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Another Day Another Uneducated Angry White Trumpanzee

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by CometsWin, Nov 26, 2016.

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  1. NewRoxFan

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    Paul Ryan shows his abandonment of ethics... will he call anything Trump does a "food fight" and "demeaning the issue"?

     
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  2. NewRoxFan

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    U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton found Arpaio guilty for defying a judge’s 2011 court order to refrain from racially profiling Latinos during patrols and turning them over to federal immigration authorities. During the trial, which took place in a federal court in Phoenix, prosecutors argued that Arpaio intentionally violated the court order, which demanded his officers stop detaining people simply on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally — a practice that had led to the detention of some Latinos who were citizens or legal residents.

    Prosecutors used Arpaio’s own words against him, pointing to several media appearances throughout the years, including a Univision interview in March 2012 in which he admitted that he was still targeting people based on immigration status. “If they don’t like what I’m doing,” he said, addressing his opponents, “get the laws changed in Washington.”

    In her written opinion, Bolton said the evidence showed “flagrant disregard” for the court order and that Arpaio had “willfully violated” it. She also said Arpaio had failed to ensure his department complied with the order by directing his deputies to “continue to detain” people. Bolton said evidence showed that Arpaio understood the order.

    “Despite this knowledge, the defendant broadcast to the world and to his subordinates that he would and they should continue ‘what he had always been doing,’” Bolton said. (source: Los Angeles Times, July 31, 2017)


    Paperwork in place for Trump to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...e-for-trump-to-pardon-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html
     
    #1282 NewRoxFan, Aug 23, 2017
  3. Carl Herrera

    Carl Herrera Contributing Member

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    About the statues:





    I think this shows that, as I argued earlier, many people who favor leaving them in place do so because these statues have not (yet) caused an inconvenience or pain to their own lives rather than out of a strong attachment to these statues. Many Americans, particularly those outside the South, don't even have a Confederate statue near where they live that they are aware of or ever think twice about.

    Things change when the statues start causing problems-- like attracting Nazis and white supremacist rallies like manure attracts flies. Those city leaders bear the brunt of having to deal with these gathering and their costs and risks, so they are re-thinking about removal.
     
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  4. mick fry

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    As long as they keep that A Hole Robert Lee from broadcasting the game then I'm good!
     
    #1284 mick fry, Aug 23, 2017
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  5. Carl Herrera

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    "I look down the stree and I see..."

     
    #1285 Carl Herrera, Aug 24, 2017
  6. LosPollosHermanos

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    This has to be scripted...I'm at a loss for words.

    "I dont believe the flag is a symbol of racism or slavery. I wouldn't go ripping down stuff of Martin Luther Coon...I shouldn't have said that, Martin luther King..."
     
    #1286 LosPollosHermanos, Aug 24, 2017
  7. Duncan McDonuts

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    LOL wow.
     
    #1287 Duncan McDonuts, Aug 24, 2017
  8. Jugdish

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    And he caps it off by defending Columbus, who had no redeeming qualities and had nothing to do with America.
     
    #1288 Jugdish, Aug 24, 2017
  9. JuanValdez

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    Wasn't bothered by "grab 'em by the p***y" but supporting racists is a bridge too far? Mr. Bernard, "both sides" is just lockerroom talk!

    Lol.
    Easy to fake.
     
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  10. Carl Herrera

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    who did the vocals for that?
     
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  12. Carl Herrera

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    Maybe they auto-tuned Ivanka?

     
    #1292 Carl Herrera, Aug 24, 2017
  13. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    This is basically the epitome of white fragility. Comparing Martin Luther King to the Confederate Flag.
     
    #1293 CometsWin, Aug 24, 2017
  14. No Worries

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    When will black people learn their place?

    What black people need is statues of Freed Slaves pissing on their dead master graves. It is historical.
     
    #1294 No Worries, Aug 24, 2017
  15. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Kind of funny. When the hate groups come out into the open they start getting chopped down by the very tools they've used to become popular. It's a lot less about freedom of speech than the freedom to spread a brand of hate, using government and technology to inject that message into the public sphere. Of course that speech is only really protected from government, not from the private sector. Now tech is fighting back and that's a real problem for the hate brand. The whole marching on college campuses with torches and chanting Nazi slogans thing isn't nearly as effective for the hate brand as sneaking around on Twitter and Facebook, pushing BS to impressionable people and trolling/attacking minorities in secret.


