I have been protesting for various causes for decades.

Engaging with police using lethal force is not going to endear anyone to the anti-government cause that desperately needs more people involved.

I know. Im related to a bunch.

As they should!

Our founding fathers fought back against their government. At the very least they would wonder why people aren’t gathering in mobs outside the homes and offices of legislators demanding change.

And? What about non-Zionist non-corporate sources that back the same narrative? Would you see that as any different?

Read the last part of the quotes. The sheriff literally states that if you throw a brick, throw a firebomb or point a gun at you then they will kill you.

Im not sure if thrown bricks can kill so I left it out but setting people on fire and guns obviously can and almost certainly meet the rules by which the police can shoot at you (as well as others in CA but Im less certain of that).

Again this isn’t apologia. You either have not read the quotes or you aren’t thinking that you would have the same rights to self defense in those situations.

We are all in danger of becoming fascist provided we are in a capitalist economy.

America has made concerted efforts to ignore the best practices in education policy for about 20-25 years now. It is stunning how many people lack critical thinking skills.

Currently yes and it blows my mind how often the wealthy people around me don’t see what is going on around them or what the cause is (wealth inequality).

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Firebombs and firearms are lethal weapons. There has always been self defense claims available in those situations regardless of their previous statements. If you state “I will shoot anyone who shoots at me” you don’t lose your ability to claim self defense.

Police violence is a massive problem in America but the actual statement aligns with literally every single American’s right to self defense in those specific situations.

Im not apologizing for fascism and your claim is obviously incorrect.

I really want Apple to just stop redesigning things

Why do you need “Zionist corporate” in that post? Any media calling this a “preemptive strike” are pushing a bs narrative.

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Also there are tons of Americans with no desire to think

I laughed. Thanks!

That’s a joke, right?

In 1992 I thought the GOP was being hyperbolic about Bill Clinton’s history of sexual predation. Im not proud of that.

I wouldn’t want this Iranian government to have nukes though

Would you get addicted that fast? I have zero experience with speed in any form

This isn’t like understanding a child’s game so I would say your baseball analogy is a false equivalence.

I’m not qualified enough to know what science is (ad hominem)

That isn’t ad hominem. Suggesting that the roots of your misunderstanding is due to your lack of experience or education in the field is not a personal attack. I am also not making an emotional appeal which is an alternate form of ad hominem.

Ad hominem would be if I suggested you couldn’t have an understanding because you are stupid (which I am absolutely in no way suggesting that you are unintelligent). I have not done this. I have suggested your lack of expertise in the field might be a good reason for you to question your own conclusions.

directing me to read an entire field of philosophy that for all I know has its entire existence bent towards proving that the social sciences are sciences exactly in the same way that natural sciences are

You dont need to become an expert but if you want to understand what we believe science is this is the place to start as the other place is a terminal degree in a science field which would be silly to suggest. The philosophy of science is the best field for you to get the answers to the uncertainty you have in your understanding

This is also not an example of ad hominem.

Why not read about the philosophy of science to expand your understanding? Why do you need to do it because I proved something to you?

Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.

Im most of these things but also gay so I’ll be in a camp before most especially after the Southern Baptist convention votes