I remember when the great political debates of SE++ were about manspreading
I have to say I prefer that we're now getting heated about actual problems
Remember when I told y'all to go on strike? Before Trump? Although I may have expressed an inappropriate amount of gusto (no i didn't), I was called out for things not being "that bad".
I remember when the great political debates of SE++ were about manspreading
I have to say I prefer that we're now getting heated about actual problems
Remember when I told y'all to go on strike? Before Trump? Although I may have expressed an inappropriate amount of gusto (no i didn't), I was called out for things not being "that bad".
I remember when the great political debates of SE++ were about manspreading
I have to say I prefer that we're now getting heated about actual problems
Remember when I told y'all to go on strike? Before Trump? Although I may have expressed an inappropriate amount of gusto (no i didn't), I was called out for things not being "that bad".
I remember when the great political debates of SE++ were about manspreading
that's funny, I remember when they were about people who wanted to pretend to be racist in the mass effect threads
It's almost like, as we grew older, we also grew wiser.
also a lot of people left or got banned over the years
If we have another ask Tube thread again this year I'd love to know if the forums or growing or shrinking. Certainly we see far fewer bannings in the ban threads than we used to. Either new folks are figuring it out, or just not coming anymore.
i would assume that broadly speaking the forum would trend downwards in population just due to age
how many people are there who A) still want to post on internet forums but haven't yet joined the internet forums of Penny-Arcade, a 21 year old comic
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I remember when the great political debates of SE++ were about manspreading
I have to say I prefer that we're now getting heated about actual problems
Remember when I told y'all to go on strike? Before Trump? Although I may have expressed an inappropriate amount of gusto (no i didn't), I was called out for things not being "that bad".
I remember when the great political debates of SE++ were about manspreading
that's funny, I remember when they were about people who wanted to pretend to be racist in the mass effect threads
It's almost like, as we grew older, we also grew wiser.
also a lot of people left or got banned over the years
If we have another ask Tube thread again this year I'd love to know if the forums or growing or shrinking. Certainly we see far fewer bannings in the ban threads than we used to. Either new folks are figuring it out, or just not coming anymore.
Just click Activity at the top and it’ll tell you how many people have joined in a day.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Hmm 300 new posts since I checked the thread this morning.
Nope, nopenopenope.
Kana on
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I got abused by my cop dad it is what im saying but yeah that puts you in a pretty deep hole, glad I could get some fuckin flashbacks today, thanks guys. I'll just go somewhere else for a bit. Sorry fir fuckin up the thread. I'll go eat and chill off. Im pretty fucked up, but you're all cool and I want to know that's sincere I'm just way too tilted by other shit in my life and I let that leak everywhere sorry.
If nothing else Sleep appears to be arguing in good faith, so maybe a glib eye-roll isn’t the best response to “I have personal experience of cops committing domestic violence.”
If nothing else Sleep appears to be arguing in good faith, so maybe a glib eye-roll isn’t the best response to “I have personal experience of cops committing domestic violence.”
Sincere discussions in this here SE++? Why I never
If nothing else Sleep appears to be arguing in good faith, so maybe a glib eye-roll isn’t the best response to “I have personal experience of cops committing domestic violence.”
Sincere discussions in this here SE++? Why I never
i mean it's not like they happen anywhere else on the forums
I can't believe I am going to go out like this but @Chincymcchilla are you aware that you are actually a fucking asshole
I've made this conclusion over years of being in the forums, it's not just for this one off incident
And now i wait for your very good and smart friends to tear me apart or have a mod ban me
There is something I keep getting stuck on about 'ACAB'. On the one hand, as a working assumption for anyone dealing with the police, it is 100% defensible and supported by a massive body of evidence. No question in my mind.
On the other hand, if I was in a conversation with someone where the topic of police trustworthiness came up and I was like 'yeah ACAB am I right?'
and then there was an uncomfortable silence and they went, 'What, including my Dad? And my Grandad?'
