Random Thoughts From a Guy

Fucking leftist they/them "lesbian" trying to dictate what it means to be a Catholic, and how the Church ought to be ran.

Got blocked, but isn't it always telling, that Leftists are supporting this Pope?

He's an ideologically captured Democrat from Chicago, supports everything they want, and seeks to bend the Church to adhere to modern political movements.

you ever have just like, a really bad idea

this story is the current obsession of those who believe in race war, most notably the owner of twitter and the rubes who follow him, and in some ways it's even dumber than the George Floyd obsession, not least because people should have learned better by now.

if I was the cop in that situation I would probably have assumed the guy on the ground was drunk! which is what British cops usually have to deal with when they get called to deal with someone being disorderly; murders are rare and the perpetrator doesn't usually call the cops.

and when the cops realised he had been stabbed they arrested the murderer and jailed him for life; this story is only an outrage if you believe cops should be clairvoyant, or arrest anyone of Indian ancestry on sight regardless of what's happening.

They arrive on scene to a call having been told that some drunk dude was being disorderly, find him delirious under a windowsil, drag him out, gently lay him in the recovery position. He says he's been stabbed, the guy who called the police says nobody was stabbed, police agree it doesn't LOOK like he's been stabbed but that they'll still check. And then they check, and then one minute later they call an ambulance. And once they figure who stabbed who the stabber is promptly arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Anything the stabber says to try to weasel out of life in prison (that the stabbed guy was racist and hate criming him) are swiftly dismissed.

The evidence of 'Two Tier Policing' here is that a murderer attempted to play the race card. But failed! The attempt to avoid a life sentence for murder by claiming the guy was racist and playing the victim didn't work, and they guy who did that got a life sentence.

The killing was awful and it'd be hard to plan an event that would inflame racial tensions much worse than it. Digwa (the killer) stabbed Nowak multiple times, while recording it on his phone. He followed Nowak as he fled. Then his brother called the police to report that Nowak had racially attacked Digwa. The entire family joined in the lie right away and helped conceal the evidence. This guy killed some random white kid, his family covered it up, and they called the police to say that the kid was the offender and to lock him up. They lied and said there was no weapon; they didn't even say "he stabbed a guy in self-defense so you need to help him." Digwa watched him bleed to death, filmed it, and his entire family immediately joined in, confident that they could get the police to side with them by playing the race card.

But if course, this is just this one time! Obviously it doesn't make a pattern all on its own. It was a simple mistake that was reasonable to make at the time. Why, there are so many other worse police abuses, why would you get upset about this one?

Now, how many incidences of cops killing black men do the same arguments apply to?

The response to these incidents always seems to boil down to "who is allowed to notice patterns?" and "what is allowed to be a flashpoint?" George Floyd may or may not have been on fentanyl but it ultimately didn't matter: people had noticed a pattern of behavior from the cops towards their community and it served as a flashpoint for community tensions, and the response from the authorities (constantly losing their shit and being unable to control their emotions) showed that the community was right to mistrust them. How is this any different?

In the bodycam the dude does touch the guy's shirt, but just the lower part of his shirt when the wound was much higher, and when the lady checking him for injuries asked him where he was stabbed he, in his delirium, said "my face" which caused her to check his face for wounds instead of his upper chest.

She *could* tell that something was very wrong by looking at his eyes, though - which is why they then called an ambulance and performed CPR, its just that the confusion led to a ~60 second delay (that, according to the medical examiner, wouldn't have changed anything because of the location and severity of the injury)

"who is allowed to notice patterns?"

Not a fan of this response to when a piece of bullshit is debunked - every time, ideologues will bring up some piece of evidence, and if you look at the evidence you can point out the ways it's clearly been skewed and misrepresented and lied about, and they say "who cares that we skewed/lied/misrepresented this evidence for our point, it's about the pattern, what about every other point!" and you look at the next point and you can immediately point out the skews and lies and misrepresentations and they say "who cares that we lied this time, it's about the general pattern this keeps happening everywhere!"

Do you react the same way to incidences where black Americans are killed by cops in ways that don't match the outraged declarations about them?

I don't think the media response would be the same at all. I think that's ultimately the festering heart of the issue. The media would take a completely different tone and a completely different side based on race. The same amount of people would be initially angry, but the media would be one hundred percent on their side, supporting them, citing the existence of their anger as self-evident proof that they are correct. "A riot is the language of the unheard" would be quoted. This has happened before with stories way, way more "debunked" than this one (cases where it turned out it actually was clear-cut self-defense). People in the UK still see that and consider it part of their cultural environment.

like. these are not neutral historians. these are not unbiased narrators. these are men who wake up every morning and choose manipulation as a lifestyle.

and yet people hear palpatine whispering into anakin’s ear like “the jedi are hiding things from you… they don’t trust you…” and go. wow. compelling. source: dude in a hood who has never told the truth once in his life.

HELLO???

of course he’s going to say that. what else is he supposed to do. sit anakin down and go “hi yes i am actively trying to emotionally isolate you from your support system so i can turn you into my apprentice and ruin your life” like be serious 😭

same with maul going “you’ve been indoctrinated by the jedi” as if HE wasn’t raised in a sith pipeline since childhood. sir. that is not a revelation.

and dooku. walking around like a philosophy professor going “the republic is corrupt” yeah okay, we know, and your solution is… fascism with extra lightning???

Hello?, everyone that didn't shut up about the people the Israelis stopped, where the fuck are you? These ones are in genuine danger and you're completely silent.