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George Floyd dies after police knelt on his neck (MOD NOTE IN POST #1)

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    #4952
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Foxtrol wrote: »
    I don't think it has been forgotten, each generation of Irish folk can list off every wrong ever committed on the Irish and to this day many still throw a hissy fit when the media in the UK describe an Irish person as British.

    It is instead a complete lack of empathy and pure selfishness. It usually falls into one of three buckets - 'It doesn't impact me so I don't care', 'I can't relate to it so I don't care', 'What are you complaining about, someone did something to me or the Irish before and we're grand'

    But sure those in new Zealand hate been called Australian


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    #4953
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Homelander wrote: »
    "White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19"

    I sincerely doubt this is the general view endorsed by those in the medical field.

    It'd be a fraction more credible if it said "Racism", but "White supremacy"?

    Expect a conversation about this more in the coming days.


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    #4954
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,455 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Foxtrol wrote: »
    I'm Irish but I've lived in states for nearly a decade.

    What you call white guilt for many is simply being educated on the subject rather than talking out of their arse.

    I'm sure those here talking down the race issue in the States would be the first to lose their minds if an American talked down the actions of the British against the Irish.

    and if an american came over and lived in the UK for 10 years, should he be apologising for the famine?


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    #4955
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Disappointing to see CNN wanting anarchy . They are as bad as Fox

    Change the channel?


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    #4956
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Overheal wrote: »
    I’ve been watching for hours I haven’t seen looting. I haven’t seen any political demands predicated on threats of acts of violence either.

    .

    You haven’t seen any looting? You mean today? Or at all ???
    If the US government were to put a program in place tonight to meet the protestors demands then what would that program consist of. What exactly do they want.


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    #4957
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    1800_Ladladlad wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/UncleSamsNation/status/1267655158521122827

    Terrible! Find them all prosecute them all.


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    #4958
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,652 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Overheal wrote: »
    Change the channel?

    I think you need a break from this thread


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    #4959
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Clarence Boddiker wrote: »
    Trump is not a dictator, the Governors of individual states are responsible for law and order.

    The Donald is in a position of authority, his actions and words are amplified by his position. Now I’d consider myself a reasonably intelligent man, and this allows me to rationally assess the situation when mr T speaks, or acts. The man is a ticking time bomb, and is one faux pas away from starting a civil war.

    Sure, at this stage Vladimir Putin would be well within his rights to condemn the Donald for repression of free speech amongst US citizens.


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    #4960
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    and if an american came over and lived in the UK for 10 years, should he be apologising for the famine?

    I lived there for 7~8 years and I make no apologies about the famine.

    I do feel badly about how Britain treated the Irish and about the painful and bloody integration in the US of migrants and refugees.


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    #4961
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    1800_Ladladlad wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/UncleSamsNation/status/1267655158521122827

    Fake news


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    #4962
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    RIP Captain David Dorn

    77 year old retired St. Louis Police Captain, shot dead by looters trying to steal TV's

    His black life didn't matter.

    Graphic video online.

    These riots have nothing to do with George Floyd's death.


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    #4963
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    1800_Ladladlad wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/UncleSamsNation/status/1267655158521122827

    This is absolutely disgraceful and disgusting.....


    This and the other beatings and deaths should be all that's discussed and shown for what this movement is all about.


    Lives are both taken and families destroyed.


    I've yet to hear one person say ah that lad deserved it but by God it's not a free ticket to go out and let anything go.


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    #4964
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    Overheal wrote: »
    Terrible! Find them all prosecute them all.

    Not quite the Gucci and Starbucks looting you excused earlier is it?


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    #4965
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Overheal wrote: »
    Terrible! Find them all prosecute them all.

    He ain’t dead, not even in hospital apparently, giving interviews.


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    #4966
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,363 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Overheal wrote: »
    Change the channel?

    why?


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    #4967
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    splinter65 wrote: »
    You haven’t seen any looting? You mean today? Or at all ???
    If the US government were to put a program in place tonight to meet the protestors demands then what would that program consist of. What exactly do they want.

