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Me watching videos of police kicking the living shit out of people makes me upset and boils me with blood and kind of disturbing, but the internet is the place where I jam and avoid everything.
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Just don't fall for the typical fallacy of assuming that the multitude of videos=always happens.

Think of it like a TV show. It always looks like their in action, but if you pay attention, you'll notice they totally skip over EVERYTHING else that makes up for a realistically mundane life. Hell, the most frequent pause in life is a bathroom break yet almost no film or show makes any mention of this fundamental natural act.

I mean...does the Enterprise even have toilets?
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My advice is simple, but not obvious: You don't have to watch them if you don't want to.
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I like to watch real combat footage in Syria/Iraq. Not usually for the faint of heart.
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(08-23-2015 02:36 PM)DoA Wrote:  My advice is simple, but not obvious: You don't have to watch them if you don't want to.

It should be rather obvious.
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I feel sorry for the people who have taken it upon themselves to police America and I also feel sorry for those of us who are being policed by these people. The situation is impossible from both sides.
"I like to watch real combat footage in Syria/Iraq. Not usually for the faint of heart."

You got any especially compelling links?
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Youtube works fine for the most part. Then they've got that liveleaks(I believe that's the name of the site) that has the more...rough footage seeing as their website is known to be less self-censored when it comes to portraying reality.
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