The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[Valmy]

Even those are ok. What inanimate objects you use for pleasure in the privacy of your own home are fine.

[Duque de Bragança]

Didn't DeGaulle risk his life to give Algeria independence and set free most of France's colonies? I guess there is just no pleasing some people.

Could be the "neocolonialism" after "formal" independences or https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchiment_des_troupes_coloniales. Hypotheses, but I heard the latter from some young black dude still pissed of at De Gaulle.

[Tamas]

I am curious how quickly this fervour about statues will turn into a Puritanism level madness.

[Valmy]

I am curious how quickly this fervour about statues will turn into a Puritanism level madness.

It comes and goes. I mean it is not really about the statues after all.

[The Brain]

They're not coming for my Barbie dolls, are they?

Only if they are Klaus Barbie dolls.

You don't have to go straight to the punchline you know. I was going for a joke in three acts.

[Razgovory]

They're not coming for my Barbie dolls, are they?

Only if they are Klaus Barbie dolls.

You don't have to go straight to the punchline you know. I was going for a joke in three acts.

  Sorry about that.

[The Minsky Moment]

Edit: Incidentally big fan of the proposal to rename one of those military bases after Daniel Inouye.

Need to find two bases close together  - name one for him and one for Dole.

[Duque de Bragança]

Statue defacing in Portugal as well. Choice leaves me baffled.
https://www.publico.pt/2020/06/11/politica/noticia/descolonizacao-estatua-padre-antonio-vieira-vandalizada-lisboa-1920272

Padre António Vieira, a Jesuit, not a Bandeirante slaver, pro-natives as against their enslavement, and actually one of the few who stood against the Inquisition and the discrimination against New Christians, mostly crypto-Jews (in Portugal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Vieira

The "decolonize" defacing does not make much sense as well:

[11B4V]

Ignorant mob rules.

[jimmy olsen]

The police say it was a suicide. Really? A young black man hung from a tree near a city hall? 

https://twitter.com/KingCuh/status/1271308483736924160

THERE WAS A BLACK MALE FOUND HANGING FROM A TREE IN PALMDALE THIS MORNING AND AINT NOBODY SAYING SHIT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fgB0m_y2I

[The Brain]

Statue defacing in Portugal as well. Choice leaves me baffled.
https://www.publico.pt/2020/06/11/politica/noticia/descolonizacao-estatua-padre-antonio-vieira-vandalizada-lisboa-1920272

Padre António Vieira, a Jesuit, not a Bandeirante slaver, pro-natives as against their enslavement, and actually one of the few who stood against the Inquisition and the discrimination against New Christians, mostly crypto-Jews (in Portugal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Vieira

The "decolonize" defacing does not make much sense as well:

Obviously someone who disagrees strongly with anti-slavery.

[jimmy olsen]

The police say it was a suicide. Really? A young black man hung from a tree near a city hall? 

https://twitter.com/KingCuh/status/1271308483736924160

THERE WAS A BLACK MALE FOUND HANGING FROM A TREE IN PALMDALE THIS MORNING AND AINT NOBODY SAYING SHIT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fgB0m_y2I

Actually, this was in California, my mistake.

Seems to be something in the air there.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-07/noose-teacher-photo-investigation

Four elementary school teachers who were placed on leave after a photo of them smiling and holding a noose circulated on social media were not motivated by racism and were unaware of the pain and hurt it would cause the Palmdale School District community, an investigator concluded in a new report.

[Eddie Teach]

The police say it was a suicide. Really? A young black man hung from a tree near a city hall? 

https://twitter.com/KingCuh/status/1271308483736924160

THERE WAS A BLACK MALE FOUND HANGING FROM A TREE IN PALMDALE THIS MORNING AND AINT NOBODY SAYING SHIT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fgB0m_y2I

Some people want to be talked about after they're gone.

[Gups]

Some of the targets in the UK are just ridiculous - e.g. Peel because he created the first police force.

Though I have some passing knowledge of Robert Peel, I've gone over his wiki page, and he seems almost impeccable even from a modern perspective.  Even on topics that would be frowned upon by today's standards (opposed to Catholic emancipation) - he eventually reversed himself and led the charge in favour of it.

Good grief.

He's a bit overlooked these days but I'd put him as the greatest peacetime prime minister we've ever had.

[jimmy olsen]

Stephen Miller's working that calendar with a bunch of charts and reference materials like a cult member trying to plan the conception of the antichrist.

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1271403162063208449

President Trump's planned convention speech in Jacksonville, Florida, on Aug. 27 falls on the city's 60th anniversary of a brutal KKK-orchestrated attack on black activists known as "Ax Handle Saturday."