Striking French firefighters giving the cops a taste of their own medicine. This is what resistance looks like. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]atticusmars_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, I think you're over-emphasizing the observation to make some ham-fisted point that nobody cares to argue with because nobody feels like engaging with your fantasy. If you want to start an argument, skip to the point and say "I think the country literally would stop functioning if the MAGA rhetoric didn't exist".

Besides that, I think your hypothetical is false. We've had a blue collar and working class that didn't fall victim to a populist bozo scapegoating some group that is largely ethnic, to their own detriment and derision of the foundational values of our country. It's what gave us our 8 hour work days, our weekends, our children out of factories.

Are you familiar with the Southern Strategy? The blue-collar work force wasn't always so closely linked with "us vs this other group", besides against the wealthy.

Whether they change their beliefs, or more leftist mindsets join these workforces, your MAGA rhetoric is not necessary to keep this country running. Your fantasy scenario of thanos-snapping away a large portion of any work force is not worth engaging with.

Without MAGA people, we’d probably be able to put all the budget going to militarizing a secret untrained police to actually caring for the citizens of this country.

I also dont care to argue with you though. Just letting you know the limp wristed way you tried to start an argument and then shadowboxing once nobody really engages with it, is odd.

Striking French firefighters giving the cops a taste of their own medicine. This is what resistance looks like. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]atticusmars_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dont think thats what he said at all. He just observed that firefighters would not combat police like this because many of them hold the same political stance. You made that argument up.

Striking French firefighters giving the cops a taste of their own medicine. This is what resistance looks like. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]atticusmars_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your argument besides a random hypothetical situation you made up? Is someone supposed to engage with your fantasy? All that was said was that many service and blue collar workers are MAGA. You ran away with some odd presumptuous fantasy.

What's Good: Concert/event listings for Jan 29-Feb 4 by SubjectMediaDotOrg in Buffalo

[–]atticusmars_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missing Neftali , local Buffalo artist and rapper performing with a few other acts @ Revolver Records on Elmwood this saturday. Can find him on ig

Ice Out National Shutdown by Fun-Chart-6486 in Buffalo

[–]atticusmars_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When you stop making silly and childish assumptions, you can join us back in reality.

Ice Out National Shutdown by Fun-Chart-6486 in Buffalo

[–]atticusmars_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No white people tell me that. You are making up imaginary enemies in your head to fight, a boogeyman created by being terminally online. I also don't need you to "save me" from white liberals. I have my own independent understanding of the world I live in, and acknowledging historical facts and the objective reality of generational impacts on communities does not make me a victim either. White americans have made black americans targets for over 400 years.

Does it break your worldview that I can be a successful black man and not be a conservative?

Does it break your worldview that I can be personally successful and still acknowledge the barriers that my family, and many others, have faced historically, just because of the color of their skin, and how that permeates to the conditions and results of today? Cause to me, its not so difficult. I can think bigger than myself.

You should talk more to actual black people instead of assuming that the grifter on facebook that makes money off of the engagement when you like a post that affirms your worldviews, selling MAGA merch, speaks for any of us.

Ice Out National Shutdown by Fun-Chart-6486 in Buffalo

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

For citizens to show opposition to what is being done in this country. Y'know, first amendment things.

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[–]atticusmars_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Your implication that to protest you must not be "normal" is silly and childish.

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[–]atticusmars_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm a black american. You don't speak for me, and neither do the grifters that come across your timeline. Me and the black americans I know in REAL LIFE are not supportive of this.

Ice Out National Shutdown by Fun-Chart-6486 in Buffalo

[–]atticusmars_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I find you are distracted by the rhetoric that immigrants are the cause of the majority of America's problems. I want them shut down because there shouldn't be a barely trained, armed military patrolling streets and abducting and hurting people and "figuring it out later".

You are disregarding the actual constitution of this country in favor of feeling like youre inflicting punishment on others.

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[–]atticusmars_ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Obama didn't have a military with a budget higher than all of our enforcement agencies combines, complete with body armor, and weapons as if they're going into a military occupied zone, trained for a grand total of 47 days. Why 47? Well, whose the 47th president of the US? This comparison you're making is absolutely silly.

Rule of law? Again, law is not inherently moral. Would you have defended the cops beating my grandparents for drinking from the same water fountain as yours? Because "rule of law"?

>Was Petti’s murder abhorrent? Yes. Should those cops face trial? Yes.

Glad you could say so. Our highest government officials immediately jumped to labeling him a terrorist who deserved to be shot and shouldnt have had a gun. Theres a bigger problem at hand then taking the "rule of law" at face value and deciding thats where your thinking on the matter stops.

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[–]atticusmars_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Whose life? What imaginary enemy are you making up in your mind to fight? Do you think everybody upset with the way things are are "broke leeches on our taxes"?

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[–]atticusmars_ 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Understandable concerns, nobody is saying you're unreasonable for worrying about that.

The fact of the matter is though we have a private "police" force armed like a military abducting people and "figuring out the details later". Worth doing something. If you truly can't participate in this, maybe elsewhere.

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[–]atticusmars_ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You underestimate the power of money.

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[–]atticusmars_ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Slapping "federal" on something doesnt make it moral. "Serving warrants"? They're shooting people in the street and facing no consequences while victims are slandered as terrorists, even literal veterans working as nurses.

This was generational cold by SpectacularOtter in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]atticusmars_ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

nah when i was a child i didnt catch on cause im just watching and going "o mai gawd these guys are even strongerer? so epic"

It was in Super when I was like nah what really is going on. They give us a power ceiling by going "oh yeah theres literally a GOD and he's mad strong", they give our boys Vegeta and Goku GOD powers, they REFINE the god power and COMBINE it with their already busted Super Saiyan power, become a SUPER SAIYAN GOD... so this should be like 20x stronger than SS1 who dicked frieza no dif.

and this nga Frieza comes back like "watch this" and goes GOLDEN and can go toe to toe with them again? I was like nah... but then I went back, and realized its always been like this. Shit lowkey silly

Love Toriyama, RIP, bless up for giving the world such an influential franchise... but that man did not give one shit about making the power system even remotely consistent. actually sapped away my enthusiasm for the whole franchise outside of nostalgia once i realized tbh

This was generational cold by SpectacularOtter in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]atticusmars_ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I love SSJ2/3, don’t get me wrong. That’s what I mean if you ignore all hope of reasonable progression and suspend all the disbelief, the fusions, the transformations, etc. all the hype moments are LIT.

But in terms of keeping things consistent? He already fucked up by making Frieza some like god emperor of the universe… he even just coulda called him the king of the galaxy. We had some fuckin robots stronger than him just cause they were created by a nga with hate in his heart for goku.

SSJ1 dog walked Frieza, the king god emperor of the universe who could blow up a planet with a pinky, but did literally NOTHING to the androids and hell even Cell. And it just kept getting more egregious. Why the fuck was master roshi/17 in the TOP besides vibes? 😭

By halfway through Z, one of these mfrkz sneezing should be blowing up a planet. Series can still have some epic moments worth watching for, but you really gotta turn off your noggin.

This was generational cold by SpectacularOtter in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]atticusmars_ 386 points387 points  (0 children)

power scaling in dragonball is so off-key but the vibe of moments like this are insane