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Noteworthy News
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(January 26, 2023 at 12:33 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: https://kotaku.com/rick-morty-season-7-v...1850026753

Rick And Morty Ditches Roiland, Recasting Voices Following Domestic Abuse Allegations [Updates]

Quote: The main voice behind Rick and Morty won’t be returning in season seven. Adult Swim announced on Tuesday that it would cut ties with series co-creator Justin Roiland, a decision that comes just weeks after news first surfaced that he was facing two felony domestic abuse charges from 2020.

“Adult Swim has ended its association with Justin Roiland,” the Rick and Morty account tweeted today. “Rick and Morty will continue. The talented and dedicated crew are hard at work on Season 7.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, Roiland’s voice roles will be re-cast and Dan Harmon will remain the sole creator through season 10.

Well, hell. I can understand AS's decision, but you just KNOW this is going to be a replay of the death of Jim Henson when we ended up with wrong-sounding Muppets.

Boru
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This Must Have Been REALLY Bad


For a police department to fire, arrest and charge five cops with murdering a black man BEFORE the video footage is released:

Quote:Five former Memphis police officers have been indicted and jailed in , who died days after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.


Quote:Body camera footage of the incident has been shown to Nichols' family but has not been made public. Authorities said told reporters Thursday they will release it sometime Friday after 6 p.m. local time.



Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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I'm not sure if I'll have the stones to watch it when/if it comes out.
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(January 27, 2023 at 11:32 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I'm not sure if I'll have the stones to watch it when/if it comes out.

Suggested alternate headline: Police Ask For Calm In The Wake Of Unspeakable Evil They Committed

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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I remember the Rodney King riot - and he survived.
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All the police were white (I think) in the Rodney King case, and the riots occurred after the four officers who did get charged were found not guilty. With black on black, I wonder if there would be as serious a backlash. I guess we'll see.
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(January 27, 2023 at 5:13 pm)Fireball Wrote: All the police were white (I think) in the Rodney King case, and the riots occurred after the four officers who did get charged were found not guilty. With black on black, I wonder if there would be as serious a backlash. I guess we'll see.

The inequity with white cops vs minority cops is that it always seems to take longer to fire white cops or have them arrested, if they get convicted at all. 

The bigger picture is social inequity in policing and processing in the justice system, and economic inequality too.
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(January 27, 2023 at 5:13 pm)Fireball Wrote: All the police were white (I think) in the Rodney King case, and the riots occurred after the four officers who did get charged were found not guilty. With black on black, I wonder if there would be as serious a backlash. I guess we'll see.

The race of a cop is ‘cop’. Never expect that black cops are less likely to brutalize a black suspect than are white cops. And I doubt very much that the community won’t take to the streets if these cops are acquitted.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Finally some good news

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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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(January 27, 2023 at 7:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 27, 2023 at 5:13 pm)Fireball Wrote: All the police were white (I think) in the Rodney King case, and the riots occurred after the four officers who did get charged were found not guilty. With black on black, I wonder if there would be as serious a backlash. I guess we'll see.

The race of a cop is ‘cop’. Never expect that black cops are less likely to brutalize a black suspect than are white cops. And I doubt very much that the community won’t take to the streets if these cops are acquitted.

Boru

It's been my experience that when a black cop talks about the black community he serves, at least outside of public statements, it's rarely positively. I suspect years of training, the privilege that comes with having enough to actually qualify for the job*, and having a job that necessarily involves coming into contact with a disproportionately high number of the worst representatives of your own people has something to do with it.

And while there's a bunch of movies I could use that can illustrate it (Training Day, Deep Cover, Boyz N Da Hood, Straight Outta Compton), the videos I'm finding from said movies tend to drop some N-Bombs. Since, from what I understand of the rules, that's strictly forbidden, I may as well do a scene that makes a less than subtle allegory:




*Note: for the Chicago PD, the bare minimum requirements include 60 credit hours at an accredited college or university and paying any and all debts to the City, which is not cheap and may not be an option for many poorer people, and that's not even going into the vetting of their criminal records, which can't be good when their communities are over-policed and 1 in 3 Black men end up going to jail at some point in their lives, and often with longer sentences than white people who commit the same fucking offence. Plus, while I don't see it in the CPD requirements, some others I've seen require a driver's license, which can also be a problem.
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