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Websites are literally the most efficient way to spread information. I know it's fun to rag on web-based Uber for X startups here, but this is actually useful. A deeper criticism would be warranted though, because this looks something that could also ripe for abuse.
"rag on" is a misogynist term (you were downvoted before i wrote that. i did not downvote)
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And once again you're taking remarks out of context and ignoring the half of the story that doesn't fit your preexisting beliefs. Here are some other remarks Trump made along with "very fine people": > we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. It has no place in America. > The driver of the car is a murderer. And what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusab…
What does that have to do with the armed Michigan protestors who stormed the state capital. Excuse me, the armed Michigan protestors who stormed the state capital were “very good people”. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/donald-trump-michiga...
I don't know if they were "very good people", but I haven't heard any reason to think otherwise.
And your own source makes it clear that the government wasn't intimidated by these peaceful protests:
> lawmakers were meeting to debate an end to the emergency order... Despite the pressure, Whitmer extended the order, which was due to expire at the end of Thursday.
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That's the part I personally cannot wrap my head around with all of this. These people are the people they are paid to protect. The people who live in their own communities. Yet they are carrying out these acts like they're in a foreign country.
> Yet they are carrying out these acts like they're in a foreign country. Which would make this better how exactly?
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The entire idea of “stop and frisk” is that the police have no idea whether they a are committing crimes or not beforehand. But if you stop more minorities than Whites in proportion to the population. even if the same number of crimes are being committed. Blacks will still be convicted more. More evidence that Whites are less likely to get tickets for the same offense. https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-raci…
Hmm--that doesn't match my impression. Rather, police would presumably stop and frisk people they pattern-matched as up to no good. (Popular niceties notwithstanding, police generally know the score.) If some group is committing a disproportionate number of crimes, it's entirely reasonable that they'd be stopped more. I want my police to skillfully work on the crime problem, not carefully spend equal minutes on each…
Why not make the people really safe and reinstate Jim Crow and laws against interracial marriage?
I’m sure you wouldn’t feel the same way if you were constantly stopped because of the color of your skin. But we should just accept it.
This also explains why minority owned startups get a lot less VC funding than people who “pattern match” with Zuckerberg.
And you wonder why there are riots...
Btw, they were wrong.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/08/the-data-can-no-longe...
But it turns out that the New York Daily News was wrong about its forecasts, which the media outlet’s editorial board wrote in an op-ed Monday that it was “delighted” to admit. Instead of bedlam up in Brooklyn and hell up in Harlem, as the paper had warned would happen as a result of scaling back “stop and frisk,” the opposite happened: “Post stop-and-frisk, the facts are clear,” wrote the editorial board Monday. “New York is safer while friction between the NYPD and the city’s minority communities has eased.
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> The more recent history suggests that the people who wish to deter or educate the cops are significantly outgunned Then these young people (in the U.S.) should stop fighting for gun control when it only works against them in times such as these. Can you imagine how these protesters would be treated if most of them were carrying a rifle? Could the police roll out tanks in response? Sure, but I do not believe the U.S…
The idea that the situation would be improved by the protesters being able to shoot police is... Questionable. The better solution is unarmed police: billions of people live in localities where most police they encounter don't have guns and may not be even authorized to make physical contact in the case of a conflict. The idea that all police must carry guns and must be ready to use violence "to protect us" is one of…
Police are not generally being shot at.
The situation you describe is not a violent one.
What I think would be a better situation is a much higher percentage of visibly armed protestors. You didn’t see police beating and attacking any of the armed protests last month, and there’s a reason for that that extends beyond their being mostly white people.
People like to condemn the previous protests for being armed, and for protesting for something that was dumb (reopening businesses during a pandemic), but the armed part will become more and more important for any meaningful protest in America, as we have now learned that if you aren’t, the police will just come and attack you with sticks or gas or cars or the threat of their own rifles.
People shouldn’t carry guns to shoot them, they should carry them to indicate to everyone around them that nobody wants a fight, which is generally the same reason police do.
Criminals don’t attack cops in groups because criminals know that if they do, 20 cops have weapons that will be used against them in seconds.
I would love to be able to say: “cops don’t attack protestors because cops know that if they do, 20 protestors have weapons that will be used against them in seconds”.
This site is terrible. It is a zero-effort collection of videos around one theme. And by turning these videos into copy-pasta without promoting the original sources of the video they are obscuring the and making it more difficult to fix police brutality. A much better website would have contact information on it. And it would cite the original people that took the videos. And they could have asked those original peop…
Here is what quality reporting looks like
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/31/21276044/police-violence-...
Yes, people. Sometimes reporting takes effort, and professionals can do a better job than inexperienced people.
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The idea that the situation would be improved by the protesters being able to shoot police is... Questionable. The better solution is unarmed police: billions of people live in localities where most police they encounter don't have guns and may not be even authorized to make physical contact in the case of a conflict. The idea that all police must carry guns and must be ready to use violence "to protect us" is one of…
I wouldn’t go that far. The US has so many guns it would be suicide for police not to have them.
The police in America are extremely well-armed, far better than the general public in most places. It poses a real danger, as we have seen playing out over the last few years.
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What does that have to do with the armed Michigan protestors who stormed the state capital. Excuse me, the armed Michigan protestors who stormed the state capital were “very good people”. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/donald-trump-michiga...
And again you're using language dishonestly. They didn't "storm" anything. They had every right to be there, protesting peacefully, and it's legal to carry guns at the Michigan state capital. I don't know if they were "very good people", but I haven't heard any reason to think otherwise. And your own source makes it clear that the government wasn't intimidated by these peaceful protests: > lawmakers were meeting to d…
Do you think 20 or 30 armed Black men could have gotten away with this?
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/05/05/PDTF/5969fca5-...
Holding police to a higher standard makes sense. But with very large numbers, a high standard still requires expectation of a significant amount of outliers.
This post was number one on HN. Now it’s nowhere to be found on HN’s pages unless you search for it. I happen to remember the posters handle and was able to dig up the post. The post is not even flagged back so am curious why did it disappear?
