“An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it.” I am deceased (no pun intended)
As has been pointed out, the same people who loudly proclaim none of these police killings would happen if suspects would only comply with police orders are the same people whining that requiring them to wear a mask during a pandemic is Hitler, Communism, Socialism, and leftwing totalitarianism all rolled into one.
I'll submit my theorem: every black person must submit to every white person, on demand, or suffer possibly fatal consequences. (This also can explain the Karening of America.)
Mercy toward the Damned is against His Will, but lay one finger on the LORD's Anointed and you will be struck down.
(My hobby-horse: this nation is in the grip of extremely stupid bastardisations of Calvinism—I have a lot against the original, but at least it was smart enough to a.) insist that all humans were equally deserving of damnation, and b.) insist that the status of any given human being were ultimately unknowable to mortals. Dumbed-down Calvinisms instead use race or wealth or Party Membership as proxies….)
The Slenderman excuse is dead-on. There should be more urban legend defenses: "The perp looked like Slenderman playing the knock-out game while driving without headlights just after putting our family's toothbrushes up his anus."
It's also the only one I haven't really seen them use, though they do go "But he was a big scary Black man!" and we all scream "He was TWELVE!" (Or they say "thug" which means the same thing.
This one, and Jesus, air freshener, wtf, I'm seeing way too many liberal types going "Well, if he'd just complied." Listen, I've been the passenger on a lot of traffic stops. Drivers who were genuinely scary-big or obviously under the influence or sitting next to an underage prostitute, and never once has the driver been told to get out of the car. We seem to only demand this of Black guys, and when we say "comply and no one will get hurt" A) that's a threat. B) That's a lie. And C) That's not a standard anyone else gets held to. You don't sound reasonable, you sound like your standard smug victim-blamer.
And if it didn't happen all the goddamned time, I might accept ignorance, but it does. And most victim-blaming comes from a belief in a just world, where if I'm not a bad person bad things won't happen to me, but we cannot retreat into that, because it won't stop if we do.
I guess we do it to Black women, too. Also, I'm preaching to the choir, I know, but cicadas aren't the only ones who save it all up and then can't stop screaming, I guess.
"I've been playing a lot of GTA on rampage mode with my virtual headset recently," said Lieutenant Blurt Cumshot. "It's so real that sometimes I don't remember I'm not wearing it, like when I killed that hooker." Lieutenant Cumshot also teaches segregation classes for the Noose County Police Department in Kentucky.
Cops don't really shoot hookers. They just rape them and cut them. If they kill you, they can't coerce more sex out of you later, but they do like to leave their marks.
I hope like hell I don't have to say this, but please no jokes about how raping a hooker is just refusing to pay them, because that's not what I mean. If you give them sex to keep them from arresting you or taking your money (do not keep your money on you) that's a transaction. An abusive one that cops shouldn't be engaged in unless they want to just admit they're fucking pimps, but still a transaction. Cops with underage girl things? Like to be violent and controlling and sadistic. If it doesn't feel like rape, they're not interested. You don't want to know what the ones who do this to underage boys are like. ACAB.
Personally, I wonder about the politicians who embrace Tasers with pistol grip handles as somehow being more humane than guns. Who vote to militarize our police equipping them like stormtroopers.
Over the years I lived in the Twin Cities mostly working as a resume writer, I worked out of three office buildings and my home. The first office building was a couple of miles from where Daunte Wright was shot. The home office was on a side street adjacent to where Philando Castile was murdered.
The "establishment" that runs the Twin Cities gets its money from healthcare monopolies (United Health Group, Medtronic, the nearby Mayo Clinic, Hazelden), the food industry (Cargill, General Mills, Land O'Lakes), big box retailers (Target, Best Buy), and big science (Ecolab, 3M, H.B. Fuller). Minnesota is a wealthy state and the Twin Cities is one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in fly-over country.
Yet über-liberal Minnesota has incredible wealth inequality, and the Twin Cities has a militarized police force and heavy overall security presence to protect all that money. The two office buildings I worked out of not near any of the police shootings were in downtown Minneapolis and the St Paul side of Midway, the business corridor that runs through the heart of the metro area but which is adjacent to much of the poverty and which suffered a lot of damage to ethnic businesses during the George Floyd demonstrations. The business districts are well policed (also well lit with heavy traffic and lots of witnesses).
There is virtually zero rightwing political presence in the Twin Cities (other than in the ranks of the police who mostly do not live in either major city).
