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Post by ravenmaniac on Apr 13, 2021 10:24:04 GMT -5
It seems more to me that his conviction is a slam dunk. There are so many people on "his side" that are testifying against him that it seems like they're offering him up to show to try and show that they're all about policing themselves.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 13, 2021 11:00:52 GMT -5
It seems more to me that his conviction is a slam dunk. There are so many people on "his side" that are testifying against him that it seems like they're offering him up to show to try and show that they're all about policing themselves. I really hope that's what happens but I'll be shocked if it does. If even one person on the jury doesn't agree, then he won't be convicted.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 13, 2021 20:40:08 GMT -5
It seems more to me that his conviction is a slam dunk. There are so many people on "his side" that are testifying against him that it seems like they're offering him up to show to try and show that they're all about policing themselves. I really hope that's what happens but I'll be shocked if it does. If even one person on the jury doesn't agree, then he won't be convicted. Well, a mistrial usually doesn't have to mean that, and the state of Minnesota would likely retry the case, but if there is a mistrial... 1. This country will fucking explode in a way that makes the riots and demonstrations from last summer look like fucking nothing. 2. It probably means that Chauvin would NEVER be convicted, unless they could somehow get an all black jury, which will never fucking happen.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 20, 2021 16:51:21 GMT -5
Put that fucker under the jail.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 20, 2021 17:44:31 GMT -5
Posted this in the wrong place. I have a fever, so...I'll blame that. Guilty on all three charges. Fuck that prick! It's not gonna change anything, but fuck Derek Chauvin right in his smug fucking face! I hope he gets a cellmate who weighs 400 lbs and hates cops. He'll be put in protective for however long his sentence will be, but I really hope that all the same.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 20, 2021 19:15:13 GMT -5
Got home to see this come out. I'm kinda numb. Not what I would have expected to feel with this verdict. I was dead set to believe the jury was going to end up hung or just acquit him. Murdercop being put away for murdering George Floyd is the best thing that could have happened today. And it's barely a start. But it's a beautiful thing to see happen. Real justice seems a rarity.
Ha. Just saw Biden and Harris, with Harris speaking first. Sweet.
I'd like to hope all fucking cops are scared right now, that this signals it's a time for them to make a choice to either be crooked or accountable. But as we've been seeing over the last few years, the more they've been exposed the more comfortable they are doing the crimes they do. And murdercop going to prison will only make them better at getting away with it.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 20, 2021 19:28:12 GMT -5
Fifteen year old black girl in Columbus, right around the time the verdict was read, called police because she was being harassed by an older white woman. After the phone call, the woman attacked her, and she pulled a knife to get her to back off. Cops rolled up, jumped out the car, and shot her four times, dead. No taser, no "PUT DOWN THE KNIFE!" like you see in the movies. Just fucking killed. Accountability shouldn't be so rare that it's a surprise to celebrate. Justice isn't real.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 25, 2021 21:42:09 GMT -5
I hope when all these dumbcunt republicans who fear absolutely EVERYTHING start stockpiling ground beef, that the storage freezers they'll have to buy are all fucking defective and burn their goddamn houses down.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 28, 2021 17:52:30 GMT -5
Ha. That chiclet-mouthed fucking midget Rudy is going to be eating so much ass in prison he'll be choking up hairballs for the rest of his life. I hope.
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Post by frinspar on May 16, 2021 15:51:01 GMT -5
Liz Cheney doesn't care about one single American life. She cares about the legacy of her family name across history. This is all PR for the future. If she cares about the Constitution and law her history of the last 5 years would be much different.
I don't care if she brings attention to anything at this stage, pretending inside her own game of politics. It will result in nothing anyway. But she gets to try to clean her hands, as well as those of her fucking criminal father. And it's working just fine.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 16, 2021 18:37:21 GMT -5
The CDC, President Biden, my dumb fucking governor are entirely way too trusting of people and seem like they haven't been paying attention over the last year. I get the medical science behind telling unvaccinated people that they don't have to wear masks in public places anymore and that unvaccinated people should continue wearing masks, but the decision completely ignores the sociology of the whole situation and that a lot of people who aren't vaccinated refuse to wear masks and won't ever get vaccinated, and that this is exactly the excuse they've been looking for to go running down the aisles of Costco or Walmart again without restriction and even hassle businesses that insist that customers continue to wear masks. First big mistake of Uncle Joe's administration, in my opinion.
