Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Nate The Lawyer" channel.

You have to remember that a large part of why South America is in such bad shape is because of US intervention in the region, destabilizing countries for the profits of our rich.
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@NebkadBible Yep, I'm definitely not a wokester, but it's pretty clear that things like the School of the Americas did create an obligation to help in some fashion. Most of these folks work extremely hard in the US and send money back to relatives. Over time things are actually improving.
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I think this just further establishes that money > race. Anybody who thinks that racism is a bigger problem than wealth inequality is just plain wrong. If he had just kept his mouth shut after getting that slap on the wrist, people probably would have forgotten about it.
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From what I understand they don't know how the bullet got into the gun. They don't know why there was live ammo on set at all and couldn't be bothered to do any of that work. If that's accurate, it's going to damage the prosecution's case substantially. I don't know if he was even allowed to check the weapon after the armorer had checked it. Not that checking it might have made much of a difference as dummy rounds can look very realistic. With so much of the negligence being spread amongst multiple people, I don't see how they'll meet the standard of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for him as he just pulled the trigger based on what appears to be a good faith belief that it had been checked and was told which direction to point it and what to do with it.
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Because it's irrelevant. Folks move to near the stores to steal. That is the ones that aren't engaged in organized crime. People don't steal hundreds of dollars worth of meat to feed their families.
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I'm curious what the alternative here is. This is how progress is made. Richard Roundtree playing Shaft was groundbreaking and led to better roles being available to black actors, but on it's face, it was a blacksploitation film and if we took this line of reasoning, we might not have gotten any of the black films of the '70s. Granted, The Wiz wouldn't have been made, but still. I do think though, that with the amount of work he gets, with respect to other actors of a similar height, that he's probably not in the best place to be criticizing these sorts of roles when there aren't a lot of them that are available for other actors.
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Why is tictock allowing this influencer to coach people on how to break the law? Perhaps some of these people who have to go through this should consider suing the company for enabling this.
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From what I understand, the term dwarf has been sort of grey area for decades, with some folks finding it to be offensive and others having it be a preferred term. Really, I wish people would pay more attention to how they're using the words rather than what the words are. Of course, with black folks using the n word and close variants of it, and then saying that nobody else can say it, in virtually any context, it doesn't exactly move things forward, it's incredibly hypocrytical, considering that that's not even their word. That's a word that they've appropriated as their own, it's a word that refers to redneck, or cracker culture if you really want to push the boundaries, they're just the most recent group for it to be used. And it's hardly just black folks that have it used sand n, is a term that people use unironically to refer to Arabs. Also, there's nothing particularly leftwing or progressive about TYT, they've always been in it for the money, and they were pretending to be leftwing when they thought it would get them money.
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Honestly, the main folks I see getting called out for the BS are those that were very slow to adjust to changing norms. Most of the folks that were using the terms when they were accepted terms, don't get raked over the coals and at most can issue a short apology and move on.
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Other countries don't spoil women to the extent that the US does. We've literally got girls being indoctrinated into thinking that it's normal to have the system rigged to push for equality of outcome while getting to whine about being oppressed.
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The issue is that cities like San Francisco and Seattle did it backwards. The draw down in police is supposed to come after a drop in need due to services being provided by more appropriate agencies,not before. Reducing policing numbers prior to any of that being put into place and seeing a related drop in crime was never going to work and only great fools would expect otherwise.
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@kosmique Yes, those things could potentially be used as evidence to support premeditation. But, I'm not sure if that would be enough to make it murder if he called 911 after using minimal force when they're the ones that broke in.
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Probably not, but we'll see. In pretty much any other situation, that would be the case, but this isn't one of those cases. You don't want a non-expert to be messing with a prop gun specifically because they can introduce their own mistakes to a weapon that's supposed to have been checked by an expert. We'll see where this is going, but I don't see the behavior as being sufficient to rise to a guilty verdict just on the basis of what is publicly known. There's just too many people that made too many mistakes and from what I understand, the police haven't bothered to figure out where the rounds came from and how they got into the gun. Which if that is accurate, the defense is going to have a field day with as those are completely relevant. This isn't a parent at home who is the only person that could check, this is an actor who shouldn't have had ammo on the set at all. Not at all the same thing.
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@hirotakasugi4891 Not really, these sorts of situations are still relatively rare no matter what people might say. Far more people murder themselves with firearms than use them in any sort of self-defense situation.
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That's not quite accurate, the men's teams got cut in large part because they couldn't find enough women to fill out the other side of things. Part of that is that the sports that women prefer to play tend to be generally less expensive than the ones that the men play.
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@NickM_FirstofHisName On the whole, soccer remains rather unpopular in the US. That is beginning to change with immigrants moving to the US and retaining their interest in the sport, as well as many children growing up playing on teams, but as of writing, it's a relatively unpopular sport compared with others like football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
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Most liberals don't support this sort of nonsense. There's a loud minority that do, and normally they're about as relevant as the Libertarian party is.
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@dekulruno Yes and that's why it's best used as backup after doing a regular set of search to find other things that may have been missed which you can then look up and verify before using in court.
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This right here is why you answer the question that was asked as briefly as possible and hope that your team will object if there is anything to object to.
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Was casting a Latina as Snow White really the right thing to do here? I mean, it's rather interesting how when it's a white person being cast as a role that was written for people of color, that it's cultural appropriation, but somehow when the oppressed group is white, the same standard does not apply. It's frustrating that after a century, there's still no meaningful acknowledgement of the cleansing of German culture from America, and it hasn't really stopped. There's nothing inherently wrong with recasting the role to different ethnicities, but it should be actually rewritten, otherwise, you're insulting multiple groups and I don't think that it's asking much for people to pretend like doing something that's been a matter of routine for a century is somehow a good thing or progressive. Taking German culture and destroying it isn't progressive, and it's not OK. If you're going to re-imagine the role, that's fine, it's public domain, have at it, just please don't pee on our legs and tell us that it's raining. Or better still, lift the equivalent story from a different culture for once.
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Before this I wasn't likely to ever go to one of their games, but now I'm definitely not going to any of their games or buying any of their merchandise. I wonder how many other people they've turned off by their antics. If they want more money, then they should be more popular and stop pissing off the fans with the politics.
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He does, the issue is that it has an influence over the roles and perceptions people have of him and folks of his height. For better or for worse, there aren't a lot of roles for those that are that short, and having them be skewed by the 7 Dwarves and various other mythologies isn't helpful.
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