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You open the manual for that weapon he’s holding and it will absolutely tell you not to point it at people like that. It’s only “less lethal” when handled properly. He might as well be holding a glock.

submitted 3 hours ago • 37 comments

It’s designed to play into a delusional fantasy held by people who not only have never been to LA, but loudly and performatively refuse to visit them because of “the crime.” It’s for people who treat Escape from LA as a documentary.

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

CW Abuse If someone said, in a similarly unequal power situation, "she'd better have the house super clean when he comes home, or else she'll have provoked him" you'd probably toss that person out a fucking window

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

at this point if you see someone doing something weird and inflammatory in public they're almost certainly making content and screaming at them or getting confrontational is just giving them free youtube views and potentially setting yourself up for future harassment

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

public support for interracial marriage only broke 50 percent in the mid-1990s. when my parents were born it polled at 4 percent among white people, now it polls at 93 percent among white people.

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

Back when I was more of a little internet shithead, I used to infiltrate private forums for LEOs and first-responders, and my overwhelming takeaway was that cops, and to a lesser degree EMTs (the cops of medicine) are some of the biggest crybabies on the planet. Not being respected KILLS them.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

This was not a unique observation.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s 2025. Jared Leto is starring in a Tron sequel, Kevin Spacey won an award at Cannes, Ezra Miller, Shia LaBoeuf, and James Franco all walked the Cannes red carpet, Garrison Keillor and Ryan Adams are touring, Louis CK won a Grammy… Tell me again that “cancel culture” exists

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Tom Nichols should read this book called “The Death of Expertise” to help familiarize himself with why he might look silly when discussing the validity and integrity of protests despite lacking a background in civil rights history.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Any other principle a conservative professes to believe is a lie, told in pursuit of the above.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

We got these years ago. Exactly as funny as you would imagine and they come in their own little case.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

I swear to god these posts are going to actually drive me insane. There is no 4D chess game being played here. No Machiavellian 'distract the masses' play. These people are fucking morons. Trump isn't Palpatine, he's fucking Jar Jar.

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

my Oregon patients are about 5x more likely to be Do Not Resusicate than my Texan ones

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Grimly funny how the secret police raid our neighborhoods, get screamed at to fuck off by everyone in those neighborhoods, then go on their official X accounts to do 👉🥺👈 therapy posts

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

These people are whiners to the core. An ideology of crying about it. "Buh buh but that's not fair" you're the vice president, grow up

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

the guerillas who rose up to fight the genocide during the Guatemalan civil war, were just that, normal people. some had military training, but I am trying to get us all to recognize that a "hero" is simply an ordinary person willing to do the right thing

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Los Angeles knows what a riot looks like. We have quite a bit of experience in that department, one of which I went through back in 1992. THIS IS NOT THAT. Not even close.

submitted 6 hours ago • 19 comments

They're trying to light a Reichstag Fire but the matches are wet

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

They seem to think there’s a right to anonymous policing, but not to anonymous protest.

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

Cementing the case for how cool this place is. Every day, the worst people you know complain about it here. We've built an ecosystem that feckless Dem consultants and representatives whine about because they know the bullshit detector game here is strong.

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

"I asked ChatGPT what it felt like to have a conversation with a human" my dude I have some bad news for you

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

looks like an objective assessment to me

submitted 7 hours ago • 413 comments

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

During the BLM protests the right successfully conditioned a lot of people to believe that when cops cause chaos, it’s the protesters’ fault for exercising their rights. And more generally that protesting injustice is a problem.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

the vast silent vacuum of space is louder than the free speech warriors right now

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

I know it likely makes nothing better, but i still can't wait until the trumpers start blaming elon for anything that goes wrong. Sean Duffy no longer the man to blame when the planes crash

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

My nonviolent protest will absolutely work against a bunch of gleeful neo-Nazis who are armed and dressed like Rainbow Six characters to blackbag fry cooks and roofers

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Not to name names but I've seen what happens when a cop runs into a protester they know They actually start crying and have to be pulled from the front line Because a lady asked him "if I get hit with a rubber bullet tonight; what will you tell Lucy after she sees my bruises in carpool?"

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I watched The Goonies last night with my eight-year-old and I had questions about what Stef (Martha Plimpton’s character) was doing in the opening credits. Google’s AI literally got nothing right

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

it's really funny that any news anchor in america can say that biden was mentally incompetent but you can't say trump is mean without getting in big trouble

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

Speaking as a city dweller it’s mostly people from the neighborhood doing the protesting.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

"Trans people are unpopular in polling, it turns out, and that makes them pesky and divisive. They apparently don't need to be a part of the big tent we're making. They don't need to be a part of the winning coalition we're going to make with all our pragmatic winning of the center."

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Remember James Frey? The guy who wrote two (2) phony memoirs two (2) decades ago? Well he’s back. And he’s using AI. And the New York Times needs you to know all about it

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury. Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

love seeing this guy circulating around social media again

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

How do you protest peacefully when the police keep hitting you? Do you just go home? What comes next? How do we oppose this? Don’t say “hold Democrats feet to the fire.” They have proven that, and I’m being generous here, they can’t help (I think they just don’t care tbh)

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

Once again, we have “your speech is totally free as long as you are saying things we like.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment