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iPhone_7 posted...

Am I missing any?

"Whiteness"

As in:
https://imgur.com/a/be0lu31
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RE_expert44 posted...

Does anyone have detailed stats on school shootings by race?

Yep:
http://www.newsweek.com/white-men-have-committed-more-mass-shootings-any-other-group-675602

Statistics show that since 1982, the majority of mass shootings 54 percent were committed by white men, according to data from Mother Jones. Black people were the second largest perpetrators of mass shootings based on ethnic background, but only accounted for roughly 16 percent of the total incidents during the same time period.

Even though the idiot writer at Mother Jones tried to use these statistics to push the narrative about white male shooters, the numbers show that white people commit mass shootings at slightly lower rates than their percentage of the population (54% vs. 68%), while black people commit them at slightly higher rates (16% vs 13%). So, on a per-individual basis, black people are more likely to commit mass shootings than whites. On an absolute basis, whites commit the most mass shootings by virtue of having the largest number of people.
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Will you be outraged the next time you go to Harlem?

Nah, went to Harlem last Friday night to hit up this great Ethiopian place. I did see a guy arrested right in front for drugs, but was a good area otherwise.

Harlem has improved quite a bit in the last 10 years. The South Bronx is where I wouldn't go.
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Yep, there are about the responses I expected from the users who are giddy in that other topic.
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Topic title and OP are based on a false premise.
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dameon_reaper posted...

I would also like to point out that I've seen a lot of non lefts call cops pigs because they were given speeding tickets. >_>

True, but I dont see any of them crying about MS-13 gang members being called animals, so no reason to expect them to be outraged.
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That's pretty dehumanizing.
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LOL, that's awesome. I knew some idiot in the media would put their foot in their mouths with this idiocy defending gang members.
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That didn't work out so well in the Pulse Nightclub...
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Caution999 posted...

littlebro07 posted...

Caution999 posted...

The Dad is the one at fault, here. No responsibility.

Yeah, he picked up those guns and shot those kids. His son did nothing.

If I leave the scissors on the coffee table, and if I had a 3 year old walking around...and he hurts himself or someone else with said scissors:

Who's fault is that?

Responsible gun ownership. The father really screwed up here.

I think it really depends on what the father did. I mean, if he had them locked up and well out of sight, with gun and bullets in a different location, and the son used an axe or bolt cutter to get them -- it's hard to argue that the father was negligent. There is only so much you can do to prevent a determined 17 year-old with unlimited access to your house from getting them.

However, if he just had them in an easily accessible cabinet where anyone could have picked them up on a whim, I'd say he owns some legal responsibility for this. Not to mention the parental failures of raising a child who's capable of doing this.
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Also, this idiot was pro-communism in addition to having Nazi regalia. Seems more like he was confused and trying way too hard to be a rebel than he was political. Duckbear added all the "alt-right" shit to the OP that wasn't in the Dailymail article he's plagiarizing.
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Full Throttle posted...

Do you think the Dad should be charged too?

Depends on how much effort the dad made to secure the firearms. As a responsible gun owner, you have an obligation to make sure your underage children do not have easy access to them.
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ledbowman posted...

The Admiral posted...

ledbowman posted...

Trump stans sure are defensive about this.

I can't even imagine the level of delusions that must be going through your head to say this after your extended humiliating meltdown in the other topic where you said stupid shit that includes:

ledbowman posted...

Get this god damn fascist out of my White House.

ledbowman posted...

So should we just execute them on-site since they're not people with rights?

ledbowman posted...

So are you guys cool with extrajudicial on-the-spot executions of these people you deem subhuman animals?

Fucking LOL

You ever gonna answer that question?

Yes, with laughter at how hard you're trying.
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ledbowman posted...

Trump stans sure are defensive about this.

I can't even imagine the level of delusions that must be going through your head to say this after your extended humiliating meltdown in the other topic where you said stupid shit that includes:

ledbowman posted...

Get this god damn fascist out of my White House.

ledbowman posted...

So should we just execute them on-site since they're not people with rights?

ledbowman posted...

So are you guys cool with extrajudicial on-the-spot executions of these people you deem subhuman animals?

Fucking LOL
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Balrog0 posted...

