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    Are there any racist institutions? How and why.

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    33 minutes ago, Motorin' said:

    You're discounting that the second car that was filming also had an armed man in it. One car drove past him and blocked the road in front (which you don't see in the video), and one drove up from behind to block the road behind him...

     

    Yeah, that's exactly the type of questions I was asking at the time (Day One of this) and nobody had the answers.  (Not here)  Why am I supposed to be seeing him run away but I see him run towards?  Who is filming?  And, why does the camera move away right when the most important thing happens - the two start to engage each other? 

    40 minutes ago, B-Man said:

     

     

     

     

     
     
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    While he didn't deserve to die, why LIE to me about him being a runner? If there's a REAL problem with racism in our country, it wouldn't be so hard to expose it without MAKING UP stories.
     
     
    This is ALWAYS my problem with the lies about Trump and the lies with these racial things.  If it's so bad, just go with the truth.
     
    I had somebody (super liberal) message me on Facebook with a picture of the former cop who is now charged with his arm around GA Gov. Kemp at a campaign stop - posing for a picture.................The guy had a shirt saying Mohammed isn't God, and a bunch of other similar garb on.  It took me all of three seconds to google and be shown that isn't the guy being charged at all, and instead some yahoo from year's ago.  
     
    Can't liberals do a little fact checking before spreading things around?!?
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    Are there any racist institutions? How and why.

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    18 minutes ago, Rob's House said:

    The more interesting part to me is how willing people are to jump to conclusions based on woefully insufficient evidence and mold the fact pattern to conform to their biases by filling in the gaps with their preconceptions, then accept that narrative as incontrovertible fact.

     

    Before I clicked on any video, I had been reading tweets saying that I was going to see two rednecks chase down an unarmed black man................I was totally confused when I"m thinking I'm seeing the black guy run TOWARDS the said rednecks.  

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    Are there any racist institutions? How and why.

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    3 hours ago, Motorin' said:

    No, you're not the only one. There's a justice for Gregory and Travis McMichael fund set up. And people are circulating a meme that has Ahmaud Abery in a hoody with a hammer and Timberland's looking like a gangster. 

     

    Thanks for the tip.  I'll dig into my seat cushions..................Because that's exactly what I was saying when I said that the 20 second video doesn't have me convinced of anything.  Either way.  

    Are there any racist institutions? How and why.

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    I seem to be the only person who isn't convinced that I saw a murder in the video.

     

    For one, I was told that I was going to see two rednecks chase down an unarmed black guy.  So, I watch the video, and I'm totally confused - as he seems to run right towards them.  Then, the camera goes haywire just at the moment the confrontation got physical.  It's hard to tell what happened but it seems that Ahmaud charged at Sonny.  Dad possibly fires a warning shot.  Ahmaud and Sonny struggle for the gun and Sonny was on the shooting end of the gun.

     

    Plus, you don't see what led up to this at all.

     

    It looks like it could be murder but those 20-30 seconds or whatever don't convince me, for whatever reason.  Oh, and the jogging part sounds like nonsense - in boots and 12 miles from his house.  

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    Are there any racist institutions? How and why.

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    3 hours ago, Chef Jim said:


    We can’t go for a jog??  In the days of pre-Covid I spent every evening after work in a stuffy gym. Now I spend them walking and hiking outdoors on all the great trails around my house and through our neighborhoods. If you’re not getting out of your house for a jog LeBron that’s on you. 

     

    Lebron has to dodge bullets every day - like Hilary on the tarmac 

    TV Characters you couldn't stand

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    5 minutes ago, ocemur said:

     

    Potsy and Malph are just secondary characters to show how perfect the Cunninghams were by comparison. Take away the laugh track. Fonzie is a damaged psycho who was abandoned first by his father, then his mother when he was six years old. Fonzie is a violent gang member. He once remarked about saving someone's life because he stopped hitting him. Everyone in the community is afraid him because they know what a psycho he is. Chuck went away in a car crusher at a junk yard and Fonzie put him there. All he has ever wanted was a family he couldn't have. When he becomes aware of the Cunninghams and their perfect middle class hum drum life, he is willing to murder to get the one thing he could never have.

     

    He murders Chuck after season one, and by season two he is moving in and replacing Chuck as an older brother to Ritchie and Joanie, and surrogate son to Mr., and most importantly Mrs. C.

     

     

     

    He also started wearing a leather jacket to throw off the cops who might have suspected him in Chuck's murder.  

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    USWNT loses

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    22 hours ago, Virgil said:


    Apparently, the women’s team generated more money than the men’s team the past 3 years.  
     

    With that being said, I’m with you.  It should be a portion of what’s brought in and I don’t know what the discrepancy is.  Depending on which article you read, there’s a variety of ways they calculate money generated.  In one article the women made more based on what they did. In another article, they got paid less for World Cup games and winning the whole things. 
     

    I’m interested in the topic, but have no idea whose “facts” are real 

     

    I am typing this mainly to get all the facts straight in my head:

     

    - the women were offered the same contract as the men, but turned it out, and took the more secure one, with benefits, etc.

     

    - they then scream about equality all last summer and simpletons just cheer them on - I believe after the final game, the crowd changed Equal Pay!  (bonus points for Rapinoe being the ahole ringleader in all this)  

     

    - the reason that the bonuses for the Men's World Cup are higher seems pretty simple: The prize money for the 2019 Women's World Cup was $30 million vs. $400 million for the 2018 Men's World Cup. The pie is just smaller, period.

     

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    Stock Market Resiliency

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    20 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

    Real estate confuses me now. We have been looking in NC for a while now. I called our broker and she said that she does NOT expect a sharp decrease, and I was very surprised to hear this. If people have no jobs, how will they buy houses? She even thinks that the market will hold steady, and I cannot see how.

    I would love to know how others view the real estate market for now and the next few years.

     

    I would think the exact same thing as you.  I would think the broker always wants to paint as rosy a picture as possible.

     

    Does anybody know how real estate prices have done in the last few months?  

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