I cannot honestly say I'd be capable of explaining yes, including your Grandad whom I've never met, and including your Dad who got third degree burns dragging someone from a wrecked car in the line of duty, without coming across as a complete prick
or, alternatively, explaining that I didn't literally mean 'all', yes I know I said 'all' but I didn't mean 'all', without sounding like a back-pedalling idiot.
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The whole reason that systemic abuse exists is so that it doesn't matter how good the individuals that make up the system are. It doesn't matter whether individuals are good or not, it's the system that is corrupt to the foundations. ACAB isn't really about "every single cop is a horrible person" it's "every single cop is part of a toxic and carcinogenic cycle of violence and abuse that victimizes the vulnerable and the innocent"
There is something I keep getting stuck on about 'ACAB'. On the one hand, as a working assumption for anyone dealing with the police, it is 100% defensible and supported by a massive body of evidence. No question in my mind.
On the other hand, if I was in a conversation with someone where the topic of police trustworthiness came up and I was like 'yeah ACAB am I right?'
and then there was an uncomfortable silence and they went, 'What, including my Dad? And my Grandad?'
I cannot honestly say I'd be capable of explaining yes, including your Grandad whom I've never met, and including your Dad who got third degree burns dragging someone from a wrecked car in the line of duty, without coming across as a complete prick
or, alternatively, explaining that I didn't literally mean 'all', yes I know I said 'all' but I didn't mean 'all', without sounding like a back-pedalling idiot.
So this is when it's important to think about how the necessary participation in a late-stage capitalist society compromises us all in different ways, and how our individual choices compound that
You got hearthstone on your phone? Great, you're supporting blizzard's suppression of voices attempting to bring a spotlight to the struggles of their country
You watching football this weekend? Cool, you're supporting an industry that happily abandons its players when they're retired and breaking down physically
I'm compromised because I had a brief and disastrous stint with naval intelligence, even if I'm a big DSA Veterans Working Group supporter and subscribe to About Face
Someone who chooses to be a cop is additionally compromised by participating in a system that gives far too much power to a group of people who cant and won't answer to anyone in 99 percent of cases
None of these things make us bad people in theory but they do make us subject to completely fair judgements from people who are unable to tolerate those compromises
My dad is a retired cop, so is my uncle. I have a cousin who is currently a cop. It's taken me a little longer to see some of the larger problems with the police as an institution as a result. I don't...necessarily like stuff like ACAB, but I think that's mostly because it feels like it's turning into a meme than because I disagree with what it's trying to get across.
Everything is more complicated than these big blanket statements or gags or phrases, obviously. My feelings on it are complicated because I'm...close to it. There are cops out there who are fundamentally good people, sure. I don't think my dad is a bad person because he was a cop for nearly twenty years, and I don't think my uncle is a bad person for serving longer than that, and I don't think my cousin is a bad person now.
But.
There are real fucking problems with policing in this country, and a huge reason that they don't get solved is because the police do not want to solve them, and actively fight against it. For every cop that wants to do the right thing, there are plenty of others who are either content with the status quo, or who actively fight to make sure change doesn't happen. And there are systemic problems that have much deeper roots in this country's history, too. So I guess...I dunno. I'm probably not gonna be running around yelling ACAB or whatever but...I mean, I'm not gonna begrudge the people who do? My positive experiences don't outweigh the current shitshow that is modern policing, nor do they outweigh the history of policing in this country.
Yeah Geebs I have cops in my family too and it took me awhile to realize that maybe it wasn't good for Uncle Jeff to have been to multiple excessive force hearings while he was on the vice unit
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Remember when I told y'all to go on strike? Before Trump? Although I may have expressed an inappropriate amount of gusto (no i didn't), I was called out for things not being "that bad".
Well, glad you came around!
It's almost like, as we grew older, we also grew wiser.
my balls being stuck to my shut legs is usually the cause of them being heated though
i don't read threads for bad games
also a lot of people left or got banned over the years
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If we have another ask Tube thread again this year I'd love to know if the forums or growing or shrinking. Certainly we see far fewer bannings in the ban threads than we used to. Either new folks are figuring it out, or just not coming anymore.
