re: Spoke with friend who is also a Pels ticket rep

Gangs are only in existence for one reason. Money.

Even without drugs, they will start other revenue streams like human trafficking (in existence already), blavk market gun sales, business extortion. There will always be gang violence in one way or another no matter what, but as long as its rampant in the drug trade, you will never see the war on drugs end as there is too much money to be made on it from the perspective of the elites.

Personally I say legalize everything.

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The way I’m looking at the PLENTY of people trying to downplay this....

Does racism exist in the western, developed world... yes, it clearly does.

Should it? Absolutely not... ever, under any circumstances.

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Agreed.

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Some of you don’t like it... seemingly because you don’t believe it’s an issue / doesn’t exist / doesn’t effect you....I suggest you’re part of the problem of it never getting resolved simply because you won’t push for it and instead, argue against a basic human right because it upsets your sports. WAAAAAAAA!

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Breaking the law, fighting with police, resisting arrest, and being shot is not a form of racism.

A lot of the examples that are used to push the BLM movement are horseshite, but that doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist in America.

From yesterday:

Utah police shoot 13-year-old autistic boy after his mother called 911 for help

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When Golda Barton dialed 911 on Friday, she hoped emergency responders could help hospitalize her 13-year-old son, who has Asperger syndrome and was having a mental crisis. Instead, a Salt Lake City police officer repeatedly shot Linden Cameron after he ran away, leaving the boy in serious condition with injuries to his intestines, bladder, shoulder and ankles. Barton says he was unarmed, and police said they didn’t find a weapon at the scene.

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[Linden] has long battled severe separation anxiety when she leaves him alone, she told KUTV, and Friday was her first day back at work in almost a year. She called 911 when he suffered a mental breakdown, she said. “I said, ‘He’s unarmed. He doesn’t have anything. He just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,’” she said. “He’s a kid. He’s trying to get attention. He doesn’t know how to regulate.” Police told her to stay outside while they entered her house, she said. Barely five minutes later, she said she heard them ordering her son to the ground and then, a volley of gunfire.

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“Police were called because help was needed but instead more harm was done when officers from the SLPD expected a 13-year-old experiencing a mental health episode to act calmer and collected than adult trained officers,” Neurodiverse Utah said in a statement.

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This shite goes well beyond citizen side compliance. These are officers and departments across the country that are poorly trained, quick to violence as a solution, often poorly qualified, and regularly being asked to handle roles in a community they are poorly equipped for, and the bad apples are being propped up and defended by a corrupted back-the-blue brotherhood system and a union that fights tooth and nail, including by threatening to allow violence to perpetuate, in order to force governments to reduce the level of accountability for their officers when these bad apples are found or these incidents occur.

Black people just happen to be at the front line because of their outsized rates of poverty due to hundreds of years of systemic oppression and abuse, which goes in conjunction with ineffective strategies like broken windows policing that focuses officer resources on criminalizing poor communities through over-policing and over-focusing low level and non violent offenses, and while systemic racism is very real and growing amongst law enforcement, these issues are not isolated to them. Reforms around greater accountability, community oversight, better training, de-fanging unions, re-allocating resources from departments to reorganize the structure in which we serve communities so trigger happy thugs aren’t the first and only responders who show up to your door when your child is having a mental breakdown, affect more than just people of color, and the reforms would benefit more than just people of color.

Can we move this to the political board? Starting to have 0 to do with the Pelicans.

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Most of you possess zero empathy or even desire to understand others' positions.

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I just need to find one informed, reasonable, and honest person who Supports blm to have a conversation with. This thread is full of people who fail on all 3 fronts.

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I just need to find one informed, reasonable, and honest person who Supports blm to have a conversation with. This thread is full of people who fail on all 3 fronts.

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Hey, look, it's that one guy with an opinion who instantly considers himself superior to anyone who holds an opposing viewpoint. Man, I'm glad he's here. I finally know who I should look up to.

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A lot of the examples that are used to push the BLM movement are horseshite, but that doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist in America.

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I completely agree with this. Unfortunately, many of them are not.

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List?

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I'll write the list on my stomach and you can read it while you suck my dick, you delicate little bitch.

ETA - Go back to Political Talk where you belong.

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Now that’s a melt, well done princess.

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Call it whatever you want. You're just here to stir up shite. Go away and display some more textbook Dunning-Kruger behavior.

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Dunning-Kruger behavior

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