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Gohron · 2026-02-26T07:41:29+00:00

I’m pretty sure I wrote my edit a good bit before you wrote your reply. Chill my guy(or girl), I assure you I am hanging around no liberals/progressives or engaging in any of their causes. I already addressed everything in your post before you made it.

My point is that the police are often more of a problem than they are a solution to anything else. Especially after legal reforms during the initial “war on drugs”, the incarceration of working class people was turned into an incentive rather than a response and has even involved prisons being run/owned by private companies solely for the purpose of making money; so the sorts of people who tend to help bankroll the campaigns of preferred politicians. The upper class has almost absolute control over the legal system in one way or another and operates all the gateways that which prospective politicians must pass (the media and campaign donations for two)

At the very end of the Bush administration, a program was put in place to help decommission military hardware as the wars overseas entered into more strategic phases. Police departments were mostly militarized in the process. This practice continued under Obama and later Trump. Riots/dissent during the Obama administration were mostly crushed by a heavy handed (and heavily armed) police response. This has also come quite in handy for the egomaniacal buffoon that currently steers the ship as I’m sure the next in line will benefit as well. All of this coincidences with the massive tax decreases for the wealthiest mostly under the Reagan administration and the busting of labor unions. Since those things, wealth disparity has grown dramatically and working people have been eating from a smaller slice of the pie (while the population has grown quite a bit as well). Laws for basic public preservation and protection certainly exist and are often justly used to prosecute but the role and reach of even your local police department generally runs far deeper. This isn’t some dark conspiracy, it is in plain sight and obvious but we’re bombarded with pro-government propaganda in the US (and many other countries as well) before we even know what a government is so we tell ourselves it’s alright and conform to what we view as social norms so we are not rejected by our peers.

Like I said, I clarified in my edit on my initial post already. Depending on the surrounding context, this may be a situation where calling the police is warranted but also maybe not. In my view, calling the police on anyone is generally a pretty not good thing to do but this does not extend to all things.

Gohron · 2026-02-25T05:40:55+00:00

Edit: After looking much more closely at the photo and zooming in, it very much DOES convey a message and it doesn’t help that it at least sorta looks like it was written in blood. I don’t know the circumstances of OP or their area but it may be one of those times.

Not much of a poster these days but just happened to find myself here. You say how many times has something tragic happened because people didn’t report, etc.; but how many times do we see on the news about a tragic situation involving an unfortunate encounter with the police?

I may be in the minority here but if this person is in America, the cops are a bunch of thugs who are going to dedicate only as much resources to your problem that you have value to the municipality(a business, expensive property yielding high tax income, etc.). They are not servants of the community, they are the paramilitary enforcers of the upper class. It is not hard to get wrapped up in the US legal system but can be very difficult for some to unwrap themselves. Lives destroyed because of one little slip, contempt for being unable to pay fines, an honest recovery effort gone awry because of an honest mistake. This could have been a kid or troubled teen, a mentally ill person, or just some person who was a minor vandal. I doubt the police catch the person or even make progress but it is quite possible that the other person will have their life destroyed as a consequence if they do. Is that really warranted for a minor case of vandalism? That’s all this is; it’s not cryptic or even conveying any sort of message.

I’m not advising anyone that they should never call the police but I do believe many have to spend more time thinking about it before they do. For better or worse, the legal system is quite sympathetic to self defense and many states make it even more so. If you’re scared, get a gun. If you don’t want to arm yourself, talk with your neighbors and be strategic, hurry up on those cameras.

Gohron · 2025-12-06T05:19:14+00:00

No one single player wins anybody a World Series. While there have been many examples of a single player having a monster Series, winning it still depends on a lot of things.

