According to the cops. The same cops who shoot people for having wallets and sticks. Same cops who beat Deaf people for not following verbal instructions. Same cops who shoot autistic folks.
Yeah, I don't think "armed" means "was an imminent threat to life" in the slightest. It's much more likely it's a cover your ass designation.
I'm probably your age, kids back in my day would kill or injure other kids for being gay or Black. I think a lot of bullying has actually gone down, but because of the internet one sociopathic kid can fuck over people at scale.
Do you know why ACAB? Is not because they are rude, it's not cause they mean. It's because they participate in a societal role that requires them to do bastardly things.
They have to enforce unjust laws and unjust outcomes, and statistically do so more heavily across minority populations.
The institution requires them to be bastards, ACAB is a statement about the institution of police and the people who elect to join that institution.
> It's because they participate in a societal role that requires them to do bastardly things. They have to enforce unjust laws and unjust outcomes
The problems with American policing aren't merely that the cops have to enforce the law.
It's the qualified immunity, the get-out-of-jail-free cards for their buddies, and the dog shootings.
If the police never shot the wrong guy, always replaced your door after breaking it down, and were polite and apologetic when a mistake was made - people in this thread wouldn't be equating swatting with attempted murder.
Now do "How American companies oppress workers and run lives". We got wage theft, abuse, sexual harassment, at will firings, wage slavery, and all sorts of fucked up healthcare forcing people to work here. Edit: to say nothing of our prison slave labor here.
Why would women and Black men not be good authors? If you have evidence that the books nominated were chosen on something other than merit, share that, otherwise you sound like an ass by insinuating that women and Black men can't write. Not everything has to be a big culture war battle, chill out.
Yeah. Which is wild to me because Biden was center/center right. It's not like one has to hide it the past four years. And most online platforms will still be moderated for the next little while.
I like how this author is ambivalent towards the technology. "They both are fine, whatever" feels like the right take and I wish I saw it more in computing. Programming languages? IDEs? Repo structure? Service architecture? It's always traders, it's rarely clearly a one winner. Pick one that works and say meh.
Comparing it to Jonestown is ludicrous. Most of America didn't pack up and follow them out.
A more similar comparison would be the flight from MySpace or Digg. One day those places just weren't it, and everyone was talking about how much better the new place is. Some folks stayed behind, most of us moved, and some folks used it as a chance to get off the ride.
There's nothing conspiratorial here, everyone can see musk is a divisive figure. And I think everyone can see Twitter has changed. People look at blue sky and see something of the old Twitter and go, "I like it here, I should tell the people I know it's nice here."
But like Digg and MySpace, some people will stay behind, many will move, and some will use it to exit the game entirely.
You've been duped. Your information environment sounds very narrow, and you may be over valuing information from people who are politically similar (I believe some people call this an "echo chamber", but I'm not fond of that term.)
Strongly recommend you take steps to interrogate your inputs more critically. Or at least change the way you present, because you come across as quite dogmatic and zealous, like a flat earther.
First of all, a judge just overturned this thing, so I hope you're still laughing.
Secondly, if they really paid money for this, they're idiots because InfoWars is meaningless without Alex. He will just start "The Alex Jones Network" and recapture his audience.
All that said, I see that I got downvoted by woke idiots even though I don't even watch Alex Jones.
It has been paused based on normal steps in bankruptcy proceedings[0].
> A court hearing is typically held after a bankruptcy auction to finalize the winning bids and sales, and to hear any objections, so the process in Jones's case hasn't strayed far from the usual — yet.
You seem to think that I care about the audience. It's funny because it's a puppeteer piloting the shambling corpse of Jones's products around to mock him. A constant reminder of his failure he'll see every day.
Yeah, I don't think "armed" means "was an imminent threat to life" in the slightest. It's much more likely it's a cover your ass designation.