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Spike

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  1. I'm a fucking admin and it took me ten minutes to upload a damn avatar that didn't look like pixel shit.
  2. Y'all motherfuckers wanna start postin in this thread more often
  3. Give us a history lesson, how did the 80s treat Chelsea?
  4. Tuchel is friends with Schurrle from what I've heard...
  5. Reminds me of Moussa Dembele.
  6. No, it's just the nature of the footballing market. The inflation is abhorrent.
  7. A woman and her children have been stabbed in Montpellier allegedly for wearing 'summer clothes'. Fuck sake.
  8. Comes off as a powerful all-rounder to me. Fairly versatile, but more the attacking side of the spectrum. https://www.whoscored.com/Players/125476/ http://www.transfermarkt.com/joao-mario/profil/spieler/149729 http://www.squawka.com/players/joao-mario/stats#performance-score#portugal-(current)#euro-2016#3#season-2015/2016#440#all-matches#1-7#by-match
  9. I've spent a lot of time around guns in the states and back home. To be honest, I never really felt endangered around people that obviously know how to use a gun safely. Guns are cool, guns are fun as fuck but nobody has rights to a gun, it's a privileged that has to be earned. Hell, I'd feel safer around an NRA gun nut than a cop
  10. 3-4-3? Costa Hazard - Wilian Kenedy- Cesc - Kante - Azpilicueta
  11. Of course I agree with it, I always agreed with but that doesn't mean I believe that Johnson and the 'rage of black people' are one in the same. Refusing one person's supposed motivation isn't an indication of an underlying bias towards an entire race of people. If there was a manifesto or other hard evidence to support your statement concerning Johnson's motivation, I'd believe you but I'm afraid that I will always question second-hand information delivered from the police-chief. I do not deny the possibility of it being true but I refuse to accept that at face value.
  12. But I didn't say that. I said that about Micah Johnson, he is not all black people. I was arguing about him, not the other anyone else.
  13. I don't get what you are trying to say? I trivialise the modern plight of black people because I want history to be taught more thoroughly in school? Nonsense, the two were unrelated discussions. Fulham mentioned decades of racial abuse and I merely pointed out from the birth of America till now it all needs to be thoroughly taught in schools. How does wanting the future generations to truly understand what has happened in America trivialise what is happening right now? It seems to me you're the one that dragged my comment about teaching history into this discussion.
  14. Incompatible cultures are the issue. I'm sure there wouldn't be too much dissident from a couple of Spaniards living in France, for instance. Cultures are exactly the same as magnets, some are attracted some repel.
  15. Here are some videos, that you may or may not agree with that raise some interesting points. Some are horrifying points, some challenge the media's agenda but at the core of it they are trying to unfold the situation America is in and are trying to examine it far more deeply than a shallow news report would sell you.
  16. I'm not diverting blame from white settlers to America (what does it matter to me, I'm Australian anyway) but I feel like there should be a more open dialogue about what a lot of Africans, Arabs and Berbers in particular did during the slave trade days. Capturing villages of people, castrating, forced marching, only to be sold at the markets to the highest bidders, usually Europeans or Arabs. The difference between the Arab and the European is that the Arab slaver would castrate all slaves to prevent reproduction. A lot of white people did horrendous acts, but so did many people of different colour and ethnicity. This isn't even scraping the barrel of white slavery and white owners. Indentured white servants, often Irishmen would be worked to death because they didn't perform as well in the heat as African slaves, and that the 'contract' of an indentured servant was only about 9 years, compared for life with the African slaves. So African slaves were comparatively treated better, but that isn't saying much. Though I don't feel it would change a lot, I do believe being more open and honest about the past and it's disgusting atrocities will help some people realise that we shouldn't divide ourselves but to work together for the future to make sure the past doesn't repeat itself. I'm not trying to trivialise the plight of African slaves or create a 'who had it worse' competition (which a lot of people will make it to be), I'm just a person that loves history and believe that all of it should be taught not just bits and pieces to suite a particular narrative. Slavery of all kinds should be taught, as should the concept that America said 'No!' to slavery and ended it. It didn't end racism but America did take a huge step forward, the ending of racism should be an idea that is celebrated in America, not vilified. Many people in the world mainly children are slaves and Americans should be proud that their nation changed itself and rejected slavery after so long of it being the status quo. It should be taught that hundreds of thousands of white Americans fought and died to end slavery, it should be taught that the south didn't fight for slavery but for their way of life. It should be taught that less than 2.0% of white Americans owned slaves. Narratives should be challenged, was the crux of slavery racism? Or was it because certain tribes in Africa were easily taken advantage of and sold? Was it both? Or was it the latter which eventually formed into racism? But at the same time, Wounded Knee and the plight of the Native American should be discussed, the power of the KKK, the Alabama bombings, but at the same time, MLK's dream of peace and equality.
  17. Only if you believe what the police chief says, which you obviously do, why would he lie? We wouldn't want to question the integrity of the police, would we?
  18. And you liked his post and even provided a link Chief Brown said: “He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html So second hand evidence...clutching at straws
  19. It wasn't the main motivation. It was a simple straw the broke the camel's back. Yeah, I tried to refute your main point because I disagree that it was the main motivation.
  20. He was alone, mentally breaking and looking for a purpose. He found a purpose in 'avenging' the unjust murders of men in similar positions to him, he could project his own failings, his own shoulder chip onto other tragedies. He is nothing more than a 'glorified' school shooter taking his own personal demons out on what he percieves as the 'school bullies'.
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