Yeah, I remember playing GRAW with friends as we would go through the hunt missions. That was some tough stuff.

YES

I like to call it Richard's Sporting Goods because that's more appropriate.

Enjoy your pizzas.

Discuss my time as a corrupt staff member.

Remember that time when you tried to keylog Cheat and steal his account?

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I want to get MH4U on 3DS when it comes out.

Banjo and I have MH3U on Wii U but Banjo won't get 4 unless it's on the Wii U >.>

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Plus I'm not even done with MH3U but Kupo's lazy arse won't play with mei >:c

You never ask >.>

I asked you last time and you were like "nah nigga" and stuff <.<

Ask again >.>

You won play MH3U?

Later, I have one thing I have to do soon >.>

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I want to get MH4U on 3DS when it comes out.

Banjo and I have MH3U on Wii U but Banjo won't get 4 unless it's on the Wii U >.>

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Plus I'm not even done with MH3U but Kupo's lazy arse won't play with mei >:c

You never ask >.>

lol the fags itt are going at it and not in the hot way

Muted.

I don't disagree - but you also have to understand the power Al Sharpton has in terms of politics and minority communities - even without holding elected office.

I think this is perhaps the most recognition anyone has ever given Al Sharpton. Aside from awards or commendations, actually putting him on stage regularly.

"Political Official makes Politically-Motivated Firing: Tonight at 10"

Not exactly scandalous. And yeah, going behind on campaign promises is a dick move, but again - common in politics.

The problem being that it's not exactly working out well for Blaz.

No disagreement that his statements could have been slightly more neutral - but De Blasio also knows he was elected to represent the people of New York City, not the NYPD or the Police Union - he is going to play to that as well.

He needs to do a better job of keeping both happy. People don't really like when their mayor is so divisive that he seems to be pitting the city against itself.

First off - was she good at her job?
Second off - if you're firing her, you fire her for failing to disclose information on the hiring papers, or fraudulent housing waivers. You don't fire her because "Oh, she had an ex-boyfriend who has illegal activity" - because that is a shitty precedent to begin.

Given all of the illicit things she's already done, it gives the impression that she might share similar views. Not that that would have any truth, but you know, politics.

So, she can control what her son says? Again, it's a shitty precedent. You fire her on HER merits and whether she did something wrong, not because of what her family or ex-lovers do.

But why Blaz didn't fire her on her merits or wrongdoings?

That's the unanswered question to all of this.

Why didn't the mayor's office know about her legal issues? Or if they did, why did they still hire her? Blaz tried to defend her while he had Sharpton on stage behind him (who has his own fair share of tax woes). It all seems to imply pandering of some sort--that yes, you can break the law, publicly or otherwise, and have currently pending legal issues at the time of your hiring, and still be hired to work for the mayor, or any government official. And if he did know, did he really think he could get away with it (sort of like he does with Sharpton)?

I'd love to be hired that easily while having a criminal record half as long as hers.

Blaz dug his own hole. By firing Noerdlinger, he was doing what he had to do to stay afloat. Regardless of whether that's right or wrong, that's what he had to do to fix his own negligence.

It's divisive stuff, and it is not conducive to the appearance of supporting the law and those who enforce it.

I started this debate off on the wrong foot. I know I said I conceded this, but I changed my mind. I did feel like I would be derailing the other thread with some intellectual gymnastics trying to explain myself. I think it's just better to start this over >.> but move this if need be.

Bill de Blasio has an image problem. He's the mayor of New York City, yet he's conjured up the appearance of having a less-than-favorable opinion of the police. This is a problem, because it could threaten his chances at re-election. He's consistently associated himself with people notorious for fueling anti-cop bias, chief among them the Rev. Al Sharpton, who's wrong about almost everything (ie, blame everything on racism). He's the loudest whenever a white person shoots a black person, but stunningly silent whenever it's reversed. Yeah, sure, he'll make a press release, but it's not like he'll be marching in the streets with their family at the protest he just arranged for them.

By 'associations,' I mean de Blasio having Sharpton behind him during his speeches.