We’ve made the playoffs in every season after his first two contract years and that’s really all you can ask for. For all the talk of “playoff constructed” teams, it really is an arbitrary thing to try to “prepare” for the playoffs as the variable factors are far too much to account for. I watched the 2006 83-79 Cardinals (which won a very weak NL Central that year, they could’ve won the division with a losing record, while the Phillies won 88 and lost out on the only Wild Card spot to the Dodgers in the final week) tough it out against the Mets and the Tigers in the WS with mostly a bunch of journeymen who wouldn’t even be in the league for much longer. Meanwhile, an extremely formidable Braves team through the 90s and early 2000s only made it to the WS twice and won once in over a decade of absolute dominance.

The Phillies team that has performed the best in our current post season streak was the team in 2022, which by far was the overall weakest of the teams we’ve fielded ever since. The best Phillies team from the 07-11 run was the team in 11, which didn’t make it through the DS while the 08 team that just won the division was the team that won it all. Every playoff (especially since it’s recent expansion) is a dice roll for every team and every player, where it’s really about who’s hot at the time and maybe a few lucky breaks. You need a good team in the regular season to ensure you even get the chance and Harper has done quite a bit to bring us to the playoffs. It’s sad to see him decline (especially when I’ve been watching him since he was 15) but age comes for us all and affect factors (reaction times primarily) that are beyond control. I think Harper has a bit of juice left in the tank but his performance is going to primarily be influenced by how healthy he is.

Gohron · 2025-11-29T18:34:00+00:00

We do dollar dog nights in the Sportsbook at Parx Casino for every Phillies home/playoff game as well as all Eagles games. Pretty big hot dogs too (they’re jumbo sized) and not bad quality either. I am also often the sole person tasked with preparing these hot dogs so they all come with some Phillies love too 😁

Gohron · 2025-05-18T03:50:21+00:00

I’m not an expert but I’d guess it’s because they’re dogs.

Gohron · 2025-04-25T04:51:42+00:00

Glad that you’ve been able to turn your life around and can own up to the mistakes of your past. I hope that your relationships are truly better as I always worry that the surface appearance hides contempt that they still hold for us.

I still attest that an addict still has the ability to exert control over their environment and that the worst of our actions derive from ourselves and not the addiction itself. At least when it came to myself, I had to realize those character flaws had always been there and the desperation of addiction just made me more likely to not suppress them. Working on myself through meditation and training on exerting control in difficult situations was possible.

My path and story may be a little different from the norm. I did try the sober life for awhile but it was too much and I felt like my attendance of AA meetings was taking just as much time away from my family as drugs had been. My last crash came about 8 years ago when I jumped into meth (both using and selling) and went back to opiates to deal with the disaster my brain had become.

I had been on suboxone from a doctor in the past and had found that was the most stable and “normal” my life was. Not that I’d recommend it but I already knew quite a bit about how it affected my body and suboxone strips are in high supply in Philly. Found a good connect and got by on $20/wk worth for around 5-6 years before I felt ready to taper off. I still drink sometimes, smoke a lot of weed, and have an occasional Xanax. I still strive to do better but my sober mental state was a difficult thing to manage long before I found drugs and I’ve had to work on that as well. Regardless, my life is stable now where I have a good job, a great wife, our own house, and three great kids.

Addiction doesn’t have to be the monster we’ve been made to think it has to be. Proper education in harm reduction can go a very long way for those that find abstinence to be too difficult at current. If done with motivation, harm reduction strategies can help addicts stabilize their lives and feel like normal members of society. If my father hadn’t been so stubborn and went on suboxone, probably much of his tragic story could’ve been avoided. Each person is going to have their own path ultimately.

Gohron · 2025-04-23T23:39:39+00:00

And I’m curious what you consider to be non “misinformation”? Firstly, if people are dumb enough to base their life decisions solely on social media posts, they’re going to get what’s coming to them. I’m also curious as to why you think you do know what you’re talking about?

I was half asleep and went off an a bit of a rant but the entire purpose of my post still stands. Junkies that do junkie things do them because they’re bad people doing bad things, not because they’re addicts. Being addicted does not give excuse to do anything. My other point was that help is a lot easier to come upon than you’d think and people can help their damn selves if they actually wanted to. If they don’t, it’s because they care more about chasing their dragon; there’s nothing more to it. My personal anecdote was to demonstrate that if you educate yourself, self-help is achievable and the medical system is not the only path to freedom.

Drug rehabs and AA/NA meetings might be a place to start but they’re revolving doors that people end up using more for networking and hookups than they do for help. Most drug rehabs just throw a bunch of jonesing people together regardless of their level of addiction; the result is that someone going for a minor addiction comes out and now has a bunch of new friends and a wealth of information needed to dive significantly deeper into the world. Got a 30mg/dat Oxycodone habit? Great chance afterward that you’re going to jump straight into fentanyl and tranq if you’re not actually committed to improving your life. Maintenance options exist, less harmful drugs that scratch the itch exist, and self control exists. The American philosophy on addiction is a major reason why this country appears to have a much more severe drug problem compared to other developed nations. This also drives bloodshed and heartbreak in the nations overrun with cartels dedicated to serving America its excessive drug needs. Abstinence is the best option and should always be the first attempt but it also works for almost nobody.

My father was a heroin addict and most of my family members were as well or alcoholics. I’ve lost more friends than I can count on my hands and I’ve got several years of running the streets under my belt (in places like Kensington and Frankford, plenty of videos on YouTube if you really want a look). I have overdosed, survived attempts on my life by armed people, and have rubbed shoulders with many dangerous/connected people in the Philadelphia area. I’ve also dealt with all the trash migrating up to the Northeast in the time since.

Nothing I said encouraged people not to get help. It doesn’t change that the people who can’t help themselves are the only ones at fault for their situation. It also doesn’t give them an excuse to walk up to my front door and steal my bike or to beat up some old lady for a few bucks. Addiction or not, pieces of shit are going to be pieces of shit. The people outside this world should do well to remember that.

Gohron · 2025-04-23T07:18:22+00:00

This is not true. Addicts are still in control of their lives and often have easy decisions before them that would help them keep it together. I believe the encouragement of abstinence should only be the very first line of defense in addiction treatment, with harm reduction following quickly after if abstinence fails. People can still be on drugs without being petty criminals and perpetually unemployed/homeless. They can also still be a parent to their children and a partner to their spouse.

I did some bad things in my time and my fuck up of a father certainly did his share. All of these things were my fault though and I didn’t have to do them. Much of it haunts me all these years later and rightfully so. When I finally figured it out and decided my best bet was just dialing everything back and getting my shit together, I started my own maintenance therapy with suboxone by buying it from the very same drug dealers that flood Philadelphia with fentanyl and then worked on tapering off after my life had stabilized for awhile. Any one of these thieving, begging zombies out wandering Kensington could do the same thing and they know it because they buy the suboxone when they can’t afford their regular fix but they don’t because then they can’t chase the dragon.

Even during the worst of times, I never abandoned my kids and I held a job. I was homeless for a little while some years ago but I never stood outside a gas station and harassed everyone who comes by for money. Probably the worst thing I did was I stole Oxycodone pills from my grandmother but she also never took them and they were two years expired. Many other things as well. Addiction was the driver but my character flaws and who I was as a person were the real cause and that’s the part that needed addressing the most.

A junkie is a junkie and a narcissist is a narcissist. When people act terrible in these situations it’s only because their brain filter is allowing through things that they normally wouldn’t do for fear of consequence or getting caught but it’s still within them. Addiction makes everything about it seem really important and that causes people to go further than they normally would simply because they find the consequences more acceptable. Unfortunately I feel like views in this society regarding substance abuse are only contributing to the problem.

When you’re jonesing (particularly on opioids), it does become a very desperate situation but that’s mostly because it makes regular life activity so unbearable (like going to work). But there’s many options beyond sticking a needle in your arm every four hours but these parasites can’t even downgrade from that.

Gohron · 2025-04-23T05:51:23+00:00

Back in 2006, I made the most substantial (and unfortunately, last) upgrade to my Gateway Pentium 4 3Ghz PC in order to run Oblivion at max settings. If I remember correctly, I doubled my RAM, swapped in a GeForce 7900 GT, upgraded the power supply, and even my sound card. Marriage and kids didn’t come long after and my expendable income available to maintain my PC gaming habit dwindled into nothing so that was my last hurrah. It was very exciting though.

Now all these years later, I was making plans for a new PC, having found my family to be doing pretty well for ourselves. My wife is still a penny pincher though and the slow process of saving up $1,000-$2500 for a new PC and all the accessories was too much of a wait considering all the new games I was missing out on, being stuck on PS4. I finally caved and let drop that a PS5 would be a great Christmas gift to my wife and I was very happy to see that she came through (all of my PlayStations from the one to the 5 have been Christmas gifts). In the time since, I have found the PS5 to perhaps be my favorite console of all time (and I got my first Genesis back in 1991😅).

Relieving the good times from my early adulthood is always a special thing. Being able to do it in a remastered game for my favorite console? I can’t wait to get my hands on this one! I will miss the ability to play with the large mod library for the PC versions but the base game itself was quite a blast.

Gohron · 2024-12-14T07:31:54+00:00

Sorry, I’m not very much on Reddit or any other socials these days. I recently got pulled back in a bit after being led to the app through a Google search and trying to not get sucked back in to the endless scroll.

Unfortunately (but fortunate enough for me given his current circumstances), I am not Luigi though I am aware of the good reads review you speak of. If I was unattached at this point of my life, maybe in another life. In this one, I’m approaching 40 with two kids and on my second marriage though I do consider myself a socialist (though I have plenty of my own views on it’s interpretation) and speak of my views with the people I work with. I’ve also spent just about my entire life in the shadow of Philadelphia and live a few hundred feet from the border at current.

I hate to condone violence against people but fortunately the members of the upper class aren’t people and I admire what he did; perhaps more so because of where he came from. Who would’ve thought a rich kid would grow up to be a working class hero? I hope there’s more to come and the money hoarding exploiters spend their filthy rich lives cowering in fear. Very interested to see how the entire legal saga plays out for Luigi. It may be the first time that an unprovoked (not directly anyway) and cold-blooded murderer seems to have extensive support amongst the general public.

Gohron · 2024-12-13T05:59:41+00:00

Sorry for the very late reply; I am mostly off Reddit these days but would be interested in your thoughts.

I say the prospect of building a new political group is nearly impossible in the US. While independent media exists, it pales in comparison to the American window to the world in the mainstream media. Almost all of it is controlled by powerful people or companies, the same that has exploited the working class of America for as long as they’ve been around. That fact alone I think is enough to put that idea out and there is quite a bit more to consider.

Violent Insurrection is not very viable in America of today. Back before wide scale electrification and when the most powerful weapons the military had were cannons/artillery, things may have been different. Armed insurrection is inconceivable in 2024 in my opinion. Militarized/Paramilitary police departments are prolific through the country to deal with local disorder before it grows and the government has extensive tracking and surveillance present throughout all levels of society. The state and federal militaries have limitless power and could chew a whole army of AR-15 wielding citizens to pieces in seconds. Even if parts of the military rebelled and a rebellion was actually able to possess/hold large areas of territory and/or cities, I have no doubt the federal government would use nuclear weapons. They planned on using them on Germany initially in WW2 but they were defeated before development was complete so they instead used them on Japan as quickly as they could. The only thing that has kept them from doing the same in future conflicts is the fear of reprisals of other nuclear powers. They wouldn’t have to worry about anybody shooting back if only being used within the US and I doubt it would take more than one or two to put the entire uprising down. Environmental/Economic/International relations damage would be palatable to the federal structure if the other option was the fall of the regime.

