S04E02, ~33min into episode. Conversation between Firecracker and Sister Sage.

Firecracker:

Purpose. I sell purpose. These people got nothing. Maybe they lost a job or a house or a kid to Oxy. Politicians don’t give a shit, mainstream media tells them to be ashamed of their skin color, so, well, I bring 'em together, tell them a story, give them a purpose. Which would you rather believe? That you belong to a community of warriors battling a secret evil, or that you’re a lonely, inconsequential nobody that no one will ever remember?

When go to you

happen does How a typo this like even? It’s like they noticed the word “you” was missing and then decided to add it haphazardly. If “go to” was omitted it also would have been coherent.

In a Neal Brennan stand-up special (Piped link) he mentions he uses a Pavlok to shock him every 3 minutes on stage to remind him to smile.

Can they just insist it’s pronounced like jimp and sidestep the issue? Imgur, .gif, GNOME, GIPHY get to set their own rules on pronunciation.

That YouTube tracking parameter is probably the one I encounter the most and it’s frustrating that the Firefox “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” doesn’t strip it out. I’m assuming it’s intentionally allowed by Mozilla because of some agreement with Google.

As part of an analysis of how […]

‘How’ what? Either their editors suck and missed the opening sentence or I’m just incapable of parsing English anymore.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy (Piped link)

In no way did I suggest Floyd should have been killed.

But you insist on going out of your way to bloviate about how he was such a terrible person. That’s the entire crux of your argument and it just doesn’t matter. The whole point of having human rights and rule of law is not to pick and choose when they apply. Everyone should care when anyone is needlessly killed or abused, regardless of their past or personality. It’s possible to want a person to die but still insist that others don’t kill them.

And please chill with your moaning about everyone’s reading comprehension and intelligence. It’s not conducive to polite discussion and might give people the impression you’re just trolling.

I don’t care about the particular person being targeted, the police aren’t supposed to murder someone just because they feel like it. If they’re a first time offender or a “career criminal” they shouldn’t be killed unless there’s no feasible alternatives.

Do you honestly think there would have been meaningful lasting change if people propped up Breonna as a martyr instead? Why hasn’t that happened for any of the other well-publicized deaths of upstanding citizens? Why haven’t things like consent decrees and civilian oversight boards been enough to curb police violence and rights abuse, especially against minority groups?

The police didn’t even bother pretending they were sorry and would pinkie-swear to reform, they flat out demanded that they be allowed to act with impunity and then just decided they didn’t want to enforce the law at all anymore if the public was going to be angry with them. Are there instances of the police stating they want to improve their perception and relationship with the public and “the reactionaries” just deciding to riot instead? It should never have come to the point that a large amount of people (across the country) felt rioting was the most appropriate move, but since it did I think the failing was just that it didn’t go far enough. There’s plenty of evidence to conclude that the police and their enablers will not voluntarily reform and will need be forced against their will.

And as far as providing conservatives with talking points, there’s literally no situation where they won’t just use whatever narrative they want; even if it involves space lasers or child trafficking in a pizzeria basement.

rappers often get prosecuted based on their lyrics

Rapp Snitch Knishes

I thought I was polite in my initial request that they cut back on linking their site, I don’t recall ever suggesting people collect their pitchforks and torches. Please be more dramatic :)

I’m just not interested in having another source of non-stop (undisclosed) advertising trying to appear as organic engagement and am announcing it publicly in the hopes that they either limit their use of it or to at least make others aware what the user is doing.

It would be one thing if they were announcing they own the site but it’s the only place they link to and it gets shoehorned into multiple communities with calls to go visit it.

Please consider not constantly trying to self-promote your website.

Nice rip, Alex

I’m glad we were able to discuss this productively and that our comments were voted on based on their quality and not level of agreement.

Surely if we all continue to make brash emotional responses to the concerns around firearm safety instead of effective ones we’ll get this menace solved any day now.

Not worried about saving face, my reply was more a rebuttal to yours re: “Lemmy when every minor detail isn’t included” etc. I would think the perpetrator’s name would be more important than the caliber and manufacturer of the firearm; e.g. “GOP Politician Don Wilson Leaves a Loaded Pistol in the Bathroom” imparts more key information than the one used - and even the fact is was loaded isn’t surprising since it being left in the bathroom implies it is used for self-defense and would likely be loaded. There is the possibility that it was some prop used for demonstration that was accidentally left there which would (hopefully) be unloaded so it’s not a strictly extraneous detail to include so that alone I don’t take issue with.

My issue is just specifying it was Glock and 9mm in the headline was simply because of the public’s familiarity with the words but not what they mean necessarily [the most popular handgun in the most popular caliber] and was intended to make the scenario sound even more scary. I used the three examples to point out that they would likely report the other scenarios as simply ‘left vehicle parked illegally’, omit the clothing and briefcase composition regarding the shoplifting, and not specify the brand of beer or its unsurprising temperature and form factor in the parking lot drinking.

Sure, get specific in the body to accurately describe the facts, but the headline isn’t meaningfully changed by omitting those points so I don’t think they were needed.

I just don’t feel like the make and caliber of the pistol was more pertinent than the name of the politician to highlight in the headline.

Was it extra dangerous because it was a Glock pistol and not Sig Sauer? Would it have been less an issue if it was .380 Auto or .45 ACP instead of 9mm?

"Nothing to See Here, Just a GOP Politician…

• leaving their silver Toyota Corolla with gas in the tank parked illegally
• wearing a tailored business suit and carrying a leather briefcase while shoplifting
• drinking a cold Budweiser beer in an aluminum can in a school parking lot

Entitled kids, don’t they already get enough lead in school from their peers‽

Sorry for doxxing but you’re Brick Top, aren’t you?