> can't imagine he knew too many Albanian people.

Not for nothing, but The North Bronx/Southern Westchester has like the largest Albanian diaspora in the US…in all likelihood he is Albanian.

Wow, so Kingsbridge and Riverdale used to be Yonkers

This says “ Town of Westchester Results”. Idk, what the town of Westchester is, but I think it’s different from the county. The same wiki page then has results for Mount Vernon (no), Pelham (yes), and Eastchester (yes) which are both still in Westchester county.

So there must have been a specific town of Westchester that it’s referring to

Edit: quick research, the Town of Westchester is currently the Westchester Square neighborhood just south of Morris Park in the Bronx

Look here’s the thing:

Almost nobody who talks about qualifies immunity knows what qualified immunity actually is, but more to the point, there is one serious difference between the doctor v police example…one is working for the state, the other is (usually) not a government worker and suing a doctor for doesn’t mean you can’t also sue the hospital, in fact that is common.

Qualifies immunity applies to government workers (not just police; teachers, DPW workers, and so forth as well).

They are acting on behalf of the state. This also means the government, which they are acting on behalf of, is who is responsible (and importantly, if the person is acting against the law or policy of the government, then they don’t qualify for said immunity)

For whatever reason this conversation constantly forgets that police departments are very literally a part of the local government. Like how when people get upset about someone getting arrested for something, nobody spends two minutes remembering that the cop doing it isn’t the one making the law or ordinance like on their own.

A good example is sports in the park.

Sometimes I’ll just sit in the park and watch a baseball game. Idk who they are, but it’s a free and go “red team”… This summer I watched cricket in Van Cortlandt park. No idea what was going on, so I talked to some of the guys (mostly south Asian), it was interesting. And of course there are always soccer matches to be had, and you probably walk past them all the time, but stopping a being a spectator is a surprising amount of fun

Uhm…while I’m sure if I ask any number of them I’d probably get many different answers…because it’s gibberish nonsense and changes from one day to the next…

Anyway, when I watched them on TV they were taking about Jesus coming back and their founder insisted he was coming back in 2000 (didn’t work out of course).

> that Black Hebrew Israelites absolutely don’t preach about following Jesus

This is not correct. Have you ever watched them? They had a public access show back in the day and are obsessed with the King James Bible, quoting revelations constantly

> fish comparisons aren’t making it look less laughable

But you get that the Empire Strikes Back is a great movie, right?

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> Im so confused by

Well ya…because it’s nonsense and in no way can be configured to make sense.

You’re putting more thought into it then they do.

For example, “The Negros” (African Americans) are the tribe of Judah and the Haitians are the tribe of Levi and the “West Indies” are the tribe of Benjamin…in the context of how the Transatlanic slave trade worked…What?

Places like Cuba and PR are super multiethnic. What does that even mean “the cubans”? Like, a European colonist, a trafficked slave, and a native Taino are all from the same tribe? Or is it just The Native population? But they were Taino so how are native Dominicans and Cubans and Puerto Ricans (who all would have been Taino) from different tribes for some reason? And that’s not even getting into them somehow being from Israel apparently. How did “The Native Americans” who are from the tribe of Gad get there? Who then were the natives who were there 12,000 years prior while the Tribe of Gad was…not yet existing? What kind of crazy bananas pants history makes this work?

Like I said, none of this makes any sense

Ya well, MahiMahi is much better than Tuna. So there.

Some religious beliefs make more sense than others though. Ya. That seems pretty obvious…and irrelevant to anything in this thread

Ok. Kind of a tangent and all, and has nothing to do with my comment,and I never argued any religious briefs made sense, or even mentioned religion (in the context of supernatural claims)…so…

Like what point are you trying to make here? That someone going “I think Jesus existed” and someone going “I think Jesus was a Mexican Chupacabra who became the king of England before time traveling to 1914 to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand” are equally stupid, so the next time I mention anything about how you’d have to be an idiot to take chupacabra king of England Jesus guy seriously I should also add a caveat that so are Catholics?

It’s the little things in life that make it fun

I mean, I’m an atheist…so, ya…Gods silly.

Either way, on the scale of dumb to batshit stupid this is more on the batshit stupid mark

You’re assuming any kind of logic or critical thinking is involved here

The Hebrew Israelite thing itself is so full of nonsense (like historical jibberish nonsense) and internal contradictions that anyone who actually subscribed to it is a serious idiot. To give you an idea, one of the 12 Tribes of Israel is “the Puerto Ricans”