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Serious / Re: Justifying Riots
« on: June 11, 2020, 08:34:27 PM »
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The Flood / Re: So I was away for a while, what's everyone up to?« on: June 11, 2020, 06:07:05 PM »
On the dole lol
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The Flood / Re: What shows have you been watching lately?« on: June 08, 2020, 07:30:07 AM »Also find it really hard to emotionally connect to Uhtred the way he goes through wives like they're empty crisp packets or something.Honestly nothing new is really grabbing my attention at this moment in time. I got into the first season of Last Kingdom if you're into historical Anglo Saxon and Viking aesthetics but my interests started waning in season 2 and haven't really picked it back up again. 124
The Flood / Re: What shows have you been watching lately?« on: June 07, 2020, 06:27:15 PM »
Honestly nothing new is really grabbing my attention at this moment in time. I got into the first season of Last Kingdom if you're into historical Anglo Saxon and Viking aesthetics but my interests started waning in season 2 and haven't really picked it back up again.
I rewatched The Terror (more historical kino set in the Victorian era) which isn't a new show, but still remains really good. It has Master and Commander vibes with early GoT internal scheming and politics if that's your kind of scene. Also has various supernatural elements going on as well. 125
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 07, 2020, 04:52:16 PM »
‘It’s sad what ‘appened to that black geezer in America but all this rioting and looting is just not on mate’
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Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 02, 2020, 06:27:58 PM »
Hello fellow humans, it is I, corporation! I care deeply about your cause and, *checks notes* black people. Please purchase my products and consume my media.
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Serious / Re: Coronavirus panic room thread« on: June 01, 2020, 06:20:14 PM »
2020 is on some season finale energy.
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Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 01, 2020, 04:03:16 PM »When you have a culture so rife with inequality and an infrastructure so utterly disinterested in making any sort of meaningful systemic change then yes, civil disorder is an inevitability at that point. That's what I'm referring to when I say the system makes it necessary.And yet racial inequality and systematic discrimination is still a pervasive and ingrained problem that hasn't dissappeared.The point is not to encourage the violence by making it out to be a necessary evil to create change within a rotten system. There's a stark difference between actually condoning rioting and pointing out the societal hallmarks which has lead to it. 129
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 01, 2020, 01:32:05 PM »aaaand with these last few posts I hope now you understand why cops bring riot shields and armored vehicles to large, riled-up protests.New Zealand, London and Berlin have all been subject to street wide "riled up" emotionally charged protests and been met with no civil disorder. I wonder why that is. I wonder what the common denominator here could be. Oink oink. 130
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 01, 2020, 01:03:07 PM »And yet racial inequality and systematic discrimination is still a pervasive and ingrained problem that hasn't dissappeared.Sorry, I don't think hurting innocent people is necessary to fight oppression. I think that's a very dangerous belief seriously lacking in empathy.Me? I don't. The system has somehow made it necessary.If your biggest concern right now is civil unrest and property damage as a response to state officiated murder then there's not much else to tell you other than that your priorities and moral compass have exited the Earth's atmosphere.Innocent people are being beaten, shot at, and having their businesses destroyed. You don't believe all of that is somehow necessary do you? No one here is positing the notion that innocent lives need to be ruined to see any significant change, at least not seriously. But this instant jump to riots and looting being the main focus of concern, when it's actually a symptom of the rotten system, is a serious misalignment of where the priorities should be. 131
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 01, 2020, 12:31:02 PM »Me? I don't. The system has somehow made it necessary.If your biggest concern right now is civil unrest and property damage as a response to state officiated murder then there's not much else to tell you other than that your priorities and moral compass have exited the Earth's atmosphere.Innocent people are being beaten, shot at, and having their businesses destroyed. You don't believe all of that is somehow necessary do you? How many times have we been down this road with peaceful protest where nothing changes? Believe me, I'd really like to live in a world where we can kumbaya the problems away by singing John Lennons Imagine but it's a far cry from reality. 132
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 01, 2020, 11:58:30 AM »
Hard power gets met with hard power. Let's not forget that the catalyst to these riots and protests is because a state funded fascist essentially curbstomped a guy who pleaded for his life for 9 minutes over a fucking counterfeit 20 dollar bill, allegedly. This is also just one of the multitude of incidences of police brutality that haven't even been documented.