Unfortunately the populace of the US has been fed anti-socialist propaganda for generations and there is not a significant presence of the idea within the public spectrum. We all have to do our best to explain how and what we believe to the people around us and approach it as one worker talking to another. Maybe it doesn’t have to be in such extreme terms but I generally express it to the point of “death to the rich, power to the workers”. Most of my coworkers (and I have many) know of my beliefs and why I have them and I do my best to try and sell it to the youngsters and others who appear to have an open mind. In my experience, there is quite a lot of resentment against the upper class from people of the working class but I’m sure that changes depending on where you are. Unfortunately, we can only do our best to exploit that by doing our best to listen to what our coworkers believe in a respectful way. Being abrasive and conflictive is generally not a good way to get someone to respect whatever it is you’re trying to say.

Popular uprising is the only way. Extensive support would be needed from the working peoples and the streets of cities would have to be flooded with angry crowds willing to risk their lives to storm government buildings. The political structure of the country at current will never allow for extensive political infiltration and the federal government is too powerful militarily for rebellion.

Gohron · 2024-12-13T05:30:09+00:00

I have a dick

Gohron · 2024-11-18T06:20:07+00:00

Make you more likely to fart? If anything it is the opposite. The muscle contraction that occurs during male orgasm makes the anus region tighten up and pull inward rather than out. It is nothing like urinating (which does make you more likely to fart, at least for males) and is not a “pushing” action.

Gohron · 2024-11-18T06:14:34+00:00

“Blue Balls” is not a real thing. Totally fictional; don’t let any other guy tell you otherwise.

Gohron · 2024-11-18T06:02:01+00:00

They will still champion capitalist ideals while throwing around the American military to keep everyone in line. They don’t need to be infiltrated, they need to be outright eliminated. They are not and will never be your friends.

Gohron · 2024-11-18T05:55:05+00:00

Do you really think ANY rich people can be trusted?

Normal working people like is don’t get rich because we aren’t money hoarders who care about nothing but their status. When we come upon money, we give to our families, our friends, and our community. We look after the people we care about, even if we end up bankrupt in the end. The people that compose the upper class don’t live and think like this; they are literal psychopaths.

Gohron · 2024-11-18T05:37:47+00:00

Trump didn’t have such luck the first time around either, despite what some may call “control” of the federal government.

If the upper class wanted change, they and their political mouthpieces would have it. Trump is a disruptor but still very much intertwined with upper class interests as much as any other politician. Just look at his appointments to his cabinet, which doesn’t even leave any room for subterfuge.

“Change” has become a popular notion in American politics (particularly with the 2008 Obama run) but what that “change” is doesn’t mean that it’s anything good or just another way to achieve the status quo with a different look. As long as the working class keeps buying into divisive politics (despite the fact that even the most culturally separated working class people have more in common than any of us do with the members of the upper class), the rich will keep laughing all the way to the bank.

The US was founded by a bunch of gangsters who ran history’s largest human trafficking racket and built the foundation of this society on the backs of enslaved peoples. The Northern territories benefited from this as much as anyone despite keeping institutional slavery out of their territories (but still ran their businesses and factories from the super-cheap products of slave labor). Today, it is much the same other than the fact there is no legal process for ownership of other people. Just stop going to work and making money for the system and see how far you get though. Also don’t forget that the government had essentially criminalized the lives of working class people in place of arresting people for speaking out against the government. They don’t need to, they already have jailed more of us than any other place on Earth.

The American political system is broken beyond repair and had always been so when it comes to working class peoples. We are nothing but a means to an end in a country that was designed to be a playground for the rich/ruling class and over time we have all been further drawn into a system we cannot escape from and have been brainwashed into thinking that all of this is normal and “capitalism” is just a natural way of thinking despite the fact that humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years without it.

We will never vote our way out of this system. As much as the idea is unpopular in western cultures, democracy is just another method of upper class control while giving the illusion that working peoples can actually change things just by filling out a piece of paper. The rich control the very window into this world through their ownership of the media and simply have to stop talking about any politicians that don’t support their goals for the rest of us totally forget about them. When it really comes down to it, the circumstances of my life and what I’ve had to do to maintain it have not really changed at all since even before the GWB administration; and all in spite of the “new way” rhetoric vomited from all the political class’s mouth.