Di Blasio also ran on a campaign promise to eliminate the controversial "stop & frisk" program by the NYPD. It involved firing the current commissioner at the time, Ray Kelly, and instead hiring Bill Bratton, who also supports the policy. There was really no other purpose to the move other than to satisfy the ignorant folks who actually believe it's a valid change. But part of the problem now is that Bratton is kind of a shill for de Blasio--in part because he wouldn't have his job without him. Who wouldn't support the person who hired them?

And regardless of how you feel about the Eric Garner grand-jury decision, de Blasio made some rather disingenuous statements about what he tells his son (as if Dante would even get in trouble like that, anyway). But more importantly, it was hardly a neutral reaction to the decision. There's an undertone of discontent that's tough to ignore.

So now I get to the question of Rachel Noerdlinger: should de Blasio have fired her? The controversy surrounding her being that she was the First Lady's chief of staff and her ex-con boyfriend made aggressively anti-cop statements on the Internet.

She's since been fired since the information came out. Did she really deserve it?

Let's take a look at the facts (Wikipedia has citations for now, can't be arsed to link this stuff individually):

-She did not disclose in her background questionnaire that she was living with a convicted felon
-She's had various troubles paying her taxes
-She was granted a residency waiver because she claimed her son was injured in a car accident, despite being healthy enough to play football (sounds awfully fraudulent, doesn't it?)

Her son also has a criminal record and has also bashed the cops online.

Should someone like the mayor really associate with someone like that? What message does that give, considering all the other things de Blasio has said and done so far? Are there really not any qualified people for that position who don't have so many legal troubles?

De Blasio didn't have much of a choice. If he wanted to save his image, and perhaps turn his first term around, he needed to fire her. Politically, he could not afford to keep her on-board. With a former mayor now coming at his throat, he's facing tremendous pressure to turn the ship around. He still has a long ways to go, but this is one of many steps de Blasio's going to have to take to save his career.

Any disagreements?

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But Spongebob's been garbage since Stephen Hillenberg le--

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OH MY GOD

what the actual fuck is this

The movie that the game is based upon >.>

I had seen some stills from the trailer:



And didn't think it was real until I saw one of those cardboard poster things at my local movie theater.

Screw an Anniversary edition, I just want Lost Platoon with matchmaking.

He can't control what other people do, though.

Listen, I'm not defending De Blasio; I think he's shitty. But your reasoning as to why it matters what someone several-degrees-removed from him has said and done is stupid.

So, an aide of his wife (Who, as a First Lady, holds little power) once dated a guy with criminal history.

That's a very thin string to tie to De Blasio, Kupo. That's like saying, because Obama dated a girl whose brother was a drug dealer, he is for illegal drugs.

Okay, so I slept on it and realized I'd have to pull off some mental acrobatics to turn this into a decent argument. You were right, and I did take a cheap shot >.>

I wanna play Bravely Default

I bought it a few days ago, somehow haven't gotten around to opening it yet >.>

But I will! Very soon! After I finish TLOU.

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His wife's aide had a boyfriend with a history criminal behavior, including murder, who also made hostile statements against the police and sees discrimination where there is none.

Are we going to start blaming everyone for the people they're marginally associated with?

A person in his position should not associate with someone like that.

So should De Blasio make his wife's aide break up with her boyfriend? Fire the aide because of her boyfriend? How do you even remedy that situation?

He's the mayor, that's his problem >.>

so what you're saying is that you think it's a problem, but you don't have a solution for it, which means you're just bitching for the sake of bitching and have no real reason for it.

Solution would have been to not elect him in the first place, but the candidate field was lousy >.>

But he also could 1) have kept Ray Kelly as commissioner (his firing was largely political as opposed to job performance) and 2) not associate with Al Sharpton, as opposed to having Sharpton behind him during his speeches.

He's done about everything he shouldn't have done.

He can't control what other people do, though.

Listen, I'm not defending De Blasio; I think he's shitty. But your reasoning as to why it matters what someone several-degrees-removed from him has said and done is stupid.

crud, logged out when I was typing this ;_;

Do you mind if I reply tomorrow? I'm too tired to type that up again. :/