Jippa posted:

There is a german word for when you are embarrassed for other people.

Frogfingers posted:

If they can tolerate the company of Max Landis for more than 5 minutes I don't think they have any hosed up opinions up their sleeves. Other than the notion that it's a good idea to spend time with Max Landis.

OwlFancier posted:

Nothing, the idea is that people can change their prevailing attitudes, my contention is that "Actually we need states to save us from brutalizing sections of the population for fun" is not a solution because they also require a major change in the attitudes of the population in order to not simply brutalize people more efficiently and institutionally.


Pointing out that the state occasionally does good things while ignoring the vast amount of horrible poo poo it does, is not a very compelling argument in favour of the state as a concept. Yes in theory if you can get police attention and they're sympathetic and don't just shoot you for being black and you can afford to take people to court and you can win against a massive racist judicial system then perhaps, hypothetically, you can make a shithead racist stop acting on it, after he had done so in an official capacity for many many years.

That Arpaio is being taken to court is not a very good point in the favour of state driven social justice when he was a sheriff for a long time before that. "State stops supporting officially sanctioned racism from one guy eventually after he does it one too many times" is not the best argument in favour of the great tendency of the state to uphold justice, you see?

it shaun posted:

I struggled through Destiny's debate with NoBullshit earlier today, & it was absolutely ridiculous

nickmeister posted:

Well, Zuckerberg would probably be more competent 2 out of 3 of our most recent presidents.

Visidan posted:

Saw this interesting lil image posted on av club

Regarde Aduck posted:

Did you get bullied a lot? I hope you did.

ArfJason posted:

Samovar posted:

This does make me genuinely wonder why they would associate at all with these groups. For what reason?

Groovelord Neato posted:

uhhh what.

(ds2 is amazing and i love how weird it is and how it's more like a side story than a proper sequel but 3 is a better game just design wise and as an actual sequel to 1.)