The Admiral posted...

f Amazon and a local store are selling a good for $100, the local store will charge me something like $108 with tax, whereas it's just $100 on Amazon. There is no way stores can lower prices enough to compete without being put out of business.

How is that 'essentially funded by state government' though?

Because that $8 price advantage that helps Amazon in my example is money not going to the states. They're essentially foregoing tax revenue to the benefit of Amazon, even though they're technically owed it.
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Balrog0 posted...

The Admiral posted...

This gave them a 5-10% price advantage over local competition (that was essentially funded by the state governments)

huh?

If Amazon and a local store are selling a good for $100, the local store will charge me something like $108 with tax, whereas it's just $100 on Amazon. There is no way stores can lower prices enough to compete without being put out of business.
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theAteam posted...

I guess I missed the narrative on this one. Why is Trump trying to undermine Amazon?

Part of the criticism is legitimate. Amazon become a behemoth and forced smaller retailers out of business because for many years (and even now, in some cases), they did not collect sales tax. This gave them a 5-10% price advantage over local competition (that was essentially funded by the state governments), which they have absolutely exploited to push other retailers out and reduce competition.

However, I believe part of Trump's stance is also jealousy over Bezos's success and the potshots WashPo takes at him.
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Antifar posted...

This is good, actually.

If you want to see the end of the USPS, then I agree.

Is that your stance, or do you not really understand the effects of this?
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Blue_Inigo posted...

The Admiral posted...

darkjedilink posted...

Blue_Inigo posted...

Trump is such a blatantly corrupt piece of shit.

This is coming from a Clinton supporter, btw.

Trump is in the wrong here, but what you quoted is about as intelligent an argument as Blue_Inigo can make. I'm pretty certain he couldn't explain what this issue actually is if he tried.

What does someone who praises racial and ethnic profiling know of intelligence?

Your grade-school insults and tantrums are only making the point for me.
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darkjedilink posted...

Blue_Inigo posted...

Trump is such a blatantly corrupt piece of shit.

This is coming from a Clinton supporter, btw.

Trump is in the wrong here, but what you quoted is about as intelligent an argument as Blue_Inigo can make. I'm pretty certain he couldn't explain what this issue actually is if he tried.
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R.I.P. Off-Topic Tag

May 17, 2018 - May 18, 2018

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I hope they block it, don't agree with the bailout at all.
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Seems a lot for rental. You can just buy a suit for that amount.
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I thought he was in prison. Is he just awaiting sentencing?
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Action 52
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Final Fantasy 6: Completely losing a playable character for the remainder of the game if you don't know to do something very un-intuitive right at the end of the World of Balance section.

Cave Story: Best ending is permanently missable if you don't carefully search a room before triggering a cut scene, even though there is nothing indicating that you should do this and there is a time limit encouraging you not to explore.

Terranigma: You cut off many items and much of the best content of the game if you vote for the wrong candidate in Loire. To be fair, it is pretty obvious who you vote for, so this one isn't as obnoxious.

Chrono Trigger: You can miss a playable character unless you refuse to fight him at a certain point, which is very un-intuititve given the way the question is structured and the way the game is leaning.
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kirbymuncher posted...

so I get that you can show only messages with a certain flair, but can you combine more than one flair and display all of those? can you hide threads based on flair?

This too. What would really be helpful is a way to filter out certain categories, like if people didn't want to see Politics topics here or Story/Plot topics on game boards.

Should also be a community-based way for people to get topics flaired if the TC doesn't do it. Maybe that can work like a sticky request.
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The most logical use of flairs is surprisingly the one that's missing here -- flairs for cross-platform games that allow me to avoid having to go to separate PS4, XB1, and PC board when I'm looking for info.
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Shuto-uke posted...

Typhon posted...

Shuto-uke posted...

He's basically conflating all hispanics or all immigrants with ms-13

Isn't this projection?

How would it be projection?

Because you're the one conflating them, not Trump. Absolutely no part of his speech or later clarification indicates that's talking about anyone but MS-13.