I don't think of Tucker Carlson when I think of this problem. I think about liberal Democrats who have tunnel vision: they can see corporate contributions but they cannot see the daily pain their constituents endure.
Also résumés. And personal essays for college applicants, marketing materials for small businesses, federal/state hiring forms, copy editing for this and that. Also ghost editing on vanity books from which my soul is still stained (but the smell is mostly gone). I also worked with various law enforcement none of whom ever seemed to care about the faint smell of recreational drugs that sometimes lingered in the air. Only one of the cops I worked with was ever indicted, and that was for stuff he did after he retired. Some of the marketing materials were for immigrant business dudes who worked the system so hard the State had to revise its laws and Minnesota now has the best contract-for-deed regulations in the country. I also did social media for Amy Klobuchar's first (and only) primary opponent (we lost).
Years ago, in grad school, I took a job working for a resume writing company. It was a franchise deal whereby I had an "office" in a business park, and turned in a portion of my earnings to the company, kept most of it for myself, and benefitted from the company's national advertising in local media (Yellow Pages, that's how long ago this was). According to the guy who hired me, it was "a way to make a living as a writer."
I think so (it was a long time ago), but I do recall they advertised in the Yellow Pages as something like "AAAAAAAAAAAA Professional Resume and Writing Service" so they would be first in the alphabetical listings.
Did a year and a half with them to start, then they got bought by some doctors out west and they gave me a noncompete to sign. That was my last day as a franchise. But paying for Yellow Pages on my own was a bitch. Resume writing (if you do it right) means your clients don't come back, at least not for years. Spent a lot on YP and newspaper ads until I established a referral base. 5k clients over 14 years. Parts of my brain still smell like toast.
"I don't think of Tucker Carlson when I think of this problem. I think about liberal Democrats who have tunnel vision: they can see corporate contributions but they cannot see the daily pain their constituents endure."
Actually, I blame the voters that elect the pols as well as the death of decency towards those outside one's group.
These are sadly brilliant. Anyone remember this one:
- 73 year-old insurance company owner serves as chairman of the "Re-Elect the Tulsa County Sheriff committee" and is a donor to the campaign. He also donates thousands of dollars in cash, vehicles and equipment to the sheriff's office.
- Coincidentally, Sheriff's office makes him a "reserve deputy."
- One night, while "working undercover" with the Violent Crimes Task Force, he mistakes his gun for a Taser and shoots and kills an unarmed fleeing suspect.
- And all he wanted to do was "try to give something back to the community."
I'd say you can't make this stuff up but Roy just completely invalidated that theory.
As amusing as something like this can be. That said:
•"An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it." Almost laughed. I mean, really, really close.
•The problem with the story of Monday's Minnesota shit show is that, I dunno, not saying it didn't happen per the official version, but, you know, seriously? That's a huge streak of fucking up slathered with, of course, systemic, institutional racism. But who can say, or I should say, who that literally can say but won't?
Some headcase on Twitter (I realize that does not narrow it down) said this killing is the fault of liberals. See because libs have all these initiatives to get nicer cops, which means we're forcing departments to hire unqualified people instead of cool badasses, which is how you get a cop who can't tell a taser from a glock. Eesh. Anyway, be on the lookout, that's sure to become an official excuse too, alongside "I thought it was Slenderman."
Someday this will all wind up on a "novelty" coffee mug, like one covered with fishing excuses. Slipped on booby trap! Looked like an illegal! Thought gun was donut! Scary face! along with doodles of puzzled cops trying to figure out what the heck just happened.
“An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it.” I am deceased (no pun intended)
As has been pointed out, the same people who loudly proclaim none of these police killings would happen if suspects would only comply with police orders are the same people whining that requiring them to wear a mask during a pandemic is Hitler, Communism, Socialism, and leftwing totalitarianism all rolled into one.
I'll submit my theorem: every black person must submit to every white person, on demand, or suffer possibly fatal consequences. (This also can explain the Karening of America.)
Yep. Rationalization of white violence in response to Black non-compliance: “look what you made me do.”
You have just defined "white supremacy" as it exsts as the national religion
Holdover from slavery. "I own you, I can make you do what I want."
POC generally, Blacks in particular are not allowed agency, are still essentially owned b/c heritage.
Especially when they're made into a collective noun... :)
Mercy toward the Damned is against His Will, but lay one finger on the LORD's Anointed and you will be struck down.
