anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
I got pulled over for driving slow once too. The police thought I was drunk, but I was just looking for a nearby store in the dark. They held me for some time to assess whether I was drunk or high and then let me go. It was really annoying, but it's nothing to start fighting for.
If Floyd and all the other blacks had just remained calm and went to the police station, they may not have died. Fighting with cops is generally a bad idea, they have guns and training.
concerning recent threads about providing building repairs or other services for a church, i am wondering about how the wt stand would hold up under legal scrutiny.. example; a jw is self employed in the hvac business.
a church calls him to provide routine service for their heating and cooling system.
suppose it is in area which is predominately of a certain race or ethnicity.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a hot pile of garbage as it encroaches on First Amendment rights. The only reason you even know it exists is because it was a compromise between Republican Civil Rights Acts which had already been enacted since the early 1950's which the Democrats famously filibustered.
Hence, you are right, you can be sued under the Civil Rights Act, but you won't be convicted under your First Amendment privileges.
Recently this act was stretched to encompass personal decisions on sexuality, so you are violating Civil Rights Acts if you don't agree with people that force their decisions on you.
most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.
i’m not confident with dr. fauci.
i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.
In the US antibody tests show more than 20 million people have been infected with coronavirus without knowing it and that is a conservative estimate, some estimates (what I call pandemic porn) have doubled and tripled that while Fauci himself believes this number to be 100M. On top of the 36M that have tested positive, we can say at least 56M (up to 136M) people had COVID - 563k died with flu, pneumonia and COVID-19 symptoms (that is the official CDC diagnosis to be included in the statistics).
But even accepting the official statistics which is really the worst case scenario: the official death rate is 1% if you catch it. If you believe Fauci and the left-wing media, the death rate is 0.3% But we also know that 90% of those deaths are in the risk group of >65.
The chance you die from the vaccine is 1 in 6M currently (0.0016%), 1 in 40M (0.00025%) for any vaccine - the chance you get hit by lightning is 1 in 500,000 (0.2%) or slightly better than the left-wing believes the death rate to be.
this is a good watch.. i agree with it 100% - the people pushing for everyone having to carry id are the ones that have shown over and over again that they can't be trusted with people's information.
the tech companies want it because they would be able to link online tracking and information logging with people's real-world activities.
the government wants it because they would have control over people and movement.. both should be chilling to anyone with half a brain.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uggvgke0n8o.
@Steel: Israel is lifting restrictions, that’s the main difference between US and Israel - sane policy. We had herd immunity before Israel did, yet we are still required to mask, schools are still closed (Israel never did), 6ft policies even though CDC says that was wrong all along and you cannot get sick if you’re in the same room if vaccinated, now they want to force us vaccine “passports” that contain not just your medical history but continuously track you. Both Fauci and Biden have said to triple mask until at least next spring and Fauci said last week that those restrictions on large groups may never be lifted because HE personally doesn’t feel comfortable.
i've read a couple of articles recently about the situation developing in ukraine.. in 2014 putin sent russian troops into crimea and annexed this area.
crimea has either an ethnic russian majority or a substantial russian minority.. there's also an area of eastern ukraine called donbass which, again, either has a large number of ethnic russians or a huge amount of pro-moscow rebels.. so, vladimir putin is currently sending tanks, jeeps, guns and soldiers to eastern ukraine, and ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is also fortifying adjacent areas with ukrainian troops and military hardware.. nato and biden support ukraine and biden has apparently sent two us warships to the region.. where is this all going?
where is the eu in all this?.
The EU won’t stop it and Obama didn’t stop it. Biden won’t stop it and Russia knows it. Why do you think Russia and North Korea were dormant for 4 years and Biden has been in office for a week and North Korea restarted sending rockets into Japan, Iran started building its nuclear facilities again and Russia started moving deeper into Ukraine.
someone gets shot and or killed and hundreds of people decide to loot and destroy businesses or whatever else is in their path.
what does this do to make things better?
i really don’t get how they think it makes things better or solves anything..
