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Black Lives Matter

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    it's the textual equivalent to trailing off because of implications. just another way to try and make what you are saying sound more important

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    My hint was the insipid topic posted in fucking SE++ of all places.

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  • QuantumTurkQuantumTurk Registered User regular
    I'm confused. Were they anything more than a lame troll or is everyone just really into the fact something came out from under the bridge for a bit?

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Can't think of a better thing to do with a troll than to talk about him constantly after they've been banned

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    They were a marginally amusing diversion that will be forgotten before very long.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Butler wrote: »
    oh I clocked them immediately

    all the fucking ellipses

    Yeah what was up with that? I don't rag on people for spelling or grammar these days because it's kind of shitty, since who knows what educational opportunities they've had? But "ellipses everywhere" can't be anyone's best guess at what written English should look like. It's not intuitive and it's not something you see in any kind of formal writing.

    it's a thing of dipshit facebook uncles

    I have no idea why but it's extremely consistent, like when someone's twitter profile pic is a selfie taken in their car wearing tacky sunglasses

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  • MeeqeMeeqe Lord of the pants most fancy Someplace amazingRegistered User regular
    Butler wrote: »
    oh I clocked them immediately

    all the fucking ellipses

    Yeah what was up with that? I don't rag on people for spelling or grammar these days because it's kind of shitty, since who knows what educational opportunities they've had? But "ellipses everywhere" can't be anyone's best guess at what written English should look like. It's not intuitive and it's not something you see in any kind of formal writing.

    it's a thing of dipshit facebook uncles

    I have no idea why but it's extremely consistent, like when someone's twitter profile pic is a selfie taken in their car wearing tacky sunglasses

    My pet theory is that they take those selfies and video rants in their truck is that they are keenly aware of how much their family hates them being so openly terrible.

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    Can't think of a better thing to do with a troll than to talk about him constantly after they've been banned

    you had me at 'can't think'

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
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    Mill wrote: »
    It’s classic nazi ideology; they fundamentally view politics as a struggle between ethnic groups for superiority/resources. You see it reflected in their rhetoric on every issue: immigration, BLM/police reform, the welfare state, etc.

    So they assume that if the shoe were on the other foot they’d be on the receiving end of similar treatment, and that’s why they react so strongly to relatively saccharine stuff like (say) kneeling for the national anthem.

    It also conveniently allows for the rejection of any concept of economic class solidarity

    I've said it before, racists are the ultimate class traitors.

    As the saying goes, racism is just fascism that hasn't caught up to you yet.

    How reductionist

    No more so than "all cops are bastards"

    More specifically, the tools of oppression and hatred are the same whether they are wielded against a few or many.

    Erasing nuance for a narrative is harmless unless you're the nuance

    You're speaking like I am minimizing or excusing racism.

    The methods by which racism is perpetrated are methods also wielded by fascists. If you disagree with that, then explain your thought process.

    These terse posts that only express your displeasure don't help us figure out what went wrong and how we're supposed to do better/different.

    America already culturally colonizes the world. Kids learn english and styles of being from American rappers, embracing toxic masculinity to combat and replace their own beliefs. A relentless train fueled by an engine of capitalism.

    Boiling all conflicts down to race and facism is just another car on that train.

    It is the same car that breaks everyone down to black, white, asian, hispanic, or other.

    A locomotive of psycological gentrication, and the only choices in this world is to ride it or get left behind.

    It is a truth I am content to ignore until someone starts erasing nuance in their arguements and ringing the damn whistle.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    A friend had an interesting framing for cops at protests the other day that I'd never verbalized before but feel like it really fits.

    People defending police actions at protests are thinking of them as a neutral party there to keep the peace, and their actions are shocking in that context. But everything they do "makes sense" once you recognize the police as a counterprotest group

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
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    Mill wrote: »
    It’s classic nazi ideology; they fundamentally view politics as a struggle between ethnic groups for superiority/resources. You see it reflected in their rhetoric on every issue: immigration, BLM/police reform, the welfare state, etc.

    So they assume that if the shoe were on the other foot they’d be on the receiving end of similar treatment, and that’s why they react so strongly to relatively saccharine stuff like (say) kneeling for the national anthem.

    It also conveniently allows for the rejection of any concept of economic class solidarity

    I've said it before, racists are the ultimate class traitors.

    As the saying goes, racism is just fascism that hasn't caught up to you yet.

    How reductionist

    No more so than "all cops are bastards"

    More specifically, the tools of oppression and hatred are the same whether they are wielded against a few or many.

    Erasing nuance for a narrative is harmless unless you're the nuance

    You're speaking like I am minimizing or excusing racism.

    The methods by which racism is perpetrated are methods also wielded by fascists. If you disagree with that, then explain your thought process.

    These terse posts that only express your displeasure don't help us figure out what went wrong and how we're supposed to do better/different.

    America already culturally colonizes the world. Kids learn english and styles of being from American rappers, embracing toxic masculinity to combat and replace their own beliefs. A relentless train fueled by an engine of capitalism.

    Boiling all conflicts down to race and facism is just another car on that train.

    It is the same car that breaks everyone down to black, white, asian, hispanic, or other.

    A locomotive of psycological gentrication, and the only choices in this world is to ride it or get left behind.

    It is a truth I am content to ignore until someone starts erasing nuance in their arguements and ringing the damn whistle.

    Thank you for the elaboration. It was not my intention to suggest that things "boiled down to race," and I apologize.

