Is the stop-the-steal/meandering-tourists/Aubrey-at-a-construction-site guy really going after somebody for falling for a media narrative?  

3 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

Is the stop-the-steal/meandering-tourists/Aubrey-at-a-construction-site guy really going after somebody for falling for a media narrative?  

shhhhhhh. 

 

 

 

13 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

what "suspicious activity?" please, illuminate me. 

they were filling gas cans. is that suspicious? I dunno, seems pretty normal to me. 

based on the police bulletin, they got a tip that out of state vehicles were parked in a parking lot.

they followed them to a gas station, where they were filling gas cans.

that's enough for police to detain? I dunno, seems a bit short of what the constitution would say. apparently Scalia is a 'hardcore leftist' because he agreed with me that an anonymous tip isn't enough for police to pull someone over. 

but keep going on, please. you're still an idiot, and your willful ignorance doesn't change that.

Holy eff. Dude, stahp.     

4 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Holy eff. Dude, stahp.     

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Let’s make it plain: student debt is policy violence.

11 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

 

 

 

All these idiots that want to cancel student debt...where do they think the money comes from?  And how about those of us who paid off our loans, are we getting a refund? Or are those only for Kyle and Kendra, the gender studies majors who can't afford to pay their loans back cause they're too busy stocking shelves at Target?

John literally wants police to wait until the "Riot Kitchen" psychos start dousing buildings with gasoline before they intervene. This is after having a year and a half to think about it and come up with something not completely retarded.   

2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

All these idiots that want to cancel student debt...where do they think the money comes from?  And how about those of us who paid off our loans, are we getting a refund? Or are those only for Kyle and Kendra, the gender studies majors who can't afford to pay their loans back cause they're too busy stocking shelves at Target?

There's a report from the other day that points out that congress and their staff owe mega student loans.  They're just trying to buy votes while giving themselves and big, taxpayer funded, bonus.  It's ridiculous.

1 hour ago, Kz! said:

I completely forgot about @Phillyterp85 having a meltdown that police didn't shoot Rittenhouse. What an amazing thread.    

Man you have some awful reading comprehension.  But hey while we're talking about past opinions, remember how you thought the McMichaels were simply exercising their legal right to perform a citizens arrest on Ahmaud Arbery, and that they didn't do anything wrong?  Good times....

1 hour ago, Outlaw said:

All these idiots that want to cancel student debt...where do they think the money comes from?  And how about those of us who paid off our loans, are we getting a refund? Or are those only for Kyle and Kendra, the gender studies majors who can't afford to pay their loans back cause they're too busy stocking shelves at Target?

This Administration will just print more money & raise the debt limit.  And you know what happens when we do that? Higher taxes and higher inflation. 

Ironically, you dont get what you pay for in way of higher education like you used to. Because everyone who is in a position where they cannot afford the debt wasn't taught economics, or how to even manage your own budget, debt. No one ever talked to them about the cost of a degree and it's potential ROI. So they want us to pay for their mistakes and lack of awareness. 

Not bloody likely. 

2 minutes ago, Phillyterp85 said:

Man you have some awful reading comprehension.  But hey while we're talking about past opinions, remember how you thought the McMichaels were simply exercising their legal right to perform a citizens arrest on Ahmaud Arbery, and that they didn't do anything wrong?  Good times....

Pretty sure I never said they did nothing wrong. I mostly took issue with the way the media portrayed the events as white dudes hunting a black guy for sport for jogging which obviously isn't what happened, but, hey, why let a rare white on black murder pass without trying to incite racial hatred against whites? 

This is hilarious. Liberalism & communism are mental disorders. Literally:

 

1 hour ago, Kz! said:

Pretty sure I never said they did nothing wrong. I mostly took issue with the way the media portrayed the events as white dudes hunting a black guy for sport for jogging which obviously isn't what happened, but, hey, why let a rare white on black murder pass without trying to incite racial hatred against whites? 

Ummm, it's pretty clear they profiled him.  Are you seriously still doubting that?  No one said they went out hunting a black guy for sport.  What was VERY clear is that they saw a black guy running, and ASSUMED he had just committed a criminal act.    But since you're trying to defend your embarrassing stance, let's revisit it shall we?

"There's still a lot we don't know, but if the father/son combo were aware of the security footage of someone matching Arbery's description entering houses at night, it might help to explain why they were trying to detain him (not that they were right in this instance, IMO). And, if Arbery has an extensive criminal history and a history of theft, it might help explain why the DA decided against pressing charges considering the father/son combo have a clean record. It still doesn't mean that this incident wasn't tragic or that the father and son should be out making citizen's arrests, but it does help explain the lack of charges brought forth. It's also entirely possible that Arbery was casing the place or had robbed it in the past."

LOL yup the DA was on the up and up here.....

