Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

It's easy to assume that Trump would ban some guy just for being Somali. Should probably still check the guy yourselves before making grand statements

[benji]

The one argument that makes sense to me is the injustice that swift justice is served here while someone like Zimmerman gets to walk free, but surely the solution is to lock up people like Zimmerman too and not to let murderers like this go unpunished.

The problem with the Zimmerman case was that:
1. No witnesses except WHITE Hispanic Zimmerman.
2. His testimony was that he was getting his ass beat by Trayvon.
3. While he had no severe injuries he did have markings and minor ones consistent with being on the ground.

Trayvon told the family member he was on the phone with that he thought a dude was following him, so I imagine Zimmerman was obvious and suspect Trayvon circled and easily got the drop on him. If that was the case, and prosecutors couldn't find any contrary evidence to Zimmerman losing the fight, it would be self-defense even if didn't necessarily escalate to deadly force.

Being "harassed" in a situation you entered and can leave doesn't create any kind of legal self-defense. I don't know the grounds for the murder one charge however, that would indicate they made the case that he took the knife with the intent of doing it and was just waiting for a provocation.

[benji]

I don't know the grounds for the murder one charge however, that would indicate they made the case that he took the knife with the intent of doing it and was just waiting for a provocation.

Apparently Texas does not have degrees of murder, so it wasn't "first-degree murder" only murder, they only had to show intent. Considering the parade of witnesses and zero friendly ones this was likely not difficult.

[benji]

[Nintex]

always funny when they bring people from football clubs of third world countries to world cups to ref.

I bet this guy just wasn't corrupt enough

[Alpacx]

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Rep. Foxx: Do you think it's appropriate for boys to sleep in the same room as girls on field trips?

Loudoun Superintendent Aaron Spence: It's appropriate and lawful for transgender students to be able to be treated as their consistently identified gender.

Rep. Onder: Dr. ld biological men be allowed in locker rooms with biologic women or girls?

Spence: Transgender women should be allowed in women's spaces.

Rep. Fine: Dr. Spence, do you use the women's restroom?

Spence: Of course not.

Rep. Fine: Why not?

Spence: Because I would never use a woman's restroom. I'm a male.

[HaughtyFrank]

Scimitar is apparently a sword slur

[HaughtyFrank]

This ref was cause celebré for Blue sky for a day or two

Edit: I forgot the Mayor of Toronto and Premier of BC also spoke out about this saying he'd be welcome in their cities. That's aged well
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mayor-chow-soccer-referee-terrorism-allegation

More alarming is a post from July 28, 2014, that tagged the BBC Somali account. That post was written in Somali, and according to a machine translation it was a comment about Jews cheating Muslims and Arabs and drinking blood.

He's now a national hero 

[Alpacx]

[DavidCroquet]

Serious talk about bike lanes: i'd be fine with them except they seem to be completely inconsistent in the US. 

Randomly a whole car lane transforms into a dedicated bike lane on the other side of an intersection.
Bike lanes at the edge of the road, except when they are mysteriously in the middle of two lanes.
Sometimes not really labled, so just a mysterious skinny unmarked lane that appears and disappears arbitrarily.

And most of all, the issue is that no one is ever using them. I see plenty of cyclists, but they're usually on the sidewalks or in the regular car lanes. So I'm sort of always on tenterhooks that the one daring soul willing to use these fuckass lanes will silently glide into my blind spot on a random tuesday and then I will accidentally splat them while making a left turn...becuase I'm never checking for cyclists, because once again, no one is ever using these lanes.