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Applebees Appetizer posted:I worked with cops for 8 years and can say without a doubt probably 80% of them are assholes (men and women!) that were beat up in high school and are on a power trip to get revenge or are just bitter miserable people that hate life and want others to hate it too. Can confirm. 9 years in the bar industry, only met a handful of good cops.
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"Peace, quiet and good order will be maintained in our city To the best of our ability. Riots, melees and disturbances Of the peace are against the interests of all our people; and Therefore cannot be permitted."
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Rhyno posted:The poo poo leaking out of the MPD is insane. It sounds like the cops are planning a bloody coup. Do you have any further info? That sounds juicy as hell
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taqueso posted:Do you have any further info? That sounds juicy as hell  
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taqueso posted:Black Lives Matter Nine Lives Matter.
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Kyle Kinane’s description of the average cop: “Hey man, why’d you become a cop? Oh, I was bullied in school so I repressed that anger and now I get to take it out on society with the protection of a badge!”
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:gently caress bob kroll Seriously. Dude just wants to murder every single person who even ponders protesting.
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It's not just a policing issue, it's larger than that. Boots Riley on Chris Dorner (LAPD cop that got tired of the bullshit and killed a few cops himself): A quick thought about Chris Dorner: We should remember that Dorner was a cop, first and foremost. He didn't like police brutality, but police brutality is only a small part of the problem with police. A well-oiled, non-corrupt police force without police brutality is still a menace to the working class, especially for communities of color. I don't care if they give you a massage and a spa treatment before they take you to jail- they're job is to lock folks up who are actually trying to hustle to survive. Under capitalism, there MUST be unemployment. If there was no unemployment, the system wouldn't work because everyone would be able to demand higher wages. A certain amount of unemployed and employed folks have to be involved in illegal economies just to survive. Illegal economies require physical force- violence- to regulate them, as there is no other recourse. This means the police's target for imprisonment is foretold by the system. Many folks'- "progressive" and "conservative"- narrative of "crime" and violence in the Black community is one that favors individual blame of the folks involved. This is because the idea of changing the system requires building a radical, militant mass movement, so folks ignore the real answer and try to come up with psychological and cultural reasoning for it. If cops actually wanted to fight "crime" as they see it- dope dealing, murders, etc., they would not be a cop and they would build a movement to take down capitalism and replace it with one where the people democratically control the wealth that they create with their labor. The choice of becoming a cop means that you have decided that there is no problem with capitalism, and the source of violence and "crime" is the individual on the street. That viewpoint is something that is pushed by almost every TV show, movie, and comic book that most of us have seen. So it's not shocking that many would have this viewpoint. (It's also the reason that Dorner's actions were accepted in some circles- he's a cop- like all our comic book heroes. Hell, even Tarantino's Django was a cop.) It's just not true, though. It's a theory that doesn't hold water. The violence on the street is a natural outgrowth of the violence in the boardroom.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Nine Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. Native Lives Matter. All Lives can't Matter until those groups are included, and joking about it before that point is the opposite of respectful. I know we're on SomethingAwful but this merits respect, even here. meatpimp posted:It's not just a policing issue, it's larger than that.
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Wait, it's June already?CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:\ gently caress yeah! I'm a bit salty that I missed the launch, despite having a calendar reminder set. Glad to know they got up and gone safely. fake edit: did they really have to have the orange idiot in the middle? Somewhat Heroic posted:Had an unexpected moment of emotion with our seven year old daughter Saturday night. She came out of her room while my wife and I were viewing a video of a cop car being set on fire in downtown Salt Lake City. She asked why that was happening. I had to tell her about George Floyd, and the events that happened. I told her that people were upset because this man was killed by a police officer. We told her how upset we were about it. We told her that it was especially difficult because of how the police officer was a white man and George Floyd was a black man. We talked about segregation and history, noting how there were things that her grandparents saw that were so sad to experience and see. I think we were able to distill it down enough for her young mind to understand. She still has some questions and it will take time for her to understand and more than a brief conversation can allow. Having to tell her about how a man died by suffocation over the course of ten minutes while doing everything he was told to do by a police officer and was not a threat of any kind broke my heart. I cried, so did my wife. We ended by telling her how important it is that we only work to build each other up, that we should only show love to one another and that we need to help others to the best of our abilities. It's tough trying to gently break it to a kid that stuff they've been asked to believe since young - that cops are good people who will protect you, in this case - is more or less a polite lie, like Santa Claus. IOwnCalculus posted:Fire ze missiles! You're not a "good cop" unless you're stopping the bad cops too, "thin blue line" bullshit be damned. They're not the line between us and chaos when *they're* the ones causing the chaos. Fuckin' fire all of them and start over. edit: not that it would help all that much given how institutionalized everything is.
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My old boss posted that a protest is set for 2:30 tomorrow at the open air mall where I used to work. One of my police friends confirms they are aware of this and will not allow most destruction of property so expect to hear about a death toll in Indiana tomorrow.
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Just found out how to vote absentee this month with no good reason other than "don't want the 'rona" I suggest y'all do the same.
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heck.. even avoiding the 'Rona. Just Vote. I could not have said it better myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lf_2JyXocY edit: avoiding, ignoring..same poo poo, right? Beverly Cleavage fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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It's a good sign when you put a charger on your car battery and it goes past "maintain", past "charge" and straight to "save", right? Right? 