"Did Aubery get shot for going into the house or trying to disarm a dude?"

lol yeah, "trying to disarm a dude", that's a weird way of saying "trying to legally defend yourself from someone aiming a gun at you"

"Knowing what we know now (black males caught on tape multiple times in homes where burglaries occurred) it's a shame cooler heads didn't prevail. I understand where the father/son combo were coming from... attempting to hold someone they thought just burglarized a home until police arrived. Obviously, if Arbery was just out for an innocent jog, I've got sympathy for him as well. I think there's still a lot we don't know as well, that may be uncovered during the trial."

Oh that was never in doubt KZAnne.  Interesting too that the CCTV footage showed males and females of various races going through the house, yet you singled out the "black males caught on tape".  Interesting...

"huh, I had read that cameras were installed for that very reason. I think there's still a lot we don't know. What did the father/son combo say to Arbery? Did they just pull up on him guns pointed at him? Did they have any interaction at all beforehand? Did they state their intention to perform a citizen's arrest or ask him to stop because the cops were on the way? Still a lot of information missing."

I think what you meant to say is "did they state their intention to perform an unlawful restraint while pointing a shot gun at him?"   

"It's ok to point a gun at someone and illegally attempt to restrain them so long as you state your illegal intentions first" - a short story by KZAnne.

 

 

7 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

Drone bombing civilians in the Middle East, calling for people to harass political opponents, refusing to prosecute theft, releasing violent criminals who commit further crimes, de-funding the police then complaining about increased crime...

Psshh. Someone having to pay for a loan? Policy violence!

Can we include mortgage, auto, credit cards? 

5 hours ago, iladelphxx said:

We’ll that’s one way to spend your Covid relief check.

Imagine being so triggered by the laugh emoji and Facebook reaction. 

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/15-12-2021/no-laughing-matter-why-its-time-to-cancel-facebooks-haha-reaction

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The haha emoji is poisoning Facebook. Created 11 years ago to express laughter, the emoji – officially dubbed Grinning Squinting Face – has become the emoji of ridicule. Every time I see that little yellow ball of derision sitting at the bottom of news stories and posts, ****ling at the pandemic, climate change, inequality – actually anything where someone is trying to make the world a better place – my faith in humanity slips a little further.

While I’m training myself not to click on Facebook’s comments section – and that addictive rush of outrage of reading the horrendous views of strangers – the haha emoji is unavoidable. It takes just one person to click that avatar of vitriol and the post and my newsfeed is tainted forever. Even on stories where the comments are turned off, you’ll still find that little androgynous face of scorn.

My experience of social media is now like being followed everywhere by Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons – like every earnest view I hold is a source of belittlement for the world.

In a way it has become the emoji of the moment. The emoji of Brexit, Donald Trump and the anti-vaxxers. A weapon of the trolls in the time of the culture wars.

So how did the emoji of joy become the emoji of hate?

In 2016, Guardian columnist Abi Wilkinson called it an "obnoxious, chortling little yellow dope”.

"There’s something about this particular character – with its broad, ****ling grin and the performatively prominent tears of mirth – that just feels inherently mocking and cruel,” Wilkinson said.

It wasn’t just the design that produced such a visceral reaction in Wilkinson, but how it was used – it could be found in comments on stories about refugees who drowned at sea and articles on the rise of hate crime in post-Brexit Britain. The emoji wasn’t being used to express joy, but hate. As she saw it, Tears of Joy had become a weapon of the right in the culture wars.

"When I look at its yellow face, I see the detestable, carefree smirks of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson as they merrily dance through the current chaos – hop, skip and jumping over the cracks in society they’ve helped drive deeper and wider, safe in the knowledge they’ll personally be just fine no matter what.”

An Irish Times columnist called Tears of Joy "more beastly than any other [emoji]” and a "sobbing cretin popular with right-wing bullies and those with no imagination”.

But Tears of Joy soon took a backseat – 2016 was the year of the arguably more divisive Grinning Squinting Face. That year, Facebook made a momentous decision. The "like” –  the big blue thumbs up that had become a symbol of the social media platform – would be expanded to include a sweet of emojis: love, wow, sad, angry… and "haha”. Those bullies were gifted a new and more powerful tool.

There is also something about Grinning Squinting Face that seems objectively worse than Tears of Joy – the aggressive eyebrows angling forward and the slightly tilted back head, looking down on you. While most descriptions of the emoji say it is used to convey laughter, one definition gets closer to its true meaning: "Verb: Treat with ridicule or scorn; deride, mock, laugh, sneer”.

Elevating Grinning Squinty to the status of Facebook reaction has also given the "A-hole” emoji outsized power. The reactions at the bottom of the post are not weighted to represent the number of people who click on a certain reaction. A single click on Grinning Squinty and it’s anchored to a post and an ocean of hearts and likes can’t wash it away. In a global pandemic, when social media feels more toxic and divisive than ever, this has made Facebook feel even more like the home of sneering bullies.

 

 

TL;DR 

5 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

TL;DR 

That's why I included the screen shot TL;DR version for ya, you're welcome. 

But read it, it's funny. 

"Dangerous"

 

 

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

It's a joke, in response to a conservative getting mad about a rainbow nutcracker at Target.

This is a funny one.