jakee

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  1. You have just described one major component of what white privilege is. A white racist judge who has not been arse kicked, removed or otherwise sanctioned is someone who white defendants will be privileged to stand in front of. So unless you either believe he is the only white racist judge around, or that there are just as many black racist judges as white racist judges (both absurdly unlikely) then yes, this is also about white privilege in general. How could you possibly say otherwise?
  2. And did you not bother to look into any of those sources beyond those snapshots, or did it not bother you that you were quoting people who's interpretations of the same data lead them to state that the virus was disappearing all on its own?
  3. Point of clarification - were you being deliberately deceptive when you justified your anti-lockdown stance by quoting a guy who thought Covid was going to disappear last spring, or are you really that bad at evaluating sources?
  4. Hehe yeah, it's funny how the Right is always projecting these days. They believe the Democrats stole an election because they know their own party would have done it in a heartbeat if they could, and they believe the mainstream media is part of a coordinated pro-democrat plot because they can see their own journalists acting as the propaganda arm of the Trump administration and the MAGA movement.
  5. That is no different to what the media is reporting. And there's two things here - the fact that some members of the crowd had planned in advance to assault the Capitol does not mean they would have managed it if Trump had not incited the rest of the crowd to join in. Second, the reason that some people were planning to assault the Capitol in the first place is because Trump had just spent months telling them the election was stolen and the people in the Capitol were facilitating the theft. Now I don't see any real prospect of Trump being criminally tried and convicted over this, but it is crystal clear that it is his responsibility. He made it happen. What's the alternative explanation - the first time in 150 years that a candidate loudly and continuously claims the election was stolen by fraud is also the first time a violent crowd invades the Capitol during the counting of the votes but it's all just a big coincidence?
  6. No. Zombie was saying that a person who was convicted multiple times for theft and fraud, and is the current leader of a violent domestic terror group could be trusted implicitly, but a person who once helped convict other criminals is a rat, a liar and cannot be trusted at all. I disagree with that idea. Not the way it was presented or the words used to describe it, the idea itself. The semantics started later after he got all pissy about black and white ideas right after having posted a black and white idea.
  7. Why are you still so butthurt over that? I asked you to be honest about something once (and it wasn't even an attack by the way, I was fully expecting that you would be) and it pissed you off so much you followed around every thread I posted in for week making digs about it, and apparently you're still carrying the same grudge months later. For someone who so obviously prides himself on having a sense of humour you should probably stop being so damn uptight. And what came to my mind at that moment was exactly what you said one post earlier. Funny that. But what about you? If you think it's important, how often do you post opinions you have to defend? You like guns and you don't like Trump, beyond that I'd be hard pressed to think of anything obvious that you stand for despite your thousands of posts here.
  8. Let's be fair though, you ran away from the Capitol attack thread after running out of ways to defend the outrageously racist thing you said then. Kinda means the video making fun of attacking non-racists for being racists really is a non-sequitur, doesn't it? And speaking of running away, are you going to address the sheer perfidy of your post claiming to show that lockdowns don't work?
  9. You think? I wonder how many Peace Prize laureates you've ever heard of? The nomination process for a Nobel prize is astonishingly open. A huge number of people can nominate potential recipients. That said, what's your problem? BLM has helped bring about a truly extraordinary change in how race relations are viewed and discussed across most of the western world and beyond.
  10. When the national Republican party thinks it's acceptable to play such a sick joke on the citizens they represent, you really do have to wonder what it is they actually stand for.
  11. I can find fault with this. I do sometimes post topics, but because they'd usually be about UK politics no-one really cares. However, if you are being honest instead of just trying to find fault with how I post you'd admit that I do post and defend my political opinions on a regular basis.
  12. Terriers are cute. I'll take it!
  13. Anyone who thinks only in black and white? Do you honestly think it's even possible for such a person to exist, or have you just not bothered to think about it at all? Wow! Do you want a cookie?
  14. No, you said 'Once a rat, always a rat'. You can play all the word games you want, but that is a black and white statement. I can accept that you have no clarified that you didn't mean it to be black and white, however you really should then rethink your black and white stance of having no time for anyone who you think has made a single black and white statement, don't you think? Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were so special. In that case, carry on.
  15. So when someone is a criminal, we have to assume they could have changed, but when someone is a criminal who hekped bring other criminals to justice - well then he needs to prove to you that he's changed otherwise you'll never trust him ever? It seems odd that those are the order of your priorities. Right. So you can make a simple black and white statement and we all need to trust that you didn't actually mean it as a black and white statement, you actually meant something different and more nuanced. But if you think someone else has made a black and white statement, well fuck that guy! You have no time at all for those people, and that's your position in black and white. Right?
  16. Of course you know what I'm talking about. I'm pretty sure it's why you suddenly decided to abandon your own lockdown thread.
  17. We had this conversation in April. You know what else happened in April? The article you're currently leaning on to support your lockdown stance was published, and claimed covid was fading away all on its own.
  18. And that's as deep as your analysis goes, is it?
  19. How many people were dying in the third quarter? How many in the 4th quarter? How many now? (And bonus question, how many in April when your source said the virus was fading away?) And by the way, be serious - Trump was not responsible for the development of a vaccine.
  20. Do you think it's because he read an article from April which said the virus had peaked and was about to fade away?
  21. And why is an article from April which said Covid was about to fade away completely a reliable source on whether lockdowns work?
  22. I'll be honest - at this point I genuinely don't know what you're talking about.
  23. ?? That’s just quibbling the semantics of the word fault. People can make mistakes they didn’t mean to make but it’s still their fault. If it makes you happier replace fault with responsibility or whatever.
  24. So you’re saying once a rat, not always a rat? Interesting. That was quite literally your stated position. How much thinking did you do about it?