Is playing pokemon go white privilege?

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  1. Shirogayne

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    Like it matters...as Brock Turner proved, the guy would get off with 6 months, if even that.

    Any the peanut gallery would chime in about how stupid she was for being out alone at night. :dayton:
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  2. 14thDoctor

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    Can you show us your calculations? :borg:
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    Stardew Valley has a token black resident. One quest that he has for you is to bring him a melon for scientific experiment. When he receives it he says it will be hard not to eat it.
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    Why do people keep acting like the fact that there are criminals who kill people ... somehow makes it OK to ignore the fact that we have a big problem with cops killing people?

    I mean, aren't cops the one group we're supposed to be able to trust to PROTECT people?
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  6. oldfella1962

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    We don't have a "big" problem with cops killing people. Tens of thousands of cop/citizen interactions occur daily
    across the US. No math in the Red Room, but your odds of getting shot or otherwise killed by a cop are astronomical I don't give a fuck who or where you are. Granted nobody wants an interaction with a cop anytime because their will not be any cake or prizes involved, and whatever you are doing will involve your wallet getting lighter most of the time - no getting around that. But shot dead? It might be as likely as getting struck by lightning I'm not sure - I'm sure somebody has those stats.
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  7. Zombie

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    Agreed. But there is a total lack of common sense in a whole lot of people these days.

    Case in point:

    Two Pokemon Go players fall off a cliff, while two more are shot at

    http://www.geek.com/games/two-pokem...f-a-cliff-while-two-more-are-shot-at-1662203/

    :shrug:
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    Yeah, we previously spoke about those cases. They violated some of the common sense rules people should follow especially the idiots who igbored the danger signs and walked out on the edge of an unstable cliff. I have walked on those specific cliffs many times and they are nothing more than poorly consolidated sand which gives away very easily thus all the danger stay back from cliff signs.
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    Look at it this way ... how would people have reacted if, after 9/11, you said "You know, you're more likely to get killed by a drunk driver than by a terrorist. Americans should clean up their act and do something about their own people driving drunk before they get mad about hijackers flying airplanes into towers."
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    Would have been a saner reaction than what actually happened <cough>invade Iraq<cough>
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    The other day two Canadian teens were arrested by the border patrol for crossing over to catch US Pokemon. They were returned to their mother at the border crossing. I think they should be in jail because we don't have any kind of cross-border Pokemon trade agreement with either Canada or Mexico. Foreigners are coming in and stealing ours and Obama isn't doing a goddamn thing to stop it! :ua:
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    What do you want to bet the border patrol agent just wanted that Pokemon for himself. :evil:
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  15. gturner

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    Is there any way they can seize a captured Pokemon from someone's phone?