Fuck the police.
So there's this Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan today
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I'd love to see you say that after someone breaks into your house, or robs you at knife point, or smashes into your car and drives off.
He'd blame himself for oppressing them with his opulent lifestyle.
Sounds like child abuse to me. Can you imagine what the children are experiencing?
Question authority. Teach your kids to question authority.
But the second - the very instant - you use your child as a shield, weapon, or bargaining chip in any conflict you lose. Whether you're using them to get back at your ex, arming them in africa and having them fight your turf wars, using them to ferry your drugs back and forth, selling them to strangers by the hour, or using them to shield you from the police doesn't matter - you can no longer be counted as their guardian. If they are no more than property to you, weapons, shields, etc, then you shouldn't be the one to raise them.
They would probably be too busy beating up minorities or fighting the war on drugs (or both at the same time!) to help me.
Damn right.
I can't believe I fell for your trolling bullshit. Shame on me.
Well, AFTER any of that has happened, all they're really good for is a report to file for insurance purposes.
A good set of general rules when having a discussion with Charlie.
Rule 1. Charlie is trolling you.
Rule 2. When in doubt, see Rule 1.
If trolling is having an opinion different from the norm here, then yes, I am trolling. I'm not pretending though just to get a rise out of you. I honestly don't like or trust the police.
Police stole my truck. True story (those of you who haven't put two and two together by now have just been given a huge clue).
That issue goes unresolved. But I have personally known law enforcement professionals who do truly treat their profession as a duty and take great pride, but unfortunately I have known many who are also on a "I have a badge" power trip.
That issue goes unresolved. But I have personally known law enforcement professionals who do truly treat their profession as a duty and take great pride, but unfortunately I have known many who are also on a "I have a badge" power trip.
Out of curiosity is this due to personal interactions with the police, or from the first-hand experiences of others close to you, or from stories, articles, and news from third party sources? If it's the first two, what experiences have soured you so much towards law enforcement?
My interactions with the police have been as positive as they could be, under the circumstances. I've read reports of other people's bad experiences with them, but without knowing all the details, this third-hand information, often filtered through some bias or another, isn't worth basing my future decisions on.
I've also known many people who hate the police in a "I'mma shoot the messenger way" - the police are acting in accordance with the laws, these people simply disagree with the laws, and by extension those who enforce them.
But your dislike and distrust seems to speak towards personal experiences where the police went beyond enforcing the law to your personal or close friends' detriment.
As I've said before when you've posted this kind of defense, you're full of shit. You post things in a purposely antagonizing way to get a rise out of people and turn even those who agreed with your side of things against you, killing any kind of discussion aside from "WTF is wrong with Charlie?" Like George W Bush, you are a unifier, in that you bring people together because they now have a common problem.
...that said, I didn't see this as one of those times since "fuck the police" is a meme.
I suspect Charlie's animosity towards the police stems more from the inherent power they hold as an enforcer of laws then any particular reason, and he'll go out of his way to find examples that support his view of them as corrupt instead of what a rational person would do and look at it from both sides.
Hey, psychology is intuitive. It's not like it takes any special training or anything to understand how people work.
No?
Hey now, I don't come here to be reasonable, and I'm sure no one else does either.
Sorry, the witch hunt was getting to the point of being boring.
Nah, this is fine, I'm glad to finally know what I was actually thinking from all these people that aren't me.
Well...to be fair, people don't understand themselves very well either.
I wonder if that's how police officers feel when some little punk accuses them all of being corrupt and racist?
Now that is totally fair! (not being sarcastic here)
The thing vascillates from occasionally sane (like protection for whistleblowers) to totally and patently absurd (end free trade, health care must cover naturopathy) to humorously misspelled ("end corporate funding and control of collages").
Although maybe there's a lot of corporations who have their hands in junior high art projects. I can't be sure.
Ugh. Just ugh. Some decent ideas interspersed with hippy dippy ridiculousness.
I did get a laugh out of #41. "We demand an end to the corporate funding and control of collages and universities."
My arts and crafts group will be very disappointed
Added at: 18:58
DAMN YOU CHAD SEXINGTON! You have made an enemy this day!
I did get a laugh out of #41. "We demand an end to the corporate funding and control of collages and universities."
My arts and crafts group will be very disappointed Added at: 18:58
DAMN YOU CHAD SEXINGTON! You have made an enemy this day!
Well that's... something. Just as I was thinking, "Hey, I can get behind a few of these ideas..." they hit me with a "9/11 is a conspiracy" request, and the whole thing unravels from there.
Although I did laugh at the "if we remove too many demands..." bit at the beginning though.
I hope they gain traction on at least a few things, though it's quite obvious this is merely a laundry list of existing desires of many other groups, many of which have severe issues to be resolved before they could be implemented.
Still, it's good that they are getting stuff down on paper and causing a dialogue. Especially since winter's coming, and a lot of people are going to pack up and head home for the winter.
Although I did laugh at the "if we remove too many demands..." bit at the beginning though.
I hope they gain traction on at least a few things, though it's quite obvious this is merely a laundry list of existing desires of many other groups, many of which have severe issues to be resolved before they could be implemented.
Still, it's good that they are getting stuff down on paper and causing a dialogue. Especially since winter's coming, and a lot of people are going to pack up and head home for the winter.
Nice.
Yeah, like McDonalds would want to hire any of these miscreants. Now they have to deal with an onrush of applicants without any prior warning
Oh..you meant the protestors....
Carry on.
The article says "several sheets" then uses the word "showered". Where do you get "hundreds" from?
It's rude, sure, but terribly funny.
I only saw the showered bit. It implied a lot... but thinking back, if the protest was fairly small they wouldn't need that many.
