However busy our lives, we should still take the time to reflect.

It makes them more likely to!

Or at least to be caught and actually punished for it

There are FAR more whites than blacks in poverty but the crime rates don't reflect that. Why not?

Thanks. Just running out for a bit but I'll address this.

I just deleted it that, haha

It's funny. I posted that then i immediately upvoted and your comment was gone. You got there between my 3/4 second delay.

Block button? No way, WHY?

No idea. Maybe to block followers? Check anyone's profile, next to follow..

I've not checked up on Jeff in a couple of days.

Spoiler alert: He still detests Trump.

Yeah, just saw it.
Now the crybabies are going to block em all.

But still no way of filtering notifications so I won't have to get dizzy going through a zillion just to restart from the top again because I found the wrong one after 10 minutes of searching.

I have 90 notifications going back months that I missed. Wish there was some way to clear that.

hahaha

Have you noticed there's a block button to use against memers now?

No bs.

Poor Jeff.

"I have 90 notifications going back months that I missed. Wish there was some way to clear that."

As soon as I check them all notifications together, there's not even any indication how many I've not looked at yet, it's back to zero. I've skipped many only to bump into them by accident when I later returned to the stream.

He's really mad at me cause I said he's from a single parent household. Not the worst thing I've told him.

It seems some don't pop up on notifications but I might have just missed them.

I just tested it on someone who ain't been on in 8 months.
Looks like low rated comments, but says blocked user comment instead, and you can unblock the comment to read and to reply.
Not sure what happens if reversed.

I unblocked that one after I was done testing.

Looks like I'll never hear from my good buddy Jeff again!

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Over/under-policing in black communities, racial profiling, disparities in access to legal representation... I dunno man, it’s a complex topic, take your pick of possible reasons

But if you’re eager to follow purgey off this particular cliff be my guest

I wasn't going to address it, because of his 2nd half racist garbage but you convinced me.

Ol' purge can still make a point. Like Antithesis, who even tries to shame people for responding to his lesser retarded memes, which are rare, you think me responding to you responding to him, makes me complicit in his usual racism. If he argues the earth is round, I don't have to become a flat earther to distance myself from him.

The 1st part is essentially right. 58% of all crime? Don't know about that but the 2016 FBI crimes statistics state that black people commited 53% of all murders. About 87% against other blacks. Black people are 13% of the population and the majority of murderers are 16-45 so roughly 6-8% of the population committed 48-50% of all murders. That may trigger you and rush to cry racism but yeah, that Ben Shapiro meme.

If, like you 1st claimed, the problem is poverty, how is it wrong to ask why white people, who have more in poverty than black people, aren't even evenly represented, let alone so extremely over represented as black people are?

Kylie has probably been subjected to propaganda and brainwashing that we never experienced going through school. Like AOC, he may believe that feelings are more important than facts. But he's not stupid. I feel like with him, if we present him with truth, even if he won't admit it on here, his brain will, at least subconsciously, plant that seed and one day when he sees certain facts for himself, he'll break out of that conditioning. Part of why he's upset at me is that I rebuked him in a blunt manner, altho I couched it with an 'I'm sorry bro' disclaimer, when he claimed that black women have a high rate of abortion because they are fearful of the impact that a racist white society will have upon their child, like lynching is a current epidemic. I normally wouldn't rehash other arguments but he does have a cringe stream where he mocks people behind their backs.

“Brainwashed!”

I myself do not resort to this cheap bit of rhetoric that I hear levied against me all the time. However, if there’s any political tactic I’d label with the term “brainwashing,” it’d be this notion that millions of babies are being soullessly murdered in the wombs and Democrats are primarily responsible for this. It is a brutally effective bit of mind control

It works like this: Convince folks of this one thing, and they will readily excuse any and all other poor behavior from the Republican Party. Because — whatever latest thing it is they or Trump have done this time — it can’t possibly hold a candle to the injustice of the “mass murder” of millions of innocent babies championed by the other side. If you really and truly believe that, no other issue matters.

Even though abortion will never be outlawed in this country, for reasons I’ve gone over at length, it’s proven to be a fearsomely powerful and resilient wedge issue to a healthy minority of social conservatives, many of whom are otherwise intelligent people, but can be relied upon to pretty much abandon their critical reasoning and become foot-soldiers for the GOP over this one issue.

Connect that with the observation that black women opt for abortion at greater rates, as we’ve seen here, and you have easy support for the concepts that “Democrats are the real racists” and that blacks are just another brainwashed segment of the Democratic coalition.

You, Timber, and plenty others here seem to have bought this “abortion is murder” thing hook, line, and sinker.

Not a single Supreme Court justice would agree with that statement, no matter how conservative. Not even Clarence Thomas.

If you pinned Trump down and got him to tell the truth on this, he wouldn’t agree, either. Neither would a whole bunch of elected Republicans who otherwise pay lip service to this issue to get votes.

Abortion will never be outlawed (just look at the consistency of the polling on this issue from the past 50 years to see why), but the rhetoric does real damage to our politics nonetheless.

Uhh, yeah, the push for abortions on demand IS pushed by democrats. This is undeniable. You'd have a better case if lefties like Michelle Wolf and Michelle Williams didn't 'shout their abortions' and celebrate it, along with hordes of others.

