Remember that thing some acquiantances of mine were doing a few months ago? Yeah, this thing which is on BBC now. The only proper use of IP law: trolling violent extremists who are way too close buddies with PoliceMob to have a fair and level playing field with their opponents sans unfair and utterly hilarious tricks. (I hear that at least glittery Sleipnicorn t-shirts and other utterly n e o t e n i c products can be expected.)
(And a context note for people who might want to be spoilsports about the superiority of Our American Principles about free speech etc.: I agree with said superiority and would very much prefer see said Principles applied here as well; the US has Skokie, we have PoliceMob shooting people in the eyes with FN 303s and forcibly removing absolutely nonviolent demonstrators (such as a priest simply holding up a sign about loving thy neighbor) because they present an eyesore to the fash on their parades. The only thing the anarchists (disclaimer: the person named is not known to be an anarchist, I’m talking about the demonstrators who regularly get brutally suppressed) are asking for is the same treatment the nazis get.)
it took me forever to understand this chart because of the atrocious way Americans use language
Proposal:%s/liberal/progressive/g
because what the fuck this doesn’t make any sense
i mean a lot of libertarianism is left-skepticism in the sense of “we have no clue what we’re doing so how about we don’t have PoliceMob kidnap poor people just for…” but this isn’t that thing this is just some kind of weird inversion of what the fuck
Are you adopting PoliceMob from my argument w/ the Argumate or is this another case of Great Minds etc.?
I’m adopting it from you; the rest of the syntax is afaiaa (“…am aware”) original but not exactly unique. When I talk of PoliceMob kidnapping or ransoming people it gives the proper gravity of context that populist democracy has erased from “cops imprisoning or fining people”. Those things are serious business, and laws should not ban things that aren’t Actually Worth having PoliceMob kidnap or ransom people over.
Also, the argument was absolutely hilarious. I’m still cracking up at Steve’s $22M phone, and the front door too because fuck you that’s why, and the explanation to the mafia why protection rackets are indeed genuinely theoretically totally impossible.
And wow our current “justice” system is fucked up. If we used a modernized version of Xeer, stuff would make so much more sense. When a young and scared enforcer of PoliceMob accidentally-ish shoots a person protected by BLM Security, the correct choice is for PoliceMob and BLM Security to discuss (from a relatively equal position, not with one having hundreds of thousands of men with guns and de facto licenses to kill with the other having little more than goodwill) together how to achieve justice, not for the vox populi to have a shouting match on whether the enforcer should be consequently kidnapped or not.
Now this is the point where I’d like to say that “it seems to be working pretty well for Somalia because it’s not like it has descended into a forever-lasting civil war or anything”, except that it kind of totally has, so instead I’ll argue that various Shitholistans tend to suffer civil wars all the time and polycentric law doesn’t seem to be the root cause and that the modernized Xeer should totally be tried out somewhere less civil-warry.
HARRIET TUBMAN ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY AND THEN WENT BACK TO GET OTHERS. LIKE, I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO HARRIET TUBMAN IS AND THAT SHE DID THAT, BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE THAT IN FOR A SECOND.
HARRIET TUBMAN WAS HELD CAPTIVE AND BOUND TO UNPAID, BACK-BREAKING LABOR SINCE BIRTH UNDER PENALTY OF TORTURE OR DEATH. SHE MANAGED TO ESCAPE THAT LIFE, AND SHE TURNED THE FUCK AROUND AND WENT THE FUCK BACK TO GET EVERYONE ELSE WHO WAS STILL TRAPPED IN IT. AND THEN SHE DID IT AGAIN EIGHTEEN MORE TIMES.
WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS UNSURE WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS PREPARED TO MAKE A STAND AGAINST SLAVERY, HARRIET TUBMAN BASICALLY SAID HE SHOULD STOP BEING SUCH A DIAPER BABY AND THAT GUYS WHO ARE TOO SCARED TO END SLAVERY DON’T DESERVE TO WIN WARS.
NOT ONLY DID SHE SECRET OVER 300 SLAVES TO FREEDOM ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, BUT SHE ACTED AS A SPY FOR THE UNION ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD AN ARMED ASSAULT IN THE CIVIL WAR. THAT RAID BROUGHT FREEDOM TO OVER 700 SLAVES IN ONE GO.
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO STEW ON THAT FOR LIKE A MINUTE. ACTING IN THE SHADOWS, SHE WALKED INTO HELL ON EARTH 19 TIMES TO SAVE HER FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS FROM THE TORMENT SHE ENDURED, AND THE SECOND SHE WAS GIVEN EVEN A MODICUM OF POWER, SHE MANAGED TO FREE SEVEN HUNDRED SLAVES IN ONE DAY.
