I’ve been banned several times with zero warning or clue what I said. It’s kind they’ve taken every single one of those obnoxious power mods from Reddit and given them free rein here.
Have you seen my user name? Admins can’t even keep this place up. They most certainly don’t have automation around ip blacklisting and any real income for proper waf/edge protection. Even if they did the vast majority of the other instances wouldn’t have that either. Not even Reddit effectively stops individual ban evaders, only large scale attacks.
You all like to pretend you’ve somehow found some guy who doesn’t understand what’s up, while ignoring the name 🤣.
This place is going to be overrun by power mods. Just wait and see.
Naw, I’m actually interested in this place succeding. However, it’s painfully obvious this platform has scalability issues (moderation, privacy, and technology). So I’ll keep sounding off for at least a short time while this experiment plays out.
Well yeah they were winning, usually you have to arrest the people who are winning first because it would be awkward to try to arrest someone while they're getting their ass beat.
It seems like in this case they arrested most of the people involved on both sides, that first black guy that they put in cuffs they only did right after he clocked that lady in the jaw like 3ft in front of a police officer.
I like how you specifically point out the one blow a black person in the fight made that was fucked up and completely ignore the fact that the white pieces of shit started the violence. Very telling.
The white boaters clearly started everything but the only arrest I’ve seen as well was the guy who went all WWE with a folding chair on a woman who was already on the ground, right in front of the cops
I’ve seen an article that said the 3 dudes who started it were arrested but I haven’t found anything about chair guy. Hope you’re right that was fucked. She’d just gotten her shit kicked in properly she didn’t deserve the chair.
I just heard on the news that not only was chair guy not arrested, they don’t know who he is and police are looking for him. I want to say it was David Muir’s World News Tonight but I’m not 100% on that as I was in another room and only sort of listening
I completely understand subduing all active threats until you figure out what happened and who is actually a threat but the comment I replied to only mentioned one person and I was pointing that out.
What do you do? As a parent what do you fucking do? How do you protect your kids from this?? What are we supposed to do? Tell them not to leave the house??
I’m in fucking tears, both for this little girl and her family and friends, and because I literally do not know how to protect my daughter from this.
Stand over outdoor playtime with a gun? Trauma Refuse to let kids play outside anymore? Trauma
My kid has already been shooting adjacent once in her life, and that list of kids grows and grows every year. Kids shot, kids siblings shot, kids friends shot, kids on lockdown because there’s a shooting in the school, near the school, shootings in Walmarts, now they can’t play in their front yards or ring the wrong doorbell by mistake.
The fuck, you guys? Thanks for listening so I could get that out of my system before my kid sees my face.
Your first instinct is protect your kid with more guns? Americans literally can’t imagine the simple solution of just not having guns everywhere, which has been proven effective in pretty much every other country in the world.
You thought that was my first instinct? I felt like my first instinct was clearly to keep my kid home forever.
It was a rhetorical question, meant to highlight the insanity of the situation and the lack of options parents face just trying to let their kids be kids in safety. Bringing a gun to playtime would clearly be absurd, as would keeping my daughter inside, but you didn’t feel the need to call out Americans for constantly wanting to lock up their daughters. For that one you understood irony.
My country is a fucking mess, I’m clearly already upset about it. We could even have agreed about it! But you had to read what I wrote in the weirdest, American hating way possible.
I don’t think my reading of your comment was as problematic as you make it out. You formatted your question to have a section in the middle where you list hypothetical solution followed by what you think is the primary issue with those solutions: trauma.
Based on your comments in this thread, you hate America more than I. And you probably have more reason to.
In the context of protecting my kid from trauma (gun violence), my primary issue with a solution would yes, be the likelihood of the solution just causing a different kind of trauma.
You, however, seem to think it’s my only objection to the idea of standing over my kid with a gun. It’s not. I wasn’t trying to write a treatise on guns or gun violence, I was reaching out for human connection in a moment of fear and tears. And your response was to accuse me and all Americans of not being able to fathom a solution to problem without bringing a gun into it. Thanks, I found your reply super helpful in that moment. I’m all better now.
Their question was clearly rhetorical, though. Also, while a lot of Americans are clearly very frustrated with the state of gun violence/gun control in the United States, many of them feel powerless to do anything to remedy the situation outside of the standard bureaucratic processes, so the “just get rid of guns” comment is just preaching to the choir. I can throw away my hypothetical weapons and tell everyone I know to do the same, and at the end of the day I’m just as likely to be shot to death outside of my own home. Nobody loves the situation and plenty of Americans agree with you, but this is the water we swim in.
I am aware. Not to mention the societal cost of uprooting your entire family, probably loosing your social circle, potentially moving to a country whose language you don’t speak, etc etc.
Cost isn’t the only issue with something like that.
Oh we could expect that but celebrity gossip crap is easy to churn out, and it brings in the clicks. Then they get to cover the response to the gossip crap for even more clicks. It’s a never ending tower of crap because crap sells and too people can’t be bothered to exercise some news media intelligence.
Personally, I try to steer clear of the gossip and stick with publications that aren’t doing the click bait headline and provide quality coverage.
Pretty much all journalism is nothing but clickbait these days. Musk is a prime source of that so he gets covered. And he knows that, of course, which is why he’s doing what he’s doing. Asking journalists to stop covering this sort of thing is like asking pigs to stop wallowing in shit
I suppose there is an argument to be made that much of it is celebrity gossip, but there is also, I think, value in covering what the richest man in the world is doing to an extremely popular social media platform. Especially when it has been such a help to governments and the media itself in the past.
It’s a mixed blessing that he won’t stfu. Before he had a megaphone, everyone thought he was Tony Stark. Now almost everyone thinks he’s a fucking dork. While he still has his bootlickers, there are a lot less now.
I also wish that. I hate that all of his stupid controversies are actually just make him more “famous”. He’s the ultimate online troll that grew stronger every time we talked about him regardless if it’s bad or worse.
I already loved his character in HIMYM (James, Barney/NPH’s gay brother) so much because of the trade in sexual orientation between the two actors and their characters. This makes it even better <3
Any journalist who says anything at all about Musk fighting Zuckerberg should be fired for malpractice. I don’t want to hear anything ever about Musk’s infantile cries for attention.
Guaranteed they feel this and lives are slightly better without the cops running down on them 247 like some tough guys. Having to move all your shit can be the last thread for some. It’s an extremely volatile lifestyle. I’m all for ease of suffering in anyway for this community. I really wish it was not like this. Lots of people with little shot. Lots of people with many but wrong circumstances. Lots of people. Lots of problems. I’d hate to ever have to be the cop to come and sweep the riff raff away, who probably has somewhat personal interactions with many of these people often. There’s obviously way too many issues on every level here and it’s overwhelming for my small brain.
Oh, you mean the media should stop polarizing him as either a Tony-Stark-like genius savior of humanity while ignoring his numerous failures, or a brain-dead embodiment of evil who can never succeed at anything while ignoring his numerous successes?
You mean he probably lies somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, right? Certainly you wouldn’t just be criticizing one portrayal without recognizing how equally pathetic the other is? I mean, if you did that, it would be blatantly showing your hand that you’re not trying to clear up lame propaganda, you’re just contributing a different flavor.
Would SpaceX not count in that? I get that he, himself is not the guy who made the rocket, but without his money that first rocket and the COTS program would have never existed.
His only successes with SpaceX and Tesla are buying startups and then pumping them full of cash whilst adding aggressive goals. It's really the various teams that were successful, not Musk. If you want to credit his success, that would be betting the farm on some decently cutting edge startups and then proceeding to win those bets investment-wise.
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