Buddha would be appalled.
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and that their god, can't remember the name, was the one true god (couldn't pray to anything else)
I thought Buddhism didn't have any gods.
I accept Jesus Burgess as my Lord and Savior
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@Medical:
I thought Buddhism didn't have any gods.
You're missing out on a whole pantheon of beings. Generally Buddhism is also able to accept other gods or beings into their hierarchy which is why Shinto and Buddhism can coexist without being exclusive and antagonistic.
I think the Buddhist belief of rebirth is common knowledge and that when reborn, a being can be born into a different realm based on karma from their past lives. The next two steps up on the ladder after human are essentially demi-god and god type beings. Or you can just attain nirvana and yay, you've finished your rebirth cycle and win the grand prize.
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There are six realms you can be reborn into: The Gods (Heaven) realm, the Human realm, the Demi-god (Asura) realm, the Animal realm, the Hungry Ghost realm, and the Hell realm.
All places of different beings on various rungs of the power ladder. Gods (devas), Asuras, Hungry Ghost, and and Demons are all what you would call supernatural beings. So yeah, Buddhists accept there are all sorts of beings out there, not just Buddha and the Boddhisatvas.
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Now this is interesting. Republican majority approves of gay marriage:
https://news.yahoo.com/majority-republicans-now-support-same-111614413.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fbA slim majority (51%) to be sure, but still. A slowly, but ever-growing number of conservatives who realize that homosexuality is not evil.
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I'll have a drink for you guys if H.R. 1 eventually gets passed, you really need this bill.
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I never knew any of that. When I learned about Buddhism in school I remember that Buddha being a god was a common misconception, and I also remember my sister taking another class and mentioning being surprised that Buddhism "was an atheistic religion". I didn't know about the realms either. That's really interesting.
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@Medical:
I never knew any of that. When I learned about Buddhism in school I remember that Buddha being a god was a common misconception, and I also remember my sister taking another class and mentioning being surprised that Buddhism "was an atheistic religion". I didn't know about the realms either. That's really interesting.
Buddha is not a god, but the Enlightened One. Not a creator, but a teacher.
Yeah, I took a Buddhism class in college, taught by an actual Buddhist. The Dalai Lama came to give a speech/questionnaire at the college too, and damn if he wasn't awesome.
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Siddartha took things from Hinduism the same way Jesus took from Judaism for his teachings.
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So Jim Crown voting law…
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981357583/georgia-legislature-approves-election-overhaul-including-changes-to-absentee-votJokes aside this isn't the only law on or going on the books to fuck up voting statewide. Even more important to demonstrate why voting and educating yourself on elections is important.
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So Jim Crown voting law…
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981357583/georgia-legislature-approves-election-overhaul-including-changes-to-absentee-votBy including "cannot give food or water to those in line", they have shown just how incredibly petty and cowardly they are.
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WASP republicans being petty and craven? Tell me something new.
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I couldn't find a non-commentary version of this clip, so here's the one from The Majority Report:
Tucker Carlson had on Jesse Kelly who decided it would be a great idea to normalizethe term fascism.
"The right is going to pick a fascist within ten to twenty years". "There's sixty, seventy million of us, we're not a tiny minority, and if we're going to be all treated like criminals and all subject to every single law while Antifa/BLM guys go free and Hunter Biden goes free, then the right's going to take drastic measures."
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At least some of the Capitol Rioters are likely facing sedition charges:
https://secondnexus.com/sedition-charges-capitol-siege-sherwin?fbclid=IwAR2Ukf38Vgvenh3uvuKhOOsZBDmwt1Fi_pNd6yHBDwzgk0K3vSTIMXUmg1MOr rather, around 10 percent. If found guilty they face up to 20 years in prison. The tricky part is finding that they actually planned head for the riot.
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Is that "gang" or "some black guy that looks funny", Lindsey?
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Cue Family Guy cutaway gag of Scooby, Shaggy and Fred being gunned down by a paranoid redneck senator.
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https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-parler/
Et tu Parlus?
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Cue Family Guy cutaway gag of Scooby, Shaggy and Fred being gunned down by a paranoid redneck senator.
At this point i don't know if this is a jest or a script prediction.
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https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-parler/
Et tu Parlus?
Wow conservative racists find that hate speech is not protected by FREE SPEECH laws and that a private company is willingly cooperating with the gov't instead of antagonizing it and risking getting its operational license revoke. What a twist.
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Is that "gang" or "some black guy that looks funny", Lindsey?
Like you can just see the struggle for someone like him not to just say "I want to shoot some n******s".
