yeah it's not a mystery
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
the collective outrage over cecil the lion is inexplicable to me
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
― welltris (crüt)
yeah, im a vegan and i have one friend who has posted multiple links about the lion, and i want to say "i have seen inside your freezer, i lost count of how many different & diverse animal parts there were in there, forget about the lion."
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
classic redirection of anger toward a single white rich guy to stave off total uprising imo
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
i said this on another thread but cecil the lion is another in a long line of things that people get equally angry about on facebook, like whatever donald trump just said, or charleston, or true detective 2, or ferguson, or conan o'brien losing the tonight show.
― nomar, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
people are seriously using #LionLivesMatter I fucking despair
― passive aggressive DN (onimo), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Ugh.
TBF though, that's a good example of a fatal flaw of hashtag activism.
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
But yeah, being against hunting and ok with eating meat seems like inexcusable moral stupidity to me. "But hunting is for sport, that's so CRUEL...OM NOM NOM BACOOOOOON!"
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
dont let the facts get in the way of a good public internet shaming
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Last time I checked, pigs weren't endangered.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
as a species or individually
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
pigs endangering others is what this thread is about
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
hey yes sorry this discussion shouldn't be itt, sorry for my part in it, can be carried on @ Hunting if anyone wants to
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
lol forks
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
hahaha forks
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
(btw lions aren't endangered either fwiw)
yeah but they are classified vulnerable and poaching is still illegal
― balls, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
in any case i'm not completely sure conservation biology is any more relevant to the debate over police brutality than it is to the debate over abortion just to mention the most high profile case of concern trolling over ppl being outraged over a poaching.
― balls, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IP9s9AX.png
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
it's funny because it's a riff on the dehumanization and brutality of a suppressed people through a topical point
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:36 (nine years ago) link
you got it dude!
― Nhex, Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link
Please autoreplace "Detroit L----" with "Detroit Hatcats"
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 30 July 2015 05:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/us/police-videos-race.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
a p. straightforward roundup of recent video-captured police killings, w/ links to associated stories, ongoing coverage, etc.
but it includes a couple i personally hadn't seen being talked about -
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/us/killing-in-washington-state-offers-ferguson-moment-for-hispanics.html
police shooting antonio zambrano-montes in pasco, wa (a town somewhat like ferguson, half hispanic but still dominated by an older white power structure), when he clearly had hands up and was cornered by multiple officers, after he threw rocks at the cops. the investigation by the prosecutors found that he was 'likely holding a rock' when he was shot.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/video-of-2013-police-shooting-of-unarmed-man-renews-familiar-questions.html
gardena, ca police shooting ricardo diaz-zeferino (who died) and eutiquio acevedo mendez (who was wounded), a couple years ago. prosecutors suppressed the video but it was just recently released after a federal court order. the officers suspected the victims of having stolen a bike which actually belonged to a brother of one of the victims, which they themselves were out looking for. one of the victims wasn't keeping his hands in the air and following the (multiple, conflicting) police orders, so they opened fire.
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
asshole officer harassing a *passenger* in this 2014 video identified as tensing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=470&v=gBAqxiAKh6A
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-black-women-have-been-found-dead-jail-last-month
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=35725305&nid=148&title=police-fatally-shoot-logan-man-during-standoff
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Thursday, 30 July 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Tried to find an article on this that doesn't include the video: http://www.ibtimes.com/staten-island-man-plans-sue-police-amid-claims-they-beat-him-while-hurling-homophobic-2034603
― welltris (crüt), Saturday, 1 August 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
http://revolution-news.com/salinas-california-officers-beat-mentally-ill-man-with-batons/
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Sunday, 2 August 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
My hometown :(
― Spottie, Sunday, 2 August 2015 07:32 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html?referrer=
: /
abt the pseudoscientist paid defense expert teaching police how to defend, basically, any shooting
― j., Monday, 3 August 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm generally a "systems not individuals" guy but some motherfuckers are just evil.
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 3 August 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
or both
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/04/alabama-police-officer-murder-black-man-self-defense?CMP=share_btn_tw
― j., Tuesday, 4 August 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Everyone should watch this:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/08/baltimore_ex_cop_discusses_police_violence_toward_young_black_men.html
― tubby permacrocked whorefucker (Lostandfound), Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
http://jezebel.com/cops-forcibly-search-womans-vagina-after-smelling-weed-1723207106
― j., Monday, 10 August 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/wondalandarts/hell-you-talmbout
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
That monae track is the first protest song i could imagine marching too in years.
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Friday, 14 August 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
fuck this is powerful. listening to it again, actually crying.
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Friday, 14 August 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah damn that's heavy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 August 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhBgAPyLE6I
https://thejammingnachos.bandcamp.com/track/it-could-have-been-me
Maybe should spin this off into a modern protest song thread?
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
(that's two different tracks btw)
― j., Monday, August 10, 2015 5:37 PM (5 days ago)
charges dropped
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article31079991.html
― j., Saturday, 15 August 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/even-if-the-police-dont-kill-me-a-lifetime-of-preparing-for-them-to-just-might
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Very glad to have read that. Thanks.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 August 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
I can't comprehend how you let a diabetic fade out, collapse, and die in front of you because you won't give them insulin. Like literally what is the internal monologue here.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/family-of-diabetic-black-man-says-he-died-after-a-jail-refused-to-give-him-insulin/
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/08/cop_shot_himself_and_blamed_a_black_driver_police_officer_kelly_stewart.html
the victim is the cousin of Boots Riley from The Coup.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
this was just launched, don't know much about it yet except that supposedly @deray is behind it somehow
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, 21 August 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
This looks great.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 21 August 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Mistrial in the Randall Kerrick police shooting case: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mistrial-declared-police-officers-manslaughter-trial-33235595
Protests beginning right now in uptown Charlotte: http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/randall-kerrick-trial/2015/08/21/kerrick-trial-protesters-blocking-4th-street/32137825/
― Gatemouth, Friday, 21 August 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
I mean, what the hell, a cop can't even get convicted when his own department turns against him:
Following the shooting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released a statement calling the shooting unlawful. "The evidence revealed that Mr. Ferrell did advance on Officer Kerrick and the investigation showed that the subsequent shooting of Mr. Ferrell was excessive," police said in a statement the day of the shooting. "Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter."
― Gatemouth, Friday, 21 August 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/in-rare-case-fbi-tries-to-fire-agent-who-shot-queens-suspect.html?_r=0
For the first time in decades, the F.B.I. is trying to fire an agent for intentionally shooting a suspect, after finding that the agent violated bureau policy when he wounded an unarmed man who had apparently helped break into his Lexus outside his home in Queens.The agent, who was off duty, fired at the man from a second-story window, hitting him in the back.
The agent, who was off duty, fired at the man from a second-story window, hitting him in the back.
O_O
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Saturday, 22 August 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link