So either you are projecting that fact that you conflate those two things, or you're just hearing what you want to in order to justify your anti-Trump bias. Take your pick.
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Literal Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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You really shouldn't be having a kid if you're not financially stable enough to provide for it. And -- much as this will be triggering to some people -- there should also be two parents present to raise the child, so that's either an additional source of income or someone to take over the child care costs.
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rent, transportation, child care and a cellphone

This is a very odd grouping of "basics," given that the prices for these range from $30/month to several thousand a month. I'm pretty sure even people in poverty can afford a burner phone and bus pass with their welfare checks.

Survey seems fishy, and no link to a full report is a huge red flag.
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Darkman124 posted...

idk man ive been at two dozen or so such parties over the years and there were 2 strippers that ever were present across all of them. it's a dying trend.

Could certainly be the case, or maybe a generational thing. I've been to probably a dozen since 2010, and all but one had at least one trip to a strip club. In most cases, the bachelor at the very least got a private lap dance that all the guys paid for. In the most extreme case, we rented a large house in Boulder, CO and had three escorts come to the house that night. The bachelor fucked one of them, and a few of the married guys fucked them as well. I'm pretty open to whatever guys want to do, but that was a little far even more me.

In one party we went to New Orleans and the bachelor really did not want any strippers, but all of his friends did. They ended up ditching him at one point that night to go into one of those caged "sex show" places on Bourbon Street. I hung with him along with one other guy, and we played pool at a local dive bar.
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CyricZ posted...

The fact that you're butthurt about the term's origins and that people you don't like use the term is irrelevant to this discussion, really.

It's not really irrelevant, since it's clear the term is being used to appeal to LGBT audiences. Here is the direct quote:

When explicitly asked about Lando's gender identity by Huffington Post, Kasdan said, "Theres a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee's (portrayal of Landos) sexuality." He continued, "I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think its time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.

I actually don't have any issue with Lando hitting on a female droid and such, but I do have issues with 1) this being spun as a way to pander to LGBT audiences, and 2) this being used as an excuse to validate "pansexuality" as a real thing in our universe. Unless, of course, people are fine with others assuming that pansexual means they want to fuck animals and computers... which I'm guessing is not the case.
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This is why people shouldn't be sharing stories about bachelor/bachelorette parties. I've been to several parties where the bachelor had gotten oral and even sex from strippers/escorts, and I know their current wives would have called off the wedding if they heard. But thankfully all the bachelor's friends were smart enough not to gab to their significant others and cause an issue like in the OP.
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BlueBoy675 posted...

dameon_reaper posted...

Someone posted this:

Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, Flame Mammoth, Spark Mandrill, Armored Armadillo, Launch Octopus, Boomer Kuwanger, and Sting Chameleon

Seem okay?

That's actually the order I do every time. I've beaten this game probably like 30+ times. You should be fine. You won't have Eagle's weakness, but he's fairly easy. He spends most of the fight just trying to knock you off. As long as you use your dash boots he's no problem.

Here's a tip. If you fire a shot in the middle of dashing, it will do double damage. This applies to charged shots as well. A fully charged shot fired while dashing will do huge damage to enemies, bosses included

Wow, didn't know that about the dash either. Just when I thought I know everything about this game.
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I actually wouldn't care much if they decided to make Lando bisexual, but promoting this "pansexual" nonsense that is just a pseudoscientific snowflake label isn't progressive at all.

I mean, oddly, pansexuality might actually make a lot more sense in the SW universe than in ours because there are probably lots of people who fuck aliens and such outside their species, and I'd suspect Lando would certainly do that. But that's not how it's being used based on the quotes. And SJWs certainly don't use that word to mean people who fuck animals, so it's a deliberate choice to pander.
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I am pretty shocked about exactly how little information we still know on this shooting.
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Trump was questioned about his quote and apoligized for the confu--

Nah, who am I kidding. He treated the media like they were morons for even bringing it up and then said this:

"So when the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as animals," Trump concluded. "And guess what. I always will."

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XplodnPnguins92 posted...

i see that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are also defending ms-13. lmao, 2020 will be fun.

I wonder if Trump had called Hitler an animal if he could have baited these idiot Democrats into defending him also.
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What the hell does pan mean? That Lando fucks other species?
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Funbazooka posted...

Trump Calls MS13 Members Animals, Gets Attacked by Jerry Brown and the Legacy Media

Dems are really tone deaf if they think defending MS-13 is winning them points for November.
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