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Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

So Boerd said
Did you vote for Obama?

LOL.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

Post is in the works. I'll probably post it tonight or tomorrow at some point.

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Lol.

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

If I was going to avoid your question I wouldn't bother responding to a child.

Given your behavior in this thread, the irony of this post is truly crushing.

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

So Boerd said
If the preponderance of evidence is indicative of the truth, then I hope we have more Ferguson cases (That officers successfully defend themselves, not more kids bum rush cops)

The two autopsy reports do not yield the same results.

Additionally, the witness reports do not yield identical stories. While they may deviate slightly due to a degree of error in the witness' memory, the conflicting accounts shouldn't be this skewed.

The recent addition to the evidence pool--an audio recording detailing the police officer firing his weapon several times, stopping, and then suddenly firing again--only raises more questions about what went on that night.

My suspicion? Someone is lying---or at least telling half-truths. Or perhaps there just isn't enough material to go off of. Regardless, I suggest you wait until the trial is done and over with before you go and past judgement on this murder case. There's no way you can literally sit here, with a straight face and utter confidence in your own knowledge about this ordeal, and tell anyone in this thread that you know for a fact that the police officer was justified in his actions and that the victim was solely responsible for his own death.

Judging from your old posts regarding the Trayvon Martin case back on Old Guild, you have a knack for immediately siding with shooters in these cases. I don't know why that is.

Omega said
is that based on UK, US, or mixed definitions for violent crime?"In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as those offenses which involve force or threat of force."murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault are the tracked crimes for the FBI."Violent crimes are those where the victim is intentionally stabbed, punched, kicked, pushed, jostled, etc. or threatened with violence whether or not there is any injury"In the UK they do not track the specific offenses as much. This means that something in the US like simple assault would not be considered a violent crime while in the UK it would be.Your citation of the UK being more violent is a common misconception based on using the same term in two places with slightly different meaning that greatly alter the information provided.

You should have been more clear on what type of violence you were talking about. If you were strictly talking about gun violence and only gun violence, then my previous point regarding gun laws in the UK and the US still stands.

Your post only highlights the impossibility of comparing US violent crime rates against UK violent crime rates because neither nation classifies them in the same manner. As such, I'm still wondering how turning US police departments into stripped-down National Guard bases is going to really solve anything.

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There are a lot of things wrong with this interest check, but I'm honestly unsure where to even start.

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

Omega said
I could understand police in the US not carrying guns if the violent crime rate in the US and the usage of guns and knives in criminal offenses was lower. As it stands it is rather high nationwide. If we can get gun crime down to similar levels as the UK I would be willing to discuss an immense drawdown for the firepower of US police forces.

The UK's gun crime percentile is low because firearms in the UK are heavily restricted; if anything, they're borderline outlawed. The idea that firearms are the primary tool utilized for committing violent crimes in human societies is largely a myth. If people are going to commit violence, they're going to do it with or without a firearm.

Additionally, when population adjustments are implemented, the UK is astronomically more violent than the United States:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5712573/UK-is-violent-crime-capital-of-Europe.html

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/violent-crime

Humans are inherently violent creatures. Our ancestors have been kicking each other's asses and the asses of other animals long before gunpowder was even a thing.

The militarization of America's police force is not going to solve anything. It's only going to make things worse, because you're going to begin to see more Ferguson-like cases as time goes on. The FBI site I linked above actually shows a downward trend when it comes to violent crime in the US.

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Untold Empires: Legacy of the Old

I didn't want to see Wilson banned, I was just trying to get a few points across. In all honesty, I'm not telling anyone to run the RP in an ultra-realistic manner, but the idea of invincible space stations or power armor or anything is just, frankly, ridiculous--if not for the simple reasons of being physically and scientifically impossible, then for shattering the intrinsic codes and expectations associated with collaborative writing.