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Pipkin is getting a new friend a little more than a week from now. Any guesses? Might be able to guess from some of my old posts and this picture. First right answer gets some cute pictures.
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Pictured, the world's worst cat.
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shy boy from chess club posted:Pipkin is getting a new friend a little more than a week from now. Any guesses? Might be able to guess from some of my old posts and this picture. First right answer gets some cute pictures. Sure looks like a parrot cage to me. Rhyno posted:My old boss posted that a protest is set for 2:30 tomorrow at the open air mall where I used to work. One of my police friends confirms they are aware of this and will not allow most destruction of property so expect to hear about a death toll in Indiana tomorrow. Yeah, suddenly the AZ governor decides to actually enforce curfew (as opposed to the COVID stay at home that a number of restaurants blatantly and publicly disregarded) now that a mall and a dealership in Scottsdale suffered property damage.
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(Yes I have repeatedthis joke elsewhere) I found an old report card. My grades were interesting..... I got A, C, A and B
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shy boy from chess club posted:Is that a yardbird under the other chair? It sure is, two straight months of chasing it off the deck hasn't taught it anything, the cat is not helping. A few minutes after I took that picture a Perigrine Falcon swooped by and the stupid chicken freaked and slammed headlong into the watering cans. Applebees Appetizer posted:This is Bailey, he's still a kitten, so far he's a really sweet kitty but can be an annoying jerk at times like most cats That's a lot of floof.
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Beverly Cleavage posted:heck.. even avoiding the 'Rona. Just Vote. That man is talking some sense, and I like the way he says it plainly. I never understood the sense in burning down the business and possessions of your neighbors, when clearly they had nothing to do with the hell you ended up in, but I do get that "the government" and "large corporations" and the system are a lot harder to target effectively, and don't generally have an immediate result. It's striking out in anger and frustration at anything nearby, which, I guess on second thought, I'm ashamed to admit I do understand. Not to that level, mind you, but I've definitely snapped at people in anger who had nothing to do with that anger.
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Krakkles posted:I get that this was a joke, but please don't do this. Yeah I saw an amazing explanation from some twitter rando that should make it easy to explain to everyone: Imagine sitting around the table and you pass out food to everyone but Bob. Bob says "I'm hungry, can I have some too?" Jane says "WE'RE ALL HUNGRY, BOB." Then everyone eats, except Bob.
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It appears I'll be cleaning my friends list a bit more this year then. loving hell.
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It's stupid, but rioting and destroying poo poo often gets results more quickly than peaceful demonstrations, look at Stonewall or the Boston Massacre.
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Elviscat posted:It's stupid, but rioting and destroying poo poo often gets results more quickly than peaceful demonstrations, look at Stonewall or the Boston Massacre. exactly, peaceful protests are mostly ignored
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BraveUlysses posted:exactly, peaceful protests are mostly ignored The same people demanding these protests be more peaceful, are the ones who poo poo bricks because FOOTBALL MAN KNEELED
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Elviscat posted:It's stupid, but rioting and destroying poo poo often gets results more quickly than peaceful demonstrations, look at Stonewall or the Boston Massacre. Unless you're black/POC. Then you die instead, and that's the problem. Killer Mike is just trying to prevent more deaths. I don't dispute that on some level the uprising is needed, it's the aftermath for those most affected which is what sucks.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Just found out how to vote absentee this month with no good reason other than "don't want the 'rona" Texas ain't doin that. And since I just moved, it's gonna be tough to do early voting. I've already mailed my new voter registration, but it probably won't take effect until early voting is over. I'm in both a different city and county now...
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I haven't done anything car related in a while since late march because lazy, even though I was stuck at home with the car as company As tribute I bring you birbo? turbirb? turbirbo?  (Old photo, sorry if you've already seen it)
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IOwnCalculus posted:The same people demanding these protests be more peaceful, are the ones who poo poo bricks because FOOTBALL MAN KNEELED This cant be repeated enough. They tried peaceful protests and these assholes were DONT PROTEST LIKE THAT. Also it cant be stressed enough it's the cops who are shooting into peaceful crowds or bashing kneeling protestors that are provking violence. There's white boys smashing windows and looting stores for *reasons*. Orange fuckwit is pouring petrol on the fires as well. Most of the protests are very much peaceful and the real protestors are finding troublemakers and making sure they dont start poo poo.
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Oh good, the Cheeto is threatening to deploy the army. This can only end well.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Sure looks like a parrot cage to me. It is a parrot cage but that's not it. Imgur is absolutely not letting me upload so good thing no one guessed it yet. The pictures are reeeeaaaally cute tho I've been looking for a cage for a few months now and I'm so glad no one responded to the ads from the other ones. This is the biggest and well made one I found not to mention stainless steel for $350. Total score.
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 Edit: not to emptypost a meme, things are going to start to suck. I see that in a number of facets of life right now. We've been through tough times before, but this is honestly starting to get a little bit intimidating. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Killer Mike is extremely good. His music is also extremely good. I spent way too much of my life avoiding rap, and RTJ is so loving good it makes me wish I hadn't.
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