The News Thread

[Scar]

Can’t confirm that this officer was POC, but I can confirm from the body cam footage that she fucked up and then realized she fucked up.

Watch for yourself:
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video...lved-shooting/

[megladon8]

Were they, or are you just talking hypotheticals?

[Scar]

Were they, or are you just talking hypotheticals?

See the following post.

[megladon8]

I don't think it's a controversial statement to say an alarming number of black people die at the hands of police.

Whether this was racially motivated or not (looks to be not) it's still more fuel on the fire.

[Dukefrukem]

So this really boils my blood.

https://news.yahoo.com/blm-official-...gu4Byu6aBm74tS

My wife held a huge fundraiser for BLM last year and what is the founder doing with it? Buying three multi-million dollar homes.

[megladon8]

So this really boils my blood.

https://news.yahoo.com/blm-official-...gu4Byu6aBm74tS

My wife held a huge fundraiser for BLM last year and what is the founder doing with it? Buying three multi-million dollar homes.

Wow. Yeah. That is horrendous if true.

[Scar]

3 county curfew kicks in in 35 minutes.

[megladon8]

Please be safe.

[bac0n]

It's just eerily quiet outside right now.

[Ezee E]

So this really boils my blood.

https://news.yahoo.com/blm-official-...gu4Byu6aBm74tS

My wife held a huge fundraiser for BLM last year and what is the founder doing with it? Buying three multi-million dollar homes.

This is why I'm always suspicious of just about any fundraiser.

[Scar]

It's just eerily quiet outside right now.

Yeah, they’re about a mile from our place.

[bac0n]

So this really boils my blood.

https://news.yahoo.com/blm-official-...gu4Byu6aBm74tS

My wife held a huge fundraiser for BLM last year and what is the founder doing with it? Buying three multi-million dollar homes.

The saddest thing about this is that BLM has legit concerns which are long overdue getting some serious dialog started on, but all the talking heads on right wing media are just gonna glom onto this story in an attempt to delegitimize the entire BLM movement.

And their followers will buy it hook, line and sinker.

[Dukefrukem]

The saddest thing about this is that BLM has legit concerns which are long overdue getting some serious dialog started on, but all the talking heads on right wing media are just gonna glom onto this story in an attempt to delegitimize the entire BLM movement.

And their followers will buy it hook, line and sinker.

$90 million they collected from us last year. And their founder is buying vacation homes.

[Spun Lepton]

I think you're missing bac0n's point, Duke.

[Dukefrukem]

I think you're missing bac0n's point, Duke.

The legit concerns part?

[baby doll]

I don't see what the issue is. Presumably as the head of a charitable organization she collects a salary and is entitled to spend it as she pleases. Do right-wingers expect her to work for free?

[megladon8]

I also doubt that any other charitable organization is different.

They're almost all uniformly shady with where the money ends up.

Doubley so if religion is involved in any way.

[megladon8]

I don't see what the issue is. Presumably as the head of a charitable organization she collects a salary and is entitled to spend it as she pleases. Do right-wingers expect her to work for free?

Maybe I've completely misunderstood charitable and NFP organizations my whole life, but my understanding of these things was that the entire point was doing it for reasons other than personal gain.

[Dukefrukem]

I don't see what the issue is. Presumably as the head of a charitable organization she collects a salary and is entitled to spend it as she pleases. Do right-wingers expect her to work for free?

You don't see any issue? Zero?

[baby doll]

Maybe I've completely misunderstood charitable and NFP organizations my whole life, but my understanding of these things was that the entire point was doing it for reasons other than personal gain.

Charitable organizations are still, after all, organizations and have to spend money on staff, offices, overhead, etc. Running a charity that brings in 90 million a year is as much work as running a large business; it's not something one can do as a hobby or a side-gig. A charity of that size that doesn't pay its staff, or pays them very little, to do exhausting, time-consuming labour is going to have a hard time attracting and retaining the most qualified people to run the organization.

[baby doll]

You don't see any issue? Zero?

None whatsoever.

[megladon8]

Charitable organizations are still, after all, organizations and have to spend money on staff, offices, overhead, etc. Running a charity that brings in 90 million a year is as much work as running a large business; it's not something one can do as a hobby or a side-gig. A charity of that size that doesn't pay its staff, or pays them very little, to do exhausting, time-consuming labour is going to have a hard time attracting and retaining the most qualified people to run the organization.

Very true. I retract my outrage.

I still think it seems like a bit much and maybe she should have been a bit more...tactful? With the money.

Like bac0n, I really hope this doesn't disrail the movement and any positive change that has come or is in the works.

[bac0n]

All this talk about the BLM organization...but is BLM really an organization? Sure, there is the original group, of which that one lady is a co-founder, but it's more a movement these days, which is a lot different. Calling BLM an organization is like calling the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s an organization.

The distinction is important because an organization is a lot easier to monolithize (and therefor sell as an existential threat) than a movement.

[baby doll]

I still think it seems like a bit much and maybe she should have been a bit more...tactful? With the money.

I think she's equally entitled to a nice vacation house as any CEO. After all, it's her money. She earned it. It's not anyone else's business what she does it with as a private citizen.

[Dukefrukem]

Charitable organizations are still, after all, organizations and have to spend money on staff, offices, overhead, etc. Running a charity that brings in 90 million a year is as much work as running a large business; it's not something one can do as a hobby or a side-gig. A charity of that size that doesn't pay its staff, or pays them very little, to do exhausting, time-consuming labour is going to have a hard time attracting and retaining the most qualified people to run the organization.

Gonna be hard to fit all that staff in her $1.1 million 3 bedroom LA home. But sure. Nothing wrong with that.

I think she's equally entitled to a nice vacation house as any CEO. After all, it's her money. She earned it. It's not anyone else's business what she does it with as a private citizen.

Rite. 4 or 5 houses seems like a good number of homes.