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@Johnny:
Like you can just see the struggle for someone like him not to just say "I want to shoot some n******s".
When Ron Johnson has bigger balls than you.
Wow conservative racists find that hate speech is not protected by FREE SPEECH laws and that a private company is willingly cooperating with the gov't instead of antagonizing it and risking getting its operational license revoke. What a twist.
The joke is that Parler was originally shut down for this very same idiocy. Which means these dummies were either in a coma the last few weeks or don’t want a platform that largely lets them say what they want.
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It was recently suggested to me that, regardless of how individual police officers feel and courses of action they’ve taken, that there can’t exist a good police officer in America because of the institutional corruption put in place over them by way of institutional greed, prejudice, bad treatment of immigrants, etc., and that America would be better to get rid of the police officer institution entirely so as to help lessen the corruption in America, which I think is asking for a lot no matter what and are big shoes to fill, but what do you guys think. Can there honestly exist “a good police officer” in America?
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There are plenty of good policemen out there. They just don't make any headlines.
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The police system structure needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, but there's still plenty of guys/gals with good hearts in the force. To get rid of police period would bring other problems, you need law-enforcers in some form.
There are plenty of good policemen out there. They just don't make any headlines.
Unless they sacrifice themselves taking the bullet for someone else.
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It was recently suggested to me that, regardless of how individual police officers feel and courses of action they’ve taken, that there can’t exist a good police officer in America because of the institutional corruption put in place over them by way of institutional greed, prejudice, bad treatment of immigrants, etc., and that America would be better to get rid of the police officer institution entirely so as to help lessen the corruption in America, which I think is asking for a lot no matter what and are big shoes to fill, but what do you guys think. Can there honestly exist “a good police officer” in America?
The cure can't be worse than the perceived illness.
Where is the deterrent for assault or breaking and entering?
Where is the deterrent robbery?
Where is the deterrent for murder?
Where is the deterrent for rape?
Prisons are staffed with officers, we letting inmates run the joint now? Or do we just let them all out?
Whose gonna stop me from running red lights and stop signs?
Why shouldn't I drive drunk/high now? Whose gonna stop me?
Expired/suspended license? Who cares!Whoever suggested that to you is not thinking clearly.
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I'm no great analyst or anything your main problem seems to be that police officers are made virtually untouchable by the most powerful union i've ever heard about. And deeply ingrained rot like that can't be treated without fully removing the affected areas and replacing with fresh material. So abolishing the current structure and rebuilding a more communal police that has genuine accountability seems like a good starting point
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Police officers being deterrents for murder, robbery, sexual assaults is a weird take between the issue of murders going unsolved (which isn’t generally their fault), them insisting on shooting and killing unarmed people which they almost always get no jail time for. And then there’s the issue of sexual assaults in which investigations get bungled (which is their fault), victims are occasionally dismissed or not believed which plays a hand in future acts going unreported, or worse the officers themselves are the perpetrators of said assaults.
Deterrents for robbery? Civil Forfeiture anyone?
And let’s even get started on the prison system which is even more corrupt and screwed up. No one is talking about having no one around to deal with these things the issue at heart is that you need better checks and balances and most important of all accountability. Neither of which you have or at least have to an effective extent.
You can’t keep the old system as is.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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So in summary: keep the police, but completely rebuild the system to sort out corruption and bad apples.
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Police officers being deterrents for murder, robbery, sexual assaults is a weird take between the issue of murders going unsolved (which isn’t generally their fault), them insisting on shooting and killing unarmed people which they almost always get no jail time for. And then there’s the issue of sexual assaults in which investigations get bungled (which is their fault), victims are occasionally dismissed or not believed which plays a hand in future acts going unreported, or worse the officers themselves are the perpetrators of said assaults.
Deterrents for robbery? Civil Forfeiture anyone?
And let’s even get started on the prison system which is even more corrupt and screwed up. No one is talking about having no one around to deal with these things the issue at heart is that you need better checks and balances and most important of all accountability. Neither of which you have or at least have to an effective extent.
You can’t keep the old system as is.
“A weird take” lmao. So if someone breaks into my house to try and murder me, who am I supposed to call?
What’s your solution then? Who is going to enforce the law without police? The capitol would have been razed to the ground with no police presence.
You still haven’t answered. If there’s no system in place to enforce the law, why should anyone obey it? Am I going to go around stealing from, raping and murdering people? No. But I guarantee you a lot of people would feel emboldened to do so with no police presence. It’s an incredibly dumb idea.
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What makes it feel weird is that you seem to force it toward a choice betwenn a broken police system and a free for all.
