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Know how many killings are going on in Sudan, Myanmar and Ethiopia? Wanna go in there too?

Meanwhile, actual Americans are being killed by "immigrants" right here at home.

This is what I want our attention on. Not fricking Iran.

I mean, we can be sure she has no kids to worry about leaving behind right? She'll just have to relocate her dogs and cats.

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I find it interesting that you feel comfortable stating that his saying “you’re not going to like this” and offering her dog a treat is definitively a threat, and yet also stating definitively that her calling 911 and lying about his threatening her life while making a point of saying that it was a “black man” who had made said threat had nothing to do with his race.

One of those two things seems vastly more likely to me than the other; yet, we seem to fundamentally disagree as to which is which.

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Perhaps it has something to do with him admitting that he used this tactic to deal with unleashed dogs before. "I pulled out the dog treats I carry for just such intransigence." He's admitting there that he wasn't carrying treats to make dogs happy but rather to scare dog owners into compliance. We can add to that the fact that he had appeared before the board that oversees Central Park operations complaining about dog walkers unleashing dogs in areas not designated for it and claimed there that his attempts to get them to comply had resulted in 2 people assaulting him (this was just days before the viral incident). I could go on but the point is that the public knew almost nothing about this because everyone was too busy forming the mob.


By his own admission, this guy set himself up as a park monitor with his own set of enforcement tactics that resulted in multiple conflicts. A pretty standard definition of what people mean when they call someone a "Karen." But she mentioned his race so her life was destroyed and he got a Nat Geo show because that's all the public thought they needed to know.

The Progressive position is simple: we are on stolen land and don't belong here unless your parents don't speak English and you were born yesterday. Then the place was made just for you.

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Remember after that event when video after video was posted of that kid being a complete shithead to everyone? Oh wait, that was this judge you're defending.

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"We don't need more information than a 20-second video with little context because we have other unrelated 20-second videos without context too!"

Judges get angry. If all you have to do is string together snapshots in time of someone getting angry to "prove" any given snapshot is never understandable then it will never will be for anyone routinely filmed on the job. Maybe him blasting the IT guy wasn't justified at all and there is no history that might reveal otherwise. But we just don't have enough information to say this.

Social media has turned the world into a Jerry Springer audience.

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Are you referring where he said he keeps treats on him, as owners who refuse to leash their dogs generally don’t like strangers offering their dogs treats, so they leash them once he offers?

If so, no, him offering dogs treats (even as manipulation) does not justify her calling 911 and claiming he threatened her life. If not, what are you referencing?

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Him telling her he'll "do what he wants and she won't like it" before trying to lure her dog with a treat is an obviously implied threat.

But it doesn't matter whether you think she should have called the cops. What matters is that you realize that there was more to that exchange than the guy's race and the world reacting as though there wasn't is an example of a viral video missing some pertinent information.

She didn't get fired because she called the cops. She got fired because people thought her motivation for calling the cops was simply his race.

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interesting take. essentially giving the benefit of the doubt to the a-hole in this situation.

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Remember when everyone was sure that this kid was being an arse hole?





Remember when everyone thought this person was simply being racist?

Surely another case where all we need to see is a 20-second video to form a virtual lynch mob...

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“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,”

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Palantir



The idea is pretty simple: roles often held by college-educated women, such as marketing and HR, will be restructured or automated. As AI takes over "generalized knowledge" jobs, Karp says economic value will shift toward vocationally trained "working-class, often male" roles like plumbers and electrician. Ever meet a female plumber?


The world may be healing.