Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. One more example of why profit shouldn't be a part of providing people with healthcare.
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  2. Where is body camera footage? This is one more example of the top down and bottom up corruption that goes on way too much in Law Enforcement. The DA and the cops all have each others back and cover each other asses.
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  3. "We saw violence, we saw killings and we saw everything else. We saw hunger and exhaustion. We have seen what cannot be unseen." - perfect way to finish this part of the story, but it is a story that is far from over.
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  4. @Alec nolastname The fencing master is correct, i's not fencing. It's closer to kendo or stage-brawling, and there is probably a reason they didn't try to get recognized by the International Kendo Association as a new form of that martial tradition. I get that it's going to bring in more revenue for the Fencing association and might bring some people to the actual sport of fencing, but it's not any more a part of modern fencing then the people fighting the round at the Ren Fair and in the SCA (etc.). Still, it looks like damn good fun and anything that gets people out, active and playing together is generally a good thing in my book. But it's not fencing. Not unless you are using the word as referencing all forms of sword play or even any form of person to person combat. Even sparring is a form of fencing in that sense, but i guess what I should be saying is that it isn't Fencing with a capital F.
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  5.  @ZahdShah  I am a highly educated and skilled professional but I have to accept the rate of pay me employer sets for my service - I also work for a hospital in a non-medical professional role (Medical Records Coding). Very few people who work in healthcare get to set their own rate of compensation. And if I relocated to a smaller city or rural community (and could find a job doing this) I'd probably make a lot less than I do currently. But my post is is less about the pharmacist or other trained healthcare provider and more about the for-profit system so many people are operating under. Pharmacies and doctors offices are are a vital part of any community. People working at them should expect to be fairly and well compensated for their role in providing those services. And it should be at a level that provides for a decent standard of living for the region and community. That we have the situation being described here in the United States is a sad testament to how little we value providing healthcare for everyone in this country. To be honest though I also don't believe anyone should expect to get rich by providing a vital service to a community. If someone wants to get rich they should get involved in some part of the financial service sector, develop a new app or some kind of widget that millions of people will buy, or become famous somehow and capitalize on that. If they want to help keep and make people healthy then do that but amassing wealth should be a side project.
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  6. Yeah, Ukraine is not a good place to be a civilian in at the moment - especially a Jewish one. The 21st century has had some interesting rhyming with the last one already. We're (hopefully) getting past the pandemic so next comes the boom of the Roarin' 20's followed by the bust of the 30's and the rise of new National Socialist groups. Then again, by the 2040's we might be dealing with a global extinction level event instead of the localized kind from a hundred years earlier. Progress!
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  7. It's like the Tea Party conservatives who are pretty much all Trumpublicans don't understand that they are the Tories now, not the Minutemen-esque revolutionaries they try to style themselves as being.
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  8.  @barry-michael33  That's a good bit of fear mongering in our post Qanon environment. Say hello to Dr Tenpenny for me.
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  9.  @mikerphone.  It's a start.
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  10. It's like people commenting were too busy reading the comments and didn't watch the video or at least not where it mentioned that. It's a trip how an untrained dog that bites someone gets labeled as dangerous and is put down, but when the dog was trained and re-enforced to bite people it gets rewarded even if bites the wrong person from time to time. Crazy how much that describes the police themselves now that I'm thinking about it. All these people saying "just don't resist" would be the first ones to freak out and resist of a big police dog was mauling their arm or leg or face. And so would I! I can't think of many people so passive or with such self-control that they wouldn't be screaming and thrashing around (AKA resisting) if they were being attacked and bitten by a dog.
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  11. Neukermans? HA! It's like the jokes write themselves sometimes.
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  12. Patriots love their freedom. They also gravitate towards authoritarian leaders.
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  13. ​ @bigphillyed  "According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, public expenditure on policing in the United States more than quadrupled between 1982 and 2006." - http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/pdlc00.pdf. I don't think the police should be defunded, but they should review their budgets and re-fund where and how they are allocating the budgets they have. And many departments, including this one and at least one of the officers involved in this tragically botched raid, already do have body cameras. They also need to get rid of those "bad apples" who cost them millions of dollars on lawsuit settlements for police misconduct every year. The Blue Wall needs to be torn down. I am all for for allocating additional moneys for better training and mental health support services for local police departments. But when it comes to militarization of law enforcement they are doing just fine with all the federal grant programs, municipal and county taxes, fines and forfeitures, and various law enforcement foundation and charitable groups.
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  14.  @oldman2477  No one is suggeting that, but better yet - imagine a McDonald's cashier being paid like a doctor. Or even just enough so they can see the doctor and not have the co-pay for the visit and perscriptions mean it'll be a struggle to make it through until the next paycheck. Luckily most McDonald's employees certainly qualify for state medicaid programs or on some kind of social security medical program so at least there's that for the big expenses.
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  15. "... Inigo Montoya: But I promise I will not kill you until you reach the top. Man in Black: That's very comforting. But I'm afraid you'll just have to wait. Inigo Montoya: I hate waiting. I could give you my word as a Spaniard. Man in Black: No good. I've known too many Spaniards." The Princess Bride
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  16. considering that money will go first to paying salaries and expenses for the mission, some will get squirreled away in various departmental slush funds, and eventually some of it will trickle down to the homeless through meals and shelter. Money for other social and mental health services? Nah, can't help these poor fucks too much now, can we?