    Today on the ABC hollywood feed.

    They want police reforms. They want justice system reforms. They want awareness about bias in policing.

    Trump hasn’t announced any reviews or proposed legislation or action besides cracking down on protestors and telling them to go home.


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    #4968
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,452 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    statesaver wrote: »

    These riots have nothing to do with George Floyd's death.

    This 1000 times.


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    #4969
    quokula
    Registered Users Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭quokula


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Pretty scummy to support that kind of sh1t but you do you
    Overheal wrote: »
    Terrible! Find them all prosecute them all.

    Also completely untrue.

    He’s not a shop owner, he’s not dead, and he was the aggressor having attacked people with a machete before being disarmed.


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    #4970
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Woodsie1 wrote: »
    Not quite the Gucci and Starbucks looting you excused earlier is it?

    No ****. Someone is dead it’s not brick or mortar. A point I have been very clear about all along. But you already know that. Cop on.


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    #4971
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,452 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Overheal wrote: »
    Today on the ABC hollywood feed.

    They want police reforms. They want justice system reforms. They want awareness about bias in policing.

    Trump hasn’t announced any reviews or proposed legislation or action besides cracking down on protestors and telling them to go home.

    LOL!! What's he supposed to do? Give into the demands of a bunch of animals going around burning everything, looting and killing innocents?

    Absolutely incredible political views you have.


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    #4972
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Overheal wrote: »
    Terrible! Find them all prosecute them all.

    One thing we actually agree on I see.....


    It's absolutely vile, disgusting and you wouldn't wish that pain, fear and death on anyone.... Well I'd name a few but I'd be banned....


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    #4973
    [Deleted User]
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Today on the ABC hollywood feed.

    They want police reforms. They want justice system reforms. They want awareness about bias in policing.

    Trump hasn’t announced any reviews or proposed legislation or action besides cracking down on protestors and telling them to go home.

    Do you expect him to have decided on policy in a few days during a riot?


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    #4974
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    1800_Ladladlad wrote: »
    why?

    Because he doesn’t like what CNN is saying.

    Because they are driven by viewership and ratings.

    Thanks for the question. Happy to answer.


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    #4975
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    Overheal wrote: »
    I lived there for 7~8 years and I make no apologies about the famine.

    I do feel badly about how Britain treated the Irish and about the painful and bloody integration in the US of migrants and refugees.

    Well apologising about the past is a fools game. Maybe Amercians could put their profound guilt about the past, and minor injustices within the US to better use and stop invading the world, imposing blockades on other countries for instance, with the deliberate intention of starving them out.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93present)

    The entire US could take a knee.


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    #4976
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    quokula wrote: »
    Also completely untrue.

    He’s not a shop owner, he’s not dead, and he was the aggressor having attacked people with a machete before being disarmed.

    I see. Thanks for clarifying


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    #4977
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    This is an arrogant white woman abusing black men, supposedly in the name of George Floyd


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    #4978
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    LOL!! What's he supposed to do? Give into the demands of a bunch of animals going around burning everything, looting and killing innocents?

    Absolutely incredible political views you have.

    You’re not here for a civil discussion.


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    #4979
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,363 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Overheal wrote: »
    Because he doesn’t like what CNN is saying.

    Because they are driven by viewership and ratings.

    Thanks for the question. Happy to answer.

    how do you know he doesn't like what cnn is saying


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    #4980
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,772 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Do you expect him to have decided on policy in a few days during a riot?

    Did you see Bidens speech? Democrats are already drafting reform bills. Policing standards and a chokehold ban. Not rocket surgery


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    #4981
    Woodsie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Woodsie1


    Overheal wrote: »
    No ****. Someone is dead it’s not brick or mortar. A point I have been very clear about all along. But you already know that. Cop on.

    cop on?
    Says the man posting non stop:D
    Its ok hes got insurance isnt much help if youre fcuking dead now is it?


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