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I think it's really tough for us to understand what it is like to a black person in the US. Do we have racism in Canada? Of course we do. But people of colour here don't live in terror of having their children pulled over. Milt Stegal's comments a while back made me really think . He said they weren't worried at all about their driving aged kid driving recklessly, drinking and driving, speeding.........All they concentrated on was what to do when you are stopped by the police. They live in fear of it. I dont think we CAN understand it., I dont think we CAN understand what it is like to see what has been going on time after time to people with your skin colour. When you look at their crime rates it's pretty obvious that throwing people in jail for extremely long periods doesn't work. 200, million adults in the USA and 2.3 million are in jail. And that rate is increasing. The majority are people of colour. So if jailing as many as you can ,for as long as you can doesn't solve anything doesn't it make sense to work on the social issues that lead to crime ? No one is saying people shouldn't be put in jail but we / they really need to look to other solutions. We are seeing other countries in the world that are trying to deal with drug issues in other ways from decrimilisation to making them legal. Poverty breeds crime in my opinion. It raises children who are angry, desperate, and hopeless to lead the lives that many of us have been privileged to have access to. I'm just an old farmer but my life has taught me that when something isn't working, find a different way to fix it or do it.

It's been explained multiple times that no one is excusing the choice. He's just being Tburg at this point. There's no point in continuing the conversation.

The complete lack of self awareness in those posts just highlights the failure that is the American educational system.

I used to hear about police shootings at traffic stops and despite the horror I would always on the back of my white privileged mind say “yeah, but why did the black man not just listen to police commands and do as he was told. Should not have escalated to that level, BUT if the victim had just complied then we would not be here”. Then came cell video from bystanders. Seeing cops plant guns on the dead perp after police shootings to match their story that the suspect engaged in a high risk situation that forced them to shoot. Told myself “Ok, I have to concede that there are bad cops out there, but few and far between”. Then I saw cell phone video of black motorists being shot in front of their children for asking the question “what did I do?” and getting a bullet instead of an answer, seeing George Floyd begging for nine minutes for his life to no avail, to police showing their own body cam footage and describing a high level threat that even their own body cam doesn’t show, and I no longer ask “why did he just not comply and get out of the car?” The latest example here (please click on the link and watch the video, it is eye-opening). If I had a gun drawn on me from the get go, had an officer screaming at me to “get out or you’ll feel the lightning”, and then when I said “I’m afraid to get out” and was told “you should be scared” no way in Hell would I get out of that car. But since I am white, I have never been pulled over for no reason in the first place. Except once. As a teenager a few decades ago, before I realized the cultural insensitivity of black face, my buddies and I once went to a Halloween party dressed as the Jackson 5. In hindsight, very inappropriate costume and one I regret despite no intention to offend (and the costume was a hit at the party at the time). Funny thing though, got pulled over by the Winnipeg police that night as the 5 of us drove to the party. Once the officer got to the car door and quickly realized who he was actually dealing with, he promptly let us on our way with no real explanation for the stop in the first place (he wanted to check for license and registration, but somehow never followed through with that desired reason for the stop). Anyway, here is the latest disturbing video from the USA involving police and black motorists. I can’t help but wonder how many cops got away with this behaviour or worse before body cams and cell phone videos and it was just their honourable word against the thuggish black man who wouldn’t comply, knowing that was enough to absolve their authoritarian actions every time. A very long way to go to eradicate this kind of stuff . https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/us/caron-nazario-officer-fired/index.html

why do so many of these "men" like sex with children? and why do they pass around photos of their prostitutes, and when did having to pay for sex become somthing to be proud of. bunch of complete losers.

I have a plan. Put me in a cage with a leopard. If it eats my face, then your paranoid bullshit is legit. To my friends, family, I love you passionately. I'm in the ICU fighting complications related to having your face eaten by leopards. President Trump fight the hood fight!

Well, I just tried a Popeyes spicy chicken sandwich. Damn... that is one delicious sandwich. The way I've always imagined a chicken sandwich from all those ads would actually taste like.

But climate change is not real.

That's almost a foregone conclusion, right?

Guarantee you if they played for Laff Nation, they would be plastered all over the media outlets. I hope the leafs choke in the playoffs and it's Connor and Ehlers that lights them up next time we play them

Good. Do it now to prevent the over load. Don't ******* wait until ICU are almost at capacity and the new cases are in the 400s daily and lock it down then while everyone is freaking out. Edit: We are only 10 weeks out from the second wave which saw crazy overload and stress on Healthcare workers... we should not wait until its too late and have those same/more stresses on the healthcare workers... If you look at the peak of the second wave in Canada... it was: Jan 9th with 8716 new cases and 7915 7 day average... yesterday, it was 8541 new cases and 8091 seven day average... and we haven't even peaked yet... So...

Oh, yeah, our gov'ts have been a case study in poor leadership and crisis management. We're 13 months into this and they still seemed perplexed by the simplest of human actions.

sigh, the only consolation I can take right now is that my dad will get his first dose on Saturday evening. I hate that there are people out there that deliberately refuse to listen

We're about to get further restrictions. Not sure what they will be but they're announcing them this week. Cabinet meeting tomorrow, so after that.

Oh boy, 67 of the 135 cases are the UK variant- looks like it is soon the defacto dominant strain... hey look- we are following exactly in the footsteps of our neighbours... Maybe we should... oh I dont know- lock it down and impose stricter regulations? I swear we are letting that 2-4 week grace period of "lessons learned" from our neighbours go to complete waste...

Better than me stumbling into this thread like:

Stumbling into this thread like...

