Protests following the killing of George Floyd

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When did all those pilots die?

Fighter pilot would be highly dangerous. Are air traffic accidents more frequent than I imagine?
Probably because the total number of pilots being so low every death counts more on a per capita scale, plus accidents in small/charter planes that don’t make the national news.
 

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When did all those pilots die?

Fighter pilot would be highly dangerous. Are air traffic accidents more frequent than I imagine?
There are plenty small choppers and planes working for the mining companies, forestry companies, fighting fires... It's a shity job, but well paid. Accidents happen all the time.

Remember the famous basketball player that died not so long ago? Also the tourist chopper that went down in the grand canyon? shit happens but not always gonna make the news.
 
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Remember the famous basketball player that died not so long ago?
Yeah but even that doesn't seem to happen frequently.

Probably because the total number of pilots being so low every death counts more on a per capita scale, plus accidents in small/charter planes that don’t make the national news.
I can see this being the case.
 

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It’s due to the sensationalism in media, if it bleeds it leads. Roofers or loggers dying from accidents on the job won’t get much attention. An officer getting murdered by another person is newsworthy and grabs people’s attention. Same is true when police injure or kill a citizen, whether justified or not. Add race to the picture? Perfect. Let the shitstorm begin.
 

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No, it implies that you don’t get shat on because of the colour of your skin. You’ve probably never had a job application rejected because your name ‘sounds black’.

Anyone saying this has no idea what white privilege means.
"White Privilege does not mean your life is not hard. It means the colour of your skin is not something making it harder" basically implying what @Thats'sHernandez has said.

This was quote was written on a poster stuck by someone today on property we are renovating.
 

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It’s due to the sensationalism in media, if it bleeds it leads. Roofers or loggers dying from accidents on the job won’t get much attention. An officer getting murdered by another person is newsworthy and grabs people’s attention. Same is true when police injure or kill a citizen, whether justified or not. Add race to the picture? Perfect. Let the shitstorm begin.
Do you lot boast about how dangerous your job is stateside or something? I still don't get the meme.
 

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It’s due to the sensationalism in media, if it bleeds it leads. Roofers or loggers dying from accidents on the job won’t get much attention. An officer getting murdered by another person is newsworthy and grabs people’s attention. Same is true when police injure or kill a citizen, whether justified or not. Add race to the picture? Perfect. Let the shitstorm begin.
These things are not the same... That’s the point.
 

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Do you lot boast about how dangerous your job is stateside or something? I still don't get the meme.
It does get mentioned a lot, yes. Not necessarily by police officers themselves but often in this type of discussion when allies of policing are trying to justify why an officer went too far.
 

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Do you lot boast about how dangerous your job is stateside or something? I still don't get the meme.
yea sadly some do. It is and can be dangerous, but I remind people that the majority of on-the-job injuries and deaths are from traffic collisions, not from being killed by suspects.
 

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It may not be the most dangerous but the stress levels are through the roof, psychological problems, substance abuse, domestic abuse amongst other things.

I wouldn't do it and I do admire those who do it well.
 

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I find it really weird that these "patriotic" people love the confederate flag which literally represents an enemy of the state. I don't know whether they are just proud of their racist heritage or just dumb fecks who have no clue of their own country's history.
 

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I find it really weird that these "patriotic" people love the confederate flag which literally represents an enemy of the state. I don't know whether they are just proud of their racist heritage or just dumb fecks who have no clue of their own country's history.
Agree in general but that particular one is taking the piss.
 

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"White Privilege does not mean your life is not hard. It means the colour of your skin is not something making it harder" basically implying what @Thats'sHernandez has said.

This was quote was written on a poster stuck by someone today on property we are renovating.

Which property is that, Suits? :) In Lancaster?
 

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Don't just assure me. Tell me your point?
My point is pretty simple. Anyone can post a load of twitter articles without any real insight or bothering to look into them. When I asked him to share his views he went off on a childish rant which confirmed my suspicion that he knew feck all.
 

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My point is pretty simple. Anyone can post a load of twitter articles without any real insight or bothering to look into them. When I asked him to share his views he went off on a childish rant which confirmed my suspicion that he knew feck all.
Posting tweets with no context given in the post or even just the tweet has been a problem. It is weak sauce.
 

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Biden, wtf?
I suppose he’s working hard to try to appease the cops, and others that wouldn’t like de-funding, so it looks like he’s proposing to give more money to said cops.

There is no appeasing them. Well, the money will help, but they’ll come for more once that $300m is spent.