r/politics • u/Antinatalista Foreign • Dec 13 '17

Black voters just saved America from Roy Moore

https://thinkprogress.org/back-vote-alabama-jones-8da18c1d8d7a/
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

They can't arrest all of them right?

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u/Stoppels Dec 13 '17

I'd like to see them try.

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u/outkast8459 Dec 13 '17

I'd rather not. -law abiding Black guy

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u/Down_To_My_Last_Fuck Dec 13 '17

An oxymoron to the Bama PD

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u/Thunder21 Dec 13 '17

I dont think the bama PD made it into middle school to learn what an oxymoron is.

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u/Down_To_My_Last_Fuck Dec 13 '17

What'd you call me??

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u/greentreesbreezy Washington Dec 13 '17

Police: Law abiding Black guy? Where!?! He's wearing a hoodie! Shoot him! shoot him!

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u/poopsweats Dec 13 '17

stop resisting

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17 edited Dec 13 '17

There's nothing to worry about as long as you haven't committed any crimes. It will be totally cool.

EDIT: /s

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

If he would have complied and worn skin tight spandex the cops wouldn't have thought he had a gun hidden

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u/jeremyosborne81 Dec 13 '17

Male suspect

skin tight spandex the cops wouldn't have thought he had a gun hidden

Think about this one

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

You can't blame the cop for shooting him still. The bulge could have been anything and it was a tense situation. He only had so much time to react while the black guy slowly got on his knees and put his hands behind his head

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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu Indiana Dec 13 '17

That's when you maintain eye contact and assert your dominance

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

The suspect made eye contact Judge, clearly my client had to shoot him 11 times.

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u/n3rv Dec 14 '17

That comment chain karma difference says a bit.

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u/LogicCure South Carolina Dec 13 '17

Hold my beer

  • Mississippi GOP

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u/sprucenoose Dec 13 '17

Hold my beer fries

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u/paid_4_by_Soros Dec 13 '17

Hold my fries rascal scooter.

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u/_ShakashuriBlowdown Dec 13 '17

Hold my beer fries underage girl.

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u/ThisIsTheZodiacSpkng California Dec 13 '17

Hold my tiki torch

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u/jennifergeek Dec 13 '17

Hold my beer * Mississippi GOP COP

Fixed that for you...

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u/AustinXTyler Dec 13 '17

That’s how you get tear gas.

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u/ricobirch Colorado Dec 13 '17

They used to.

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u/Leviekin Dec 13 '17

Aren't they already trying pretty hard?

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u/caneras Dec 13 '17

They are trying.

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u/vych Dec 13 '17

They've been doing their darndest to make that happen for a few decades now :(

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

There's a deep south state where 1 in every 4 black people can't vote or something like that because they've been arrested.

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u/Breaking-Away Dec 13 '17

Louisiana? I think they have the highest incarceration rate in the country, but that’s s purple state.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

Don't be fooled by their Democratic governor, Louisiana is definitely not purple.

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u/Breaking-Away Dec 13 '17

any state where both parties can reasonably win elections is purple by definition IMO. Shades of purple but still purple.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '17

I think is down to semantics then, and we just have different definitions of purple states. I'd consider purple to mean that most elections could realistically swing either way after accounting for standard influences (waves, incumbency, etc), not that it happens sometimes in a minority of positions. For some reason some states like MA and LA have a consistent and deep political leaning for most races but are comfortable with governors from the opposite party sometimes. Similar thing applies to some state legislatures.

If you want to consider that purple that's fine, but in the context of what sort of senators are viable I don't know if that applies.

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u/Breaking-Away Dec 15 '17

Good point. Maybe I'd be better to call them "contestable" rather than purple.

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u/fifarus Dec 13 '17

Arrested for felonies

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u/le-o Dec 13 '17

Like smoking weed

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u/HeyPScott Dec 13 '17

Yes. It's called the NFL.

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u/Naberius Dec 13 '17

Well, they sort of did for a century or so there.

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u/V4refugee Dec 13 '17

Isn’t that pretty much slavery?