    Unlikely Allies Join Fight To Protect Free Speech On The Internet

    Following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., Silicon Valley tech firms removed far-right groups from search results, cut off their websites and choked their ability to raise money online.

    The moves have leaders on the far-right calling for the government to step in and regulate these companies. They have some strange bedfellows in this — many liberals also are calling for more regulation of the same companies.

    On the far-right is Richard Spencer. He is a white supremacist.

    "I would ultimately support a homeland for white people," Spencer says. "I think that ethnically or racially defined political orders are legitimate."

    After Donald Trump was elected president, Spencer got some press about a speechduring which he shouted: "Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail Victory!" and members of the audience gave him a Nazi salute.

    But, it is the First Amendment that now inspires Spencer, who was a speaker at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

    In the wake of the violence that occurred there, the Daily Stormer — an online neo-Nazi publication — was blocked by a series of major tech companies. Its domain name was taken away by GoDaddy. Google stopped linking to it. Facebook took down links to any article it published. And it can't use PayPal anymore.

    "Getting kicked off Facebook or YouTube or PayPal or whatever, this is effectively losing the ability to speak," Spencer says. "It is actually a more powerful form of censorship" than it would be if a government were to censor.

    Companies like Google and Facebook are not covered by the First Amendment, which applies only to the federal government. But Spencer feels these companies are so large that the government needs to step in — just as it did with broadcasting. Spencer says that otherwise, there won't be freedom of speech.

    "These are the free speech platforms in the 21st century," he says. "So if we're going to regulate all of these 20th century ways of expressing ourselves, then why are we so loath to regulate the 21st century ones, which are much more relevant and much more vital?"

    Spencer has some unlikely allies on this.

    Robert McChesney, a communications professor at the University of Illinois, describes himself as a Democratic socialist and has written books about the threat of fascism.

    "I think Richard Spencer and I wouldn't agree on hardly anything," he says. "But on the issues of whether these companies should be able to control what I can and can't hear, I think in principle we have to be together on that. All Americans should, across the political spectrum."

    Right now, Google has more than 80 percent of the online search market, according to Net Market Share. Google and Facebook combined have 77 percent of the online ad market, and 79 percent of Americans on the Internet have a Facebook account, according to Pew Research.

    "The research shows that if Facebook or Google changes the algorithm just slightly and puts a different type of story in there, it affects the way people think about the world," McChesney says. "Their internal research demonstrates this."

    Because these are private companies, they don't have to reveal their algorithms or what changes they make to them.

    Currently, many Americans may agree with the choice to censor the Richard Spencers of the world, but McChesney says it might not always affect groups people don't like.

    "What's to stop them from turning around and saying, 'Well, we don't like these people who are advocating gay rights. We don't like these people who are advocating workers' rights'?" he says.

    That is the question leading both white nationalist Spencer and left-leaning professor McChesney to call for the government to step in.
     
    #1295 CometsWin, Aug 24, 2017
  16. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    Very real. This is how dude has always talked to his buddies. Did you catch his little smirk? And people wonder why we still need affirmative action and a voting rights act, or what's left of it.
     
    #1296 B-Bob, Aug 24, 2017
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    It's amazing how this issue dominates the liberals thoughts. Wake up people - the media is riling you up for views...

    There are far bigger problems today we should focus on.
     
    #1297 bigtexxx, Aug 24, 2017
  18. Pizza_Da_Hut

    Pizza_Da_Hut I put on pants for this?

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    Yeah, like the guy who got elected is a nazi sympathizer who believes the KKK is complex and being goated by the alt left is a non story. Who cares if Trump has had some shady businesses including some ponzi schemes and has gone bankrupt so many times. Wake up sheeple, there are bigger issues afoot. Like who is going to stop Canada coordinating an attack with Mexico on the US? Who is going to stop Martians from giving South Korea super nuclear technology? Who is going to stop the Jews from using their mind reading technology on the white man? I ask you, why are these stories not getting national attention? Freedom fighters this is your call to arms. Triple digit IQs be damned, T-rump is here to protect us.
     
    #1298 Pizza_Da_Hut, Aug 24, 2017
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  19. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Why would the existence of a random racist, whose only claim to fame is having a lawsuit dismissed for lack of standing, prove the need for the continuation of affirmative action and the voting rights act? Did you think those that oppose affirmative action or the voting rights act were under the impression there were no more racists in the world, and now that you have found one, they would come around?
     
    #1299 StupidMoniker, Aug 24, 2017
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