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26 Oct 2021, 5:18 pm

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The BLM organisers have literally made millions out of that tragedy. 8)


It's actually billions that have flowed to BLM and related organizations, an no one really knows where the money went.


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26 Oct 2021, 5:19 pm

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i beg to differ- you won't find that murdering pig's politics in the democratic party. that is certain.


What are Derek Chauvin's politics? I never heard that he had any, and I suspect I would have had they been known.


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26 Oct 2021, 5:24 pm

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But I don't understand what murder has to do with the republican party, as they do not seem pro-murder though. Plus no one seems to know the motive for Chauvin, so if no one knows the motive, then how come people assume it was a political motive, unless there is evidence to suggest otherwise?


To me, Chauvin didn't intend to murder Floyd, btw.
He royally stuffed up his life as a result of what he did.
I doubt he would do the same if he had his time over.
Just my opinion, Blabs. ;)

It was more racist/tribalist than political, imo.
I doubt black police would target only black progressives. 8)

And it might not even be that.
Chauvin could simply be a power junky. :chin:



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26 Oct 2021, 5:28 pm

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The BLM organisers have literally made millions out of that tragedy. 8)


It's actually billions that have flowed to BLM and related organizations, an no one really knows where the money went.


Reportedly, one of the organisers has a housing portfolio worth millions that includes property in effluent affluent white suburbs.
The fracking hypocrite! 8O :lmao:



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26 Oct 2021, 5:30 pm

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Reportedly, one of the organisers has a housing portfolio worth millions that includes property in effluent affluent white suburbs.
The fracking hypocrite! 8O :lmao:


I must have missed that section in the Marxist training program.


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26 Oct 2021, 5:44 pm

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Reportedly, one of the organisers has a housing portfolio worth millions that includes property in effluent affluent white suburbs.
The fracking hypocrite! 8O :lmao:


I must have missed that section in the Marxist training program.


Obviously. :mrgreen:



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26 Oct 2021, 6:08 pm

Not so much a U.S. thing, but especially a Texas thing. Our schools our horrible.

The teachers half-ass everything, so nobody is academically prepared for college or the trades. There were classes where you could get straight A's basically just for showing up. Their reasoning was it was to help minority students graduate (in other words, subtly calling them lazy and stupid).

The administrators were more focused on enforcing racist zero-tolerance disciplinary policies than actually educating people. One of the more draconian rules was having to wear an ID badge on a lanyard. If your ID badge was visible, but not on the lanyard, you were suspended. No detention, straight to suspension. You could get detention just for criticizing the policies. Plus there was a strict dress code. Anything short of worshipping the admins like gods was grounds for disciplinary action.

My high school and another one in the same district strictly enforced these policies. But in the two other high schools in the district at the time (two more would open up after I graduated) still allowed students to wear T-shirts without a belt, and not tucked in. The latter two were predominantly white, while the former (including the one I attended) were mostly Hispanic, hence my calling the policies racist. The admins' reasoning was that the more draconian rules you had, the more likely a student would slip up, so it was a scheme to put as many Mexicans in detention or suspension as possible. You couldn't discipline a student for "being Mexican" or "being black", so the term "insubordination" was used as a cover.

And this was 20-30 years ago.


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26 Oct 2021, 7:14 pm

Very sad to hear that any school system would operate under those conditions .


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26 Oct 2021, 7:25 pm

The grass always looks greener on the other side. The way I see it "an Aspie is the same no matter where you live". I feel the same scenario plays out everywhere; you are viewed as wierd and tend to stay to yourself.



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26 Oct 2021, 10:26 pm

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Very sad to hear that any school system would operate under those conditions .


My original major when I began college, in 1998, was computer science. The combination of the lack of preparation my high school gave me, and a couple of as*hole professors at college put me off that track forever. I am still paying the price over it.

If I had been prepared in high school, and if I were able to attend another college, I could have had a degree in CS, and made enough money to live in either NYC, San Francisco or Seattle, and met tons of people who liked the Simpsons and South Park as much as I do.


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26 Oct 2021, 10:35 pm

the school-to-prison pipeline sounds like a backhanded form of genocide to me.



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26 Oct 2021, 10:38 pm

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the school-to-prison pipeline sounds like a backhanded form of genocide to me.


If I were black or Mexican, I would have beaten the crap out of one of the assistant principals.


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26 Oct 2021, 10:40 pm

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the school-to-prison pipeline sounds like a backhanded form of genocide to me.


If I were black or Mexican, I would have beaten the crap out of one of the assistant principals.

unfortunately, the ASSistant principle would have learned NOTHING from that.



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27 Oct 2021, 11:36 am

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Jakki wrote:
Very sad to hear that any school system would operate under those conditions .


My original major when I began college, in 1998, was computer science. The combination of the lack of preparation my high school gave me, and a couple of as*hole professors at college put me off that track forever. I am still paying the price over it.

If I had been prepared in high school, and if I were able to attend another college, I could have had a degree in CS, and made enough money to live in either NYC, San Francisco or Seattle, and met tons of people who liked the Simpsons and South Park as much as I do.

:D :D :D Simpsons and Southpark.
Sad that your high school was so badly run. Sounds like your professors needed re education themselves . :(


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27 Oct 2021, 5:49 pm

Jakki wrote:
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Jakki wrote:
Very sad to hear that any school system would operate under those conditions .


My original major when I began college, in 1998, was computer science. The combination of the lack of preparation my high school gave me, and a couple of as*hole professors at college put me off that track forever. I am still paying the price over it.

If I had been prepared in high school, and if I were able to attend another college, I could have had a degree in CS, and made enough money to live in either NYC, San Francisco or Seattle, and met tons of people who liked the Simpsons and South Park as much as I do.

:D :D :D Simpsons and Southpark.
Sad that your high school was so badly run. Sounds like your professors needed re education themselves . :(


To nearly all conservatives, watching those shows is as bad as watching porn.

As such, when it comes to dating, asking a partner "Do you watch the Simpsons and South Park?" is tantamount to asking "Do you want to come to my place and fornicate?"


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27 Oct 2021, 6:04 pm

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To nearly all conservatives, watching those shows is as bad as watching porn.


Isn't one of your very conservative senators a noted Simpsons fan?


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