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Post by frinspar on May 16, 2021 21:12:44 GMT -5
^ A-fucking-greed.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 16, 2021 21:40:12 GMT -5
If this shit doesn't cause another surge or at least a surge of fights, I'm gonna be really fucking surprised.
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Post by frinspar on May 17, 2021 13:07:01 GMT -5
Biden has just come out to say cases are down in all 50 states, but I'm sure we're going to surge again in cases and deaths and, most assuredly, retarded backlash from the anti-reality half of America when those other 2 things happen again.
Honor system my ass. There is no honor in any one of those people. I'm gonna start calling them Vaccine Queens. They ride the coattails of those of us who have chosen to be responsible.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 17, 2021 13:26:04 GMT -5
Cases are down in all fifty states due to vaccines, and I guarantee we're gonna hit the vaccine ceiling at a much lower number than reasonable people would prefer. Because a sizeable chunk of people in this country are completely unreasonable.
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Post by frinspar on May 17, 2021 17:29:28 GMT -5
I was watching them talk about Rudy, ugh, and it was mentioned again that the investigation started under Trump and Barr. And that's always seemed pretty clear to me as just one more indicator they never expected to lose. This investigation was simply going to carry over into the rapist's second term as his/Barr's effort to keep a blackmail file on Rudy. And now it blew up in Rudy's "minister from Beetlejuice" face because those two fat dopes are leaving him to hang alone on this.
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Post by okcomputer on May 18, 2021 12:28:22 GMT -5
I just got the best piece of news I've gotten in longer than I can remember. Last winter (literally a week after mom died) my brother and his wife found out she's pregnant (none of that "we're pregnant" nonsense in our family), and today they found out they're having a little girl. No stupid gender reveal party that ends with a wildfire and several arrests, just phone calls and happy crying. I want to bottle this feeling and keep it with me, because I haven't been this deliriously happy in a really really long time. I can't wait to meet this tiny little person. Sometimes things are just plain wonderful and it feels amazing to just enjoy it.
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Post by frinspar on May 24, 2021 12:21:02 GMT -5
Would it be in bad taste to send boxes of gold facemasks to the Lycra Loon with the names of the millions of those murdered by Nazis printed on them?
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Post by S. Griffin on May 24, 2021 13:06:41 GMT -5
Would it be in bad taste to send boxes of gold facemasks to the Lycra Loon with the names of the millions of those murdered by Nazis printed on them? Who is the "Lycra Loon?"
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Post by frinspar on May 24, 2021 13:23:56 GMT -5
Marge Greene. All she ever wears are workout clothes, even when she's on the clock and harassing her coworkers. I didn't know anyone made dresses out of moisture wicking material.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 24, 2021 13:54:10 GMT -5
Aha. Well, in that case, I don't think she could put 2 and 2 together, metaphorically, or otherwise. And yeah, I think it'd be in bad taste. Unless she made some dumb ass statement I didn't hear about where she equated masks with "juden" stars, in which case, then I think it would be totally appropriate.
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Post by okcomputer on May 24, 2021 14:44:17 GMT -5
I'm still not convinced she's a real human being. I think she might be a Life Model Decoy meant to simulate the trashiest American imaginable and it's a test to see how people react to it.
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Post by frinspar on May 24, 2021 15:45:24 GMT -5
She said Jewish people having to wear "gold stars" and the millions being put to death is EXACTLY the same as having to wear a mask. And doubled-down the next day. She's probably wearing a mask with it printed on there right now, with a picture of Trump's butthole printed on the inside that she can secretly lick all day.
She will be leading Congress after 2022. Bet on it.
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Post by frinspar on May 24, 2021 19:37:41 GMT -5
I forgot to mention, last week my neighbor started the process of putting an evaporative cooler on his roof. Nothing wrong with that, they're quite common and occasionally effective. But his reasoning is that Biden is going to take us all off the grid, and his air-conditioner eats so much of his stored solar power that he wants an alternative to stay comfortable in the Armageddon he apparently expects to happen very soon. And one of the guys across the street - wannabe Proud Boy safe house I'm starting to believe - came across to talk to him while my wife was outside. She heard them talking all about the my pillow guy and the "audit" in Phoenix changing the results, and how the cooler guy is thinking of buying 3 power storage batteries at something like $16K each. Man, it's really two different realities with no hope of merging back.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 24, 2021 19:37:51 GMT -5
I hadn't heard this. Now that I think about it, if you could send her six million gold masks, each with the name of a holocaust victim on it, she'd probably regard that as solidarity, because she's just as stupid as Lauren Boebert, just louder.
