Posts by MeanMrMustard

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

MeanMrMustard

What I find annoyingly stupid about this case is why did all the cops after one cop took a pulse check on to Floyd and said there was none did any of the cops make a suggestion to turn him over and try to resuscitate him ?

They can't - crowd. Plus, they don't really know. How many times have you tried to take a pulse but can't find one, but the person is just fine? Floyd had already taken advantage of the rookies there. If they had lost control of the situation, they would be blamed for that. If they had turned him over and let him die on his back, same result. If they had forced him into the vehicle (again), he would have just died there, annnnnd same result.

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I Care a Lot (2020) One of the worst movies I think I've ever seen

by TD in

my wife and i were intrigued by the trailer, which looked like a humorous, over the top, dark comedy.. the story centers around the unscrupulousness of a female attorney named marla grayson (rosamund pike) who makes her living by preying on old people.

grayson has her victims declared mentally incompetent, locks them away in a care facility she has bought off and then liquidates and pockets their assets as their court appointed guardian.. (spoilers ahead).

ms. grayson humorously makes the mistake of singling out a seemingly helpless retiree name jennifer peterson (dianne wiest) as her next target.. grayson however, quickly discovers that peterson has millions of dollars in diamonds in a safe deposit box and far from being helpless is the mother of roman lunyov, (peter dinklage) a russian mafia figure who is not terribly happy with this turn of events.. up to this point, the movie was great.

MeanMrMustard

As it is often said: SJWs ruin everything. Literally everything.

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What Do You Think of Dr. Fauci?

by minimus in

jw
friends

last year millions of people were singing his praises.

what’s your opinion of him right now?.

MeanMrMustard

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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

MeanMrMustard

I believe, for once, OTWO and I are in agreement.

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

MeanMrMustard

I've been pulled over by police when doing nothing wrong. How is that possible? I'm clearly white after all. Was I being discriminated against somehow or was it the police just doing their job?

When my wife and I were dating, we often had to travel in two cars (it was the JW way with no chaperone) . We were traveling to some family dinner - just about a 15 min drive. All of a sudden, a cop car comes out of seemingly nowhere, pulls my wife (then girlfriend) over. I pull off the road about a half mile ahead, and waited. We were doing the speed limit, not driving crazy. Neither of us had tinted windows. Both officers jump from their car, weapons drawn and move in around the car. My wife/then girlfriend, as freaked out as she was, just complied. She stepped out. The officers took a 10 second look through the windows and then apologized and told her that she was free to go. They said they didn't mean to scare her, but her car happened to match the description of a vehicle just used to hold up, at gun point, a convenience store down the road. They got back into their vehicle and rushed off again.

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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

MeanMrMustard

Covid is putting people in the hospital and ICU in there 20, 30, 40, 50, That is why it’s dangerous.

You can't ascertain the risk by the outliers. I've mentioned in previous posts, when the entire COVID scare was beginning, that I knew a young boy, locally, that died of the flu. As it turned out, he had complicating factors - some issue with his heart. I guess you could say "Ah, it was the heart condition that killed him then." OK, fine. But then you would have to apply that same logic to the deaths "with" COVID. Was it the COVID that killed the people with heart disease, or was it the heart disease that killed the people with COVID? You see, any way you slice it, the risk drops because the stats are going to show a lower risk for the majority of the population.

**You can't judge risk by number of deaths. Nor can you judge risk by the mere fact that you can point to some 20, 30, 40, 50 year old people getting hospitalized.**

Again, I haven't heard any source (perhaps other than CNN - that has a vested interest in the leftist agenda), that claims this virus, for healthy people under 60, is any more of a RISK than the flu. In fact, substantially less.

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These are not riots in Minnesota

by mickbobcat in

no sir this is just shopping.

its just getting the best midnight special deal.

its the b&e black lives matter sale.

MeanMrMustard

Notice in the sign, it is now customary to capitalize “black”.

Forking racists.

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Does the practice of refusing service to churches violate federal discrimination laws?

by dropoffyourkeylee in

concerning recent threads about providing building repairs or other services for a church, i am wondering about how the wt stand would hold up under legal scrutiny.. example; a jw is self employed in the hvac business.

a church calls him to provide routine service for their heating and cooling system.

suppose it is in area which is predominately of a certain race or ethnicity.

MeanMrMustard

In principle, it’s forced labor. There is little difference between this and slavery.

Therefore, probably not a good idea.

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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

MeanMrMustard

They are trying really hard to justify holding on to it because, well... that’s what they like.

And to be honest, a lot of the lockdown governors are on the left and are quite anti-capitalist. I believe there is a high probability that having the power to halt evil, racist capitalism is beyond appealing to them.

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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

MeanMrMustard

@TD and @FFGhost:

Just make sure you don’t conflate opposition to FORCED vaccinations, whether that comes in the form of a law or “passports” required to live a normal life, with opposition to vaccinations in general.

To be clear, I have received my first Pfizer shot, and I am due to get the second in about two weeks. I would have preferred to wait, but other things have come up, and after weighing the factors in my life, I made the decision.

But the point is - it was MINE to make. There should be no reason for the continued shenanigans. The lockdowns and the mask mandates are just ways of holding on to the power the politicians have been able to grab recently. They are trying really hard to justify holding on to it because, well... that’s what they like.

Enough.