Posts by redvip2000

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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

by minimus in

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friends

the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

what’s your view of this?

redvip2000

There is no systemic racism in the US.

The concept is basically that if you pressed a button and magically all of the racists in the world disappeared, the system would continue to be racist only for its laws and policies.

So which laws and policies are overtly racist? Nobody ever is able to point any out, so this term is just used because it's trendy but nobody can ever point anything that needs to be fixed.

Now, decades ago we did have systemic racism. The laws openly prevented minorities to do a variety of things. No longer the case.

Sometimes people shift the goal posts, to try to say that if the outcome is different, then it's systemic racism. But the concept is unrelated to outcome, because outcome is not really only dependent only on laws and policies.

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Over population

by mickbobcat in

so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.

that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.

well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.

redvip2000

What makes you think it is unsustainable to have 11B people?

Good grief, even as we burn our rainforests to make room for grain, as we expect meat production to have to increase by 100% soon, deplete our oceans of fish, continue to back wildlife into smaller reservations as we flatten forests to build housing, have entire islands of floating plastic in our oceans, along any other of 1000 ways we our hurting our home, some folks will never be convinced.

We have lots of fossil fuels to burn, and we can produce lots of food, therefore all is well folks

China just announced they eradicated poverty and India isn’t far behind

What fine examples of how overpopulation is no biggie. A country full of slums where people shit in open air, and the biggest polluter in the world where masks were common even before COVID.

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

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?

redvip2000

btw, you have to love these prosecutors patting themselves on the back for getting a guilty verdict.

I'm pretty sure I could prosecute this case and get a guilty verdict. In fact, I think the jurors went into this thinking guilty even before it started.

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Over population

by mickbobcat in

so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.

that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.

well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.

redvip2000

Ahh yes, the elephant in the room. Nobody wants to talk about it. Go to any party and listen to anybody say how they have 4, 5 kids and people will congratulate them in happiness. Not me, I look at them and think how irresponsible they are.

Sure 11 billion people would probably be fine if people lived off growing veggies in their backyard and raised chickens and rabbits. But this is 2021, and each one of us have a gigantic footprint on the planet, with our ipads, flights, gadgets, clothes, copious amounts of food, etc.

I would guess to say that even 3 billion would be probably more than the ideal number, considering the amount of stuff we need.

I suspect the planet at some point will remind us of what are continue to ignore.

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

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?

redvip2000

First, the people who have been waiting for this verdict to resume pillaging and rioting are just mildly disappointed. Certainly they will find an excuse to do it anyway.

Second I understand why the jury went with this verdict, but to be fair, this was never going to be a fair shake. The amount of pressure on these jurors at all levels including the fear of what might happen to themselves is real. It was never going to be fair.

All in all, Chauvin deserved to be punished. To what degree is debatable, but I respect the decision.

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Why Do People Loot and Destroy When Someone Gets Shot?

by minimus in

jw
friends

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..

redvip2000

On the other hand, that army officer who got pepper sprayed, cooperated, and got sprayed anyway. I think that cop was racist. At least the officer lived. If he reads this, thank you for your service. 😀

I agree that the cop totally overreacted, but here is the thing... it all ties back to cooperation.

In that incident, while the police were trying to stop him, he decided to not stop and roll on until he decided that a gas station is the place he wanted to be stopped. You simply can't do that.

At the very minimum, stop, ask the officer if he minds going down the road to an area where you feel comfortable. Yes, he might say no, but what is the alternative?

The alternative is you deciding not to stop. The cop has no idea why, so in his mind, he is now chasing you. When you do stop, he will treat it as a felony stop, which is what happened exactly in that incident.

There is a real issue with people assuming the rules have to conform to them because that's what they want. The world doesn't revolve around you.

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The Difference Between Doctors & Nurses and Police?

by Simon in

what is the difference between doctors & nurses, and police?.

studies have estimated that medical errors cause 250,000 deaths per year in the us.. police only kill around a thousand people each year in total, with only a small number being unjustified or accidental.. so the difference?.

police are expected to be perfect and for all the hype, you're are far greater risk of being killed by someone in the health industry than by a cop.

redvip2000

I've made point the point before that this is all about narrative.

Imagine a world where Anderson Cooper gets on TV every night, and describes how another 100 people died today of medical malpractice. And perhaps it somehow affects blacks disproportionately compared to the percentage of population. And he will only mention those.

He will give their names. Perhaps Tyrone died, he wanted to be basketball player, cue to the picture of him in a tuxedo from the prom, pulling at your heart strings. Go ahead and mention a list of other names, pictures, stories. White victims are conveniently left out. Tomorrow another 10 or 20. Night after night keeping the narrative fresh, with more sad stories , pictures.

You can bet that in no time, hospitals would be burning, mobs would show up with pitch forks at doctors homes. Protests about doctors being racist.

The media sets the temperature of the country, and the typical American idiot gladly gives up his critical thinking skills, as lets his brain get tuned into the narrative.

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Why Do People Loot and Destroy When Someone Gets Shot?

by minimus in

jw
friends

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..

redvip2000

I'm only trying to say we can't paint rioters with a broad brush. That's all. Their motivations are probably more complex, which does not change the damage they do.

Good grief. This is exactly the mentality that enables these folks. The people who are holding back the cops think exactly along this stupid line. "poor looters, they are just angry".

Even today when I posted somewhere that I didn't give a shit that this criminal got shot by the police, even if by error, someone cried out that what I said was terrible, because this kid as a family.

I don't give a flying fuck if he had a family. All bad people have families, and that has no bearing on their standing in society. Family or not, the minute you start preying on others, I don't give a shit if you die whichever way that is.

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These are not riots in Minnesota

by mickbobcat in

no sir this is just shopping.

its just getting the best midnight special deal.

its the b&e black lives matter sale.

redvip2000

How can any of those businesses decide to continue to operate there? At the very minimum these savages shouldn't loot the local small businesses. Turn their attention to the Target, Walmart, Footlockers of the world, who have woke CEO's that contribute to BLM.

I actually don't feel bad if these savages loot Target. They deserve to be looted, because of their pandering to the woke mob.

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BLM co-founder bought $1.4 million house in LA

by LoveUniHateExams in

ever wondered what blm do with their donations?.

well, i think i may have discovered an answer.. co-founder patrisse cullors has bought herself a nice, million dollar home in topanga, an exclusive la enclave, the demographics of which is approx.

80% white and 1.5% black.. yeah, cullors, an open marxist, has benefitted greatly from a capitalist country, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4zrno_jcc0.

redvip2000

These folks at BLM are as bad as the Washtowell at showing exactly how their revenue is used. They show nothing useful that is done with the money. Basically they said they give part of the $ to the local chapters of BLM, which is to say, nobody knows how it's used even at the level of the local chapters. Seems a bunch a people mooching of the made-up victimization of black people.