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how many people are there who A) still want to post on internet forums but
Just click Activity at the top and it’ll tell you how many people have joined in a day.
Otherwise it's entrapment.
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I don't think there's much crossover from new people posting in the pax forums to the rest of the forums but I could be wrong
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Nope, nopenopenope.
You really wanna miss my comment about my sweaty balls?
Oh wow, I wonder how many times he shot himself in the back of the head, from 5 metres away?
well, there's at least one, cause 8 years ago thats where i came from
Is effectively about my life. You don't need to explain to me how cops paper over their shit.
can you dig out of a pile of dogs or do you need to cuddle them all to get out
I got abused by my cop dad it is what im saying but yeah that puts you in a pretty deep hole, glad I could get some fuckin flashbacks today, thanks guys. I'll just go somewhere else for a bit. Sorry fir fuckin up the thread. I'll go eat and chill off. Im pretty fucked up, but you're all cool and I want to know that's sincere I'm just way too tilted by other shit in my life and I let that leak everywhere sorry.
If nothing else Sleep appears to be arguing in good faith, so maybe a glib eye-roll isn’t the best response to “I have personal experience of cops committing domestic violence.”
Sincere discussions in this here SE++? Why I never
(this was the first thing I thought of because there are so many stupid metalcore band names)
i mean it's not like they happen anywhere else on the forums
I can't believe I am going to go out like this but @Chincymcchilla are you aware that you are actually a fucking asshole
I've made this conclusion over years of being in the forums, it's not just for this one off incident
And now i wait for your very good and smart friends to tear me apart or have a mod ban me
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This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
On the other hand, if I was in a conversation with someone where the topic of police trustworthiness came up and I was like 'yeah ACAB am I right?'
and then there was an uncomfortable silence and they went, 'What, including my Dad? And my Grandad?'
I cannot honestly say I'd be capable of explaining yes, including your Grandad whom I've never met, and including your Dad who got third degree burns dragging someone from a wrecked car in the line of duty, without coming across as a complete prick
or, alternatively, explaining that I didn't literally mean 'all', yes I know I said 'all' but I didn't mean 'all', without sounding like a back-pedalling idiot.
So this is when it's important to think about how the necessary participation in a late-stage capitalist society compromises us all in different ways, and how our individual choices compound that
You got hearthstone on your phone? Great, you're supporting blizzard's suppression of voices attempting to bring a spotlight to the struggles of their country
You watching football this weekend? Cool, you're supporting an industry that happily abandons its players when they're retired and breaking down physically
I'm compromised because I had a brief and disastrous stint with naval intelligence, even if I'm a big DSA Veterans Working Group supporter and subscribe to About Face
Someone who chooses to be a cop is additionally compromised by participating in a system that gives far too much power to a group of people who cant and won't answer to anyone in 99 percent of cases
None of these things make us bad people in theory but they do make us subject to completely fair judgements from people who are unable to tolerate those compromises
Everything is more complicated than these big blanket statements or gags or phrases, obviously. My feelings on it are complicated because I'm...close to it. There are cops out there who are fundamentally good people, sure. I don't think my dad is a bad person because he was a cop for nearly twenty years, and I don't think my uncle is a bad person for serving longer than that, and I don't think my cousin is a bad person now.
But.
There are real fucking problems with policing in this country, and a huge reason that they don't get solved is because the police do not want to solve them, and actively fight against it. For every cop that wants to do the right thing, there are plenty of others who are either content with the status quo, or who actively fight to make sure change doesn't happen. And there are systemic problems that have much deeper roots in this country's history, too. So I guess...I dunno. I'm probably not gonna be running around yelling ACAB or whatever but...I mean, I'm not gonna begrudge the people who do? My positive experiences don't outweigh the current shitshow that is modern policing, nor do they outweigh the history of policing in this country.