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by evan_ 6y ago
quick update on this, the Park Police admits they lied about this and that they did in fact use tear gas https://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21281604/lafayette-square-white...
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by evan_ 6y ago
I probably shouldn’t have compared it to an ambulance service because I think they do most of their intervention in place- literally helping out on the streets. They do have vans so maybe they transport people if necessary but I don’t think
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by evan_ 6y ago
What is your ideal outcome from posting this?
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by evan_ 6y ago
In Eugene, OR, where I live, there is a program called CAHOOTS ("Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets") which is more or less the mental health equivalent of an ambulance. They're dispatched by non-emergency operators
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by evan_ 6y ago
Cascable Pro Webcam claims to support the RX100 V: https://cascable.se/pro-webcam/ Compatibility table: https://cascable.se/help/compatibility/
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by evan_ 6y ago
The insinuation is, TrumpTV
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by evan_ 6y ago
> The first amendment speaks nothing about who can be where. It just denies government the right to prosecute people for making statements. "just" free speech? Might want to check your pocket constitution again. The first amend
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by evan_ 6y ago
Curfew orders have exceptions for credentialed press. The law is on the side of journalists.
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by evan_ 6y ago
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11142215334617907... > The press is doing everything within their power to fight the magnificence of the phrase, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They can’t stand the fact th
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by evan_ 6y ago
journalists were deliberately chosen as targets
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by evan_ 6y ago
Your source provides zero evidence that the Park Police said anything at all. It's not even claiming they did. If it was the park police who said this, wouldn't he have mentioned that? > A source says tear gas was never used &q
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by evan_ 6y ago
scores of people in Hong Kong have lost eyes to rubber bullets- a few American protesters have as well in the last few days
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by evan_ 6y ago
> The more common size for these protests seem to be around 2 inches in diameter. 40mm, about 1.5"
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by evan_ 6y ago
Bad analogy. You might as well ask why firefighters don’t pull teeth. It’s not their job. Police swear an oath to uphold the law and it’s ostensibly their job to, when observing illegality, say “hey knock it off.” Protesters do not swear an
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by evan_ 6y ago
The police in Columbus, Ohio marched with protesters earlier today, minutes ago they tear gassed legal media observers despite their plainly identifying themselves. Countless more examples. It’s PR. https://twitter.com/TheLa
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by evan_ 6y ago
You say “most” which implies that you agree that some police are racist and violent “bad apples.” Why, then, do the “good cops” not speak out against the bad cops? Surely they could use their overwhelming numbers to get rid of the rac
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by evan_ 6y ago
There’s a video of a cop pushing a kneeling woman and then a black woman police officer yells at him for a little bit, that’s about it. I guess you could count the video of a Seattle cop telling another cop to take his knee off of a protest
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by evan_ 6y ago
NYPD precincts and officers have all changed their twitter profile picture to a badge with a "thin blue line" band covering the area where the identifying badge number is: https://twitter.com/jhermann/status&#
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by evan_ 6y ago
Why?
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by evan_ 6y ago
The police get unbelievably huge amounts of money (like serious amounts of money) so it's not that. Yesterday police in Columbus, Ohio replaced the American flag flying outside of their headquarters with a "Blue line" police
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by evan_ 6y ago
The protests started in earnest May 26 and Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged May 29. The Minneapolis PD third precinct building burned on the evening of the 28th. The other three cops who helped to kill George Floyd have not been charg
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by evan_ 6y ago
Oregon has established a program where a representative 100,000 people statewide are being tested on a regular basis to monitor the spread. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/how-oregons-s...
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by evan_ 6y ago
"Half of Fox News viewers think Bill Gates is using pandemic to microchip them, survey suggests" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-b...
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by evan_ 6y ago
it's not how it works if you don't want to get harassed and attacked on twitter (and not on twitter), but you won't actually go to jail over it.
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by evan_ 6y ago
> It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting" This is not a reasonab
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by evan_ 6y ago
the goal isn't for it to "work", the goal is to force Twitter to spend a lot of money defending itself so that the executives and investors, who are already wary of going against the president that gave them a bunch of tax cu
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by evan_ 6y ago
> I believe social media favors the left side of arguments > It would go a long way if we stopped dividing each other up into camps.
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by evan_ 6y ago
The President can only play in the mall fountain or whatever if the mall management says he can. If they want to boot him they can. The president is not a king.
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by evan_ 6y ago
he's doing what he was elected to do.
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by evan_ 6y ago
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." --Frank Wilhoit

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