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This post speculating about the secret motivations of Jeff and the personal details of his life is easily weirder by one thousand times than the guy talking about his personal experience working at Red Ventures.

How would using those names because the chat suggested them be any better than coming up with them themselves?? what??

golly, but if the DEMOCRATS are SUPPORTING the war...what do I do with my completely imaginary worldview/his strawman???

there's always one of these guys here. just popping in to a thread about a serious cultural dilemma to say some purposefully unspecified aspect of the thread is beneath them. thanks for the input dude

I have no idea what part of my post made you think I am sympathetic to the military.

Recruitment offices and on-site recruitment efforts have been effectively halted by the pandemic, so they've made a conscious effort to redirect it virtually. Compound the effects of the pandemic with depressed recruitment numbers (they actually missed their 2018 and 2019 goals, and most who sign up now are just children of previous recruits), and the desperation felt through these games-oriented efforts starts making more sense. People don't want to join the military of their own volition anymore, and they can't hold space in which to convince stray kids to do it.

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@subscryber: Yeah, you did man. You said that the chart above "just means there's a statistical racial disproportion AMONG THOSE WHO COMMIT CRIME." You go on to say, "But if they are statistically over-represented in violent crime, that could potentially mean that they are also statistically more likely to bear the greater share of police violence."

So, first, yes, you did say that death at the hands of police is presumably the result of committing crimes. Second, that's quite tonedeaf, considering the months-long international protests over the killing of a black man who did not commit a violent crime, and the killing of a black woman who was asleep in her own bed, whose home was raided with a no-knock warrant in the middle of the night, and which was not the residence of the suspect. It's not just tonedeaf, it's ignorant. Like, you literally don't know what you're talking about. And yet, somehow, you're mad about it! Audacious!

@subscryber: Oh man...getting shot by cops quite often has nothing to do with actually committing a crime at all. Maybe you're racist, maybe not, but you sure are wrong about the supposition that every police interaction starts with an actual crime being committed.

See this is the problem with people who employ this demeanor. You think reverence and civility are going to deflate the tension around questioning whether or not black people getting killed by cops at a disproportionately high rate is ultimately validated by their own behavior.

Additionally, predicating that question on the assumed fact that black communities are systematically impoverished and that (you infer) this increases crimes committed by black people isn't as arguably sympathetic as you think it is. It omits myriad external forces, namely the actions of the police forces themselves, from culpability and still leaves "crimes" at the feet of the black people being pulled over, searched, charged, or- worse - killed by police.

But quite honestly, I have no interest in going over this fuckin data again with anyone, especially someone who tips their hat and calls me 'sir' as they question the validity of police killing black people. It's more sinister than honesty. But don't worry, we can between the lines. Bye.