Torn Romance

@swamp_wizard13 @shadydoorags Her and those manger babies are trash! Trash I tell ya! But maybe she isn't total F tier like Clark Peters, I'll concede that lol

@torn_romance @shadydoorags LUANNE IS A WHATEVER CHARACTER? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR GOD DAMN MIND? Are you on crack? Is that what you smoke? You smoke crack? Lupe from the episode where Peggy accidentally smuggles a child is a whatever character Clark Peters is a whatever character But NOT Luanne Leanne Platter

For those unaware, the joke is that Lucky is NOT set for life. His character was introduced as a literal dumb hillbilly who barely spends any money, so he and everyone around him THOUGHT he was set for life. After he gets engaged to Luanne, the well starts to run dry. Lucky manages to win another $53,000 settlement (it was more like blackmail money) and follows Hank's advice to start living more sensibly, including using the new money as a down payment on a house and looking for a job.

Every guest on Caleb Hammer’s show: $1.7 million in debt. Mortgage and car note 8 months overdue. 5 kids, 6th on the way. Their job is receiving food stamps and ordering Door Dash. Me spending over $40 on a game: FUUUUUCK I SHOULD’VE WAITED FOR A SALE FUUUUUUCK KILL ME KILL ME

If someone says that they "don't do politics". Most of the time it's because they know you'll crash out when they don't entirely agree with every schizo opinion you have

If you think loops are the future of code, you deserve the unreadable and over engineered code base you get.

@RespectElves It's about a cat girl who smokes, has poor impulse control and giant knockers. Not a fucking treatise on the human condition. People are reading in to it way too much.

You lot keep saying its about depression when its not in any way at all. It's a Comedy series, its funny, all the characters are actually very care free to the point its funny how little they care because again its a Comedy series. They don't battle with addictions either they simply enjoy their drug of choice.

@OliveEtVinum Mark: Are we the baddies? Gork: *screams in cosmic perpetuity*

A spin off 40k comic series called Gork & Mark. An action buddy cop style comedy adventure starting the god of brutal cunning and Mark Corrigan from peep show

@GamingAndPandas I love Zeal but you know they just be huffing their own farts

What do they eat?

@ChristianHeiens How tf do you decriminalize knowingly giving hiv to someone? How did this pass?

Why is it that every single Left-wing cause is slowly being consumed by what can only be described as Gay Islamo-Communism? Scott Wiener literally authored a bill to decriminalize knowingly spreading HIV to someone and eliminated the lifelong sex offender registration requirement for pedophiles, bills that the LGBTQ and Trans lobbies in California both supported. He's arguably the most Left-wing person to have ever served in the California State Legislature, but he isn't sufficiently pro-Islam, so now he gets to be called a Fascist like the rest of us.

Spoiler for 1000xResist We didn't send Beethoven to the aliens, we sent jazz. A virus that's horrible, makes no sense and is destructive without merit describes jazz completely. Fite me.