(My hobby-horse: this nation is in the grip of extremely stupid bastardisations of Calvinism—I have a lot against the original, but at least it was smart enough to a.) insist that all humans were equally deserving of damnation, and b.) insist that the status of any given human being were ultimately unknowable to mortals. Dumbed-down Calvinisms instead use race or wealth or Party Membership as proxies….)
This is the first time since I retired close to a year ago that I wish I were still teaching. Folks, I bring you satire.
This sounds uncannily like any number of Police statements I’ve heard in the small police states that too many jurisdictions are...almost too close.
“I thought I was finger shooting at him in fun, pwui, pwui! Did seem kinda loud, though.”
The Slenderman excuse is dead-on. There should be more urban legend defenses: "The perp looked like Slenderman playing the knock-out game while driving without headlights just after putting our family's toothbrushes up his anus."
It's also the only one I haven't really seen them use, though they do go "But he was a big scary Black man!" and we all scream "He was TWELVE!" (Or they say "thug" which means the same thing.
This one, and Jesus, air freshener, wtf, I'm seeing way too many liberal types going "Well, if he'd just complied." Listen, I've been the passenger on a lot of traffic stops. Drivers who were genuinely scary-big or obviously under the influence or sitting next to an underage prostitute, and never once has the driver been told to get out of the car. We seem to only demand this of Black guys, and when we say "comply and no one will get hurt" A) that's a threat. B) That's a lie. And C) That's not a standard anyone else gets held to. You don't sound reasonable, you sound like your standard smug victim-blamer.
And if it didn't happen all the goddamned time, I might accept ignorance, but it does. And most victim-blaming comes from a belief in a just world, where if I'm not a bad person bad things won't happen to me, but we cannot retreat into that, because it won't stop if we do.
I guess we do it to Black women, too. Also, I'm preaching to the choir, I know, but cicadas aren't the only ones who save it all up and then can't stop screaming, I guess.
"I've been playing a lot of GTA on rampage mode with my virtual headset recently," said Lieutenant Blurt Cumshot. "It's so real that sometimes I don't remember I'm not wearing it, like when I killed that hooker." Lieutenant Cumshot also teaches segregation classes for the Noose County Police Department in Kentucky.
Cops don't really shoot hookers. They just rape them and cut them. If they kill you, they can't coerce more sex out of you later, but they do like to leave their marks.
I hope like hell I don't have to say this, but please no jokes about how raping a hooker is just refusing to pay them, because that's not what I mean. If you give them sex to keep them from arresting you or taking your money (do not keep your money on you) that's a transaction. An abusive one that cops shouldn't be engaged in unless they want to just admit they're fucking pimps, but still a transaction. Cops with underage girl things? Like to be violent and controlling and sadistic. If it doesn't feel like rape, they're not interested. You don't want to know what the ones who do this to underage boys are like. ACAB.
ACAB all and forever, every fucking one. The good ones just lie & pretend not to see to protect the bad ones
This is less a like and more a "I hear you, sis"
Upvoted for the cop's name.
Personally, I wonder about the politicians who embrace Tasers with pistol grip handles as somehow being more humane than guns. Who vote to militarize our police equipping them like stormtroopers.
Over the years I lived in the Twin Cities mostly working as a resume writer, I worked out of three office buildings and my home. The first office building was a couple of miles from where Daunte Wright was shot. The home office was on a side street adjacent to where Philando Castile was murdered.
The "establishment" that runs the Twin Cities gets its money from healthcare monopolies (United Health Group, Medtronic, the nearby Mayo Clinic, Hazelden), the food industry (Cargill, General Mills, Land O'Lakes), big box retailers (Target, Best Buy), and big science (Ecolab, 3M, H.B. Fuller). Minnesota is a wealthy state and the Twin Cities is one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in fly-over country.
Yet über-liberal Minnesota has incredible wealth inequality, and the Twin Cities has a militarized police force and heavy overall security presence to protect all that money. The two office buildings I worked out of not near any of the police shootings were in downtown Minneapolis and the St Paul side of Midway, the business corridor that runs through the heart of the metro area but which is adjacent to much of the poverty and which suffered a lot of damage to ethnic businesses during the George Floyd demonstrations. The business districts are well policed (also well lit with heavy traffic and lots of witnesses).
There is virtually zero rightwing political presence in the Twin Cities (other than in the ranks of the police who mostly do not live in either major city).
