mdk

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

It's like a topsy-turvey science world, where the only evidence is things you don't know, and the only proofs are negatives!

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

*popcorn*

Six hours til one of you comes back into the thread swearing. I'm calling it now.

Anyone Else Remember When Cracked Was Good?

I stopped going a long, long time ago. They made a decision to become 'The respectable-ish e-mag that will rubber-stamp your articles so that you can get a job writing comedy somewhere else.' Like, no shit, that was their actual purpose (dunno if it still is, because I bailed the fuck out when that started).

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

I'm starting to lose, uh....... ambiguity, I guess. So why not circle back and cover those points I talked about at the beginning of the thread, and wash my hands of the rest.

mdk said 1, the news is selling news about the treatment of the news

We've been over this a time or two; I know some people are going to disagree with me, but I saw nothing at all wrong with the 'ASSAULT' on Don Lemon. There were some stupid tactics all the same, but I'm willing to chalk most of this up to 'news being where news isn't supposed to be' (if you stick around for the end of the video, the tune changes). Let's have conversations about how to keep news crews safer when they're reporting from dangerous areas. Can 'The freedom of the Press' really be protected while they're, say, shooting from the middle of an angry mob? Is there a better way?

2. The racial advocacy community is selling news about racial injustice

There has been literally zero evidence of any racial motivation to the shooting. Zero, zilch, nada. So we can chalk up those New Black Panther death threats and 'Kill the police' chants to Jackson and his cry-wolf tactics. Yet again, these fucks singlehandedly move our country back twenty years at a time just to make some cash. FUCK. YOU.

3. The police are selling the story that the victim wasn't a victim

actual conversation by witnesses

Well, there's all my questions answered. And hopefully yours, too.

Zoe Quinn.

Brovo said
You, me, and Hellis agreeing on something. Now all we need is some arbitrary fourth horseman and this apocalypse is all set to go.

The fourth horseman is that nobody got banned.

Zoe Quinn.

Hellis said
I like to on a personal note, have everyone realize how bad someone fucks up when we are in full agreement on something haha.

Ain't that the truth AWWW FUCK IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT

Zoe Quinn.

Hellis said
This is true enough. Hence my ending statement of."For a fledgling industry, they have adopted the failings of the old news industry giants very quickly."

my exclamation point made that seem a bit argumentative, didn't it.... I meant to flatly agree with you and throw the net a little wider. You're right.

Zoe Quinn.

You just described all journalism! The difference being gaming doesn't mean a thing, in the grand scheme, so people don't feel bad about abusing the system for money. I imagine when most journalists do it they at least feel some moral dilemma the first couple of times.

this commercial cracked me up

greatest hitter in the world

Never had the courage to watch a comedy anime...suggest something.

BrobyDDark said
Space Dandy is great.

Well, he's more 'Dandy' than 'great,' really.