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  17. I read this from someone the other day and it's stayed with me -- "It's like people keep talking about a dystopian future when we're already in one." Maybe not full on Soylent Green, Mad Max, or The Road (depending on when you were a kid), but any of several dystopian tipping point were crossed a while ago and we're just watching the apocalypse happen around us.
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  18. Holy warriors of any faith, but especially the Fundamentalist varieties, tend to use their special book of easily (mis)interpretable stories to justify the things they do.
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  19.  @digitalsiler  Urban or rural, people suck everywhere. If they didn't we wouldn't need guns.
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  20. Did they tell us what happened to the wife and her assistant who did the actual killing?
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  21. Premiere episode - sweet! Always nice to get in at the start of something good.
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  22.  @LexHarrisonsAstoundingNews  Great troll, bro. It's almost like you believe that foolishness. Ha ha.
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  23.  @yankeesforlife24  Actually, LMPD photos show at least 1 officer (Det. Anthony James) wearing body cam on night of the raid.
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  24. Anyone who isn't broken, and especially anyone who has been injured in war and isn't broken, wouldn't want anyone to go through what they've been through.
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  25. They are not men!
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  26. "Shouldn'ta been out after dark" is the excuse if anyone complains
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  27. Sounds like China to me.
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  28.  @barry-michael33  I apply Godwin's law to people quoting bible verses as well, so I'm going to ignore you now. I also prefer Austin 3:16. Later.
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  29.  @el_naif  I thought it was the hard left that made the vote mandatory. Like you said, it didn't worked out very well for them and will continue to be a problem for their political agenda for years to come. So thanks for agreeing with me?
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  30. She says a lot of weird stuff during this, but that stood out to me too.
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  31. Lot rent here is around 1000 dollars a month - over when they add in the service fees. But it' still less than a one-bedroom apartment.
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  32. "War Is A Racket" Major General Smedley Butler
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  33. It very well could be. Even worse, in a few decades this could be remembered as the good old days when you could still hook a hose up to a tap and get free water.
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  34. @Johann Fischer First - transparency and full and prompt compliance with Freedom of Information requests are vital to fight corruption and attempts to hide and destroy the documentation of the times that the enforcement agent of the various governmental agencies inure or kill the citizens of this government. But it will also provide the fuel for a completely justified outrage that will rise to the level of hatred for the system that hides the acts of "a few bad apples", exonerating, retiring with benefits, or moving them on to another jurisdiction. And it's a hatred that I can't deny to those in the families and communities that have been directly injured by these systems and their enforcers. I love the ideal and the dream of what the United States is supposed to be, but I'm also well-enough informed to hate the way it's being run and hate the vast majority of the people who own it and those who run it for them. While we've always been a divided nation and people over a host of subjects, it does feel like it's gotten worse over the last decade. Maybe it's just because there is so much more information always coming at us, but it feels like we usually argue about the color of the curtains in the room and if they should even still be called curtains instead of joining together and say "holy crap - the rooms on fire!" and putting it out. I'm just wondering which room we should start with because the whole damned house seems like it's in some state of conflagration. So to finish out this fiery metaphor, it's understandable that the people in charge don't want to disclose these documents because the knowledge of what they've been covering up will generate some hate and will certainly add fuel to the fire burning in their house. Then there is the financial component to the whole thing which is one of if not the main root of all these problems. Follow the money!
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  35. No Justice No Peace It is what it is.
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  36. 1:50 - these whiny and insecure man-children are like Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro.
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  37.  @lapinchechismosa  Thanks. And for anyone who cares her's the link to article I was referencing. https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/lmpd-photos-show-at-least-1-officer-wearing-body-cam-on-night-of-breonna-taylor/article_8a31d070-eebe-11ea-8dac-1f2491f002dc.html
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  38. <Heisenberg has entered the chat> Stay out of my territo - wait - what? Bleach? Jesus! And they accused me of cooking up poison!
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  39.  @Rocanala  Vidor, TX for example
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  40. Oklahoma is so far from being OK. Republican politics are deeply dysfunctional.
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  41. NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!
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  42. The cost of its life. A big dog like a German Shepard will probably scare off most casual intruders. But someone who is determined to hurt you and has a gun or any other weapon will just kill the dog and keep coming.
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  43.  @tokiowrld9999  Or New Zealand. But then have you been to North Korea, China, Russia, pretty much any of the -stans, most countries in the middle east, many countries throughout Africa and Mexico, Central and South America. Sorry dude, my list is longer. The US is far from perfect, but there seem to be a lot more people trying to come the the United States, legally and not, than many of the countries on my list. And I'm not sure how open to immigration any of the countries on your list are now that we're a few years into the diaspora of refugees from Iraq, Syria, and other Middle Eastern and North African countries.
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  44.  @yeehaw3792  From what I understand, most of what Climate Change does is make a regions traditional weather more extreme. If you live where there is normally a lot of rain there is going to be more rain from that extra evaporation you are talking about as weather patterns will still drive the moisture to those regions. But parts of the world where it was already dry it will get drier and will go through a long-term drought punctuated by the occasional severe floods from freak weather events.
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  45. People can complain about the US all they want, most of it fairly, but it's got nothing on the despotism of the Iranian state.
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  46. We were taught to not tolerate a bully but then we were regularly bullied and learned that we had to tolerate it because bullies often are tolerated and sometimes even cheered on and encouraged by others.
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  47. I thought biting was bad.
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  48. 10:42 - making voting mandatory with a fine is stupid and here we see why.
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  49. I feel like this could have been much longer.
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  50. When a countries leaders screw up this badly they should be afraid - very afraid.
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