I GUARANTEE, HOWEVER IMPRESSED YOU ALREADY ARE WITH HARRIET TUBMAN, YOU ARE FALLING LIKE AT LEAST 40% SHORT OF HOW IMPRESSED YOU SHOULD BE WITH HARRIET TUBMAN. SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF BADASSERY IN THE ENTIRETY OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
OKAY LISTEN IN ADDITION TO MAKING BOTH CAPTAIN AMERICA AND MOSES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT LOOK LIKE A PAIR OF GODDAMN UNDERACHIEVERS SHE DID ALL THISWITH CHRONIC PAIN FROM A TRAUMATIC HEAD INJURY.
WHEN SHE WAS FUCKING TWELVE YEARS OLD SHE TRIED TO INTERVENE IN THE BEATING OF ANOTHER SLAVE AND GOT HER HEAD CRACKED OPEN FROM IT. A CHILD. A CHILD BORN INTO SLAVERY. AND SHE WENT UP AGAINST A PISSED OFF WHITE MAN WHO LITERALLY OWNED HER TO TRY AND HELP, LIKE, SHIT, I DON’T WANT TO GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH PISSED OFF WHITE MEN AND I’M WHITE AND IT’S THE 21st CENTURY. SO OKAY THEN HERE’S THIS WOMAN, FIVE FOOT NOTHING, DISABLED, HAD NARCOLEPSY AND HEADACHES AND VISIONS, DECIDED THOSE VISIONS WERE FROM GOD, AND PERSONALLY DELIVERED A THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS FROM ONE OF THE CRUELEST FORMS OF ENSLAVEMENT IN HISTORY. OH, AND AFTER ALL THAT SHE LIVED UNTIL SHE WAS FUCKING NINETY.
This is very important if you’re ever in a situation similar this pretend that you’re dead don’t scream and @#!*%
my dad told us this if someone shoots up our school
SUPER IMPORTANT
BEST TIP
PLEASE REMEMBER THIS
not even a joke we learned this in Police Explorers and put it on your clothing as well but go quickly because you don’t know where the person is.
This is what school children in America are taught. That is so wrong on so many fucking levels and there are still people who believe gun control in any form is a bad thing.
let me reiterate SCHOOL CHILDREN IN A SUPPOSEDLY FIRST WORLD COUNTRY ARE TAUGHT THE SAME THINGS AS PEOPLE IN ACTIVE WAR ZONES BECAUSE THE THREAT OF BEING KILLED IN A SHOOTING IS SO HIGH.
the bit in caps here is making me rethink my stance on gun control
shit
I’m reblogging this because as my follower count goes up, the odds of this saving a life do too.
My elementary school had drills telling us what to do in such an emergency. This is exactly what they told us. AND NOW FOR A FACT: IN CALIFORNIA YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REGISTER A SHOTGUN!
I live in America, and I was only taught to hide and be quiet. I had to learn this on Tumblr. If one more person says that technology is ruining children, they best shut the hell up because this could be saving lives
We had more lockdown drills at school than we did fire drills…
Being afraid of a thing is different than the thing actually being dangerous.
School shootings are rare. Want to know what the most common cause of death is for teenagers? Car accidents. (Fix public transit enough that you can make more stringent requirements for drivers’ licenses and/or increase driver liability for accidents, please.)
“Look! All these people are freaking out and giving out advice for dealing with a problem!” does not mean that the problem is actually a big deal. If I start handing out flyers on how to handle superintelligent bioengineered rats, do they become a threat?
The First Rule of Outfreaking: the degree to which people get upset about something reflects the degree to which a single instance of it is spectacular, not the actual risk. Nuclear accidents, airplane crashes and school shootings are rare but get a fuckload of media attention so everyone spends ridiculous amounts of time and effort on them, while particulate pollution, car crashes and everyday bullying are far bigger problems but nobody gives a proportionate shit because they don’t make headlines. I’d be angry but I don’t have any right to expect better from mere humans.
As an inside joke, the officers decided to have the cake decorated in police-blue ribbons and sugared bees (for a “sting”).
The band, led by a city police officer, announced themselves as a weed-loving group named S.P.O.C, which stood for ‘Somebody Protect Our Crops.’ In actuality, it was just COPS spelled backwards.
They played the song ‘I Fought The Law (and the Law Won)’ as a signal to begin the bust.
“Let’s have some fun,” an officer shouted. “Everybody here that’s a cop, stand up! Okay! All the rest of you motherfuckers put your hands on the table, because you’re under arrest! This is a bust!”
This is so the æsthetic. Whoever these cops are, their features shall be considered rather redeemed by the brilliance of this audacity. If you absolutely must criminalize drug dealing, this is how it needs to be enforced.
live updates about the bomb blast that just happened @ brussel’s zaventem airport.
Well fuck.
That’s, like, not good.
This is indeed bad.
Breaking news: Islamist terrorists valiantly trying, failing, to overtake bathtubs as a public health menace in Europe.
This goddamn continent needs to keep calm and chill the fuck out. I won’t even get any epistemic cookie points for predicting that the overreaction will be far worse than the attack itself, because everyone knows it. We have nothing to fear but fear itself (and bathtubs).