Yeah, that's deflection.

It's powerful because defenseless babies are being killed in the womb by the millions. I have NEVER called it murder. Murder is a legal term.

You don't know how things will change. Not many probably thought Jim Crow laws would change anytime soon in 1949.

Over/under-policing? Yeah, that oughta cover it.
Overconcentration in urban areas vs open areas in rural areas surely wouldn't be a factor.

"But if you’re eager to follow purgey off this particular cliff be my guest"

Syd's been HAMMERING Purgie over a year before you got on this site to bandwagon that parade without knowing a thing about it STILL, as witnessed here.
But hey, jumping off a cliff and kissing butt aren't the same thing (unless it's a REALLY big butt), so your flocking to the kool kidz klub does not qualify as lemming-esque, strictly speaking.

"I dunno man"

Correct, you don't.

I know Syd is not a purgey fan — but the entire reason we have even gone down this particular rabbit-hole is due to a galaxy-brain level original racist comment by him

Purge himself has long since bowed out and is probably doubled-over in laughter at us all this very moment.

Anyway...

Urban vs. Rural is not what the over/under-policing problem refers to.

The “over-policing” problem refers to cops over-targeting black communities with petty civil offenses designed mainly to raise revenue. And/or enforcement of petty drug laws. That fosters distrust of law enforcement.

The “under-policing“ problem refers to those same cops too often being mysteriously difficult to find when real shit goes down. That encourages violent crime.

Complex topic, and I don’t know how much of a factor it plays, but I clearly know more about it than you.

Hate to break it to your narcissistic fueled scenester scenarios, but you do not know what Purge and his clones think.

"Urban vs. Rural is not what the over/under-policing problem refers to."

Ya think?
As if that dollop of sarcasm was in support of your propaganda.

Clearly you do not know more about shit, just winging it and deflecting as usual.

LOL remember when you cautioned me, “be careful what you assume about people on the internet”?

I actually do represent indigent criminal defendants as part of a pro bono legal services program in my city so yeah, get lost

Still waiting to hear about your Ph.D. in Islamic Studies though

Good for you doing pro bono work. How does it benefit you beyond experience?

And don't give me the warm fuzzy feeling of making a difference in this evil world routine, thx.

Haha yeah, I assumed there was a reason besides altruism. Not that he would be incapable of giving his time to help the downtrodden and violent offenders that are recidivists. I'll give him that. Not that you can always be helping society (in truth if you know a client is innocent or guilty) as a prosecutor or defense lawyer, although I know he'll argue that getting a serial killer off because of a technicality is a good thing.

Nice try, but you are making shit up again.

Not a single state bar requires pro bono hours per year as a condition of continued licensure. The closest is New York, which requires applicants for bar admission to have 50 hours, but not practicing attorneys. https://www.google.com/amp/s/verdict.justia.com/amp/2016/07/18/forcing-lawyers-perform-pro-bono-services

California recently followed suit with a 50 hour pro bono requirement for applicants only.

Seriously man, a quick Google search every now and then would save you a lot of embarrassment and myself a lot of time.

Even if pro bono hours were required, nothing would require attorneys to specifically budget their hours toward representing indigent criminal defendants. There are plenty of other ways to donate legal services for free.

It’s good experience — but I wouldn’t exactly call it a “warm fuzzy feeling” to have to visit clients in jail and find a way to explain to them that their least-bad option is to take a plea deal for a guaranteed 10 years in a prison cell rather than run the risk of 20+ years confinement if they were to go to trial and lose — which they would because the evidence is so strong against them. (What that particular defendant did was technically a Class A felony but did not actually result in any injury to another human being or their property.)

Interacting with the criminal process is a sobering view into the underside of life, and the lasting and potentially life-ruining consequences of fleeting moments of poor decision-making.

Most lefties are hypocrites. I think he's a leftie in some respects and a liberal in others, like OM. But I can see him doing some selfless things, in accordance with his world views. It makes me think of this guy 1,500 years ago. I can't remember all the details but it was some Inquisition type holy war. There were his group and 'pagans' in a church that was burning, and when a subordinate remarked that they should save their side, he replied 'God will know his own'. Meaning that the saved would burn but for those few moments of torture, they would have everlasting bliss in heaven, a small price to pay, if true, and the pagans would also be saved, although I can't remember the details of why they thought slaughtering them would release their soul from the bondage of satan. My memory...

But, without the hindsight of today, he truly believed that. 100% Can you say he had evil intent? Intent being the key word. I'm not defending it but it reminds me of leftists that believe all the bs.

Sheesh, I thought I didn't sleep much till I got on this site. And to think muh competition in the Imgflip Insomniac Olympics spend even more time here THAN I DO!

Now if you excuse me, me pet giant mutated iguana is brawling my 100 story high gorilla again.

I lov lov lov this site!

my* pet

I know I've been pushing you hard, but you're still my favorite lawyer, besides Dan from Night Court :)

I have — in no uncertain terms! — told you I am not a “Leftist.” And yet you persist in that inaccurate characterization of my beliefs.

You are basically a Republican for all intents and purposes. And to the extent you’re not, from what I can tell, it’s because you’re actually to the *right* of them on several issues.

So I’m calling this one a draw.

Rejecting facile racist explanations =/= making excuses

Hey it's 52%