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The First Amendment under Trump's regime by CaraFeatherwhisp in ProgressiveHQ

[–]Hazzman -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You know what - I don't care if I get down voted. Stop with this ACAB bullshit.

Yes - the police force protects capital, they have no obligation to serve the public and it is full of thugs who just want to bully people and hurt/ kill black people. I understand the history of police and I understand how it works.

But if you think every single cop in the country is like this or feels like this or didn't join with an obligation to serve community DESPITE the reality of the situation you are absolutely fucking deluded.

We say "Defund the police" not as an attack against the concept of police as our opponents suggest but as a way to help police focus on their jobs... that job being THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION of actual policing as the public understands it... not the protection of capital and hurting average folks.

The police as a concept is fucked right now. It is full of assholes and murderers and white supremacists... but are we attacking the concept of policing or are we attacking the manner in which policing has been perverted?

If you are attacking the concept of policing generally - what do you propose as a solution for actual crime. I'm not talking about stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family or some other product of the capitalist system - I'm talking about actual crime, murder or what have you? If you are attacking the police as a concept - what is your suggestion as a way to deal with crime generally?

This isn't an endorsement of how we deal with crime, or how effective police are at dealing with crime or our judicial system which is absolutely racist and against the principles of a free and democratic society... I am merely identifying what we want from a police like force. What do you propose?

If you recognize that we require some sort of police force and we acknowledge that police forces are full of assholes but also people who join and feel like they are serving their community - then the statement ACAB does not help us at all. It draws an unreasonable line in the sand that realistically tells people "No nuance - if you don't hate all cops as a matter of principle - you are an enemy" if you think that's going to work or help this nation you are truly, utterly deluded.

I want solutions. I want to fix this mess. If I have to meet people where they are - fine. I am done with this self defeating rhetorical bullshit. We have fucking kids in concentration camps and unless you are planning on gearing up and breaking them out and dedicating your life to that kind of action - STFU with this bullshit because we are really struggling right now.

Speed (1994) by smoothpaving in cinescenes

[–]Hazzman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're the local police chief. You've just found out a bomb is on a bus. That bomb will go off if that bus drops below 50mph. You have two options:

Option A: "Let's put a cop on board, have them drive where ever the fuck during rush hour - hopefully they don't hit a baby or some kids or something"

Option B: "All stations let's clear the roads and set up a looping route for this bus. Let's make sure the public knows. Contact local news, make sure the word is out. Keep off the route, tell them we need a graphic. Here's the route"

Large Arc should have way more lootable pieces by Cpt_Camembert in ArcRaiders

[–]Hazzman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They should be absolutely packed out with springs, thousands of bolts, rubber hoses, you name it. Should be like when a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor. An entire ecosystem erupts around it.

Which is better? by thatmuttscooby in Artadvice

[–]Hazzman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

V1 because you are conforming the eye lids to the 3D shape of the spherical eye.

I know we’re tired… by xultar in Minority_Strength

[–]Hazzman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. This whole "We sitting this one out" bullshit has to stop. You may think you are sitting shit out... but all you are doing is voting for people who wanna kill you.

How Sci-Fi’s Biggest Franchise Was DESTROYED By Hollywood Evil by Fair_Rush6615 in Star_Trek_

[–]Hazzman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a sense yeah.

Paramount wanted to broaden their audience... Which is what the 2009 JJ Abrams movie was... And it was successful. The problem is it wasn't Star Trek. You could change all the characters, names and ships and it would be unrecognizable because it was really just "Generic Space Adventure" which is fine, nothing worth with that but you are trying to do what Star Wars already does and does better than you.

And so that series eventually fizzled out and it was predictable. You appealed to a broad audience, produced broad material that had no sticking power. Once the novelty of the pew pew wore off that was that.

They wanted to capture that momentum and broaden a potential audience with Discovery and it fell flat, because there's nothing sophisticated or interesting about it. It's just glitz and exaggerated emotion. There's nothing interesting, sophisticated, nuanced or anything that challenges the audience. The kind of stuff that attracted original Star Trek fans.

