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Minnesota will still treat us as a state crime

Will they? Maybe I'm already misremembering events (I'm not), but it seems like the state authorities are giving up on any investigation. Quote:

"The BCA said as of Friday afternoon it is not conducting an independent use-of-force investigation into the shooting, but is working with Moriarty's office to catalogue and preserve evidence. BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said the office would provide the community's evidence to the FBI, as it is leading the investigation.

"The BCA remains open to conducting a full investigation of the incident should the U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI reconsider their approach and express a willingness to resume a joint investigation or to share all evidence and evidentiary reports held by FBI investigators," Evans said."

From https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-minnesota-bca-investigation/

“I don’t know! I don’t understand any of this stuff!”

THIS! This is the most frustrating fucking part of it all!

Both of my parents are smart. They have college degrees, were successful within their fields, and can generally pick up on new concepts and ideas really, really quickly. But somehow they just turn off their brains and refuse to engage with whatever is in front of them with a computer. They set up their smart watches quickly, they have no problems with apps and by god, my dad can troubleshoot anything from a boat engine to electrical wiring to freaking concrete work... but if something on the computer isn't working it doesn't matter how you try to explain it, how many times you tell them to just simply fucking. read. what's. on. the. screen. they won't do it. They want someone else to do it all and they won't watch.

Of course you don't fucking understand, you old geezer! You refuse to even make the attempt!

Aye, it's like the 'sex scene' in lion king. When in the context of the film, you wouldn't even notice it as potentially lewd, but a single frame can appear pretty different.

That's good. It should really be getting you cold and clammy, with just the hint of the tang of a nearby sheep in the air. Soft wool sliding down skin as a cold breeze brings salt to your nose, wiping away the sheep's scent as quickly as your grandmum wiped away the last grime from your gaffer's stick. Slowly, she leaned over, taping the muff in place so the sound was properly focused on the scene below.

Yeah, but you can still get pretty close to the same idea with the normal, I'd say. Good on the creator for making it a bit better.

If I remember correctly, someone once went down the rabbit hole of clicking on one of those links and documented the experience, and it was a maze of link after link that would make those AI bot trapping programs proud. If you actually got to an article, I'm blown away.

Don’t forget that many were drafted and lied to.

I'll give you that for vietnam... but even those fellas aren't around in any great numbers anymore. I'll even grant the first gulf war as a neutral, seeing as kuwait was invaded, but the politics around everything involved doesn't really leave any 'good guys.'

But anything since then? Fuck right off with that. My cousin went and joined up after 9/11, and it still is a mental fuck for him because he realized once he got there how idiotic the country was being to invade another with the idea of bringing freedom.

You had to be converted? I just did it as a kid because otherwise it wouldn't fit in the pot... Never understood any reason to do it any other way.

You forgot 67

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I thought that was the most realistic part of the books. How many hundreds of years of people crying out against slavery did it take for chattel slavery to be abolished? Sure, it would also have been realistic for there to have been more people opposing slavery, but as an initial reaction? Society would absolutely shit on her out of inertia.

The battle lines, if people are convinced that there really is a 'fight' going on, will be between individual houses and apartments. I know that there are those among my neighbors who tracked what political signs were where... and they have no problem making their position known. We are too 'integrated' as a society to keep even a semblance of separation between conservatives, liberals, progressives, fascists, 'antifascists,' democrats, republicans...

and we have a lot more trigger happy yokels armed to the teeth (in civilian terms). It's going to suck. We can all hold out hope for the midterms, but fuck...

Your testicles drool? You might want to get that looked at by a doctor...