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by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:15 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Maddy is the one asserting that 99% of the time our justice system is unfair towards young black men, so my point was to reconcile that with her (assuming female sorry if that’s incorrect) constant hand-wringing about how uniquely awful the left is due to the 1% of the time they supposedly get thei...
by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:43 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Moda, I've noticed a pattern in your posts. You seem to abhor principle. In fact, you regularly mock it. The only principle lefties/communists believe in is "the ends justify the means". The ends are.....whatever they want at that moment. Ergo, they don't have principles and so naturally they don't...
by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:10 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Certainly race is and continues to be the central theme of the Chauvin trial. But if you're willing to look beyond race, there is an issue at play that is quintessentially Libertarian IMO, that issue being limitations on police powers regardless of race. Try conducting a thought experiment and pret...
by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:50 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

The other more over-arching point is how you can UNIQUELY damn “the left” for engaging in tactics that 99% of the time are being used by centrists and conservatives in our criminal justice complex. Remember, I used to be on "the left." A good part of my early work in law was in the state appeals co...
by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:56 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Our local school district sent the following email 10 minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced. Does this seem appropriate? Support for Families Reacting to Chauvin Verdict Dear XXXXXX School Community, We hope the outcome of the Derek Chauvin trial will begin to bring healing to our communi...
by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:38 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

If that's 99% of the cases, and Chauvin is the 1%, why is the left throwing this cop under the bus the only one worth shining a light on? How in god's name is this just one more issue of "the left being out of control," when they're only just now getting their hands on the wheel here. Sounds like t...
by moda0306
Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:54 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

If that's 99% of the cases, and Chauvin is the 1%, why is the left throwing this cop under the bus the only one worth shining a light on? How in god's name is this just one more issue of "the left being out of control," when they're only just now getting their hands on the wheel here. Sounds like t...
by moda0306
Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:01 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Without examining the individual cases in which police officers have been acquitted, the fact that only a small percentage result in conviction is meaningless. Would you generally describe the process by which police are arrested, charged and tried for crimes to be above board and not corrupt? Obvi...
by moda0306
Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:44 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Well 99 percent of the time, the shoe is on the other foot--i.e., it's the young black men in poverty-stricken neighborhoods who suffer the injustice of a system that has declared them guilty before they ever set foot in a courtroom. So procedural integrity is an issue that should be of vital conce...
by moda0306
Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:22 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Just 4 other cops have been convicted of Murder for on-duty Killings since 2004. 3 of them have been overturned. https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/health-and-human-services/document/Criminal-Justice-Program/policeintegritylostresearch/-9-On-Duty-Shootings-Police-Officers-Charged-with-Murder-or-...
by moda0306
Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

I expect his attorneys will appeal, so...no immediate resolution, I suspect. For the moment Minneapolis has dodged the riot bullet. I agree with WiseOne. . . This one surely will be appealed. Under normal circumstances, I'd say there's a darned good chance of this verdict getting overturned, but no...
by moda0306
Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:37 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Chauvin Verdict
Replies: 177
Views: 30689

Re: Chauvin Verdict

Just 4 other cops have been convicted of Murder for on-duty Killings since 2004. 3 of them have been overturned. https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/health-and-human-services/document/Criminal-Justice-Program/policeintegritylostresearch/-9-On-Duty-Shootings-Police-Officers-Charged-with-Murder-or-M...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Third world immigration
Replies: 23
Views: 6179

Re: Third world immigration

^ Neo-nihilism in one sentence. Everyone who is alive today is so because at some points their ancestors won territorial battles. People need to deal with it. Reparations, borderless socialism, and other such ideas are just nonsense which create negative energy and victimhood. Not that being nonsen...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:12 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Third world immigration
Replies: 23
Views: 6179

Re: Third world immigration

Some good state of the border posts https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveDaines Yeah he’s a real peach alright lol. https://youtu.be/Jt-bg35tBvQ What complete shlubs we have running our policing agencies or peddling their bullshit and voting for more of their funding. End the drug war. Abolish ICE. If y...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

Actually I think most people who voted for Biden could not tell you what his policies are if you asked them. They voted for him because they were told so by numerous mainstream media outlets. If you ask these people for reasons, you would hear the following: 1) they hated trump. 2) sunshine and pon...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:30 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

Actually I think most people who voted for Biden could not tell you what his policies are if you asked them. They voted for him because they were told so by numerous mainstream media outlets. If you ask these people for reasons, you would hear the following: 1) they hated trump. 2) sunshine and pon...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:55 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

To me, stagnant real wages is the most important underlying issue in economics. Trump made gestures towards this mindset but most were empty. Moda, am I remembering incorrectly, or have you in the past argued that we need to stop being focused on growth, and work more towards sustainability? Why wo...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:50 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

For a bit of perspective on where I’m coming from, I voted for Biden mostly because I thought there was a slightly higher chance that we avoid a disastrous foreign policy blunder with him than with Trump. How's that workin' out for you? Trump had radical Muslims, N Korea, Iran and China under contr...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:20 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

"Trump is a POS but he's gonna lower my taxes and give me a conservative court." That's not cultish. That's an accurate assessment of reality, even if I disagree with the implicit value-set implied by that attitude. It's the blind defense of the figure-head of some perceived "movement" while he pro...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

"Trump is a POS but he's gonna lower my taxes and give me a conservative court." That's not cultish. That's an accurate assessment of reality, even if I disagree with the implicit value-set implied by that attitude. It's the blind defense of the figure-head of some perceived "movement" while he pro...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:11 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her false conspiracies about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-election-theft-claims-not-statements-of-fact.html Brilliant...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:29 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

At least there are no clowns on the left. At least none that have claimed they were about to expose the greatest conspiracy in the history of mankind. And then when held accountable, took as a defense the position that their claims were so outlandish that no reasonable person could believe them. Ye...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:47 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

Trumpism is a cultish-religion that lies within the already cultish-religion of statism. Yes. Unlike that completely uncultish Leftism. ::) Nah "lefitsim" as you probably would define it (Anything left of centrism) has plenty of cultish/religious dogma peddlers and followers. Funnily enough, I find...
by moda0306
Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:03 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

I Shrugged wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:18 am
At least there are no clowns on the left.
Sure there are. Like I said, statism itself is a cultish religion. I what makes you think that wouldn’t include your definition of “the left?”
by moda0306
Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:39 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Sydney Powell's defense
Replies: 25
Views: 6170

Re: Sydney Powell's defense

Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her false conspiracies about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-election-theft-claims-not-statements-of-fact.html Trumpism ...