I think the merging makes the threads cleaner and more reader friendly.

It must suck to live in a world that is black and white with no nuance.

Kid doesn't get enough credit, here or in the broader NHL. He's elite, like Ehlers.

Source?

Laine goes coast to coast on his second of the night

LOL at the girls barely containing their laughter as the air got sucked out of the room.

Ever wondered why fox seems impervious to boycotts and the threat of advertisers pulling out? For example, a few nights ago he put out nazi "replacement theory" into the mainstream media and made his case for it. a few advertisers threatened to pull out and some did.... yet tonight, ****** carlson doubles down: So why are these people over at fox immune to boycotts and advertisers pulling out? Basically their main source of income is the inflated price the make from cable companies' channel bundling. Here is a thread that explains it all:

drove to Los Angeles through south dakota, west then down through nevada...... when you see some of the uses they make of water, it is bizarre. eg irrigating desert to grow hay to sell to asia. nuts. something definitely coming, probably not good.

"Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drought-western-united-states-modern-history/

When you watch and listen to Biden you realize what an A hole and POS that Trump was and is

It's not about taking their background into account when considering punishment...ITS NOT ABOUT EXCUSES. ITS NOT ABOUT PUNISHMENT. ITS ABOUT PREVENTION. No one thinks they shouldn't be punished, they should be. It's understanding how they got to a point where they murder, and how we can put things in place/fix things/change things etc etc so the next person who is in a similar situation won't make that choice. In terms of imprisonment, our society whether you like it or not very rarely sends someone to a true life in prison. Which means basically everyone who goes to prison, is getting out at some point. As of today, a good portion of those people will be sent back for committing a crime. But...we know from other examples, that it doesn't HAVE to be that way. Society can welcome people back into regular life with a better jail system, and better supports once they leave jail. It won't be 100% successful...but we can do better. To recap: It's not about creating excuses for those who murder people. It's about understanding what happened in their life so that maybe...just maybe...we (society/systems/family structure/whatever the ****) can pre-emptively help people who may be dealing with something similar, so they don't end up killing people. Yes, not everyone who struggles or has a **** upbringing/life kills someone...that doesn't mean we should just stop trying to improve things. I really don't know how else to explain this.

here's hoping...there is absolutely nothing I want more.

If that's what you read then you need to keep your own biases away from what you read. As for your Truth and Reconciliation comment go #### yourself. I am a residential school survivor so don't ever assume to know me or call me ignorant on something I lived through. The nerve of you.

Unfortunately more restrictions are a coming it's the go to move for them, but lets not let the Governments off the hook for being woefully unprepared at the beginning of the pandemic, during the pandemic and now with the slow roll out of vaccines, thinking the people will do the right thing in terms of restriction is something only fools believe in.

You are the man. Thanks a lot . See you then, hopefully we can have a beer over a bomber game...

Hey guys, gals. Just wanted to share that I've opened up a pizza/burger joint in clear lake. First day; blizzard, and lockdown looks like it looking. Covids completely sunk me Codysconcessions on Facebook, the restaurant is called Gigi's. Wish I wasn't so computer illiterate or I'd post some photos of the grub..

He could play on our 4th line.

Oh boy. That is some rather stark black/white and clear-cut absolutes. If murder is not a poor choice? then what , a good choice? First of all- no one here is saying that a murderer should be forgiven/found not guilty or any sort of pardon for the act because of, "poor upbringing and it's not because of slavery and it's not because of single parents and it's not because of poverty it's not because of racism and it's not about being trapped". you are just making a strawman argument here. How can you discount societal influences? The stats back it up. Ultimately, the murderer makes the choice and is 100% responsible for that choice, but that choice is heavily influenced by environment and societal issues. A very good way of mitigating future murders (and all crime generally) is to understand what led up to the murder, learn from it, find out what factors contributed heavily to the "poor decision" and figure out a way to mitigate these factors to lessen the likely hood of this happening again.

Murder is not a 'poor choice'. It's not because of a poor upbringing and it's not because of slavery and it's not because of single parents and it's not because of poverty it's not because of racism and it's not about being trapped. All these things are brought up at trial to change the focus from the grisly act of one person killing another to societal issues. It's about shifting blame, pure and simple. It's a magic trick so to speak. Look over here, not over here. I'm not saying 'nothing can be done' and you should know that if you actually read my posts. In fact, I laid out a way to get more money into the system and a way to reduce poverty that governments could, but won't do and I agreed that education could be part of the solution. I'm saying blame the individual and stop trying to blame society. That's not a straw man argument at all. It's putting the blame where it should be.

As I said... Jets were garbage tonight. Can't remember the last time I saw them give up that many breakaways and odd man rushes. Helle gave up a couple of stinkers, but you should be able to overcome it when playing Ottawa.

Should probably move these last few posts to the BLM thread.

It’s called giveaways. Jets have 11, Ottawa 6. Also Jets have 3 takeaways, Ottawa 5. And Hellebuyck has 2 brutal goals against tonight.

That’s 3 breakaways and a 2 on 1 off of Jets’ turnovers this period. Smarten up guys.

I have long thought that these horrible, inexcusable events along with the massive payouts to victims and victims' families would go way down if the payouts came out of the police pension funds.

Lol. It's going to get to the point where it trickles into other sports. CFL/XFL potential merger? What does that mean for the Leafs?

It only merges if they are made within 5 minutes of each other. My question would be why are people creating so many posts within that timeframe that need to be separate?

No one should acknowledge that movie openly. May be remade by Edgar Wright.