Defund the police

[jon-nyc]

How it started:

How it’s going:

https://patch.com/minnesota/southwestminneapolis/amp/31531214/dfl-chairwoman-beaten-carjacked-in-front-of-her-kids

[jon-nyc]

Noah Smith put it thusly: I guess people have to relearn the lessons of Leviathan every few generations

[George K]

"Very young men."

"Prosecute them."

LOL, GF.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Defund the police:

"Very young men."

"Prosecute them."

LOL, GF.

What kind of miserable fuck do you have to be to have your head bashed in, and the thought you have while you're still bleeding is "better take a selfie for the socials."

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Defund the police:

What kind of miserable fuck do you have to be to have your head bashed in, and the thought you have while you're still bleeding is "better take a selfie for the socials."

The most Aqua thing I've read in a while.

Well done.

[Jolly]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Defund the police:

@George-K said in Defund the police:

"Very young men."

"Prosecute them."

LOL, GF.

What kind of miserable fuck do you have to be to have your head bashed in, and the thought you have while you're still bleeding is "better take a selfie for the socials."

Narcissism, it's the new religion, bruh.

That, coupled with a lack of common sense and a disregard for history makes the gumbo.

[Axtremus]

There may be a reasonable explanation for the selfie: if I'm out and about and what to see what my face look like (e.g., to see how bad the bleeding is on my head or face), more likely than not it's easier to pull out my cellphone than to find a mirror that will let me see my whole face. Yeah, if I'm near my car, the car would have side mirrors and rear view mirror, but none of these mirrors will work as well or as convenient as my cellphone camera in selfie mode if the objective is to inspect my own head/face. If I'm already using that cellphone camera to inspect my own head/face, I might as well take pictures while at it.

So no, I don't think the picture was necessarily taken for posting on social media. More likely I think it's taken in the process of inspecting one's own condition. Using one of the photos later on social media was an afterthought.

[89th]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Defund the police:

What kind of miserable fuck do you have to be to have your head bashed in, and the thought you have while you're still bleeding is "better take a selfie for the socials."

No kidding.

Gets worse, or at least cringey. Look at part her post:

Look at my face in the picture. This is the face of a mother who just had the sh$t beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, "let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away."

It goes from "look at me" to "I'm a hero".

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in Defund the police:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Defund the police:

What kind of miserable fuck do you have to be to have your head bashed in, and the thought you have while you're still bleeding is "better take a selfie for the socials."

No kidding.

Gets worse, or at least cringey. Look at part her post:

Look at my face in the picture. This is the face of a mother who just had the sh$t beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, "let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away."

It goes from "look at me" to "I'm a hero".

Jolly got it in one.

You don't get to not have a religion. Make sure the choice is deliberate.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Defund the police:

What kind of miserable fuck do you have to be to have your head bashed in, and the thought you have while you're still bleeding is "better take a selfie for the socials."

I'm sure this isn't the case, but I thought the blood looked kind of fake.

[Mik]

@Axtremus said in Defund the police:

There may be a reasonable explanation for the selfie: if I'm out and about and what to see what my face look like (e.g., to see how bad the bleeding is on my head or face), more likely than not it's easier to pull out my cellphone than to find a mirror that will let me see my whole face. Yeah, if I'm near my car, the car would have side mirrors and rear view mirror, but none of these mirrors will work as well or as convenient as my cellphone camera in selfie mode if the objective is to inspect my own head/face. If I'm already using that cellphone camera to inspect my own head/face, I might as well take pictures while at it.

So no, I don't think the picture was necessarily taken for posting on social media. More likely I think it's taken in the process of inspecting one's own condition. Using one of the photos later on social media was an afterthought.

I have to agree here. Plus documenting the event as much as possible.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Defund the police:

@Axtremus said in Defund the police:

There may be a reasonable explanation for the selfie: if I'm out and about and what to see what my face look like (e.g., to see how bad the bleeding is on my head or face), more likely than not it's easier to pull out my cellphone than to find a mirror that will let me see my whole face. Yeah, if I'm near my car, the car would have side mirrors and rear view mirror, but none of these mirrors will work as well or as convenient as my cellphone camera in selfie mode if the objective is to inspect my own head/face. If I'm already using that cellphone camera to inspect my own head/face, I might as well take pictures while at it.

So no, I don't think the picture was necessarily taken for posting on social media. More likely I think it's taken in the process of inspecting one's own condition. Using one of the photos later on social media was an afterthought.

I have to agree here. Plus documenting the event as much as possible.

So after reading her post, you don't think her headspace is such that she considered the social media currency of such a picture at all at the time she took it?

[89th]

I'm almost more bothered by the fact that she spelled shit with sh$t instead of the obvious sh!t

[Doctor Phibes]

We really shouldn't be giving her a hard time for the post made after she got beaten up. That was made on a very shitty day, and whatever she says it's possible to make fun of it.

It's the post from 2020 that stinks.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Defund the police:

We really shouldn't be giving her a hard time for the post made after she got beaten up.

Leveraging an assault for social media currency is incredibly narcissistic, and the injustice of what happened to her is completely unrelated to that.

I'm only talking about the post and not the assault because I think we're all in agreement that the assault was disgusting. As to the post, I don't see how you can possibly read what she posted and not see it as extreme attention-seeking behavior. Giving someone a pass for that is exactly how you get the policies enacted that create incidents like this.

[Mik]

I don't think it is narcissistic when we have people trying to shut down law enforcement and let these animals roam and prey. I think it's survival. We need to see more of it.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Defund the police:

I don't think it is narcissistic when we have people trying to shut down law enforcement and let these animals roam and prey. I think it's survival. We need to see more of it.

I agree, but I can't read her post and see that as her intent. In online communities, relevance and standing is determined by the level to which you've been put upon and her post was obviously written in an attempt to maximize that. And prior to this, she's had a strong and consistent track record of narcissistic behavior on social media.

[Mik]

Well, I'm not that interested that I'd go look at previous posts.

[Horace]

TNCR posters don’t take their activity here seriously enough.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Defund the police:

Well, I'm not that interested that I'd go look at previous posts.

A testament to the positive state of your mental health.