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all cop shows are problematic. we are drawn to side with the police while watching these things because they never make mistakes, ultimately- not the heroes of the stories, anyway. if they brutalize somebody, that somebody is always guilty. if they get somebody convicted and sent up for a long sentence, that somebody is always the right one. none of the lazy, stupid and violent policing we read reports of every fucking day gets shown, none of the vicious, bigoted prosecutorial overreach (resulting in the incarceration of the innocent) is portrayed. nope, our Justice system is as perfect as the tv cops marksmanship

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I don't get how people have 0 trust in our justice system but are all for death penalty. There have been innocent people who have been executed, and their blood is on all of our hands. Plus, we spend millions more on the death penalty then just locking people up for life. Maybe investing that money in schools would make the country a safer place then the death penalty

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The Good Ones™ do.

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You mean it's not on every channel?

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You can drive through any part and be certain of it. Wherever all the white folks are suffering, someone has to take the blame for it, and it isn't going to be the white people.

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As soon as the rest of us white people figure it out, we will fill you in.

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He was just being a fiscally responsible conservative. If those five minority youths had been executed, they wouldn't have been around to sue when it came out they were innocent, and New York would be $41M richer.

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Evidently, the one thing they weren't doing was raping white women.

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His latest speech was telling. He promised equal justice under the law for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, all Americans. Even though he clarified that you should get that regardless of race, ethnic original, or religion, he just couldn't say the "M" word in front of his followers.

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I keep hearing so much about his butt, yet we never see that.

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There's a character in the Barbershop movies, Checkers Fred, who sits in the barbershop all day playing checkers. That's probably where Trump got that witty comeback.

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But, if you're a brown Trump supporter who gets kicked out of his rally because his Director of Security recognizes you as a known protester (Even though you've never been to a Trump rally before), that just proves the old adage that those people really do look alike.

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Gosh. I haven't seen that in, like, decades. Thanks muchly.

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"Morally repugnant"?

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And we hope they never do. Makes it much easier for us to call them on their shit.

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Fred Farkle?

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