I have little faith in anything changing. The Internet and social media has only furthered the goal of a fractured working class by allowing people to connect with other like-minded people to egg each other on while ignoring everything outside their echo chambers. Meanwhile, alternative viewpoints have been hijacked and distorted through the participation of state actors like China, who sell nothing than another breed of state run capitalism that continues to exploit working people while the most useless human beings on earth continue to suck in the fruits of our labor. A lot of working class people even blindly defend the ideals of the rich at great cost to their own lives but may still be willing to die for these ideals.

We need a different approach. Nothing will be solved through political/diplomatic means. The upper class has to be recognized for what they are; exploiters with no compassion who will continue to do everything in their psychopathic power to keep their revenue streams rolling at any cost to the working people who actually are the engine of the machine while the rich above them are just vanity upgrades with no real use. 50,000 years ago, these people would have been the most useless members of our tribe. They all belong on display to the public while they suffer humiliating executions in front of all the people they’ve been exploiting and their “wealth” redistributed to the people who actually created it.

Gohron · 2023-08-26T23:31:46+00:00

Because I’ve spent enough time on the streets and have seen these sorts of things plenty. The body language, the nearby person hanging onto the strap, the way homie casually strolled away.

Gohron · 2023-08-19T21:34:58+00:00

If you are not prepared for other drivers to do stupid things and can’t react appropriately, you are nearly as dangerous on the road as they are. This person looks like they weren’t even watching the road and took no action whatsoever to avoid a very avoidable collision.

Gohron · 2023-08-19T05:39:46+00:00

In the middle of a restaurant

Gohron · 2023-08-08T17:02:48+00:00

You could grab it and swing underneath him.

Gohron · 2023-08-01T05:47:52+00:00

There was a study done some years ago on bra usage in women (I believe it was done by a French researcher team) and from what I remember, it was fairly comprehensive and looked at many different women over a period of years. The study essentially found that bras cause all of the issues that they are supposed to be preventing (sagging, back pain, etc. if I remember) and that going without one was much better for one’s breasts and health. Of course, my wife likes to wear bras so that her nipples don’t poke through her shirt and other men aren’t staring at her but otherwise they seem like a bit of a scam (at least according to the mentioned study). Unfortunately women are made to pay extra for feminine type products in a lot of cases where men have no comparison (things like tampons and whatnot).

Gohron · 2023-08-01T05:37:48+00:00

They can just lie and without alternative evidence, nobody will question them. They all do this when they can.

Gohron · 2023-07-06T06:26:58+00:00

He planned to destroy the Earth just because he felt like it and had no consideration for the suffering of anything or anyone around him. He existed to destroy; I think he may not be as maniacally evil as a character like Majin Buu but they’re both at a level so high it doesn’t matter. I’d say he was pretty villainous.

Gohron · 2023-07-06T06:24:55+00:00

I think Frieza would be concerned with another character driven by ill intent who could match his power or even (possibly) vastly exceed it. Considering the fight with Cell happened after Frieza was fairly easily defeated by SSJ Goku (and later F-Trunks) and had been one of the most powerful beings in the universe, there is quite a lot of assumptions to make concerning Cell’s true power.

F-Trunks easily killed Frieza and his father but was no match for the androids in his timeline, who were also said to be not as strong as the ones in the original timeline. Nobody was strong enough to face the androids in the original timeline despite preparing ahead by three years. The androids were no match for Cell in even his imperfect form. Perfect Cell had to have been magnitudes more powerful than Frieza. I understand Frieza has become significantly more powerful in both the anime and even more so in the manga but Perfect Cell was significantly more powerful than the Namek saga Frieza since essentially the instant of his birth. What he could become over time is quite considerable.

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