Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

phenomenal, just great

Correction: you must be eight because your reading skills are limited.

police forces have no legitimate function and should be abolished, fuck all cops, this is my final word on the matter.

Jesus wept.

I'm Jewish and don't know what that means sry

the stance that cops are good not bad

how long have you had a love affair with false binaries?

since I was a depressed and anxious child prone to black-and-white thinking, fuck you very much.

well, that certainly gives you a license never to grow up

Really wish normally sane people weren't so bad at reading.

Someone freaked my bestie out today by inexplicably claiming the bailout checks are only going out to people on Government assistance.

I was annoyed with whoever told her that but also was like "friendo, you can read too, you know it doesn't say that".

I kinda worry that there is so much concurrent, fast-breaking news that people outright can't keep up.

MOSTLY.

APOLITICAL.

THREAD.

GUYS.

Oh eat shit

Xpost wtf silby

xp to aimless

see you all in the Better Things Aren't Possible Party Nomination Thread

I truly don't understand why people who are nostalgic for the rowdier zingy era of ilx think I'm bad at posting when I get mad now

Pretty sure neither Aimless or the rest of the board are Blue Lives Matters people.

Also, anxiety/depression, which many other posters itt suffer from, isn't an excuse to be abusive to other ppl itt.

We could all stand to breathe, I don't think anyone is feeling megakeen atm.

I hated that era xpost

what's beyond the pale about telling people to eat shit? Not clever enough?

calling me a child, the gall

That you just get unusually purple-faced aggro when posters get tired of you deliberately misrepresenting what they said?

My relatives who work/worked in law enforcement aren’t Blue Lives Matter people; there is a story I’m misremembering about how my dad’s cousin got his partner fired after said partner intentionally endangered my dad’s cousin’s life as retaliation for my dad’s cousin intervening when the partner was unnecessarily hassling black youth on the MTA.

dunno why I'm taking the bait here, but sorry silby, if someone were to steal your car and then throw a brick through your front window with a note on it that says "I'll be back for you and all your friends, silby," you are 100% reporting this to a cop

Maybe 5 years ago. Not anymore.

but I'm not gonna be hypothetical hardman over here, who can say

Xpost good for your cousin! Fucked up that they almost got Serpico'ed for it

Also, I don’t know anyone else’s family history with the police but every male in my family except me has been in handcuffs and police officers lynched my great-grandfather. I have never nor would I ever hold the opinion that police officers are an unimpeachable good.

So in summation, shut the fuck up, silby

DJP I'm not gonna get heated with you over this I'm mad at the situation

silby calls NWA

Then be mad at the situation and leave my family out of it

Silby, what situation provoked your unrelenting ire towards cops?

I'm a gay Hispanic who's had his own run-ins with awful cops. I'm sorry about whatever your situation is.

*gestures wildly at America*

jesus fuck silby

listen this is just gonna end up with me being tempbanned again but the ilxors involved are substantially more beloved than S******* so I'm gonna try to actually stop posting this time

sorry i mean that as a command

To Jesus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kf4kyQabwQ

bunch of cop lovers here

my dad was a cop and he is a big racist and really dumb

small sample size, i know (although he contributed an oversized portion of my dna, which is frightening)

ILX, lockdown week 1

I actually prefer Duke.

Peace, man - just want to make sure that this high-quality post doesn't get lost in the kerfuffle. I lolled.

xp lol

sorry to hear about the additional coronavirus layoffs and furloughs upthread. :(

imago I’ve been working from home for three weeks and already got tempanned once in that timeframe

I probably need to be confined further, into a very small warm box ideally

tbf I've been cooped up at home for 2 weeks but I was an Early Responder™

let's sort this one out

silby is a good guy who i would personally be happy to be friends with irl, also i find his posts frequently hilarious. this sort of venting is extremely dramatic but my attitude is less 'FP' and more 'gee whizz', if that isn't too patronising

public law enforcement service in the abstract is a good thing, but as with other forms of public service (education, transport, health, p much anything that isn't firefighting) it could stand to be completely rethought and remodelled

i don't actually think acab. scab, maybe even mcab. idk. the way cops are made to cop often makes them bastards but i can genuinely believe that many of them went into it with noble ideals of public service. this isn't about cops so much about the relationship between capital, the law and the people

whoa that didn't xpost i was expecting it to xpost and then i'd rethink it haha

and when you throw coronavirus into the equation, well, things are hard to predict

To Jesus?

― silby, Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:38 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah good guy, restored an old car for me once