Folks, I'd like to get my two cents in on Karmelo Anthony. This is a long one -- pretend it's an editorial. “He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” Why does a boy spontaneously justify stabbing someone on so thin a pretense? And why do so many Black Americans see his 35-year prison sentence as racist? I think the answer to both questions takes us to Scotland, Ireland, and northern England. At a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas in April of last year, Anthony sat down under a team’s tent. Anthony was neither on the team nor a student at its school, and an unwritten but widely known rule is that only team members are permitted under a team tent. Multiple student witnesses – and not just “whitenesses,” as several were Black -- testified about what happened next. Anthony was told several times to leave the tent but refused, including a profane epithet, culminating in warning “Touch me and see what happens.” Team member Austin Metcalf shoved Anthony, who pulled a knife out of his bag, stabbed him in the chest, threw the knife into the stands and ran away. Caught by the police, he immediately admitted to the stabbing, reportedly saying “He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” Metcalf died in his twin brother’s arms. There is no reason to think Anthony was trying to kill Metcalf. He was trying to hurt him severely, putting him in the hospital, for shoving him, as he indicated in at first saying "He's not gonna die." Also, claims such as prosecutor Bill Wirskye’s that Anthony meant “Touch me and see what happens” as a provocation are based on a misreading of Black English. “Touch me and see what happens” is not a command to touch. It means “If you touch me, you will find out.” The question is why Anthony thought being pushed justified sinking a knife into Metcalf’s body. The answer is the culture of “disrespect” in young Black male culture, documented by many (including black sociologists). His calculus was "If he even touches me, I am disrespected, and will respond in destructive kind." The idea is that being dissed merits what we might phrase as cutting someone a new one. There is no reason to suppose that this is due to Black people having some inborn propensity to violence. The Black economist Thomas Sowell has traced the “disrespect” culture to the whites from the “Celtic Fringe” – an area comprising parts of northern England, Scotland, and Ulster County in Ireland -- who migrated to the South starting in the 1700s and established plantations (or worked on them as indentured servants). Black people, often enslaved, worked alongside and around them and their American-born descendants. At this time (although certainly not now), whites from the Celtic Fringe area had the same tripwire response to being dissed – “touchy pride” -- as well as many other traits now commonly associated with “gangsta” Black culture. In his classic study of early migrants to America “Albion’s Seed,” the historian David Hackett Fisher referred to the oppressed people of this northern borderland region, encompassing Scotland, northern England and Ulster County in Ireland, as “some of the most disorderly inhabitants of a deeply disordered land.” “Manliness and the forceful projection of that manliness to others – an advertisement of one’s willingness to fight and even to put one’s life on the line – were at least plausible means of gaining whatever level of security was possible in a lawless region and a violent time,” Sowell notes. Hundreds of thousands of people from this region migrated to America starting in the early 1700s, eventually migrating to the South. Many establishedplantations and bought enslaved Black people to work on them. Referring often to the scholarly and sympathetic study of this “cracker” culture in America by the historian Grady McWhiney, Sowell notes that they manifested “a touchiness about anything that might be even remotely construed as a personal slight, much less an insult, combined with a willingness to erupt into violence over it.” The step is short between that and “He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” It is hard not to see the parallel between the “cracker” culture and the sociologist Elijah Anderson’s study of late twentieth century Black culture of “the streets,” where “respect is viewed as almost an external entity that is hard-won but easily lost, and so must constantly be guarded. (...) Many of the forms that dissing can take might seem petty to middle-class people (maintaining eye contact for too long, for example), but to those invested in the street code, these actions become serious indications of the other person's intentions. Consequently, such people become very sensitive to advances and slights, which could well serve as warnings of imminent physical confrontation.” Sowell argues that enslaved Blacks would have internalized these norms from the whites they worked with and lived around. It might seem hard to imagine whites and Blacks sharing a culture on the kind of plantation familiar from dramatic depictions, where legions of Black people worked in the fields while whites were their owners and overseers. However, in reality, relationships between whites and Blacks, while fraught and founded in pitiless domination, allowed for degrees of interchange and familiarity. Plantations varied massively in size, and white children and Black ones grew up playing together, even influencing one another’s speech. Black sociologist W.E.B. DuBois’ survey of Black Philadelphia in the 1890s, as well as studies afterward, shows that until the 1960s, the “cracker” inheritance from whites was largely confined to the least advantaged and segregated Black people. However, for the past several decades, aspects of the “disrespect culture” have had influence even among middle-class Black people. For one, the Black middle class vastly increased after the Civil Rights victories of the 1960s, and therefore, for most middle class Black people, poverty remains only a few generations back. Culture does not always change in lockstep with income. Add to this that in the 1960s, many Black people rejected the old idea that our goal was to assimilate to mainstream (i.e. white) norms. Rather than engaging in what is often called respectability politics, many Black people embraced the idea of a separate Black identity – and one aspect of that was the chip-on-the-shoulder style. This all meant that these days, a Black boy hardly needs to grow up in the ‘hood to internalize aspects of what Sowell calls “redneck” culture. This includes the tripwire sensitivity to being “disrespected.” This informs how so many black commenters on the trial and sentence seem to not quite process the horror of Metcalf’s murder. Representative Jasmine Crockett thinks the length of the sentence is racist – as if a white boy shivving a Black boy to death would only get a slap on the hand -- focusing on the fact that the knife was not especially large and that Anthony only stabbed once. Martin Luther King’s daughter Berenice King opines that the main lesson from the episode is racial disparities in the justice system. Many online revile that none of the jurors were Black. But it is reasonable to think that they would have liked that a representative number of jurors would pardon Anthony as representing his “disrespect culture,” and thus less culpable than a teen of any other race in America? If so, they are less progressive than retrograde, if we are really to get past race. Dr. King didn’t die demanding that whites make excuses for us. What’s missing in these opinions is thoughts that would occur readily to the outside observer. How about if Anthony hadn’t been carrying a knife at all? How about Anthony just getting up and leaving, or just shoving back rather than hauling out a weapon? But under the “disrespect” culture, even in the background as a tacit sentiment, the idea that Anthony could simply have done what he was told seems an almost unreasonable expectation based on respectability politics. And frankly, I venture that there another resonance in the air: that on a certain level we are supposed to see Anthony’s deed in the light of slavery, Jim Crow and George Floyd, and other disrepectings upon us as a group. Karmelo Anthony drank in this way of thinking subconsciously in the way that we all grow into the culture we are born into. He doubtless incorporated countless elements of Black culture that are positive or even just neutral. But one of them was this notion of what it is to be a man, which made sense in some upper reaches of what we now know as the United Kingdom centuries ago, but doesn’t work in modern American society. The sports journalist Jemele Hill advises “We need to be having conversations with our young black boys about emotional regulation and decision making and discernment and wisdom.” Black women often give their boys “The Talk” about obeying what cops demand. But that talk needs to come with a second one – there need to be “The Talks.” Young Black men need to be told not to fall for the idea that being dissed justifies physical violence. That, and not the persistence of racism, is what Karmelo Anthony’s fate should teach us. If you did, thanks for staying with me until the end!

