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Actually the opposite. Damage due to non-collision.

I wasn't able to collect on insurance for “damage not due to a collision” on my motorcycle when it blew over in strong wind, because the insurance agent said, “There was a collision. When your motorcycle fell over it collided with the ground.”

> suspected check forgery,

This guy had, according to the coroner's report, recently used meth, had fentanyl in his system and the police stated he resisted arrest. He also has a police report from 2007 where he pointed a gun at a pregnant lady's belly to restrain her while his partner ransacked her apartment for jewelry and drugs. Sounds peaceful to you?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/george-floyd-fentanyl-methamph... https://files.catbox.moe/f4ylk1.jpeg

(and BTW it was a forged $20 bill, not check forgery)

> jogging down a street

You use this as an example of police brutality in which the police weren't even involved. And then you immediately follow with "Save your talking points for when they're actually relevant"? Will you?

> sitting in one's own home

Breonna Taylor, a black woman, who's boyfriend shot first at the police when the executed a no-knock warrant. Does this sound racially motivated to you? If they were white, would the officers not shoot back?

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Maybe you should stop skimming headlines of MSM and start actually trying to uncover the whole story before you help perpetuate a race war with lazy, anecdotal and misleading examples masquerading as actual talking points.

> The problem, which shows up in plenty of posts on social media, is that people's concern should, first and foremost, be the excessive use of force by US police officers, and the lack of accountability that officers face, in particular when black lives are lost as a result. Sure, destroying things this is bad, but black lives matter.

For every 10,000 black people arrested for violent crime, 3 are killed.*

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police...

* For every 10,000 white people arrested for violent crime, 4 are killed. (ducks ... and runs away)

It actually seems systematic. Pallets of bricks have been placed ahead of time at many of the planned protests around the country. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-setup-mysteriously-s...

I wonder how long until a militant group starts calling themselves, "The Human Beings"

This channel is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVKDKWKR498Ut2m8H5oUEcA

> Are you aware of white supremacists? I saw a video with a white guy breaking windows with a hammer and protesters chased him away.

Why did you imply that guy was a white supremicist? What ever evidence do you have?

Video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vurPRZbLvc

> Your first link shows: more black people are killed per-capita by cops than white people. Y Your second link shows: Black people are more likely to be convicted of homicide than white people.

Yes, that's right. See the connection between crime and cops killing civilians?

> But instead, we see that black people are convicted of only 27% of overall crime.

Where do you see this? I can't find this anywhere.

> That's including the fact that certain categories are known to be racially disparate in conviction and sentencing - e.g. white & black people use marijuana at approximately equal rates, yet black people are nearly 4 times as likely to be arrested for it.

That by itself doesn't show anything. It depends on how and where marijuana was used. Smoking a blunt and driving around the neighborhood with the top down is going to picked up a lot more than someone sitting in their home smoking. You need to show situations that are the same which have more blacks being arrested than whites.

> That the people killed by cops were all committing a crime at the time. I don't have statistics on hand for this, but a well-known counterexample is Tamir Rice.

Yea, I'm sure you don't... that subset has to be so minor it has to be insignificant. Oh, an anecdotal incident where a 12 year old boy carried a replica of a pistol and aimed it at an cop, who didn't know it wasn't real. I don't see how your example justifies this as a big problem.

> The thing is people are already being held accountable for their skin tone, and the likelihood of changing your behavior when you have lived your entire life in an environment of constant oppression

Actually, a lot more whites are killed by cops than blacks. And before you say that's because there are more white people than black people, blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime. So, you are less likely to get killed committing a crime as a black person than as a white person.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer...

It might have looked to you as if he was strangling the man with his knee, but he actually wasn't and the cop probably knew he wasn't. Regardless of how things look, what really matters is how are, what really happened. Just like that video of the maga kid being stared down by the native American with the drum.

With 320 million people in the us, crazy coincidences happen every day. I'd be more surprised if they didn't happen.

> intentionally strangling someone for 8+ minutes

That's just it, though. According to the coroner's report, he wasn't strangled.

The source is the coroner's report. It doesn't matter what the rest of the article is stating.

And your video doesn't show what happened up until the time where the cop had his knees one him. There was actually 3 cops on him at that point. How do you think they ended up that way?

You think people are going to vote for that?

> This isnt how the presidency is supposed to be used. He got mad and hes trying to silence his critics.

There is a “reply” button underneath all of his tweets, you know?

What is so different? Are you sure the USA would hold together if they changed the voting structure so that NY and LA ran everything?

> Why would it shorten the growth period compared to mainstream platforms, where there are far more users who could join the community?

Because networks tend to follow an exponential growth rate. The time it takes to go from 1 to 128 equals the same time it takes to go from 128 to 16384, so if you add 127, you've shortened the time for the network to grow from 1 to 16384 by half. Meanwhile, for a platform that already had 16384, subtracting 127 is a drop in the bucket.

> Is there any evidence that this is the case?

Facebook/Youtube/Twitter/et al couldn't have grown as much as they did as fast as they did unless that was the case.

Networks tend to follow an exponential growth rate, so even if the same number moved to the alternative platforms, the time it would take them to grow large enough to be significant would shorten substantially.

All the new alternative social networks and video sites that have cropped up and the old ones that have ben gaining in popularity is evidence that people are beginning to turn away. Ex. lbry.tv, bitchute.com, gab.com, voat.co, phuks.co, zerohedge.com

He is the opposing candidate of the current president, however. And why should we trust news outlets that are blatantly in favor of one candidate over another, and bury stories that look bad for their favored candidate?

> The Washington Examiner and Fox News have been burning their credibility on a daily basis.

Oh really? Name some things they lied about in the last 5 days.

“The more you tighten your grasp, the more star systems slip through your fingers.”

Censoring the point of view of others merely lends credence to their point of view. Unless you find a way to censor them completely, you will cause more and more people to lose faith in your ideals.

How do we know how much fraud there is? How much fraud were we aware of at Enron until they went bust?

The whole reason there is a United States of America is because each state would get a voice in choosing the president. By only going by popularity, a few select cities decide all. If it was proposed that way, the USA would never have formed and we'd have a bunch of individual separate countries.

What do you think?

> A doctor administering chemotherapy is such a daft counterargument that I don't know where to start.

It's an analogy, you bobblehead.

> Dominic Cummings was infected with the Coronavirus and by moving to a second home and by his own admission using the local healthcare resources in that area he was risking spreading the virus.

One person's effect is so slight, it's negligible. However, having an advisor helping shape the laws and policies of the country not being in top form, is much more dangerous. Bad policy can kill thousands of people.

If a doctor were to prescribe that a patient needs chemotherapy, you wouldn't expect the doctor to get chemotherapy along with the patient, right? Would you even trust a doctor that was undergoing intense chemotherapy with all the mental side effects along with it?

Dominic Cummings is a senior political advisor to Boris Johnson himself. His thinking helps shape the country, and therefore he needs to constantly in top mental form, especially during this crisis.

So, if he feels the need to travel the country as he did, everyone should support him, or face the consequences of having a mentally distracted political advisor trying to help run the country

Compared to Haskell, it was slow indeed.

We're they starving the beast? I hadn't noticed...