SnotFlickerman

Mike Masnick is a good egg, which makes him valuable in times like these... Just like good eggs.

It's complicated and depends on the place.

In countries without money or great infrastructure, often the police have just as little training and education as the US and often give in to corruption in similar ways.

In other, more wealthy countries, the police often have far more training and may generally be less corrupt and abusive because of the extensive training, but that does not mean that they are perfect nor fall prey to being controlling simply because they've been state sanctioned to be able to control.

It is to be noted that the US literally goes out of its way to choose candidates that are more likely to respond violently than not, including giving them personality tests that seek out that behavior during the initial screening process.

Look man, I'm not the one hiding behind "You didn't understand my joke on the internet through text which I was clearly being sarcastic, although, you would have no way of knowing that since it's the internet, and sarcasm can be easily misunderstood, so ergo I am clever because you didn't understand sarcasm... through text..." Like maybe if at any point you were willing to recognize that as an aspect of internet relations, it would be, but like I said, you're just busy being a smug asshole for no reason other than "ha ha, I was sarcastic and they didn't get it even though lots of people are actually serious about such thoughts." You can't get any more inane than shitting on people for that. It's the internet, it's text, you know this, yet still want to be a smarmy smug asshole who thinks you're clever simply because you weren't clear. That's not clever, that's just being an asshole to people engaging with the content as it was posted. "Ha ha I am so smart for being sarcastic and them not getting it in a textual medium where sarcasm is deeply hard to read" is the actual fucking cringe here, dude.

You're not clever, you're just an asshole. ¯\ _ (ツ) _ /¯

I'd rather not get a weak joke than be insufferable.

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump
Published Wed, Apr 21 2021 5:46 AM EDT | Updated Tue, Sep 13 2022 7:00 PM EDT

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-billion-wisconsin-project-touted-by-trump.html

Huh, I wonder why this sounds so familiar.

Blahaj and dbzer0 are my favorite instances.

Been listening to a lot of Fenne Lily, who has a really calming voice and presence.

I found her through an eevee track that remixed a Lil Bo Weep version of Fenne Lily's Top to Toe.

That's not how Stockholm Syndrome (not real) is supposed to work (it would mean I held my fellow Americans in high esteem, not the opposite) but whatever... It doesn't mean I can't recognize the arrogance of my fellow Americans, including one who literally had the situation explained to him very clearly but is still too obtuse to understand as if that doesn't prove his arrogance. But you do you, man. Have fun being the Ugly American.

I'm an American citizen, buddy.

Tough crowd.

Chaos is a ladder.