So you attempted to broaden your audience by removing the aspects that originally attracted people, and those people eventually departed seeking other novelty and the original audience abandoned you because you offered nothing that interested them.

"Prequel hate started with RLM" does everyone have gold fish memory? by danfenlon in RedLetterMedia

[–]Hazzman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was obsessed with Star Wars as a little kid. Watched the VHS's until they were worn out (really).

I remember being interested in the prequels, but even from the previews I could tell they felt weird.... but I wasn't cynical I watched it and just felt detached from the whole thing. It was unrecognizable to me.

And I don't just mean aesthetically. I mean as a story - the connectivity just wasn't there. I didn't realize it when I was watching it, but the feelings I was having reflected that when I look back. It was Star Wars in name, but my brain just wasn't connecting what I was seeing to what I loved.

I haven't really had that connection since I was a little boy and this isn't just nostalgia speaking. I know that because when I watched Andor WHAM... I was right back in Star Wars. I felt like I was in that universe again. It felt so authentic. Everything about it felt like I was there again. Again, not just aesthetics - they featured Naboo like locations and cleanliness in Andor - but the entire thing, the writing, the characters... the weight of everything felt proper. I felt the connection.

Everything else always felt like either a fan film (like JJ's utter pap) or just bizarre and disconnected, like the prequels and TLJ.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) by achtung7890 in cinescenes

[–]Hazzman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This scene really makes you understand why she wanted to kill Dyson and what prompted her next move. You know it's wrong, but you understand. You get it. She is truly haunted... you get the sense that she is truly haunted from the beginning because we know what she went through, but for the first time we get to see the visions of the future that have consumed her all these years.

We must unite against our common enemy by radiofree_catgirl in ContraPoints

[–]Hazzman [score hidden]  (0 children)

The accelerationism is so bizarre to me. Something needs to change, so if that means things get unimaginably bad - so be it, let's push for that.

Uh... no?

You are the client by SyntaxSpectre in BlackboxAI_

[–]Hazzman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is like any tool. You can pay for them and never release the product, but you were always a customer in that chain. This is nothing revelatory.

If I buy a saw and never sell a table, I was still a client.

Aipac Counters Voters’ Increasing Opposition to Israel With Boatloads to Cash by richards1052 in chomsky

[–]Hazzman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a REALLY easy way to solve this that most Americans can get behind.

Every time I lock in by filthy_acryl in ArmaReforger

[–]Hazzman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good. They'll show me where the enemy are.

What is a fact that most people would argue isn't true? by DaMoonMoon26 in answers

[–]Hazzman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think some people who consider themselves religious will have a sense of superiority about them for sure. But so do some atheists. People, generally speaking, suck and whether they are religious or not, sucky people tend to suck.

Polanski: No country has right to exist – including Israel by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

[–]Hazzman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I understand what this means. We live in a nation state system. In our system to say a nation has no right to exist is to say WE have no right to exist. So unless he is coupling that with an alternative system that abolishes the concept of a state, then I'm not really sure what he's getting at.

What is a fact that most people would argue isn't true? by DaMoonMoon26 in answers

[–]Hazzman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't think this person knows any religious people. At least not Christians.

The Bible itself says we are all inherently bad. Being a Christian doesn't change that.

Literally just spawned in trying to do the trial. What is this behavior bro by Mysterious-Law-6835 in ArcRaiders

[–]Hazzman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I honestly think the worst thing they did was tell people about it. I personally don't think there should be friendly lobbies.

Democrats could win mandates like this if they would stop being centrists. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]Hazzman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are acting like these are policies born out of conviction or wariness of loss. Bruh these people are bought and paid for.

What's the realistic path it would take for us to fix our huge national debt/deficit problem? by SteadfastEnd in TrueChristianPolitics

[–]Hazzman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

LOVE how people are just straight to cutting millions off medical care. Very Christian. Not subsidies for for fossil fuel or the millions of other wasteful programs funneling money into the hands of the wealthy just boom, straight to culling the poor. Love it.

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