curbstickle

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[–] curbstickle 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No interest in your bs. Goodbye.

[–] curbstickle 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

You have to fix all of the issues.

Yeah, dont bother fixing it at all unless you can fix everything. So... Exactly what I said you said?

"Not remotely" means not at all and "not as big a role"

Depends on the scale.

And considering things can be brought back in front of a grand jury because its not a criminal trial, yeah, its basically nothing by comparison as a problem.

Say more bullshit about moving goalposts and I'll just go ahead and block.

[–] curbstickle 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

By comparison to the other issues they arent remotely problematic.

Nothing i said is contradictory, so you can cut that crap now.

Edit:

Annnnddd....

Americans seem to think ranking them is more important than addressing all of them.

None of these problems has a "bigger role" than the others because if you fix one the system is still broken.

Yeah you did.

[–] curbstickle 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

"Don't fix anything because so much is broken" and "All problems are of the same importance" are not, and will never be, philosophies I subscribe to.

You do you bud.

[–] curbstickle 5 points 2 months ago

I actually might have a p133... But if its still there, it already has the awe32 in it.

[–] curbstickle 2 points 2 months ago

Total including reserves and civilians in the defense industry, yes. About half that number is active, about 1/4 reserves, and 1/4 defense industry civilians.

[–] curbstickle 1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I'd personally say cops, prosecutors going for the easy win, the structure around plea bargains, judges made by selection, judges elected with no knowledge or experience required, etc, play far bigger roles in the problems with the system of justice, but sure.

[–] curbstickle 0 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Yes, a prosecutor presents evidence to convince a jury to go to trial. They have to influence the jury to agree.

Defense's part comes at the trial.

The expression "a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich" is a nod to the fact that, often, a grand jury votes in the direction the prosecutor wants them to.

Because they usually bring sufficient evidence, and the jury is only deciding if there is sufficient evidence to move forward. This doesnt decide guilt.

There are plenty of things to complain about when it comes to the US "justice" system. Grand jury decisions aren't remotely the problematic part.

[–] curbstickle 2 points 2 months ago (13 children)

What part of my comment said otherwise?

[–] curbstickle 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

According to (and I'm not checking how good these sources are so whatever) thegunzone.com 17% of the us mitary is black men.

Thats 2.6million apparently, which means 500,000 in terms of active, reserved, and civilian members of defense. 1.26 million is the active number, or about 225k troops.

83% of that is about 188k active troops with the condition.

[–] curbstickle 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep, thats how its supposed to work.

Which is why there may be a perfectly reasonable issue as to why it didnt go any further.

[–] curbstickle 0 points 2 months ago

Any surgery carries risk, and requires appropriate consideration.

Let's take breast augmentation as an example. There are some folks who will choose to do so because it will help them match their gender, and that makes a lot of sense for their mental well being. There are some folks who have had a mastectomy, and an augmentation (and in many cases a tattooed nipple to finish things off) will help for their mental well being. These are generally one-time surgeries with a clear beneficial outcome.

There are others who will continually go larger and larger and larger, and its actually detrimental to their health and well being, they are often doing so because of other issues of their self image or self worth, and the surgery will never be enough for them. Its even been shown to make those perceptions of their bodies worse, which is why they end up getting surgery over and over again.

My concern here is whether or not he fits in the first group or the second. I sincerely hope he does not have an internal struggle that will drive him to many surgeries, never addressing the actual issue, and making things worse for himself over time.

How it looks is irrelevant to me, if he likes it more power to him. I think his tattoos are incredible, personally.

I just hope he's OK.

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