608 Forum Posts by "Profanity"
Nothing more than political theatre.
America will be between Pakistan and Turkiye for the remainder of your life. Children who haven't been born yet will be eventually deployed there.
At 12/29/14 02:23 AM, VicariousE wrote:At 12/28/14 10:58 PM, w00tw00 wrote:Online senilityAt 12/28/14 09:50 PM, rajNG wrote: rajNG here.i never understood why older accounts (before 2008) shit post so fucking much.
Or just having enough experience in not giving a shit about detrimental consequences and being more interested in seeing results aligned to our intentions.
Pick a logical fallacy and then quote an example of that fallacy which you have found on the forum.
If you're able, explain why it is a fallacious argument and how the argument could be changed for more effective argumentation.
At 12/9/14 05:11 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: This is a textbook strawman fallacy.
No it isn't. It's an equivalency argument.
I am sorry that basic terms which are new to you are being shoved in your face.
Pointing out that someone used a fallacy in order to ignore their underlying argument is in itself a textbook logical fallacy. Is that the sum of your own competency in this discussion.
At 11/27/14 01:47 AM, Xenomit wrote:At 11/27/14 01:46 AM, xXSp1cyN1njaXx wrote:http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1378522/6#bbspost25311611_post_textAt 11/27/14 01:37 AM, Xenomit wrote:except he didn'tAt 11/27/14 01:32 AM, xXSp1cyN1njaXx wrote: yeah because people with good education and no police records are considered thugsAll it takes to be a thug is to rob one convenience store for $50 of cigars
Think before you post
Nothing in that police report provides any evidence which goes against the "Mike Paid" narrative. All it says is the officer in charge of collecting the surveillance footage after shooting Mike was unable to figure out how to take a video from a CD and convert it to a usable image format. It also says that witnesses inside the store told the responding officer that Mike had left with cigars. Nothing in the information given has enough detail to discern between the two competing narratives.
Why would Dorian put four boxes of swishers back on the counter after Michael took the others if they hadn't given the shopkeeper enough money for any swishers? Why would Michael put extra boxes back if he was just some "thug"?
At 11/27/14 01:09 AM, Xenomit wrote:At 11/27/14 12:58 AM, Profanity wrote:Why are you trying so hard to deny the fact that the guy was a legit criminal and a thug?
A young black man is not a threat to society just because he is tall and muscular.
A young man's life is not a disposable thing just because he is black.
A young black man's life is not a disposable thing just because he breaks the law.
A young man who behaves "like a thug" does not deserve to be treated like a piece of trash.
My America is better than that. Why isn't yours?
You're utterly disgusted by the existence of other people. You're decades away from being capable of empathy, or even respecting other people's right to live their lives. You don't even care that a boy lost his life. The idea that he was loved and cared for by other people is so beyond comprehension to you that you ignore it.
Your opinions do not matter. You sicken me.
At 11/27/14 12:35 AM, Feoric wrote:At 11/27/14 12:28 AM, Profanity wrote: I know the Police Report doesn't equate with my perspective. Officer Wilson is still on the payroll.That's not a valid point here because you're going against the word of the person who filed the police report, not the actual officers. There's nothing to suggest that the report was fibbed, either internally or by the clerk.
The report is nothing but meaningless words written by the people who know Officer Wilson. It presents a completely different narrative to the events inside the store than those which are presented in the (very poorly transferred) security footage.
The security footage, which wasn't made public until nearly 2 weeks after Michael's death, was transferred by holding a cell phone camera up to a monitor. It wasn't transferred as data. It wasn't released in full. It wasn't released with the audio intact.
Why is that, Feoric? Are police just too stupid to transfer a section of video from a hard drive on a security camera to their own computers? Are they incapable of doing that in a way which looks forthcoming? I doubt it.
A 5'5" aging Pakistani man would walk out to physically confront a thief instead of calling the police straight off?Yeah, I guess so! And good for him, too! And then he immediately retreated and filed a complaint with the PD after Brown used his size to intimidate him.
Also doubt it. More likely that this man is afraid to talk about what actually happened. Between all of his black neighbors and customers and the entire weight of the Ferguson PD, he would rather not speak out.
Did this 5'5" middle aged shopkeeper suddenly become a superhero and feel that it was worth getting into a physical altercation with a "thugger"?Obviously not since he seemed pretty scared shit and backed off after he was strongarmed.
He seemed angry more than anything.
That isn't the behavior of a man who feels threatened by a "thugging" thief. That's the behavior of a man who felt insulted by a customer's behavior and wanted to let him know.He wasn't threatened at first but he was clearly threatened enough to call the police afterwards. What you think happened just simply did not happen.
I'll wait for an actual video including the raw audio to change any positions. I will not just assume some clerk in the FPD has seen higher quality footage which corroborates a police-coerced story from the shopkeeper.
@Phobotech made an excellent post. Don't skip it when reading.
