U.S. Riots of May 2020 over George Floyd and others - ITT: a bunch of faggots butthurt about worthless internet stickers

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I believe Reagan and Brady were shot with a .22. Sorta an assassin's gun as it will enter the brainpan and bounce around , making sauce , but doesn't have the power to exit. Didn't Brady turn out a lifelong turnip for that very reason?
They were shot with a .22 but it was an explosive bullet called Devastators.

It's believe the one that shot Brady exploded

It's what spawned his life long obession with banning guns and in particular cheap guns becuase he was shot with a cheap German made revolver.
 
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There's no reason why software developers HAVE to work 9-5, but most still do, because that's what's been the standard for decades. They see people that try to work "more flexible" hours as lazy, regardless of how many hours they actually work.
Oh please they most likely have those software devs as Salary FLSA-exempt (illegally) and expect them to work as close to 24/7 as possible with no OT.
 
Oh please they most likely have those software devs as Salary FLSA-exempt (illegally) and expect them to work as close to 24/7 as possible with no OT.

Oh yeah, I agree with this.

One of the reasons I left my old job is that in my yearly review, my boss (who was a Software Developer himself) marked me as down as "quantity of work - below average" despite the fact that I was working 70 hours/week for a small company. And it wasn't because he was trying to prevent me from getting a raise either; he was genuinely pissed off at the whole team because the Sales/Marketing was asking for shit faster than we could deliver and then Sales was pissed at us about it so in turn the shit rolled downhill.
 
If he gets acquitted he could still become a cop. He'd only be "unhirable" in democrat controlled areas.

The bigger issue is whether the illegal possession misdemeanor would bar him from police service or not, since that one is likely to stick.
I doubt any big city PD would take him now. I'm certain there'd be no shortage of midwestern rural sheriffs that'd be chomping at the bit though.
 
Yup, a 9-shot Harrington & Richardson break-top revolver. Not a bad gun, actually. The rest that you had to say about .22s is the fevered fantasy of screenwriters that has gotten picked up popularly but isn't true. And yeah, James Brady was vegetized by the shot (which is why it isn't the favorite of assassins -- it didn't kill him with a head shot), and his wife Sarah became a strident anti-gunner thereafter.
Hinckley was using lead-Azide tipped "Devastator" rounds. The one that hit Brady detonated, the two that hit Reagan and a Secret Service agent did not. Had the ones that hit Reagan detonated, he'd have been killed, probably.
 
I don't disagree with what you are saying. I'm just stating that the people old enough to own businesses don't think or care about this.

There's no reason why software developers HAVE to work 9-5, but most still do, because that's what's been the standard for decades. They see people that try to work "more flexible" hours as lazy, regardless of how many hours they actually work.

They have their standard of what works, and they are too stubborn to change.
if someone wants to change the way things work, he'll have to make a very convincing argument for why his preferred way would work better. so far i haven't seen many such arguments, almost everybody advocating for 'more flexible hours' just makes some kind of "old bad new good" point and that's the end of it.
also a lot of it indeed seems to come from lazy bums who just have a strong aversion to getting up early in the morning.
 
The moment this police line in DC gets the OK to disperse, the crowd will scurry like the roach's they are. They've changed nothing. Self-serving and utterly ineffectual
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D.C. protesters currently hurling abuse at a black cop and no, it’s not whitey. It’s a black woman screaming at him.

it's important for everyone to have role models, y'know. And the women's march? and BLM hold this lady up as one of them-there

And so while randomly looking her up to shitpost, well, turns out she was represented by folks in league with that ol' storied classic the NLG. And then I learned that... there's a new Aaron Sorkin film coming out soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_the_Chicago_7

Which actually seems like a fairly, uhh, relevant story to make a film about at the moment. Of course, there's a certain comedy that the reversal of all convictions for the Chicago 7 came after the 1972 election, in which the side that pandered to riotous elements, uhhh, lost really really fuckin' hard.

if someone wants to change the way things work, he'll have to make a very convincing argument for why his preferred way would work better. so far i haven't seen many such arguments, almost everybody advocating for 'more flexible hours' just makes some kind of "old bad new good" point and that's the end of it.
also a lot of it indeed seems to come from lazy bums who just have a strong aversion to getting up early in the morning.

