It's there for contrast, I presume.
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They did interrupt his dinner, to be fair.Comment
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Tucker has gone from dog whilstleing to howling at the moon
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1270151261934030852?s=20
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He went after Elmo from Sesame Street last nightComment
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Tucker seems to be saying that all anti-racism is anti-American. And/or this is a white country and blacks should suck it up or leave.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 10-06-2020, 19:50.Comment
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He's becoming more explicit.Comment
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Yeah, that's an interesting one, I suspect it was mainly included because it's hard to resist referring to "weird news" ("Headless Body in Topless Bar" being another all-time favorite). The person engaging in cannibalism also happened to be black for the record, and it happened in the city I live in (although technically the area it happened in is unincorporated and contains some of the poorest neighborhoods in the Bay Area). It also had one of the worst crime problems in the state decades ago that was largely turned around by investing in community-based policing reform under our Green Party mayor, which made some noise during Ferguson when the (white, gay) police chief was pictured holding a Black Lives Matter sign at a community protest.Originally posted by Wouter D View PostComment
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Oh, I assumed the point of that was that the cannibal guy was white.
That also tracks with an old Chris Rock bit about the difference between white and black murderers in the news.Comment
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
I suspect that the initial assumption or information was that the cannibal was white, the subsequent discovery that he was actually black rather mucking up the narrative.
What did Chris Rock say?Comment
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He has a whole bit - which I can’t find - about how white murderers always seem to be completely unhinged while black murderers seem to do it for petty, but mundane, reasons.Comment
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"this tweet is unavailable", NefComment
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San Francisco police throwing their toys out of the pram
https://twitter.com/SanFranciscoPOA/status/1270741418336645120
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Originally posted by S. aureus View Posthttps://twitter.com/shannon_h/status/1271156226110480384?s=20
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Yes, it's very good. Though for all of the mentions of white supremacy it kind of elides racism as a motive for killing Black people.Comment
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I’m not sure about the personal liability thing. Sure, in cases like George Floyd’s where the cop wasn’t even following the police department’s own rules, they should be tried as criminals.
But in a lot of these cases, the cop was doing exactly what they have been trained, conditioned and ordered to do. Making them the scapegoat for the department or the whole system just contributes to the “bad apple” nonsense* and doesn’t deter bad policies or promote reform. I guess the idea is to give individual cops more incentive for restraint, but many of these assailants are just psychos who probably don’t think much about the consequences one way or the other.
And if police departments were on the hook for massive settlements every time somebody got shot, they’d have a powerful incentive to reform themselves to reduce their own violence and to fire the ones that are doing it. (Giving municipalities more power to fire cops for violent behavior is an important reform regardless.)
I suppose both the department and the individual can be held liable, but we should focus on the departments and the whole system.
And police, or whatever social service people replace them in this vision of a police-less society, are going to need a union. Not an all powerful one run by racists, but something to look after their interests as public employees. So just busting the Union isn’t going to help.
*Which is funny because, of course, the origin of that phrase is “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch.” The exact opposite meaning of how it is used. And, as Chris Rock said, some jobs just can’t have bad apples. Airline pilots, for example.Comment
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They're the thin blue line. I wonder how many of them have Punisher thin blue line stickers on their cars or fly the thin blue line USA flag.Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostComment
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“I think I’ve done more for the black community than any other president, and let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although it’s always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result,” Trump told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner.
Faulkner, who is black, then interjected, “Well, we are free, Mr President, so he did pretty well.”
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Marvel/Disney needs to crack down on The Punisher shit.Originally posted by Incandenza View Post
His creator, Gerry Conway, does not like how it’s being used.
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