At 11/27/14 12:19 AM, Feoric wrote: The police report says you are wrong. Go to page 7 in the PDF, he clearly did not legally purchase all of the Swishers. If anything he lulled the clerk into a false sense of security by making him believe he had the clear intention of paying by having money out, only to grab the Swishers when the clerk took them out. Unless you think the clerk is lying, which I don't buy (pun not intended). On top of that. the way the clerk reacted to Brown leaving the store and the way Brown handled the situation is not consistent with what you're saying.
I know the Police Report doesn't equate with my perspective. Officer Wilson is still on the payroll.
A 5'5" aging Pakistani man would walk out to physically confront a thief instead of calling the police straight off? Did this 5'5" middle aged shopkeeper suddenly become a superhero and feel that it was worth getting into a physical altercation with a "thugger"?
That isn't the behavior of a man who feels threatened by a "thugging" thief. That's the behavior of a man who felt insulted by a customer's behavior and wanted to let him know.
At 11/26/14 11:49 PM, Feoric wrote: Has this been confirmed?
You can see everything in the video. A full box of cigarillos is the excuse given because he took the not-for-sale packaging, but the actual products taken (inside the larger package) were equal in area in the video to that of the products he handed to his friend.
Go to your local convenience store and ask to see a box of small cigars tomorrow, you'll get a good idea of how they'll look in security footage.
At 11/26/14 11:45 PM, Xenomit wrote:At 11/26/14 11:40 PM, Profanity wrote: Wow. Bias?"I'm so hardcore I'll just thug this clerk around because fuck everything I feel slightly unhappy about"
Thug. What a word to use to dehumanize a black man. Ask some schoolchildren if they're allowed to refer to anyone with the word "thug" in a few decades. You are a racist.
The clerk tried to stop him from leaving the store, then he called the police because he was pissed off. None of that makes Michael a person worth shooting, chasing down, killing, and leaving dead in a street for four hours. That is the sort if treatment awarded to dead rodents.
America should be better than this. Even toward its supposed "thugs".
At 11/26/14 11:34 PM, Xenomit wrote: Actually I'm fairly certain I've posted a direct clipping of the definition of the word. He was a thug. He didn't rob a store once, and even if he had only done it once, he did it in the absolutely most thuggish way possible. He stiff armed the clerk, grabbed a pack of cigars, and thuged his way out of the store.
Wow. Bias?
You obviously didn't watch the video thoroughly. Michael Brown bought and paid for two packages of cigarillos. He was given the wrong type, after trying to explain this to the clerk, he grabbed the two remaining in a different box, had his friend put back the ones they didn't want, and then left.
Did you notice how the people other than the clerk weren't fazed? Were you too busy trying to focus on the last five seconds?
At 11/26/14 01:44 PM, Raab wrote: PRISM?
That's not the only acronym program run by military intelligence and law enforcement which was blown open by Edward Snowden. Just the first from 2013.
Where was your righteous anger for the past three decades while military intelligence did all of the same things and more under different program names? Where was it during all of the previous leaks and whistleblower accusations? Why did Edward Snowden suddenly catch your eye?
At 11/22/14 01:13 PM, Xenomit wrote: Are you telling me that the others didn't come forward themselves, they got summoned by the ring leader?
When you heard that you didn't for one moment think "Huh, that kinda does sound like people conspiring for money from a rich famous guy"?
Thinking things for a moment does not make them ring true unless you have absolutely no concept of how the world works. Research to build an opinion, not to support a bias.
In my research, I have found that there are many facts to support the claims of the nearly 2 dozen people who are standing firmly on the side of the accusers:
The fact that these women are saying outright that they don't want Mr. Cosby to pay them money, they just want people to know about that predatory part of his personality. The fact that 14 women would be guilty of perjury if they has lied under oath. The fact that these women are asking for nothing more than an apology. The fact that the prosecutor in the original case has publicly stated that he wanted to indict Mr. Crosby based on the evidence he had seen. The fact that Mr. Cosby has a history of entertaining his audience with jokes about spiking women's drinks.
Make me believe it's a conspiracy and you will have earned yourself a prize.
At 11/16/14 05:27 PM, Voltage wrote: also, Profanity is a scary motherfucker -- even though I don't know who they are or what they do, they strike me as off. Not on the levels of people here involved in heinous crime/suicide.
Go on.
At 11/14/14 01:40 PM, Zachary wrote: Common sense says that if it were against his work dress code, they would have had him change it, but they did not.
Sure. I would think that common sense would also say that a person doesn't need a dress code to know when flamboyant clothing is out of place during a highly publicized international event which is going to be filmed.
At 11/14/14 02:36 PM, Evark wrote: Ok, let's consider this scenario:
- Would there be a problem if he was wearing a shirt with scantily clad men on it? (yes)
Common sense says it would not be a problem if the character on the shirt were a well-known scantily clad man, like Arnold Schwarzenegger or He-man, but that it would be a problem if the character were a male porn star or anonymous figure. The character on Dr. Matt Taylor's shirt doesn't look like any female celebrity or comic book characters I would recognize.
Does the identity of the person on the shirt matter? Or just the sex?
- Why did nobody suggest it wasn't a good idea that he wear a shirt like that while working in an official capacity for such an important mission/organization?