And people wonder why a violent response ensued. If your biggest concern right now is civil unrest and property damage as a response to state officiated murder then there's not much else to tell you other than that your priorities and moral compass have exited the Earth's atmosphere. 133
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: June 01, 2020, 06:13:15 AM »Not defending the pig's behaviour but Nick does have a point about the prevalence of guns and gun culture in the states. Given how liberal it is for basically anyone and everyone to carry a firearm it would be really silly for the police not to come armed for the potentiality of self preservation.The issue is further complicated by the fact that everyone is the States is packing heat, (so cops are on edge at all times anyway) and now they are on extra-edge because several states have gone full revolution-mode.So protestors are going to be seen as targets by the police, regardless of their actual threat. Why are they in charge of maintaining the peace again? And given guns? 135
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 08:50:34 PM »I agree with Mordo that CEOs don't deserve in any way to be bathing in cash while the people actually responsible for keeping companies afloat can barely survive off of their wages, but Jesus dude, you're not helping your point in the least bit. You sound like the degenerates in my ghetto middle and high schools who are all now in the ground or replicating SecondClass' existance.I'd rather sound like second class than some subservient bootlicker who thinks CEOS somehow deserve the palacial salary they get for scratching their arse. Get some fucking perspective. 136
The Flood / Re: Covid lockdown status update« on: May 29, 2020, 08:42:29 PM »Seeing as that is not for the foreseeable future, when do you suggest we reopen?When we have sustainable control of the virus via social distancing. Quote I won't argue there but ignoring the rich and looking at the poor or hell even middle class, they are part of the economy too. Whether you think they're slaves to wages or whatever, their survival is tied to the economy as of right now so what do you think we should do about that?Continue social distancing and until deaths and infection rates are controllable. What about this is so convoluted. 137
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 08:32:06 PM »What the fuck is your problem dude? Jesus Christ you're unbelievable.OH MY LAWWWD LAWD LAWDIs lil wagie still talking? Don't worry, I'm sure the mouse will allow you those extra dollars for overtime. Massa mouse treats us goods. Wese a good slave for massa. WESE SORRY MASSA. DON'T DEDUCT ARE WAGES MASSA WE NEEDS IT TO SURVIVE 138
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 08:24:13 PM »Define both "grotesquely excessive" and "just scraping by". Specifically however I want to know what you mean by "just scraping by"; what counts as making too little for you?Is lil wagie still talking? Don't worry, I'm sure the mouse will allow you those extra dollars for overtime. Massa mouse treats us goods. Wese a good slave for massa.Tell me why CEOs deserve such grotesquely excessive salaries while their workers scrape by an existence and then I'll answer your question. 139
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 07:11:05 PM »Tell me what is inherently wrong with a CEO making millions of dollars without using Reddit-tier soijack memes. Bonus points if you're able to bring up other positions on the corporate ladder instead of just the basic entry-level ones and their salaries as well.Tell me why CEOs deserve such grotesquely excessive salaries while their workers scrape by an existence and then I'll answer your question.>as he defends a multi millionaire CEO's salary 140
The Flood / Re: Covid lockdown status update« on: May 29, 2020, 06:55:09 PM »At what point do you think we're never going to get infected?The point where we develop a a vaccine, if and when it's possible Quote And what do you think the economy is?Where the opulent rich get richer and those at the bottom get the shaft, as it has always been since the inception of capitalism. 141
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 06:44:48 PM »>as he defends a multi millionaire CEO's salaryHow's leather taste wagie?and just say that I completely agree with him on not only Floyd's death but also the looting/rioting between mom & pop stores and big business stores. Y-yes massa mouse, the big bad rioters are the real problem. Please let me go back to being a 12 dollar an hour wage slave massa. I'll be a good boi massa, I'll generate your profits for you. Massa treats me good mmhmm. 142
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 06:08:38 PM »One of these days you'll grow up.How's leather taste wagie? 143
