something rubbed you wrong since you can't stop posting about it... apparently the truth gets you going.

MrScilenscedforgood loosely quoted "I believe everything I hear unquestioningly, if it fits my narrative"

I'm not arguing for the Confederate statues. I just don't like a weak argument... I feel the Berlin wall example is a very poor, at best, analogue. There are better examples to use.

The Berlin wall example is really dumb... The Berlin wall was the "Act", it wasn't a symbol it was the dividing line. Once the dividing line fell, it wasn't torn down as a symbol, it was removed as it was the actual wall dividing people.

What would be an accurate comparison, would be.... Are there commemorative pieces dedicated to remembering the wall? You're gotcha would be no, no one wants to remember that. Unfortunately there are sections of the wall that remain and are used in this remembrance fashion.

So time to find a new example because the Berlin wall one sucks.

we've had many threads on here where the discussion turned to the error of 80's and what was done to the Mental Healthcare system. I would be fully onboard with a plan that shifted funding from police in order to bring back the mental health care that was dismantled.

So the black people's ropes are upsetting the white people, because the ropes might frighten the black people... who put them there... And the white people have to protect the black people at all costs.

Makes sense.

I don't want to hijack the thread for a topic that it's not about. But voiced by this soldier is the feeling that I rely heavily on when saying that if a large scale issue arose due to 2nd amendment right, or if the populace did rise up against the Gov't for some reason with arms of their own it is always laughed at as a few yokels against the US Army... When in reality...

""We have a lot of National Guardsmen who are struggling with this, because unlike in combat when you have an enemy, these are our neighbors, our friends, our family," the first Guard officer said.""

If there were a revolt against a tyrannical gov't it's not so clear that the military just defacto sides with the government, and not their friends and neighbors.

Whats your address bruce, we'll be sure to smash your window everytime there's looting. You won't mind.

#34... maybe, but that's not what the Mayor said.

OMG the Mayor took a middle of the road stance, and said the council would look for an explanation.

If they were as wrong as is being said, that statement would have been a lot more stern at a bare minimum.

Beyond that if you want to insert yourself into the conversation with language like that you can go --- yourself angrydouche

#29 Thanks for the insight. And agreed, there has to be a better way of shutting the tent down, if in their estimation it didn't belong there. I get getting in front of the looting, but it's not like you can protest til 7:59:59, and be out of the area at 8:00:01, so there has to be some way of interacting with those that had proven to be there peacefully.

the problem with this article is "Prentice said".

There is no corroboration of the claim in the report, and to be honest the reading of the rest of her claim sounds like word salad, and that she is trying to claim to be under the wording of the order because there are licensed doctors there.

Maybe I'm wrong, and she has all the paperwork to be an 'official medical tent'. But there is no need for an official medical tent after curfew, so I have a hard time imagining that City Hall ok'd this. Seems a lot more likely that she is playing games with the wording like Joe was above.

Joe, so you think that if I put a bandaid and a water bottle in my pocket, I can just roam around after the curfew and call myself a "mobile healthcare provider?" You have to be trolling, no one is this stupid.

You're more of a racist than anyone on here just because you feel the need to white knight for mr cooper... I'm sure he can take the criticism he doesn't need you making sure the poor black man is taken care.

Way to place yourself above him

Lazy argument Snoofy... you don't feel like I do about race so you're a racist.

Pretty strong charge without you knowing much about me

Snoofy would you mind putting your virtue signal down, you keep shining it in my eyes

Thats it I'm racist, I'm pretty much on record on almost all stories as looking at how the interaction leading up to an event caused it it to unfold as it did. But doing it in this case , this time its because I'm a racist.

All I've said is that he likes to make the non leashers uncomfortable and this time he ran into an overreacter.

So verify for me... I feel like he was trying to make her leash her dog by making her uncomfortable... and that's racist?

We differ with thinking he wasn't somewhat of a bad actor here too though.

That's great except what you quoted was my response to Snoofy saying she was in central Park and therefore couldn't have felt isolated.

Thanks for pointing out the surroundings of the ramble though

Tomorrow is Saturday, so peanut butter and rocks are for lunch, would have been just as helpful though.

When did I say she isn't responsible? Or shouldn't face consequences?

*miss

oh man how did I mess 73...

Really, your best defense to her feeling threatened possibly is that in her apology the exact order of events isn't laid out perfectly?

We are discussing if she could feel threatened being approached and alone and you say to read her apology...

I quote her apology stating exactly that, basically verbatim, and you come back with that weak sauce? pathetic

I've been alone in Central Park many times, it's actually a pretty big place. Google maps central park ramble... it's all woods.

Your back pedaling is getting weak Snoofy.

And there we have it, there has to be blame.

We can't look at it and dissect a human interaction and try to learn from it, there must be blame.

Snoofy will blame the weak back. While I'll try to understand why there was stacking of straws in the first place, and what the possible limit to the number of straws is.

Have fun finding blame in everything though, guaranteed route to a better life I'm sure.

I've said over and over that she was wrong, overreacted, once she overreacted she then went over the top and weaponized his being black...etc..

Why is it impossible to look at a situation and analyze what happened, realize there was some nuance to the back and forth... He carries dog biscuits, brags about shaming others into leashing their dogs, and realize that maybe this one time, some poorly chosen/timed words to a woman who might think she compromised position helped push her over the edge?

That's the DR 100% fault any time all time. There is no way that there can be multiple bad actors, nope, has to be one devil and one angel in every story.

99% and 1% fault? nope, he's a black man so his race card beats her woman's card, so she has to be completely to blame.

I'm not even saying that he did any of this consciously, I think this just blew up quicker than either thought could happen.

Snoofy,

quoted from her apology:

"When Chris began offering treats to my dog and confronted me in an area where there was no one else nearby and said, "You're not going to like what I'm going to do next," I assumed we were being threatened"

How does that not speak exactly to what you quoted me on in your #70?... She basically says it verbatim