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Not sure why the laughter. I sincerely do not believe that the health professionals should speak in any capacity about his mental decline unless they've fully examined him, much like the Goldwater Rule states. This, however, does not preclude that the President gets away with an awful lot of behavior that would sink normal folks' political aspirations in a heartbeat.
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Dynasty: QB Dwayne Haskins, Steelers
Encumbrance replied to Faust's topic in The Shark Pool (NFL Talk)
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Oh, I wasn't making the leap of blaming the representatives for the shootings. I don't blame the President for his dialogue inciting violence in the shooting in El Paso, even. What I'm saying is limited to the bystanders, which is why I go to great pains to separate the shooters out. It's easy to see why the dealers would rationally open fire, it becomes another order of magnitude to explain away bystander reaction. What about the current or historical climate causes bystanders to cheer death. This sounds like it goes way beyond an administrative PD issue.
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I'm aware of MOVE and Philly and the long history and stain that the raid of MOVE caused within the city respecting police tactics, honesty, and fidelity to the law. But much like bad facts make bad law, bad actors can force a bad reputation. But that's a bit of a red herring as I don't think the bystanders were particularized. How many know the story of MOVE? If you accept -- and you likely do, as you just did -- that people's views are directed at a particular target, you assume engagement with particularized grievances about particularized governance on some level. But drug dealers in
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No, I just mean a nebulous dislike of the police and the state. It hardly seems out the realm of possibility for drug dealers with submachine guns to embrace a weird form of anti-authoritarianism that manifests in nihilism and self-preservation, it's another to have bystanders cheering along while they shoot dead the sacrosanct.