The Flood / Re: Covid lockdown status update« on: May 29, 2020, 06:04:57 PM »https://www.wthr.com/article/vermont-orders-walmart-target-stop-selling-non-essential-items-store >isolated incidences >game and fucking fish mag Go boomer somewhere else. Quote It's funny that you say that considering: Yup. And South Korea saw 40 new fresh covid cases as a result. Quote 2. American workers who weren't laid off (because small businesses with owners who are just scraping by can't survive an elongated lock down process) are furloughed as well (I was furloughed). Congratulations. The UK and every other developed nation is paying 80% of workers wages. Leaving your own personal circumstances and anecdotes aside, what exactly is America doing to rectify this? Quote 3. You talk about "American capitalist greed" for wanting to go back to work yet some of the biggest corporations like Walmart, Amazon, and Target have been making money hand over fist due to this pandemic and the top richest people in the world only got more rich because of the pandemic (Link here). What exactly is this refuting here? That corporate greed is excelling during one of the biggest collective human catastrophes since the Great depression? Yeah no fucking shit sherlock. Quote 4. This pandemic and it's lock down is sending millions of people into crippling poverty (Link here).WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE ECONOMY 144
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 05:52:21 PM »I'll only bring up the first three minutes or so because there's quite a bit in that video worth discussing and I'd rather not bite off more than I want to chew (even though I could), and just say that I completely agree with him on not only Floyd's death but also the looting/rioting between mom & pop stores and big business stores. However the one thing I keep seeing constantly for years now is the comparison between a CEOs salary and an hourly employee's wage and I really wish this comparison would just stop. There's a lot more involved than just those two numbers, not to mention the eight or so ranks between these two individuals and their salaries/job descriptions and none of the other details are ever brought up even though it would show a more complete picture on how a "big business" is run because it mostly certainly runs significantly different than a small business. ![]() 145
Serious / Re: Justifying Riots« on: May 29, 2020, 05:43:30 PM »
Fuck big businesses and fuck the pigs. Rest in power George Floyd.
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The Flood / Re: Nuka online posting but won’t even respond to his accusatory shit« on: May 28, 2020, 01:41:13 PM »![]() 147
The Flood / Re: Do you have any random scenes that you think about from time to time?« on: May 27, 2020, 05:35:09 PM »YouTube I said my peace Chrissy. 148
The Flood / Re: Covid lockdown status update« on: May 27, 2020, 05:21:49 PM »If the US is doing so unbelievably poorly, how about you respond to the numbers Das brought up? He posted a graph with no source and no verifiable confirmation. I have no reason to doubt the statistics but how can I contest something that is tantamount to a picture with no source to back it up? Quote Or the fact that a good portion of the US numbers are from places with strict draconian lock down measures? Would really appreciate a source on this that isn't a jpeg. Quote Or are you going to ignore it and just make laughably false insinuations about 30 million unemployed people some more since that seems to be your biggest gripe. This is more a US societal problem than it is a Covid problem. Your entire economy is predicated on a dog eat dog mentality that if the poor can't cut it then they're left on the scrap heap, even during a crisis which they have no control over. Every other developed nation has their workers on a furlough scheme because they recognise that saving lives takes precedent over capitalist greed and producitivity 149
The Flood / Re: Covid lockdown status update« on: May 27, 2020, 04:55:54 PM »>"Not locking down forever will be a disaster!"Le ebin 4channel greentext. I ask again, what's this argument shattering point you seem to have arrived at here? The US population has proved time and time again that they lack the capability of putting safety before individual preferences throughout this crisis. Japan has not. Your comparisons are bogus. 150
The Flood / Re: Covid lockdown status update« on: May 27, 2020, 04:40:40 PM »I agree. But it's also possible to hold the opinion that China deserves its day in the ICJ and also condemn America's handling of the crisis. Its not a mutually exclusive concept.who mentioned trump?NOOOO NOT MY HECKIN TRUMPERINO, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO MAKE AMERISHART GREAT AGAIN, THE BLEACHERINOS WERE SUPPOSED TO CURE US.China isn't even in the top 10 in respect to death tollHaha propaganda machine go brrrr |