Random Politics & Religion #00

Absolutely blew my mind. Then you take into consideration that no charges are being pressed against him and I'm left in disbelief. Accidental discharge of the gun they say. That's impossible. I seen it go off twice it looked and he didn't exactly look startled by such an "accident" taking place. He just blatantly killed the guy. Whom just survived what looked to be a horrific car crash too nonetheless. Only to be murdered by someone whom had absolutely ZERO reasons to be pulling out a pistol on him in such a situation in the 1st place. He acted more like someone whom just sabotaged a vehicle to create an accident and seen a survivor whom was supposed to be dead and decided the task wasn't yet completed. Unreal. Accident my ***. He made sure nobody survived that crash.

He probably shouldn't have refused to put out that cigarette.

Why is it so few people understand civil liberties while they run around screaming "freedom"?

Why is it so few people understand civil liberties while they run around screaming "freedom"?

So ya'll can't even distinguish the difference between events here? I don't even know what to say about that. Which is a problem in and of itself when something minimal is over exaggerated and blown way out of purportion and the other is a blatant murder scene which nobody seems to comprehend.

Slippery slope, abuse of power, et al.
You can't go from saying comply with police regardless of legality, to OMG DAT POLICE BE BAD I SO SICK.
Police are given (necessary) power and authority over other civilians. There is a reason why they need to act within the boundaries of the authority and powers granted to them.
This is the reason why they need to be acting within the boundaries, and why they *MUST* be held accountable when overstepping.

Poor Mag:

Creationist Who Believes in Chemtrails to Head Arizona State Senate Education Committee

Saw this yesterday, then remembered it's a footnote to that piece of dogshit Ted Cruz being on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

That doesn't mean one cannot see the difference between murder vs failure to comply. Regardless of wether you fancy yourself a warrior of civil liberties or not. There's a big difference between these scenarios.

I thought the cigarette comment was Milamber making a joke...

Is this really how this shooting went down?
Over a cigarette?

The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street. They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter. They aren’t the remnants of the American labor movement or the savvy young dreamers who confront politicians with their American accents and un-American legal status.

The angriest and most pessimistic people in America are the people we used to call Middle Americans. Middle-class and middle-aged; not rich and not poor; people who are irked when asked to press 1 for English, and who wonder how white male became an accusation rather than a description.

You can measure their pessimism in polls that ask about their expectations for their lives—and for those of their children. On both counts, whites without a college degree express the bleakest view. You can see the effects of their despair in the new statistics describing horrifying rates of suicide and substance-abuse fatality among this same group, in middle age.

White Middle Americans express heavy mistrust of every institution in American society: not only government, but corporations, unions, even the political party they typically vote for—the Republican Party of Romney, Ryan, and McConnell, which they despise as a sad crew of weaklings and sellouts. They are pissed off. And when Donald Trump came along, they were the people who told the pollsters, “That’s my guy.”

They aren’t necessarily superconservative. They often don’t think in ideological terms at all. But they do strongly feel that life in this country used to be better for people like them—and they want that older country back.

Depicting anyone as a monkey is questionable as far as taste is concerned.

Though the idea of depicting someone -- black or white -- who doesn't believe in evolution as any sort of primate is somewhat amusing to me.

I love this controversy.

Libs cry racist if someone portrays obama or his kids as a monkey, but see no problem applying it to someone white. They vehemently make sure you know it's only ok to do it to a person of X race.

Then they expect you to believe they know what racism is and you don't.

Who said liberals don't have a problem with this cartoon? Anyone?

Do I need to repeat the question?

So one comic is the only answer you have? One person. Ok. Well I guess its more than nausi.

I thought the common consensus is that we are all monkeys.
(Although I disagree with this, humans are not monkeys!)

Are you serious right now? Do you read the papers? Its the washington post and Ann Telnaes is the one that made the comic. Can it get more liberal then her?

Who said liberals don't have a problem with this cartoon? Anyone?

The editor already issued a retraction. No one other than the comic has defended it. So, still sitting on one person.

The editor already issued a retraction. No one other than the comic has defended it. So, still sitting on one person.

That doesn't mean one cannot see the difference between murder vs failure to comply. Regardless of wether you fancy yourself a warrior of civil liberties or not. There's a big difference between these scenarios.