Nah silby I honestly wasn't going for passive aggressive I was just making the lowest effort fridge pun imaginable.
― Evan, Monday, 8 June 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
will post to puns that you had missed thread
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 8 June 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime; the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders; and the refrigerators that store the creamers the other two groups need for their coffee. These are their stories.
DUN DUN
― I was working as a waitress in an oxygen bar (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 June 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
DA walks into precinct kitchen with detective"Did you ever find out who was stealing our lunch?""Nope; it's a cold case"[opens almost empty fridge, stares at empty shelves]"The case may be cold, but my missing hoagie?"https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.hellogiggles.com%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2F18131754%2Felliot-stabler-law-and-order-svu.jpg
― Evan, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Thread Ban Silby
― sarahell, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
From where??? This thread?
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
do I need to write 1000 words as to why you should be banned from this thread, bro?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
I’ll be honest with you I usually don’t check what thread I’m posting in
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
just be like a fridge, and chill on the cool progressive beliefs in this thread
― sarahell, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
I’m very conservative compared to my friend who is an avowed Marxist-Leninist, whatever that means
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
yeah we all have cooler more radical friends ... hi-five!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
there is only one thread, i'm on the same page. literally
― our god is a might god (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link
i love the afl
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
(american football league)
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
My uncool conservative belief on abolish is that it seems crazy and scary, so probably should do it and see what happens.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
(i know im late but) the argument that the 'defund the police' slogan is going to backfire on convincing moderates feels like really foolhardy logic considering the people who have been advocating for "defund the police" -- IE mainline organizations from the movement like Black Lives Matter itself -- are the ones who have, very successfully, moved the overton window now to the place that it is, where people are even debating or considering the idea.
"Do you support or oppose (X)"Defunding Police:Support: 28%Oppose: 58%Redirecting Police Funding To Communities:Support: 43%Oppose: 42%Morning Consult / June 14, 2020 / n=1987 / Online— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) June 17, 2020
This poll shows nearly a 1/3rd of Americans actually support "defunding the police," and the number rises to nearly half if you change the wording to imply the definition of "defunding the police."
The movement has done an incredible job of mainstreaming, over an incredibly short time, a concept that seemed hopelessly radical like, a month ago. And now it's getting backseat driver advice on how to more compellingly make the case?
Day after day new stories about people being killed & the police having zero repercussions come out. The idea that this is a farfetched pipe dream ... i could see the argument if we didn't have police unions operating as dangerous ideological, fascistic entities doxing the mayor of new york's daughter, lying to the public, protecting actual murderers; if we didn't have a government in place that was bordering on fascistic itself. But the left finally has some real purchase on the discourse & in the streets & we're second guessing that leadership? seems to me it's doing a lot better at making change happen than these scared suggestions that if we just say "reform the police" it will somehow end up w/ better results...
I dont really get the point, I guess, of being this kind of cynical, message-oriented moderate when you're facing ppl who are just repeating outright lies ... you have to tell the truth.
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 June 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlashyEachAngora-max-1mb.gif
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 June 2020 08:34 (three years ago) link
I know it's sexist, but people in Aubrey Huff's twitter replies who assume he's a woman will always be a solid source of humor to me.
― peace, man, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:34 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Do you have something to say tracer
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 June 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HeavyAcclaimedChameleon-small.gif
― Evan, Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
D-40 i think the gif speaks for itself. imagine me giving you that look.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 08:35 (three years ago) link
hudson yards represents a terrible moment in the development of NYC and I hope things go in a different direction― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, June 19, 2020 12:35 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, June 19, 2020 12:35 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
My uncool conservative belief: Hudson Yards is awesome and good
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
what do you like abou it?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
cancel eephus
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
1. no one gets "cancelled" on the uncool conservative beliefs thread -- unless someone makes a solid case for the uncool conservativeness of cancel culture2. i am banning the use of the phrase "overton window" from this thread. fair warning.
― sarahell, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
even pushing back against an unpopular conservative opinion is not in the spirit of this thread imo
― Mordy, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
nah D-40's post is fine -- just no more overton windows
― sarahell, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
guys i was joking
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
<3
― sarahell, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
to be clear I wasn't pushing back w/ my question, just trying to tease out the reasoning
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 19 June 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
i try to force myself into an open mind for even the most controversial opionion but am stymied thinking of a single redeeming quality to Hudson Yards...so...help
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 19 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
It would make a good skate spot in a Tony Hawk game
― Evan, Friday, 19 June 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
I mean, The Shed has the potential to be interesting I guess? I never went.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 19 June 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
I can see maybe as a looting site in general
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 19 June 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
― Evan
otm
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
That awful alien beehive of capital walkway thingy is such a perfect symbol of the whole thing
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 20 June 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
Good things about Hudson Yards: that spanish food mall has really delicious food and I can't think of an analogue for it anywhere else in New York. I like the big Muji (though I know there are several in New York) I think the Hive is just plain beautiful to look at. It makes a nice "top" to the High Line. Reading about it before I went, I had a sense that it was some kind of Luxury Island cut off from New York proper but in person it seemed very much folded in with what was around it. I dunno, I just like it and really enjoyed visiting it!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
I also like South Street Seaport fwiw
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
the point is to destroy as much as possible the conditions that turn people into rapists and murderers, of which cops and prisons are a major part of worldwide. it's hard to imagine at the moment from within, it feels almost impossible but I know how stifled my imagination istbh my preferred solution would be to shoot them
tbh my preferred solution would be to shoot them
this post from new ilxor "Left" in the Abolish the Police thread echoes the initial spirit of this thread, just wanted to ... bring that up
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
i think the european internet regulations are pretty dumb. it's like if my mother, who is terrified of her computer and dutifully 'removes cookies' every time she visits a site, wrote the policy. rhetorically it seems that they think they're taking down the big tech giants, yet they are more powerful than ever, and now we have to click 'accept cookies' every time we open a page
― flopson, Sunday, 21 June 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
neither uncool nor conservative imo? the fact the regulators consulted with apparently zero actually experimental internet operators means their attempt at technocratic liberalism is actually conservative and dumb
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
“experienced” not “experimental” derp
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
many xps eephus fair enough
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Saturday, June 20, 2020 9:08 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
dang
― flopson, Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
#tombotted
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
Pat Sajak seems like a nice guy
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
(that's my conservative opinion)
https://assholeoftheday.us/post/86444324475/pat-sajak-asshole-of-the-day-for-may-21-2014-by
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 June 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
idk if it's a belief per se but i'm always questioning the efficacy of boycotts
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 3 July 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
My parents have been boycotting Nestle for 40 years.
― peace, man, Friday, 3 July 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link