Wilson, if you want your nation to be a vital instrument in the political scene of the roleplay, why not become a dominant power through trade or engineering rather than by attempting to forcibly move much more powerful nations into doing what you want them to do? Your faction could be akin to Switzerland in fact, in that it is neutral when it comes to foreign wars and such.

Untold Empires: Legacy of the Old

Senor Herp said
Uh. Y-yeah. Right. B-because I was agreeing with you, sure! Nothing wrong with quasi-invincible space stations and dwarf planets with a faint-praise disadvantage of thermonuclear vulnerability that's soon going to be eliminated anyways, yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure, and having stable cold fusion's also okay, because, y'know, fits right into a space shuttle just fine with per-engine arrays of them, because it's SCARCE and TOTALLY NOT GOING INTO MASS PRODUCTION AND EARTH-POWER LEND-LEASE AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY, no, no, it's fine! I mean, I was going to have some silly thermoelectric-magnetic nuclear fission nonsense generators that run on tickling nuclear bomb's dickholes, so I'd be a hypocrite to interject, no, surely. I mean, it's always at risk of catastrophic meltdown and release of stellar-ass atomic rays if things go wrong, very much as advantaged and less disadvantaged to stable seemingly-cold fusion. That's good, and so are 'energy screens' completely unexplained even with silly mid-sci tier Kojima Particle junk science. I'm cool with, y'know, hitscan point defense that has entirely outstripped the previously-far-ahead sciences of missile design and making & delivering things to go boom, with weak defenses of 'but if you threw arbitrarily more conventional missiles they'd get through and do nothing and surely nukes could do no good unless half the warheads of most modern MIRV systems were launched of which we have had tens of thousands of which totally have ultra-bulky warheads and not roughly man-sized ones, which could not possibly miniaturize by post-WW4 2070.' I mean, the vibes of 'I'm totally going to hold the entire solar system hostage whether or not I get past the seemingly-crippling but actually likely to be quickly obsoleted disadvantage of resource shortages and if I do I'll just do it even harder' is probably just fallacious paranoia! Right? Yeah, yeah, right. Nothing wrong with bragging about getting biodome CITIES OF THE FUTURE built everywhere as a standard, outstripping Earth's capabilities of high-industry production, and a thinly-veiled-behind-reactionism desire for hijacking sovereign power's space colonies in blatant aggression because we MUST be conspiring against you, clearly, which is also why we're daring to poke at these entirely nonextant problems with your way of going about things in play, narrative, and overall pregame design! It's not like it's absolutely, completely and utterly uncompelling to see the narrative potentially reduced to space expansionism, resource dickery and Yeyland-Wutani execs blandly going on about necessities of nonnecessary dick actions that we will be told we couldn't possibly effectively respond to while eroding any environment for exploration of a potential future in 2070 with extremely heavy slant towards reactionary blocs in contrast to our present time of democratic-capitalist-militarist and vaguely national-theocratic, national-capitalist or national-communist ones, or in the social, economic and ideological troubles of living in said 2070 blocs, or even silly Metal Gear tier characters doing CUHRAYZEE things and engaging in long-winded but somewhat hilariously contrasting explorations of the former themes, in favor of bland few-paragraph descriptions of Biggus Dickus Maximus the Low Gravity But Also Paradoxically Huge Space Marine and his adventures of no-counterattack-space shuttle technology-denialist air strikes against old launch sites for reasons, eroding things even harder than the present massive expansionist blocs' trouble of getting right into the military nitty-gritty a bit too fast in my opinion, but not plot-endangeringly so. That's great, I like that! Very much to my taste! Just, no changes, we should clearly keep going, like this, full steam ahead. Stay the course. The present OOC shitstorm before I've even managed to get my first collab out for the Great American Clusterfuck and also including a hard-sci-fi someone who hasn't even put their application in yet is not at all a sign that you are doing ANYTHING wrong, in any respect of the writing, at all.i'm sorry

I'm in tears.