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I saw the NYT.

The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops
https://www.yahoo.com/news/demand-money … 49510.html

Harold Brown’s contribution to the local treasury began as so many others have in Valley Brook, Oklahoma: A police officer saw that the light above his license plate was out.

“You pulled me over for that? Come on, man,” said Brown, a security guard headed home from work at 1:30 a.m. Expressing his annoyance was all it took. The officer yelled at Brown, ordered him out of the car and threw him to the pavement.

After a trip to jail that night in 2018, hands cuffed and blood running down his face, Brown eventually arrived at the crux of the matter: Valley Brook wanted $800 in fines and fees. It was a fraction of the roughly $1 million that the town of about 870 people collects each year from traffic cases.

@hollis

Dilbert_X wrote:

People crossing Channel ‘not genuine asylum seekers’ and just want to stay in hotels, Priti Patel says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h … 46223.html

LMAO

and right on cue ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 … l-refugees

There are calls for Priti Patel to withdraw or justify claims she made before parliament that most people who travel to the UK in small boats are not genuine asylum seekers.

Two Labour peers, David Blunkett and Shami Chakrabarti, have also questioned whether the home secretary has evidence that backs her claim that “70% of individuals on small boats are single men who are effectively economic migrants”.

There is deepening concern from refugee charities that the government is feeding an untrue narrative that claims migrants who travel to the UK by boat are undeserving of sympathy.

Home Office officials were asked to provide data that backed up the home secretary’s assertions.

The Home Office has declined to give an official response to a request from the Guardian. A source responded by saying that of 8,500 people arriving by small boat in 2020 87% were men and 74% were aged between 18 and 39 – but did not provide evidence related to their asylum claims.

if they have such decisive data and can prove such a dynamite claim, why won't priti patel share it? surely it would justify every anti-migrant right-wing stance if they could produce such astounding proof? strange isn't it ...

Your whole Catholic gimmick is beyond old.

presumably catholics should have converted when arriving in america, then, it being a thoroughly protestant society.

and are you really saying that, inter alia, jews, asian-americans, sikhs and hindus and south asian immigrants, etc., have added nothing to american life?

imagine living in ‘the land of the free’ and talking, in all seriousness, about people being forced to live exactly as you do. there are plenty of muslims living in democratic and secular countries, without any hint of conflict or friction.

Last edited by uziq (2021-11-02 15:43:44)

i’m much more worried about these guys.

https://twitter.com/thegoodliars/status … 98212?s=21

isn’t it weird that the most integrated, impeccably credentialed natives are now the biggest terror threat to the US? and yet you keep repeating the bilge that any muslim community will lean into extremism if they’re allowed to ‘grow’. population size doesn’t dictate politics you derpsicord.

uziq wrote:

i’m much more worried about these guys.

https://twitter.com/thegoodliars/status … 98212?s=21

isn’t it weird that the most integrated, impeccably credentialed natives are now the biggest terror threat to the US? and yet you keep repeating the bilge that any muslim community will lean into extremism if they’re allowed to ‘grow’. population size doesn’t dictate politics you derpsicord.

Oh that group should be peacefully ethnically cleansed so that we get their threshold lower.

Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

and are you really saying that, inter alia, jews, asian-americans, sikhs and hindus and south asian immigrants, etc., have added nothing to american life?

I'm sure they could have added whatever without practicing some backward mumbo-jumbo or inflicting it on their kids.

Lets add up the contribution of atheists and agnostics.

almost all of them were secular. most of the jews in western europe from the late 1800s onwards were secular.

judaism is a religion practiced almost wholly in the home. they don’t preach or proselytise. somehow i think you don’t understand what a democracy is when it promises ‘freedom of religion’. liberals should be fine with people practicing whatever religious beliefs they want in private.

i doubt sikhs and their family-community temples have visited a huge evil upon democracy because of their beliefs. ditto east asian buddhists. all that harmful mumbo jumbo!!!

you sound like a 15 year old who has just read dawkins. religion is an active, positive, structuring force in millions of ordinary peoples’ lives. are there problems with ‘organised religion’? absolutely. but you seem to think having religious belief is a ‘threat’ to modern society. it’s just bunkum. the secular west you live in, as i have pointed out dozens of times before, is in-itself an overwhelmingly christian concept. half of the ‘values’ you want to preserve and protect when you get into your anti-immigrant, anti-multicultural polemics are everyday, pedestrian, uncontroversial christian attitudes.

Last edited by uziq (2021-11-02 17:34:06)

On the third day of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the judge dismissed a juror who joked with a courtroom deputy about why Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, the incident that prompted the civil unrest during which Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two of them.

Prosecutors said the juror asked a courtroom deputy “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake 7-times? Because they ran out of bullets.”

Interesting new way to get out of jury duty.

I got an idea. You should shoot a guy and I will raise donations for you.

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2021-11-04 13:22:12)

Sounds good actually. You shoot me and I will claim racism. We then both collect from dueling GoFundMe's.

i think you guys just wrote a christopher nolan movie.

war man has to narrate it in the role of an autistic savant child.

working title: Mod Note.