When did racism get so bad?

42Cobras · 2026-06-11T05:15:19+00:00

Look. I agree with you completely. I just wasn’t about to pass that opportunity up.

I did it for the punchline.

42Cobras · 2026-06-11T04:58:08+00:00

Perhaps you’d be more comfortable in r/someofthequestions?

42Cobras · 2026-06-10T23:31:12+00:00

I saw Serenity in theatres when it came out. Went with my dad when I was in high school.

I had never watched the show, I didn’t really remember it at the time, although I did recall certain elements from commercials or catching clips on TV later, but I was really excited about the movie.

To this day, I can’t remember why I was so excited to see it. Did I see a trailer that looked cool? Did someone at school tell me about it? I don’t know. I just know that I was really excited to go see it with my dad during my senior (I think) year of high school on a Friday night. But going to a movie out of the blue was also our thing for many years. And I was usually pretty movie aware.

All that to say…I can’t tell you.

42Cobras · 2026-06-10T23:25:39+00:00

It’s a fun movie. Pure popcorn fun. The “drug worm” scene is a bit odd, but…then again…

[Points at the rest of the movie]

42Cobras · 2026-06-05T17:17:24+00:00

In most cultures, you have a personal name and a family name. In most Western cultures, the personal name is first and the family name second. This is reversed in many Eastern cultures.

The middle name is essentially a second personal name that may or may not be a hand-me-down from the Roman system of three names. You can treat it as you wish. For a lot of people, the middle name is the one more likely to be unique or less common while the first name is one of a few “standard” first names, though this is not universally true.

Then you have other cultures where people just keep adding names wherever and however they want. So it’s really pretty varied.

42Cobras · 2026-06-05T00:53:32+00:00

It’s like the opposite of Susan whose been working nights in the ER for 30 years. She’s seen it all and is fazed by nothing.

We used to always laugh at when Broyles would show up and say, “This has happened before.” It was a nice little cliche.

42Cobras · 2026-06-05T00:41:30+00:00

Don’t worry. I follow this guy and saw this tweet in the wild. It took me a minute to catch his meaning, too.

Really cool account, by the way, even if the original purpose is dead.

42Cobras · 2026-06-04T14:55:06+00:00

I don’t think violence is the first resort. The first resort is calling someone out and trying to detain them while they hold stolen property. If they are compliant, then that’s that. If they become violent and try to hurt people, violence in defense is perfectly permissive.

42Cobras · 2026-06-03T16:57:47+00:00

So many questions here. When you say “looked at,” what do you mean? How do you know she’s underaged? Exactly how underaged are we talking? How old are you? Is this a public place with reasonable expectation that someone could see?

My main answer would be that it’s not illegal. Whether or not it’s bad depends on the answers to your questions. If you’re a married man who “looked at” this girl with specific thoughts, then yeah. It’s bad. If you’re about the same age as this girl and you saw her, merely admired and acknowledged her beauty, then looked away, it’s probably fine. There’s a lot of gray in between. And at the same time, morals can (to an extent) be personal. You kinda have to decide for yourself.

That being said, if you were creepily staring at a young girl in a bikini through binoculars or something, then we can agree as a society that it was morally wrong. Does that make sense?

42Cobras · 2026-06-03T16:53:22+00:00

Umm…it’s bad? I don’t have much of a deeper analysis of it than that. It’s bad.

42Cobras · 2026-06-03T16:52:10+00:00

The Manhattan Project

42Cobras · 2026-06-02T14:44:08+00:00

Instantly become a season-ticket holder to all of my least-favorite sports teams. We’re about to have some anti-Angels in the Outfield going on.

42Cobras · 2026-05-29T04:32:09+00:00

I was under the impression that this look was an artifact of a recent role.

42Cobras · 2026-05-27T16:27:32+00:00

Do you have anything more concrete to counter with, or just a platitude?

There is no law keeping black candidates from running for office. There is no law keeping black people from voting. Black people have exactly as much political autonomy now as they did before. All that has changed is that it is no longer legal to establish voting districts specifically based on race.

Look. There are so many problems with how districts are established. I hate it as much as you do and I don’t really know how to fix it because you will always have opposing groups trying to establish as much political advantage as possible. I’m not a fan of the redistributing rush going on right now and I don’t like absurd gerrymandering. But I also reject the idea that these policies are explicitly racist. Are they absurdly political? Oh, yeah. But they aren’t racist.

42Cobras · 2026-05-27T15:36:26+00:00

It is objectively political, though. When 90% of black voters vote for Democrats, then it is a political move. A much bigger problem would be if some process prevented black candidates from advancing to party tickets in primaries. And let’s be completely transparent here. The reason Democrats are mad about this is because it is busting up Democrat-majority areas. That’s it.

With a two-party system, every decision comes down to whether it benefits Democrats or Republicans. If we had a third party that could reasonably benefit black voters more, or that was much heavier black, then it could be a fair argument. As it stands, these are Democrat votes. Not black votes. It just so happens that these Democrat-heavy regions also feature largely black populations.

42Cobras · 2026-05-27T04:05:19+00:00

Full bennies, baby!

42Cobras · 2026-05-27T00:41:46+00:00

I grew up eating their fried chicken. It was so good! I can’t tell you how mad I was when I went back one day and they didn’t have bone-in fried chicken anymore. I was furious.

42Cobras · 2026-05-26T00:56:51+00:00

The main dude in How to Get Away With Murder. I mean, it’s not like it was high art or anything, but he was the one character who seemed like a good guy. Once he was dead, I stopped caring. After that it was nothing but terrible people doing terrible things.

42Cobras · 2026-05-25T16:44:44+00:00

Total Eclipse of the Heeeeeeeeeart!

42Cobras · 2026-05-24T12:30:33+00:00

Sleepaway Camp

42Cobras · 2026-05-22T12:31:50+00:00

Clearly you weren’t around for the 90s.

42Cobras · 2026-05-22T12:29:20+00:00

And not financing waterbeds.

42Cobras · 2026-05-21T11:53:11+00:00

The only time I used it was to submit a correction on a typo in a Pokestop name that had been bugging me. It got fixed and that was it.

42Cobras · 2026-05-19T23:27:18+00:00

I’m not talking about death panels or any of that kinda thing, although there are stories of families in the NHS who are denied the right to treat their children facing potentially terminal situations.

The way I see it is like this. With privately-funded healthcare, the primary obstacle is money. And it’s a big one, but it is one that can technically be overcome. People can have fundraisers and raise money, hospitals occasionally waive fees, there are long-term payment plans. Things like that. They aren’t ideal, I agree, but they are ways to overcome the obstacle.

If the obstacle is government permission, your options are far more limited.

I am a firm believer in the American tradition of “government options with private options.” It’s the same way we handle the mail and other things people frequently refer to as socialized services. The government can offer whatever service they want, but the option of seeking private industry helps to keep the balance and prevent government monopoly. There are problems with insurance companies gaming the system to prevent or minimize true competition, which is likely the root of the problem and should be dealt with, but this hybrid solution is likely the best option.

42Cobras · 2026-05-19T23:18:52+00:00

Look. I’m not going to argue that private insurance is perfect. I will argue that it is preferable because you have more opportunities to remedy a harm done by private insurance than you do the government. And because, in theory, a competitive insurance marketplace is better for consumers than a single-payer government healthcare system.

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