Kansas Crimson

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:39 pm She should yell I FEAR FOR MAH LIFE and just pop the damn shot.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:54 pm Lol.

Crazy how a precautionary mask is too much to ask, tho they have no problem wearing bulletproof vests all day, just in case.

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:29 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:54 pm Lol.

Crazy how a precautionary mask is too much to ask, tho they have no problem wearing bulletproof vests all day, just in case.

It's probably one of those silly mandates that infringe on personal rights that everyone ignored until 19 months ago.

Covid is currently the number one cause of police deaths. Masks are, by a wide margin, less of a pain than bulletproof vests.

Also, where are all the Vaccine doubters who point out that there are some breakthrough infections to also point out that bulletproof vests also aren't 100% effective. "Bulletproof vests are just a conspiracy from big kevlar to make money." "There was a report saying aspirin was just as effective against bullets as kevlar, but DuPont won't let the media report on it." "Only a small percentage of cops die from gunshots so there's no reason to pressure them all to wear them."

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:47 pm I heard bulletproof vests make your testicles swell to the size of cantaloupes.

I just want cops to have the choice of what equipment they wear. It's their body.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:52 pm

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:47 pm I heard bulletproof vests make your testicles swell to the size of cantaloupes.

I just want cops to have the choice of what equipment they wear. It's their body.

If you think about it, 34 cops dying by gunfire a year is very miniscule. We have a big population problem and the earth is not getting any bigger. Look at Jyna and India. If anything, only 34 cops dying from gunfire is a problem because it's not enough.

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:53 pm

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:52 pm

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:47 pm I heard bulletproof vests make your testicles swell to the size of cantaloupes.

I just want cops to have the choice of what equipment they wear. It's their body.

If you think about it, 34 cops dying by gunfire a year is very miniscule. We have a big population problem and the earth is not getting any bigger. Look at Jyna and India. If anything, only 34 cops dying from gunfire is a problem because it's not enough.

survival of the fittest would tell you that their deaths only strengthened our gene pool.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:55 pm

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:53 pm

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:52 pm

If you think about it, 34 cops dying by gunfire a year is very miniscule. We have a big population problem and the earth is not getting any bigger. Look at Jyna and India. If anything, only 34 cops dying from gunfire is a problem because it's not enough.

survival of the fittest would tell you that their deaths only strengthened our gene pool.

Do you really feel safe if a cop with a gun and bulletproof vest still gets shot? They were too fat to begin with. Honestly, wake up people.

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:25 pm natural immunity to bullets is stronger than bullet proof vests.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:37 pm ^^^^

That’s why I got the bullet vaccine

That is, I’ve been shooting myself with little tiny bullets, and working up to bigger and bigger bullets, until my immune system handles gun violence like nbd.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:42 pm

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:29 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:54 pm Lol.

Crazy how a precautionary mask is too much to ask, tho they have no problem wearing bulletproof vests all day, just in case.

It's probably one of those silly mandates that infringe on personal rights that everyone ignored until 19 months ago.

Covid is currently the number one cause of police deaths. Masks are, by a wide margin, less of a pain than bulletproof vests.

Also, where are all the Vaccine doubters who point out that there are some breakthrough infections to also point out that bulletproof vests also aren't 100% effective. "Bulletproof vests are just a conspiracy from big kevlar to make money." "There was a report saying aspirin was just as effective against bullets as kevlar, but DuPont won't let the media report on it." "Only a small percentage of cops die from gunshots so there's no reason to pressure them all to wear them."

Only 34 cops died by gunfire in 2019. Further, bulletproof vests are 0% effective at preventing gunshots to the head.

What an unnecessary piece of equipment that we pay for!

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Unlike Kyrie Irving, Dave Chappelle has not only the popularity but also the credibility to influence discourse beyond bot-generated talking points (“the NBA let Magic Johnson play with HIV, but Kyrie can’t play without being vaccinated”). He’s a uniquely gifted comedian who has achieved the rare transcendence to sage. His routines have evolved from puerile humor sprinkled with societal insights to American Studies and Civil Rights faux-lectures sprinkled with humor. What a long, strange trip it’s been. Let me state up front: I think Dave Chappelle is a generally brilliant practitioner of his craft. It’s also true that I suffered through his latest special and came away thinking of it as an awkward eulogy for the comedian I long admired. Because Chappelle has joined the ranks of the free-thinkers. It shouldn’t have surprised me, really. At any given Chappelle standup you might find a who’s who of prominent free-thinking charlatans—Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Kanye West—united by obscene wealth, conceit, contempt for authority, and a belief that their free-thinking is beyond reproach. Theirs is a view of freedom that is tantamount to selective deregulation: It’s just about the freedom of what I want to do.

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My problem with Chappelle’s special is that he wants the regard of an intellectual without being held to the accompanying standard of rigor. I’m fine with comedy that relies on contrived analogies and crude caricatures; being a real-deal cultural critic, on the other hand, comes at the expense of your comedic license. It’s a difficult balancing act, and while he succeeded in just enough places in a couple of his previous shows, he fell gracelessly from the wire in this last one. It has become impossible for me to ignore that Chappelle tends to employ his intellectually dishonest analogies not to clarify the hypocrisy or shortcomings of liberal orthodox thinking, but to excuse bad thinking and behavior by way of obfuscation. (The DaBaby, Kevin Hart, and Louis CK “jokes” being glaring examples.) When the laughs are few and far between, and you’ve planted yourself smack dab in the culture wars raging against criticism, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t be a free-thinker who doesn’t believe you should have to answer for your thoughts. You can’t camouflage your self-interested rationalizations as an undertaking of a greater noble cause while having nothing besides judgment, condescension, and grandstanding to offer as proof. And that is where the free-thinker and liberal orthodoxy overlap: They prefer judgment and grandstanding to insight.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:49 am i don’t think Chappelle wants to be viewed as an intellectual

not at all

profound, maybe, but not an intellectual