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what you expect from a libertarian wolfy. Is either there must be this horrendous bureaucratic system to put us in check or our lack of morals, common sense and inability to follow the social contract/or abide in society will doom us all.
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It was recently suggested to me that, regardless of how individual police officers feel and courses of action they’ve taken, that there can’t exist a good police officer in America because of the institutional corruption put in place over them by way of institutional greed, prejudice, bad treatment of immigrants, etc., and that America would be better to get rid of the police officer institution entirely so as to help lessen the corruption in America, which I think is asking for a lot no matter what and are big shoes to fill, but what do you guys think. Can there honestly exist “a good police officer” in America?
I think the problem varies highly by region (and coincides with the power of the local police union).
A lot of police departments are unsalvageable and need to be rebuilt from the ground up, but many others can probably be reformed.
We need a federal task force to examine each and every department to determine which is which, so the appropriate actions can be taken.At the same time, major structural changes need to be made (the police shouldn't be tax collectors or responding to nonviolent issues involving the mentally ill, among other things).
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What’s your solution then?
I stated what the solution should be….as did Satsuki after me and Wolfwood before me.
Fix The System but also curtail the power of these police unions who are a big part of the reason terrible officers are allowed to stay on the job up until or even after they fuck up.
Who is going to enforce the law without police? The capitol would have been razed to the ground with no police presence.
The riots still happened leading to 5 deaths and multiple injuries even with police presence. You also forget that given the capitol is an important spot any further escalation from the protestors would've lead to the military being called in (which they were).
You still haven’t answered. If there’s no system in place to enforce the law, why should anyone obey it?
I didn't answer it because I didn't need to. As I never said or implied we can't have police officers.
What we can't have are police officers who're
- Incompetent
- Racist
- Sexist
- Abuse the power of the badge
- Use lethal force 95% of time most notably against people who're aren't armed
- Keep their jobs even in circumstances where they should be suspended or outright fired
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Now that Trump is no longer president he can't escape from the accusations of his former Apprentice contestants:
https://secondnexus.com/trump-zervos-appeals-court-moot?fbclid=IwAR1X9l-V8RmsMB33o69Lq6sXi08WVU2jo-Ma6hQ-PYDi6fnYNcoP9PBbGOs"Can't sue him cause he's president"? Not anymore, now get to the court.
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https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-house-punishes-delta-airlines/
Not that Delta is bastion of right and good but this is funny.
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What makes it feel weird is that you seem to force it toward a choice betwenn a broken police system and a free for all.
What exactly am I “forcing”? You can’t just tear down the entire system and replace it with some perfect alternative as easily as you guys are trying to make it sound.
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What exactly am I “forcing”? You can’t just tear down the entire system and replace it with some perfect alternative as easily as you guys are trying to make it sound.
Who said it would be easy, but anything can be done as long as there is a strong will for it. But that it could be hard to do is not a valid excuse for maintaining a fundamentally broken system. In your mind it seems to be that either we accept things as they are or we succumb to total lawlessness, hence it seem like you want to force it toward a forced choice of accept what i offer you or else, when the reality is that change is perfectly possible to enact. Your position isn't coming across as change is hard to do, but rather that change itself is impossible because the only way to function is via the current police organization
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You can't keep the broken, dangerous, and problematic system we've had in place for the last 70-80 years or so in place either.
So what's your solution then?
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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You can't keep the broken, dangerous, and problematic system we've had in place for the last 70-80 years or so in place either.
So what's your solution then?
You‘re gonna have racist, sexist, incompetent, etc people in the police force the same as you’re going to have these sorts of folks occupying any other profession. You cannot weed this stuff out at the level you want. You need to have a clean record to become a police officer to begin with. Anyone with a clean record can present as “normal” during the hiring process. I’m certain I’ve encountered people who hate me before just for being black, but I’d never know it. All you can do is have more checks & balances in place to deter misbehavior like all of them being forced to use body cams, and of course you get rid of blatantly hateful officers from the force when they present as such through their actions.
Again though, you can’t completely eliminate it. Eliminating these issues starts at home with your upbringing and during the education process.
Also your “They use lethal force 95% of the time” is just blatantly wrong. I’m a black man in a red state whose had multiple encounters with law enforcement for a variety of reasons (speeding, an expired tag, jay walking and being mistaken for someone else they were looking for). Not once have I been shot or beaten. Yet according to your odds, I should be dead multiple times over.
