Scholar
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You can tell the police officer is likely a genuine sociopath considering the way he commented and framed the situation after he killed her.
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It's definitely the cops fault in this case, socially incompetent. It all started because they both took a step back, explaining that it was because of the boiling water. The cop didn't understand that this offended the woman because it implied she would throw boiling water at them (even though she seems to have just wanted to pour it away). Subsequently she said "I rebuke you in the name of jesus", which the officer took as an actual threat instead of treating it as a woman being offended by what she might have perceived as a racist implication. Then he started escalating like a complete neanderthal, point the gun at her which immediately made her panic, and at that point you don't know what a person in this mental state might do. At best the cops shoul have retreated if they felt they were in danger, unbelievable that they would stand their ground with this woman and shoot her after basically escalating the situation in the most incompetent way possible. US cops are just badly trained. Defund them some more so they get even more incompetent.
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Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The way it was has worked and was reasonable. The reason why there was "lawfare" is because Trump is an insanely corrupt president. The president already had immunity from civil persecution. That is more than sufficient. None of this was a problem at all before Trump started literally trying to overtake the government. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The irony of republicans saying the government is corrupt for years and years and then they are the driver of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't even know how you guys will return to a norm from this. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Destiny is pretty much the only big political pundit who actually talks about this very issue. If he had listened to Destiny, he'd know about it, because that's one of the reasons why Destiny is going so insane. He assumed that the US institutions were strong and that Trump would be taken accountable. But then he was literally declard immune from criminal persecuting by the supreme court. That's why he is on this whole sharade right now, the fact that the right basically supports someone who wanted to insurrect the government. It's actually mindblowing how little this is reported on by political pundits and the news in general. Almost nobody in your country is aware of what happened. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Well it should be apparent that Destiny is a sociopath based on his takes on animal rights. He thinks it's okay to skin animals alive for fun because he knows if he were to extend care to animals he'd have to be vegan, and he doesn't want to be, so he just bites the bullet on animals being objects and nothing else. That's a sociopath move. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Destiny might be right on this to be fair. He is certainly not wrong on any of the factual or moral analysis, although the no sympathy stuff is a little spicy. The problem is, Destiny actually behaves how any sane person would behave. If you were time-teleported from 2010 into 2024 you'd think you live a simulated clown world. Half your country are actual lunatics. This is beyond an existential threat, no matter who becomes president. It's worse than climate change, far worse. This can lead to the end the US as we know it, the complete epistemic breakdown fueled by conflict-maximizing algorhyms could cause the death of hundreds of millions of people. Destiny is kind of like a vegan realizing how utterly insane everyone is, lol. And he is right that there is this insanity and it is being masked by civility politics (not it's not even really true considering the republicans are absolutely insane fucking neanderthals who literally justified the murder of most of the government multiple times over considering their pedophile, genocide, world-control conspiracies), and I can see how maybe we need an actual wake up call in the form of someone going unhinged so the other side finally can see what it's like. But who are we kidding this is just gonna get worse and worse. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yep. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It's not a fake voice, apparently the guy just sounds like Elon, it's a freak coincidence lol. No clue, it's random conservative influencers I think? -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It's a guy who sounds exactly like Elon, not sure what his relevancy is outside of that. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Destiny making a case for why he is engaging in the type of rhetoric he is engaging in: -
The problem with misinformation is that it takes longer to debunk than to generate it.
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Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The video is retarded and it takes 5 seconds of thinking to understand why. White nationalists want to preserve the character of the nation because they are delusional racists, while Israeli jewish nationalists seek to preserve the character of the nation because there is a genuine threat that once arabs gain democratic power they would instantly be removed from their nation. And those are clips that are like years apart. Positions change, even though there is nothing inconsistent about holding these positions. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It's called Nabraska Steve, he comes out every now and then. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Well you'd have it running the whole time, that's what they use in Ukraine. They are heavy to carry and can compromise your location though, and you have to jam all the signal frequencies. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Electronic jamming. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Oh yes, AI will turn humans into superhumans, just like the internet did! -
Mushrooms make me sleepy and calm, I'd say what you describe I only get with LSD.
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Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
At least he didn't shoot up his school. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
No, this is from Trump's platform "Truth Social". -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It's not insane because it's not what happened. His eardrum didn't bust, he ear was literally hit. He didn't fall on his knees to worship the Lord either. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Destiny going unhinged, joked about the civilians getting killed. -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
But we have argued for decades that if Hitler were about to take power, that we should kill him and so forth. All the baby Hitler hypotheticals, for what? -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
So basically a political assassination is reasonable and justified in this case given that it is guaranteed that you will live under fascist rule if Trump takes office, which he is likely to take. So at this point you might as well encourage further assassination plots given the situation, no? -
Scholar replied to Merkabah Star's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
That's not guaranteed. However, if he had been killed, the Trump voters could have gone completely unhinged. That could have put you down a trajectory from which it would be near impossible to recover from.