If all that matters is deliverables, then you just need to get your shit done. If you need to be around to coordinate with people, you can be around on slack (or other means) for set hours of the day, log what hours of the day you aren't available, and plan in advance to coordinate schedules. It makes raising children easier, it makes attending classes easier, it makes holding a second job easier, it makes travel easier, and the effects that it has on productivity don't seem to be remarkable (especially since much of the west has shit productivity atm anyways).

I say all of this as someone who fully prefers the scheduling order that going into the office grants. I would prefer to have the option to WFH as a possible benefit, since it would make taking classes much easier without necessarily barring me from going into an office environment otherwise.
 
I doubt any big city PD would take him now. I'm certain there'd be no shortage of midwestern rural sheriffs that'd be chomping at the bit though.
Oh no, he'd have to live in a tight knit community with respect for each other and wouldn't get the opportunity to get gunned down by a nog for $6.35, the horror.
 
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A jogger was shot in D.C. today so this is one to watch out for
Is this the half Mexican half white cop? who shot that black guy or is this a different event?
 
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Jacob Blake's father (The father of the rapist who was shot in the back, and the guy who had that brussel sprouts interview) apparently forgot to clean up his social media account before people started digging into it. I wonder if Joe Biden still plans on having that interview with him.
 
Hadn't seen this before. Anyone else see this? Interesting.

Trucking company not going to cities pushing to defund police: 'We have to keep drivers safe'
Soon-to-be released survey of 258 police departments shows almost half have had budgets cut
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By Joshua NelsonFox News

Trucking company leverages business against 'defund the police' movement in Minneapolis
JKC Trucking co-owner Mike Kucharski says trucks won't go to cities without police forces.

A trucking company owner told Fox News on Wednesday that in order to keep drivers safe, he will not direct services to cities that are pushing to defund the police.

“Our first priority is to support our drivers and their safety when they are on the road,” co-owner of JKC Trucking Mike Kucharski told “Fox & Friends First.”

Kucharski said that defunding the police is a bad idea because drivers carry valuable cargo on the road for weeks.
“Everybody wants to steal this,” Kucharski said.

PORTLAND POLICE OVERTIME PAY EXCEEDED $5.3M SINCE PROTESTS STARTED

A soon-to-be-released survey of 258 police departments nationwide shows almost half have had their budgets cut amid calls for police to be defunded despite increases in gun violence and otherwise violent crime in some parts of the country, according to USA Today.

The outlet was first to report that the Police Executive Research Forum publication, which is expected to be released in the coming days, shows cuts in the police budgets are largely being made to training and equipment.

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR POLICE UNIONS?
Protesters are pushing to “defund the police” over the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans killed by law enforcement.

Floyd died after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, held his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes despite Floyd’s several shouts that he couldn’t breathe. Floyd was handcuffed at the time.


City Journal contributing editor Christopher Rufo discusses civil unrest and protests in Seattle and how the city is reacting to it. Video

Kucharski said that his company is also avoiding states pushing to defund the police because his insurance coverage is prone to dissolve.

“Another issue that I am seeing in the future is I have cargo insurance, liability insurance, fiscal damage insurance, and I am very curious how when I renew my contracts at the end of the year, if there is going to be language -- if I am going to even have coverage going into these places,” Kucharski said.

“Right now I have coverage going all over domestically. You have to get special coverage for Canada or Mexico or you might have to buy special riders for this on top of everything.”





They have been talking about that since the middle of June. A lot of truckers supposedly agree with this companies sentiment.


Supposedly the industry was short 60,000 people before. Now some are taking themselves off routes due to dangers.


While this situation may not be as dire as the Brazil truckers strike, it will cause pressure in markets. Particularly food.

Quote from the article: "Forty-eight hours after the protests began, the price of food had already created an enormous crisis. Two weeks ago, the price of a sack of potatoes was less than $11. By Thursday last week, it had reached nearly $80 in some places. By the third day of the strike, potatoes began to disappear from markets because they could not be transported from the countryside to the cities."

Arguably Democrats just turned the cities death spiral into a nose dive.
 
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