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How sad is T-rump? He tries to use his daughter-in-law's Facebook account to post on social media:
https://secondnexus.com/lara-trump-facebook-interview-voice?fbclid=IwAR0qhzAxfY5Y7EFzWaxWv4CuS6YtSvJTcXVLzV5Eh90bT_dMkBkX7PiKsjEAll you can do is have more checks & balances in place to deter misbehavior like all of them being forced to use body cams, and of course you get rid of blatantly hateful officers from the force when they present as such through their actions.
Things like more checks and balances and ousting hateful officers could and would be a part of rebuilding the system.
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You‘re gonna have racist, sexist, incompetent, etc people in the police force the same as you’re going to have these sorts of folks occupying any other profession.
So by this logic because we still have racism in certain sectors of American society the Civil Rights, The Voting Rights Act, or Affirmative action should've never happened?
Because there's still sexism they shouldn't have made the push for things like 19th Amendment, should've never passed the Violence Against Women Act, keep shooting for Equal Pay?
Yes you will still have these problems even under a revised system but the idea of revising it is to lessen it and also punish the people who openly engage in it.
You're not really offering any viable suggestions here. All you're doing is saying "well we can't do that becauise".
Again though, you can’t completely eliminate it. Eliminating these issues starts at home with your upbringing and during the education process.
This kind of ignores the fact that a number of racists don't grow up in housesholds with other racists. Secondly if you need to be told as a grown adult or god forbid an elderly person how something is racist especially when it's blatantly obvious and you double down on supporting or believing it you're pretty much a lost cause.
Also your “They use lethal force 95% of the time” is just blatantly wrong. I’m a black man in a red state whose had multiple encounters with law enforcement for a variety of reasons (speeding, an expired tag, jay walking and being mistaken for someone else they were looking for). Not once have I been shot or beaten. Yet according to your odds, I should be dead multiple times over.
My odds where just thrown around yeah but even with that being the case you would fit into the 5% that thankfully haven't been brutalized or shot in cold blood. Some of whom for the same exact stuff you mentioned being stopped for.
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One problem with simply applying new checks and standards within the existing structure is that you then ask a group who thinks it is doing nothing wrong to right itself at their own discretion. It's a bit like asking Qanon groups to sort themselves out, it doesn't really do much beyond adding another rule to circumvent, and when they eventually fall on any new bothesome rule the police union can still just throw its immense weight behind any dirty cop and bail them out.
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One problem with simply applying new checks and standards within the existing structure is that you then ask a group who thinks it is doing nothing wrong to right itself at their own discretion. It's a bit like asking Qanon groups to sort themselves out, it doesn't really do much beyond adding another rule to circumvent, and when they eventually fall on any new bothesome rule the police union can still just throw its immense weight behind any dirty cop and bail them out.
Sad but true another problem is that as the Executive, Legislative, & judicial branches have shown even when you have good laws and the like on the books you can undo it because discriminating against groups especially ones that have historically been discriminated against is just the way it’s supposed to be…..all the while these same people pushing for these regressive policies and laws whine about being discriminated against.
All that aside I think it’s time we talk about Matt Gaetz the new dumbest man in Washington.
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Ironic that Republicans are the QAnon party which is primarily concerned with fighting secret sex trafficking rings by top government officials and people in power only to find out that it was the Republicans operating secret sex trafficking rings the whole time.
Guaranteed all those crazies are just going to insist it is some sort of set-up and smear job to throw people off the real trail but man it must suck to find out the people you were supposedly fighting so hard against were the people you voted into office.
Also ironic the only 2 Republicans defending him are Q Taylor-Green and Jim Jordan who is well known for completely ignoring sex crimes and claiming ignorance and innocence.
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Matt Gaetz is what Republicans thought Hunter Biden would be.
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And just as we talk about this another police officer dies at the Capital:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/shots-fired-us-capitol-barricade-sources/story?id=76838165&fbclid=IwAR1Z-OIKQMI36XDChrXOuKH7apChu7IEm8e59wxn1fm3qsrGTLpVyXCQ5JoThe suspect was shot so we have no motive, all the public knows is that the dead office was white and the suspect was black, so now we'll get even more bs.
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And just as we talk about this another police officer dies at the Capital:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/shots-fired-us-capitol-barricade-sources/story?id=76838165&fbclid=IwAR1Z-OIKQMI36XDChrXOuKH7apChu7IEm8e59wxn1fm3qsrGTLpVyXCQ5JoThe suspect was shot so we have no motive, all the public knows is that the dead office was white and the suspect was black, so now we'll get even more bs.
Based on the fact that he charged them with a knife it sounds like the motive was mental illness/suicide by cop.
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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-campaign-scam/
I'am shocked and appalled that Trump would stoop to such predictable and expected lows.
