of people pushing agendas? Or the part asking for the context that would at least let us understand why there was violence?

Insurance companies have to show their stockholders a profit; private healthcare the same. Public healthcare has to show politicians they're not a mismanaged drain on the tax money they're given to operate. Doctors have to pay back all the loans they took to get to and through medical school. Since the insurance companies can negotiate rates with hospitals, hospitals often increase costs on the uninsured to make up what they lose to keep the insurance companies happy. Businesses of a certain size are required to offer insurance, which means they are shouldering most of the cost, so a lot of the cost gets passed to them, which get passed on to the employee. Research costs are usually factored into costs - that new medicine was #572 in the trials, so you're not just paying for your drug and its manufacturing, but the failed trials that came before its success. With patents on medicine having a short term (because generics are in the public interest), there is only a short window that a company can maximize its profits before the medicine can be offered in a generic form. Etc.

I find it odd that people don't ask for more evidence or context when presented video footage* - even with things that don't challenge their views. Hitch**** had a theory regarding images; take a picture of an old man smiling and intercut it with him looking at a cooing baby. The context is that of a doting grandfather and baby. Take the same man smiling footage and intercut it with a sexy woman undressing, and the man become a lecher. In this case, the poster of the video has an obvious agenda, which itself makes the video suspicious. The account is starting from the position that 'blacks' are invading and de-white-ifying Europe, and he advocates all Europeans set their location status to "Occupied <nation>" to indicate this He refers to a group of people as a "pack" to associated them with violent and animalistic imagery, so he's already appealing to emotion rather than logic and trying to otherfy the group Since we must assume an agenda based on the evidence, it'd be nice if the details of the video could be verified independently. Mind you, I think its wise for context in a lot of situations; I've seen enough pictures paraded as "Thing a" when they were really "Thing b" on the internet and in real life to know that you can't trust random people to deal in honesty and truth. This happened online with the recent riots, where posts were made of fires from a year or more ago claiming they were from those nights (as if the fires and destruction that existed weren't bad enough on their own). So looking at the footage: The video footage appears old - it is very low res for a modern phone. There's nothing to indicate it is in Australia that we can tell from the low res images, so we can't even begin to verify the narrative we are presented with. We only see part of the video and don't know what happened before or after the film shown. These are important because the claim is that this happened and nothing was done about it - but this can't be independently verified by details about where the original source is (assuming even that nothing was done about it). Perhaps the group was bad people, perhaps there was an incident prior to this we don't see, perhaps all of them are drunk or mentally ill - the point is we don't know the context, but the poster of the video is trying to create a narrative that fits their agenda. Unless you want to accept that agenda - and any agenda presented to you by anyone who presents information to you - some critical thinking skills should be exercised, in my opinion. *I actually include news media on this as well as often times "The News" is synonymous with "What We Have Footage Of", and even that can be selectively edited.

Anyone familiar with the incredibly high price of healthcare in the US.

The Cleveland Spiders Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll show myself out.

While violence, in general, should be condemned, I'd be wary of buying into the narrative surrounding the presentation of that video. The only context for the video is provided by the poster, who by their twitter profile has an agenda they are pushing (if it wasn't obvious from their word choice).

In this case for the Supreme Court, my understanding is that the official reason he was terminated was listed as "conduct unbecoming", and that when he pushed about the reasoning was able to make some connection between his firing and his joining a gay sports team. When there isn't a documented pattern of employee issues to justify cause it opens employers up to accusations of manufacturing cause in a firing.

With the exception of certain employment situations in the US, for most professional jobs you'd need to show cause or violations of the employment contract to terminate someone. Temporary work, day-to-day employees, etc. will be exceptions.

I tried four times to read Dune - never could finish it.

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Isn't this like the third cancellation for COPS? Fox then Spike then Paramount streaming?

My guess is that its easier to ignore what other people are doing when they're a mile away than when they're in the apartment above you, and there's less opportunity for crimes of opportunity when you have to go out of your way to see if there's an opportunity. I've never seen Gone With The Wind, but I've heard Tara's theme 1,000,000,000 times too many. HBO's plan, to add statements about the historical context and the portrayals of the characters are probably about as good as they can do. I'd imagine Margaret Mitchell would be more pilloried in the modern day if not for her charitable works, including paying towards tuition for Morehouse medical students and helping add seats for African-Americans at local hospitals.

^Is that an act of protest, or an act of God?

Haha, I have watched all of Ken Burn's Baseball but not in awhile. The Braves are my home town team, so I had read a lot about their history back when I was more of an active follower of baseball.

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Might be misreading you on this, but the University of Texas tower shootings were 4 years earlier. You can go back to at least 1927 with other types of school attacks, with the Bath School massacre being the earliest I can think of off the top of my head.

The witches I've known have never said anything about the 'unseeable' vs other religions, given that their religion is polytheistic...

Its how we weed out bots. Every new user must have a few posts approved - five i think - before being released from moderation. The off topic forums don't apply to post count.

I see african-american politicians, religious leaders, and others condemning any violent protest and advocating for non-violence everytime this type of violence has broken out. And often calling for non-violence before the protests start. So...not sure what you're on about.