To be clear and put numbers onto it. After George Floyd died and people started screaming he was dead, the police continued to choke the man for over nine minutes.
That alone is all that needs to be said as to why outrage is deserved. Full stop.
@AncientGood You seemed to completely ignore what i said and then just flapping your gums arguing against something I didnt even say. I am happy to debate you, but you need to make some effort at actually understanding what I say before you disagree iwth it or else your just wasting my time.
AS I said before, if him ODing as the underlying cause is literally not remotely relevant to the morality of the situation. He sat on his neck so he couldnt breath, evne if he then ODed (not due to the strangling) the cop still remained strangling a lifeless body for a very long time.
Your argument is idiotic because it assumes the cause of death is remotely related to the outrage... it isnt. The fact that a man was choked while dying (of any cause) and continued to be choked when dead is what matters, and that remains true OD or not.
> how exactly a criminal drug user (who died from OD) deserved outrage?
Because a cop strangled him to death and remain choking his lifeless body for several minutes after he was dead... yup, certainly deserves outrage.
In fact even if he somehow managed to survive he deserved the exact same level of outrage.
> f only by showing how corrupt judge and whole system are, that caved in to "mostly peaceful" activists, who demanded so called justice for a cop simply doing his job, but outrage was targeted toward police and that one police man with wrong skin color
Nope
@freemo@qoto.org Also election year. Media isn't going to run stories that threaten the Democrats. And conservative media is racist and hates black people so they aren't going to say shit either.
Holy fuck how am I just hearing about this....
Apparently a black man (not sure if his race was relevant) was kicked out of an ambulance mid ride because he couldnt breath an in a panic he tried to get to the oxygen and the EMT was offended by this and kicked him out of the ambulance mid ride... Cops arrived to get him out of the ambulance. In the end he died.
How are we not rioting over this yet we did over george floyd? Seriously... this deserves all the same outrage, more! Oh right, Trump isnt president, Biden is, that might be bad for the election, lets not huh? Liberals only hate the injustice when its in their favor I guess....
George floyd deserved outrage, this deserves outrage.
@freemo Of course those do not apply to all or even most people of any of those faiths. But if you have to ask which characteristics of each faith have done good and harm to the world as a whole, those would be my picks.
Now we need to add Buddhism (and Eastern enlightenment seeking in general) to this list.
@freemo 1: (Good) Tend to think things through from first principles. (Bad) Downright dogmatic in their rejection of any possible spiritual reality.
2: (Good) Developed human rights and modern civilization (Bad) Everyone else is going to hell, and that was used to rationalize bad actions.
3: (Good) Strong cultural immune system, charity is built into their faith (Bad) explicitly allowed to war against nonbelievers.
4: (Good) Respect for education and brains (Bad) Allowed to exploit outsiders.
Watching "Dr who the star beast".. they leaned a bit heavier into the woke side of things, but while a bit on the heavy side I liked it. Right until the end, the end they said something like "We have a power a male-presenting time-lord will never have... letting go". Got that was cringe, sexist, and ruined it.
I have to say its pretty nice being able to eat a five guys burger for dinner with bacon and literally be completely within the bounds of my diet and not needing to cheat at all.
I still wish it had a damn bun though!
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