    I agree with what you're saying about cultural osmosis and other less overt forms of colonial violence. As Lenin wrote (a long treatise on), imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    The Pierce County Sheriff called 911 at 2am that a black man was attempting to break into houses and threatened to kill him. 42 units responded, where they discovered he was delivering newspapers. But nobody got shot! So there's that

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Pierce County Sheriff called 911 at 2am that a black man was attempting to break into houses and threatened to kill him. 42 units responded, where they discovered he was delivering newspapers. But nobody got shot! So there's that

    Pierce county sheriff that has been on television more times than i can count and has a local media presence similar to the sheriff that saw the capture of the green river killer

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Pierce County Sheriff called 911 at 2am that a black man was attempting to break into houses and threatened to kill him. 42 units responded, where they discovered he was delivering newspapers. But nobody got shot! So there's that

    The sheriff, of course, insists that the guy should have told him what he was doing and that would have cleared everything up. As though it isn't obvious when someone is delivering newspapers.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Pierce County Sheriff called 911 at 2am that a black man was attempting to break into houses and threatened to kill him. 42 units responded, where they discovered he was delivering newspapers. But nobody got shot! So there's that

    The sheriff, of course, insists that the guy should have told him what he was doing and that would have cleared everything up. As though it isn't obvious when someone is delivering newspapers.

    I have worked security at complexes and seen newspaper delivery people drive through looking sketchy

    BUT

    Simple observation told me they were cool.

    4 am makes everyone look sketch, that's no reason to run up on someone!

    Also, last package thieves I crossed paths with were in loyal heights in broad daylight, across the street from a catholic high school

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    Maybe it's different these days because subscriptions are down, but when I was a childhood paper deliverer, I was fucking loaded down with those big satchels of papers and it was unmistakable what I was doing

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Pretty much what the Seattle times article said, small car loaded up with papers, offload wherever.

    This guy was actually rolling for multiple publishers on multiple scales

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Maybe it's different these days because subscriptions are down, but when I was a childhood paper deliverer, I was fucking loaded down with those big satchels of papers and it was unmistakable what I was doing

    People deliver so many newspapers that they have their whole car trunk filled and are out for hours.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I don't know if they still do it because of how far newspapers have fallen in the past 20 years but they used to provide a car and it was pretty obvious that they were doing it.

    And they do it at 2-4AM because people expect the newspaper with their morning coffee and they aren't Santa Claus.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    4am is the kind of hour where no one is doing shit unless they have to(working). even criminals need sleep

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Pierce County Sheriff called 911 at 2am that a black man was attempting to break into houses and threatened to kill him. 42 units responded, where they discovered he was delivering newspapers. But nobody got shot! So there's that

    The worst part of all this is, the person he was running against was probably even more racist than him. It's shit all the way down, from an electoral standpoint.

    EDIT: I fully expect Troyer will, if he doesn't "retire" over this, lose his next election. Since the political makeup of the county council shifted to the left during this last election, he might actually get investigated for bias over this. Couldn't say the same thing of the previous council!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I don't know if they still do it because of how far newspapers have fallen in the past 20 years but they used to provide a car and it was pretty obvious that they were doing it.

    And they do it at 2-4AM because people expect the newspaper with their morning coffee and they aren't Santa Claus.

    Provide a car? Nah, I did this for a single month and I got hired specifically because I had a van that could hold a shitload of newspapers. Between the "contract worker" pay and gas all I got out of the deal was paying them to fuck up my sleep schedule for a while.

    But while I was doing it the whole thing was basically slow-driving down a street hurling alley-oop'ing papers from inside the car to hopefully land on the driveway. It's not hard to see what my job is when rolled up papers are flying from my location every ten seconds.

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  • H0b0manH0b0man Registered User regular
    Maybe I'm dumb, but why is anybody firing a weapon when trying to catch a cow?

    I know we all go on about "when all you have is a hammer...", but c'mon.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Cops don’t know how to not use guns

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  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    It's okay though, he was merely struck by a bullet despite what the title said. Unless they determine it wasn't another officer that fired it, anyway, then I bet we're getting an edit

  • EvilCakeEvilCake Richmond VARegistered User regular
    the cow shot him

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    That dumb fucker probably shit his own self, so naturally he'll get like 12 weeks paid time off to heal and will suffer absolutely no consequences.

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  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    EvilCake wrote: »
    the cow shot him

    https://youtu.be/lyqDvojqxc8

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    the cow was half black

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    That dumb fucker probably shit his own self, so naturally he'll get like 12 weeks paid time off to heal and will suffer absolutely no consequences.

    True even with the typo

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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Cops don’t know how to not use guns

    Also, as the repeated friendly fire stories show, they don't know how to use guns either.

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    #backthemoo

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    he is stable, she is in the stable

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2021
    No she's dead. They euthanized the cow due "injuries sustained" during the ordeal

    Whether that was injuries to the cow or the cop is unclear

    It just goes to show it doesn't matter who or what you are - calling the cops is gonna end in murder

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    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular

    Some layers there. What a stupid law. What asshole called the cops over a tulip

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    honovere wrote: »

    Some layers there. What a stupid law. What asshole called the cops over a tulip

    hot take: i bet they were white

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »

    Some layers there. What a stupid law. What asshole called the cops over a tulip

    hot take: i bet they were white

    the asshole? the cop? or the flower?

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