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@WurzelRoot Confirmation bias. The only videos that get uploaded are where people go crazy, not the thousands of normal interactions every single day.

If you watch even a dozen bodycam videos, you will realize this is the norm. It doesn't matter how small the request is; this screaming, fighting, and refusal to cooperate is the default reaction. I have watched hundreds of these videos where black people end up fighting with the police and getting charged with felonies because the cop, who is usually just trying to cut them a 50-dollar ticket for a tinted window or issue a warning, gets a response of screaming and threats rather than a nod of the head.

@MadelaineLucyH Lol this is the female version of getting mad that your date puts a lid on their drink to avoid being roofied

I was at uni during the height of MeToo. I remember going to a male professor out of hours for research on a lab study. I noticed he opened his office door, propped it open, and went back to his desk. I asked him why he did that. “accusations from female students,” he said. Which is what I think a lot of men really took away from MeToo, not how women are actually being treated.

Why are we all just accepting this as if it's normal? Are you okay with letting PED0PHlLES rule over you? How are you all fine with just letting them get away with this? For them to face no consequences? IMPRISON TRUMP, IMPRISON BILL, IMPRISON ALL OF THEM

@janninereid1 This is the fakest fucking shit and all parties involved should feel ashamed

Homeless woman is asked if she wants the FOOD or the ALCOHOL.... Watch what happens! 👇👇😳

Well are there?? Any numbers with a 3 in them?

@PandasAndVidya I've got like a 100 degree fever but I must post this. Whimsical and extremely melancholic at the same time youtu.be/ftvpi-6Z6qw?si…

Is there a name for a genre of music that's like "whimsically depressing"?

I voted for her. I think he’s a bad guy. But if you lose the senate, house, electoral college AND popular vote, and you think the lesson is half the country is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and stupid… wrong lesson. And the same thing will likely happen in 2028.