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Post by frinspar on May 30, 2021 14:06:12 GMT -5
Gosar, Brooks, Greene, their retarded rapist king, every single republican really, are what happens when the worst aspects of humanity are allowed even a scrap of legitimacy. They have destroyed all boundaries of decency and reason.
Sinema is what happens when wannabe internet influencers get jobs in government simply to increase their brand. She's helped fuck the party and the nation. Manchin...shit, he's just a republican with lots of Democrat friends. Though that number is probably going down fast. He'll switch parties after the next cycle of elections.
But Sinema's crime of personal gratification is the greatest of all of those, because she never had any intention to do the right things in the face of the worst crisis this country has ever faced. She can fucking eat shit. The only difference between her and the republican assault we now face is that they do it to hurt other people and take what they want. She's only in it for herself, and doesn't care if she hurts other people to get what she wants. I'm sure the thought hasn't even crossed her mind since everything is about her as she sees it.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 3, 2021 1:05:42 GMT -5
Totally unpolitical:
I decided a week or so ago to replace those flimsy ass blu-ray cases with the recycling symbol cut out of the front and a fucking wagon wheel (or whatever) cut out of the back. I bought ten solid front (mostly and solid back cases off of Amazon, made the replacements very quickly, and then ordered some solid front-and-back 4K disc cases along with a four-disc case that has the extra hinged bit in the middle, because the fucking Blade Runner 4K/Blu-Ray set we got last year has two discs on each side of the case fucking stacked one on top of another, which is just mind boggling to me. This isn't super cheap, either. I think we've spent 45 dollars so far on maybe seventeen or eighteen cases, just to be less annoyed when I touch them (and also reduce scratching in the case of Blade Runner)
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 3, 2021 7:51:18 GMT -5
Yay for physical media! It's a market in decline, but I'm gonna go down with the ship. Major studios might cut back on their home video (do they still call it that?) divisions, but I'm pretty confident boutique places like Shout Factory and the Criterion Collection will stick around. If Criterion ever closes up shop that will be a dark day indeed.
In all the many years I've been buying Blu-rays, the only times I can remember a problem with the disc itself were the 2009 Star Trek movie and one of the Westworld discs. I take pretty good care of my stuff, and Blu-rays are a little more resistant to scratching than CDs/DVDs.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 3, 2021 8:02:17 GMT -5
Gosar, Brooks, Greene, their retarded rapist king, every single republican really, are what happens when the worst aspects of humanity are allowed even a scrap of legitimacy. They have destroyed all boundaries of decency and reason. Sinema is what happens when wannabe internet influencers get jobs in government simply to increase their brand. She's helped fuck the party and the nation. Manchin...shit, he's just a republican with lots of Democrat friends. Though that number is probably going down fast. He'll switch parties after the next cycle of elections. But Sinema's crime of personal gratification is the greatest of all of those, because she never had any intention to do the right things in the face of the worst crisis this country has ever faced. She can fucking eat shit. The only difference between her and the republican assault we now face is that they do it to hurt other people and take what they want. She's only in it for herself, and doesn't care if she hurts other people to get what she wants. I'm sure the thought hasn't even crossed her mind since everything is about her as she sees it. Someone on Twitter described Sinema as a "Harry Potter type", and holy shit that's perfect. I really can't figure out what her angle is, other than being a narcissist who doesn't really care about anything. She skipped the vote on the 1/6 commission and she won't explain why or where she was. And that fucking curtsy thumbs-down (after making sure McConnell was watching no less...) when she voted to kill a living wage for workers... she's a fucking disgrace. Arizona just voted a goddamn badass astronaut to the Senate. I have to think they can find someone better than a Hermione Granger cosplayer to represent them.
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Post by frinspar on Jun 4, 2021 20:09:20 GMT -5
I'm all about the physical copy with music. Still ordering CDs like it's friggin' Columbia House and I have a roll of pennies. Sinema can eat entire mouthfuls of rhino assholes. No one knows what happened to compromise her, but people who have been behind her for years are done. She is someone's government property now.
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