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In the Minnesota police manual, Derek was literally taught if someone is resisting then put your leg over a detainee to resist their movement. Flyod was saying I can’t breathe long before Derek arrested him and this whole BLM was just an excuse to vandalise and rob stores. Not generalising here but the amount of support a convicted felon got is insane.

Lucky mfs

He acts as the same person in every single movie for the past 20 years. I might get downvoted but I don’t find him to be funny. Hes entertaining and maybe makes good movies but the humour that used to sell in 1990 doesn’t work in the recent movies he’s made. Even giving them a rewatch I don’t find him funny in at all.

She has tortured, beat, ignored, neglected, demonised and backbitched about me so long that it’s affecting my relationship with my girlfriend and woman overall. I’m cooked bro

She has tortured, beat, ignored, neglected, demonised and backbitched about me so long that it’s affecting my relationship with my girlfriend and woman overall. I’m cooked bro

think people are going to look back at the UK’s current debate about immigration and religion and realize that the demographic consequences were seriously underestimated.
I’m not saying Britain is literally going to become a Muslim-majority country within ten years. That’s an exaggeration that isn’t supported by the available demographic projections.
But I do think the rapid growth of the Muslim population, combined with high immigration and declining Christian identification, will substantially change British society over the coming decades.
The 2021 Census already showed major changes in England and Wales. Christianity fell below 50% for the first time, while the Muslim share increased. (Office for National Statistics⁠)
And population growth is increasingly being driven by migration. The ONS currently projects around 7.28 million long-term immigrants entering the UK between mid-2024 and mid-2034, compared with 5.10 million emigrants. (Office for National Statistics⁠)
That’s a huge demographic shift.

think a lot of colleges have become politically homogeneous environments where left-wing ideas are treated as the default and dissenting opinions are often viewed with suspicion.
I’m not claiming that every professor, student or university is left-wing. Obviously there are exceptions. My argument is about the overall political culture that exists across many campuses.
Walk into a university and you’ll often find departments, student organizations, campus activism and social discourse heavily dominated by progressive politics.
Again, having lots of liberal students isn’t inherently a problem.
The problem is what happens when everyone starts thinking the same way.
Universities are supposed to be places where ideas are challenged. Students should be exposed to arguments they disagree with, encouraged to question assumptions and taught how to defend their positions with evidence.
Instead, political conformity can become the norm.
If you’re left-wing, you can often find an enormous community of people who already agree with you.

I genuinely don’t understand why Che Guevara is still treated as some kind of intellectual or revolutionary icon.
You can acknowledge that he was historically significant without pretending that he was a brilliant thinker or admirable person.
What bothers me most is the way Che has been turned into a fashion symbol. His face is printed on shirts, posters and merchandise, often by people who seem to know very little about what he actually believed or did.
If you’re going to idolize a political revolutionary, at least understand the ideology you’re celebrating.
Che was a committed Marxist revolutionary who advocated armed struggle and supported an extremely authoritarian political vision. His involvement in revolutionary Cuba and later revolutionary movements is a legitimate subject for historical debate, but portraying him simply as a heroic freedom fighter leaves out enormous parts of the story.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as “toxic masculinity” in the way the term is commonly used today.
There are obviously toxic behaviors—violence, abuse, bullying, controlling your partner, refusing to take responsibility, and treating other people badly. But none of those behaviors are inherently masculine. They’re simply toxic human behavior.
What bothers me about the term is that it often seems to imply that traditionally masculine traits are themselves suspicious.
Confidence? Toxic masculinity.
Being competitive? Toxic masculinity.
Wanting to be physically strong? Toxic masculinity.
Being emotionally reserved? Toxic masculinity.
Wanting to provide for your family? Apparently toxic masculinity.
Not wanting to constantly discuss your feelings? Also somehow toxic masculinity.
At some point, the phrase stops describing genuinely harmful behavior and starts becoming a convenient way to criticize masculinity itself.

Reddit has a strange relationship with communism.
For a platform that supposedly prides itself on rational discussion and skepticism, communism is often treated with a level of romanticism that would be unthinkable for many other political ideologies.
You’ll see people casually describe themselves as communists, praise communist theory, use communist symbols as jokes or profile pictures, and talk about revolutionary politics as though the historical record is merely an inconvenient footnote.
And whenever someone points out the authoritarianism, economic failures, political repression, or enormous human cost associated with communist regimes, the conversation often turns into:
“That’s not real communism.”

Reddit likes to market itself as a place for open discussion and diverse communities.
I think that’s incredibly misleading.
Reddit is one of the most heavily moderated major social platforms I’ve ever used. Between site-wide rules, subreddit-specific rules, automated filters, moderators, comment removals, bans, downvotes and community-specific ideological norms, there are an enormous number of ways for an unpopular opinion to disappear.
And the biggest problem isn’t necessarily Reddit itself having rules.
It’s that every subreddit effectively has its own government.
One subreddit might allow a particular opinion. Another might ban you for expressing exactly the same opinion. A moderator can remove your comment, ban you from participating, or even ban you preemptively based on activity elsewhere.

I don’t think schools should be encouraging or promoting particular views about sexuality or gender identity to minors. Schools should focus on core academics and age-appropriate health education, while parents should have a significant role in deciding how and when their children are introduced to topics involving sex, relationships, and gender identity.
Teaching students that people have different identities or orientations is one thing; actively encouraging children to adopt a particular worldview about sexuality or gender is another. I think schools should be careful about crossing that line.