I don't think of Tucker Carlson when I think of this problem. I think about liberal Democrats who have tunnel vision: they can see corporate contributions but they cannot see the daily pain their constituents endure.
Just my 2¢.
The Liberal establishment needs police brutality more than the RWers do.
You made a living writing *resumes*?
Also résumés. And personal essays for college applicants, marketing materials for small businesses, federal/state hiring forms, copy editing for this and that. Also ghost editing on vanity books from which my soul is still stained (but the smell is mostly gone). I also worked with various law enforcement none of whom ever seemed to care about the faint smell of recreational drugs that sometimes lingered in the air. Only one of the cops I worked with was ever indicted, and that was for stuff he did after he retired. Some of the marketing materials were for immigrant business dudes who worked the system so hard the State had to revise its laws and Minnesota now has the best contract-for-deed regulations in the country. I also did social media for Amy Klobuchar's first (and only) primary opponent (we lost).
Years ago, in grad school, I took a job working for a resume writing company. It was a franchise deal whereby I had an "office" in a business park, and turned in a portion of my earnings to the company, kept most of it for myself, and benefitted from the company's national advertising in local media (Yellow Pages, that's how long ago this was). According to the guy who hired me, it was "a way to make a living as a writer."
A Professional Resume & Writing Service by any chance?
I think so (it was a long time ago), but I do recall they advertised in the Yellow Pages as something like "AAAAAAAAAAAA Professional Resume and Writing Service" so they would be first in the alphabetical listings.
Did a year and a half with them to start, then they got bought by some doctors out west and they gave me a noncompete to sign. That was my last day as a franchise. But paying for Yellow Pages on my own was a bitch. Resume writing (if you do it right) means your clients don't come back, at least not for years. Spent a lot on YP and newspaper ads until I established a referral base. 5k clients over 14 years. Parts of my brain still smell like toast.
"I don't think of Tucker Carlson when I think of this problem. I think about liberal Democrats who have tunnel vision: they can see corporate contributions but they cannot see the daily pain their constituents endure."
Actually, I blame the voters that elect the pols as well as the death of decency towards those outside one's group.
Ouch. Speaking of "dark as fuck". You might want to open this one up to the general public.
These are sadly brilliant. Anyone remember this one:
- 73 year-old insurance company owner serves as chairman of the "Re-Elect the Tulsa County Sheriff committee" and is a donor to the campaign. He also donates thousands of dollars in cash, vehicles and equipment to the sheriff's office.
- Coincidentally, Sheriff's office makes him a "reserve deputy."
- One night, while "working undercover" with the Violent Crimes Task Force, he mistakes his gun for a Taser and shoots and kills an unarmed fleeing suspect.
- And all he wanted to do was "try to give something back to the community."
I'd say you can't make this stuff up but Roy just completely invalidated that theory.
As amusing as something like this can be. That said:
•"An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it." Almost laughed. I mean, really, really close.
•The problem with the story of Monday's Minnesota shit show is that, I dunno, not saying it didn't happen per the official version, but, you know, seriously? That's a huge streak of fucking up slathered with, of course, systemic, institutional racism. But who can say, or I should say, who that literally can say but won't?
•From The Credit Where It's Due Dept.: The Times did a lovely job addressing the Q: How does one fail to know one's gun from one's taser? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/13/us/daunte-wright-taser-gun.html
👏🏻, Times.
I'm starting to think it may not be just a few bad apples...
Trigger happy policemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE
hey you know what, mr. roso? i am paying for original content, not for you to just glean through the weeklies and pick out stories.
Too soon and too close to the truth.
Not really too soon. Happens constantly, so any time's as good as any other.
Some headcase on Twitter (I realize that does not narrow it down) said this killing is the fault of liberals. See because libs have all these initiatives to get nicer cops, which means we're forcing departments to hire unqualified people instead of cool badasses, which is how you get a cop who can't tell a taser from a glock. Eesh. Anyway, be on the lookout, that's sure to become an official excuse too, alongside "I thought it was Slenderman."
Also, chicks shouldn't be cops will likely be another one coming down the Slenderman Pike
The Slenderman Pike! ADD IT TO THE LEXICON. A sluice of ideas that are wildly impossible to believe *unless you rrreally want to murder someone*
Someday this will all wind up on a "novelty" coffee mug, like one covered with fishing excuses. Slipped on booby trap! Looked like an illegal! Thought gun was donut! Scary face! along with doodles of puzzled cops trying to figure out what the heck just happened.