Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #FE3C  
The point is Trump regularly uses the Bible and Christianity like that, when in reality he cares not for religion one bit.

@Background Pony #FE3C  

 
maybe you shouldn’t use Bible verses if you don’t understand them.
 
also, that’s Matthew 7:1-5

@Background Pony #FE3C  
Trump is a gigantic hypocrite who has no shame criticizing people, often wrongly, despite his own laundry list of failings, so I’d meditate a bit more on the meaning of those verses, if I were you.

@Background Pony #FE3C  

there’s your answer. there’s your answer right there. the latest incident is merely a straw that broke the camel’s back.
 
you don’t compare hundreds of incident with the next and say “Hum. Huh. I wonder which one is heavier and one that I should be talking about” when every other week you get another incident piled on you.
 
What you do, is you bundle them together in a folder, slap the latest incident on the front cover, give it a nice clickbaity title and throw it right at your boyfriend’s face.  
“ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT” you yell at your boyfriend. You also punch his face.  
“Why are you so mad all of the sudden?! I mean that time I gave you this huge abuse and you just took it, this latest abuse is nothing compared to–” says him.  
“I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MAD! Why do you think I keep shouting and giving you death glares and crying every time you hurt me like this?!”
 
Your minority community is currently in an unhealthy relationship with you. Either you dump her now, or risk getting backstabbed later. I don’t care how “rational” you try to explain to her, that breaking things aren’t good. If you guys keep bringing up each other’s mistakes, keep replaying your own arguments over and over, keep trying to be right. Nothing’s gonna ever change,
 
Final solution right now. Divorce. Break Up. Kill. Whatever it takes. Unhealthy relationship is cancerous.

@toxicitzi  
“cast out first the beam in thy own eye”  
I think you missed that bit.  
But anyway, this fixation on every real or perceived gaffe on the part of Trump is equivalent to commentating on a mascot’s doings during an entire ball game. “Oh no, he did a photo-op with a Bible, how scandalous! Let’s keep talking about that instead of chaos gripping the nation, what the response to it will be, or any other major issues around the world.”  
There’s a reason multiple internet memes mock this missing the forest for the trees.

I don’t see the issue with Trump going to the church to do a photo op there, it is a historic place that was damaged. Now the tear gassing is a different story.

@silbasa  

Perfect. Kinda like an abusive blackmail and threat of physical violence. You gonna get backstabbed at some point.  
I don’t disagree, but just letting you know, that if you treat ppl like they gonna hurt you, most likely they will. and you will never EVER build a decent healthy relationship with them again.
 
So why even try living together? put ’em down.

Obviously you HAVE to try living together because, you share the same space with them. You can’t just move nor can’t they. You can always try Apartheid if you want. That’s kinda like, sharing a different apartment on the same floor. You don’t even have to see each other very often, and thus, you won’t have any reason to hurt each other.

@Background Pony #6180  
Trump is not religious and does not care about Christians.
 
@Background Pony #FE3C  
It’s because Trump is a moron and regularly does dumb shit like this.

@tehwatever
 
@tehwatever  
You know why I said the media was selectively reporting this to race-bait? It’s not without evidence: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/  
Yet I didn’t see riots after Justine Diamond, a white woman, was shot to death by a Somali-American police officer. The idea this is about race is a cynically devised fiction.

@Background Pony #FE3C  
Police brutality has multiple components. Race is one of them.

@Mikey  
So? I’m not religious either. I still don’t see an issue with him going there.

Trump’s connections to the 5 Families helped him become as rich as he did.

@Background Pony #FE3C  

 
I didn’t miss that part.. it was the first part of the quote, the second part doesn’t even work without the first one.  
You the only one here who is missing the entire second part and might I add, again. For a second time now in a row.
 
 
As for Trump. The point isn’t the photo, the point is the violence he’s brought unto people who didn’t vandalize that came right before that.

@tehwatever  
Before reform order must be restored. Then they have to work the system like everyone else.

@Vivace  
Alright, so why are police officers less likely to shoot black suspects and will hesitate longer in shooting a black suspect? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1745-9133.12187  
This narrative that keeps being blasted at the public is utterly fallacious and serves only to whip up violence like we’ve seen.
 
@Background Pony #6180  
People who are cemented in their hatred will find excuses for it no matter what.

@Background Pony #FE3C  
I don’t care. hundreds of cases. you don’t just forget years of being abused. Every community’s faced their own cumulative abuse and you only need to take one of them, put some nice instagram filters on it, and put some edgy caption to get ppl moving.
 
You want justice after Justine? Go do something similar about–wait a minute…hey how’s that organized rape gang protest going? Point is I’m aware that ppl select news, DUH.
 
So if you want something done, you gotta SELL it. Clickbait, dramatize, whatever. If you by principle disagree with this proven to be effective method I understand. I hate that too, but you can’t complain against efficacy. The method works.
 
You sound like a kid whining about why Jose, who usually sucks at math, gets an A on math final because all he did was practice a select few problems that he thought would show up in the exam, and not necessarily because he understood it.

Here’s the thing, if you use the term “Christian Faith” and become a complete asshole to everyone around you, you have no right to use it, and you must return it.

@tehwatever  
I’m not denying the efficacy of propaganda. I’m pointing out propaganda which is being practiced by our media and which has the additional malicious effect of drowning out real serious issues. People need to question what they’re told, see different points of view, learn to analyze statistics, and look at the big picture. Otherwise, how can one vote responsibly?

@Background Pony #FE3C  
The abstract even admits that there’s “clear evidence of implicit bias against Black suspects.” If race were no component, why are blacks more than twice as likely to be killed in police shootings as whites? Why did Michael Bloomberg’s stop-&-frisk policy disproportionately affect blacks?

@Background Pony #FE3C  
I understand. NO I really do. In this age where ppl are overloaded with information, but given that ppl have only limited attention and time to give, at any give given period, they will have to choose what is important to them.
 
You will have to SELL it to them, unfortunately. Good luck on that organized UK gang rape thing btw. I’m holding you on that.

 
Remember when covid was a thing? Fuck it. I’m going out Friday night to celebrate making it thought the first part of police recruitment. Aptitude test next.

@Vivace  
Maybe because they’re involved in more crimes? To say so is not racist, there is a serious crime issue.  
A policeman is almost as likely to be killed by a black man as by a white man: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018/tables/table-43.xls  
More than twice as many whites are killed by blacks than the other way around: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls  
As for total homicides, oh boy… https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls

@Terminal Red  
People are realizing Covid wasn’t as bad as we thought it was.

@Background Pony #6180
 
>100k deaths in only 3 months
 
>”not as bad”