Quote from: FelixGamingX1;1132141All CNN does is show us, cable subscribers, what's going on in real time. So there's no mistake of what's going on. CNN is doing a incredible job in covering the reality of these riots gone wrong. CNN never said it's BLM behind the looting and fires. Leftists claim it's the right wing that's encouraging violence, etc... Pathetic if you ask me. Meanwhile cities are getting ransacked by opportunists as seen in live broadcasts through CNN. Left news channels won't show you the real picture, nor the right news channels. CNN sympathizes with the Floyd family and been helping them get justice. If wasn't for CNN coverage odds are charges would never been brought forward against that bad cop. The riots need to end now! It's not CNN manipulating the crowds, let's stop with nonsense accusations, see things for what they are.

I think this is my favourite hot take right here.  CNN is just presenting the facts.  Nice one!

Quote from: Snowman0147;1132270It is going to get darker shield.  Once the military arrives those rioters will be wishing they stayed at home.  Of course if antifa, blm, and the mainstream media hadn't goaded this shit to happen we wouldn't be in this mess.

ohh ofc it isn't the extreme violence of the police, that has been an open cancerous sore for decades...noooo  could never be that.

You know those police officers had killed more whites than blacks per year?

Quote from: Taggie;1132269given the statistics, it is not a lie, at all. Hell just look at the way the armed, terrorist anti-lock down protestors where treated when they were storming into voting chambers to intimidate politicians, versus watching the early, peaceful anti-police protests getting tear gassed and baton charged, with people being pulled out at random by the police.  The only tragedy of this is how many more people will get sick.

It is indeed a lie. More whites are killed by the police than blacks. Blacks are killed at a higher proportional rate than whites, but they are actually killed at a lower rate in proportion to the rate at which they kill the police, at the rate at which they commit murder, at the rate at which they commit crimes in general. Under the same circumstances, on average, a cop is more likely to kill a white person than a black one. Of course, we can always find some cases where a black persons is unjustly killed or assaulted, though even then the media feeds us a constant stream of lies about hate crimes and such - then about the editing of George Zimmerman call to police, the selective and dishonest portrayal of Nick Sandman, the propagation of the "hands up don't shoot" lie with Michael Brown.

The media is generating a giant hoax on us and this mayhem is the result. Unfortunately, they are unlikely to be held responsible for their misdeeds.

Quote from: Snowman0147;1132270It is going to get darker shield.  Once the military arrives those rioters will be wishing they stayed at home.  Of course if antifa, blm, and the mainstream media hadn't goaded this shit to happen we wouldn't be in this mess.

Yeah I guess it will, in many places

I'm pretty thankful that I live in a decent "red state" that respects the rule of law, and that the police and state government moved to squash the 'protests' almost immediately so that it won't have to come to that here. It was amazing how quickly the BLM/Antifa/whatever leftist cowards scattered after just a few bean bag clobberings and pepper spray hosings

I'm also pretty thankful that I've never owned a copy of D&D later than 2nd edition advanced, so I don't really know what 'D&D Beyond' is, but I'm willing to take it on faith that it sucks regardless of what political positions 'it' takes.

Let me pull out statistics.

statista

Quote from: ShieldWife;1132275It is indeed a lie. More whites are killed by the police than blacks. Blacks are killed at a higher proportional rate than whites, but they are actually killed at a lower rate in proportion to the rate at which they kill the police, at the rate at which they commit murder, at the rate at which they commit crimes in general. Under the same circumstances, on average, a cop is more likely to kill a white person than a black one. Of course, we can always find some cases where a black persons is unjustly killed or assaulted, though even then the media feeds us a constant stream of lies about hate crimes and such - then about the editing of George Zimmerman call to police, the selective and dishonest portrayal of Nick Sandman, the propagation of the "hands up don't shoot" lie with Michael Brown.

The media is generating a giant hoax on us and this mayhem is the result. Unfortunately, they are unlikely to be held responsible for their misdeeds.

At the higher rate they are framed and falsely convicted you mean, gotta cover for the ministers little 'accidental murders' and the senators 'little meals'

Quote from: Snowman0147;1132278Let me pull out statistics.

statista

yup, way disproportionate.

Quote from: Taggie;1132279At the higher rate they are framed and falsely convicted you mean, gotta cover for the ministers little 'accidental murders' and the senators 'little meals'

If you are going to further such conspiracy theories, you need to provide some kind of evidence to justify them. All data for decades show that black people commit murders are a significantly higher rate than other racial groups. I will provide statistics on this if you desire. That means that it would be reasonable for them to be arrested at higher rates and so killed by police at higher rates than other demographics. If you are claiming that this is a giant conspiracy, you need to provide massive amounts of evidence because it is a truly massive claim.

Quote from: Sable Wyvern;1132008While I'm not personally invested in the specifics of what's going on the US at the emoment, I am concerned that both the US and UK seem to be slowly falling apart due to internal divisions, and it's not in my best interests for the Anglo hegemony of the past centuries to collapse.

Don't worry, my son turns 13 tomorrow and he plans to restore the British Empire!

Quote from: Taggie;1132241hahaah, not until all the conservatives here answer: are they rapists or paedophiles?  Seriously, that's the only reason for their entire belief system so which one?  You rape adults or kids?

Not a lot of things cross the line on this site, but this certainly comes close. This thread is to talk about D&D Beyond, not the larger issue of BLM, or to throw around claims like this.

Taggie, don't post in this thread again.

Everyone else, keep on the very specific topic or you will be banned!

Actually, fuck it. Normally I don't believe in closing any threads, but since this thread is now 17 pages long and the last 16 pages had nothing at all to do with D&D beyond, I'm fucking closing this.

Also, Spinachat was the first one to make a post on this whole thread that was clearly and overtly moving off topic into general politics.
Therefore, Spinachat, consider this a WARNING. Do that again, anywhere, any time and you will be banned from this site.