Because that’s what criminals do when you tell them nobody will stop them. These people are criminals on a regular day, when you tell them there won’t be police, they will take advantage.
most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.
i’m not confident with dr. fauci.
i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.
As I said in the other thread, the vaccines are extremely safe. 5 with adverse reactions out of 6 million is a fluke, it isn’t even proven these cases are caused by the vaccine as people get sick and die of all sorts of issues with or without a vaccine. If they had been in a car accident, you can’t blame COVID or the vaccine, likewise there are more people per million that have blood clotting issues, the vaccine is just a cheap way of getting healthcare for preexisting conditions.
this is a good watch.. i agree with it 100% - the people pushing for everyone having to carry id are the ones that have shown over and over again that they can't be trusted with people's information.
the tech companies want it because they would be able to link online tracking and information logging with people's real-world activities.
the government wants it because they would have control over people and movement.. both should be chilling to anyone with half a brain.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uggvgke0n8o.
Please don’t listen to the anti-vaxxers, vaccines are safe, the US-funded ones are 99.9998% reliable to prevent symptomatic infection (literally, read the literature - 1 in 50,000 test subjects did not seem to get antibodies, which could be due to a number of reasons, most likely human error).
The problem sits in the SinoVac/SinoPharm/CoronaVac and other Chinese funded, they’ve proven to be 50% (peer reviewed) to 80% (according to Chinese propaganda) reliable to prevent symptomatic infection, Sputnik V, the Russian one is 90% reliable. This applies to places like some Eastern European and other third world countries that didn’t fund a proper vaccine and rely on the Belt and Road or COVAX project to give them low cost vaccines. The EU is also considering those vaccines for the same reason.
Do note the all vaccines, although reliable, can have some minor side effects and some may trigger allergic reactions, but that is the case for ANY vaccine, from Tetanus to Polio to HPV to COVID. Vaccines also do not work against big variations in the pathogen although the mRNA vaccines have all proven to be reliable against extant COVID-19 variations.
It is also possible that you do not generate antibodies for some unknown reason. It’s also possible that human error (eg bad injection or letting the vaccine out of the freezer or expire) could mean your vaccine doesn’t work properly. That is why you need herd immunity which the US is well above the levels so outbreaks won’t happen anymore.
anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
@myname: anecdotes don’t prove anything.
According to crime statistics, it is less likely that you’ll be arrested for crime committed if you’re black, you’re most likely to be if you’re Asian, then White, then Latino.
Per DOJ statistics, you’re more likely to be pulled over if you’re white. 76.2% of drivers are white and 76.5% of those who were pulled over were white.
However what is interesting is that only 56% of Blacks will answer that they believe the stop was legitimate while 88% of either White or Latino drivers will say it was legitimate even though the rate of traffic stops that resulted in a conviction does not differ.
Police pull over more young male whites by proportion of drivers than any other sub-group.
anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
@rivergang: that’s BS. A healthy in-shape human can voluntarily hold their breath for 2-3 minutes. Divers and swimmers often for 5-7 minutes. The record is over 10 minutes. Sadly the only scientific data we have on the subject is from accidents and Nazi experiments, but irreversible damage doesn’t set in until 15 minutes and in very cold environments 2-4 hours (eg. Pilots that crash in the Arctic Sea).
I think you’re confusing the time between not breathing and the time your brain cells don’t receive oxygen. So if your heart stops pumping, it takes 3-5 minutes for brain cells to start dying off but your body prioritizes oxygen delivery to your brain and vital organs in situations where you can’t breathe but your heart still pumped.
In this case, Floyd was breathing until the last few minutes of the hold (you can hear him scream, ergo, air is getting in and out). The EMT arrived a few minutes after he stopped screaming. If his heart gave out, yes, he’d be brain damaged but if he were just being choked (which he wasn’t) he’d be fine.