You assume that the ESA in particular is male-dominated without mentioning research. However, reaction shots from within the control room showed a pretty even split between both genders. And the two popular news stories focusing on ESA employees since the Philae touchdown have been this scandal and the reaction of professor Monica Grady, a female ESA scientist, to the successful deployment of the lander.
The media hasn't shown a male tilt within the organization.
At 11/14/14 03:20 PM, Zachary wrote: The shirt […] he was wearing [was not sexist].
Why isn't it sexist? It features a woman in a leather corset in dozens of poses. Is the shirt a pop culture reference of some sort?
That's a pretty dope shirt. They're probably jealous.
He shouldn't have been wearing it in an official position, though. Optics do matter when tax dollars are in play because these sorts of negative attacks are avoidable. He should be reprimanded.
At 11/14/14 01:19 PM, Sekhem wrote:At 11/14/14 01:11 PM, NuclearInfected wrote: And the back-to-back below normal hurricane seasons it caused?i didn't know that the definition of climate change was CAUSING OUTRAGEOUS HURRICANE SEASONS
thanks for enlightening me
you are clearly very smart and educated about this matter
You're right. It doesn't. It means a deviation from the historical norm, which in and of itself isn't easily understood.
Usually, for this sort of thing you just need to put your trust in the experts. Problem is, the experts disagree with the political American Republicans who represent and align themselves to coal and oil industries. And those American Conservatives have done enough to demonize the experts in the minds of the brainwashed conservative sheep surrounding NuclearInfected in his daily life that he is literally incapable of thinking his way out of a paper bag.
At 11/7/14 04:03 PM, Kel-chan wrote:At 11/7/14 12:47 PM, Profanity wrote: He was being observant. And he's right. NG doesn't celebrate POC or POC cultures. We're only allowed to speak English. African American users aren't allowed to call each other "n$@@#" and users regularly mock Ebonics. The Swastika is banned because white people confuse it with a socialistic political movement in Germany which caused a genocide three generations ago. The only politics which are discussed here are from the American, Australian, and British Anglosphere.NG isn't celebrating anybodys culture. NG only exists because of its userbase. If- most of its user base are Anglo's thats not excluding anyone. Thats just what the user base predominately is.
Actually, in addition to a large population of users from outside the Anglosphere, the majority of NGers speak other languages than English. They just aren't allowed to speak those languages on Newgrounds because it is considered a bannable offense.
If they were allowed to speak freely, the website would be more inviting to two additional groups of people:
1. Non-English speakers (the majority of the population internationally)
2. English speakers who are open to discussions in other languages or centered on other cultures
The current system excludes both of those groups and forces them to submit to white McCulture or "get out".
If I went to a predominately hispanic site and demanded they celebrate my american-ness and other people start typing in english and change their site to reflect my desires is a little bit beyond nuts.
What if I told you that the website is American, not English? What if I told you that America does not have an official language and that its founding fathers intended for the nation to be a home to many cultures, many languages and the polyglots who welcome them?
What is with this entitlement that demands everybody cater to them all the time?
What is with your hatred for allowing people to be free to enjoy many cultures? Why do you reject anything that isn't White Bread American?
Are you seriously going to blame the userbase for being the userbase? Dude......
Are you seriously that thick? The moderators are enforcing rules which are culturally exclusionary and rationalizing it by saying that everyone should learn to act and think like an American or find another website.
ALSO, since I haven't mentioned it since the Diwali incident, there are some good people on the mod team who I do believe are sympathetic on this issue. Many moderators (@BrokenDeck notably) helped to protect my thread from spam until Stafffighter ultimately locked it.
At 11/7/14 12:40 PM, fieldertiger wrote:At 11/7/14 12:39 PM, Kel-chan wrote: I think he's just trolling. I mean this thread is technically specifically bashing white ppl by calling all the forum topics "white washed"So was OP trying to be racist on white people?
He was being observant. And he's right. NG doesn't celebrate POC or POC cultures. We're only allowed to speak English. African American users aren't allowed to call each other "n$@@#" and users regularly mock Ebonics. The Swastika is banned because white people confuse it with a socialistic political movement in Germany which caused a genocide three generations ago. The only politics which are discussed here are from the American, Australian, and British Anglosphere.
At 11/7/14 12:29 PM, SentForMe wrote: I guess we could have a foreign language foreign or two if there were enough mods that spoke the language to moderate it. That is the only variation on this idea that I could think of, which wouldn't be a massive clusterfuck.
Why do you think we need mods to be able to read a language in order to moderate it? The jobs which mods should be doing are things like looking out for spam, deleting egregious photos, or dealing with users who have been harassing others. None of that requires a fluency in even a more than one language.
The rules we have in play against allowing members to speak in any language other than English are not useful. They help people to learn or practice English, which is great, but there is really no good reason why we shouldn't allow other languages.
At 11/6/14 10:30 PM, ohwhatawalrus wrote: That's the thing, and why I think that feminism is getting a really bad wrap.
Bad rap. Child of "rap sheet" "reprimand" "rapport" "reputation".
Men suffer from gender constraints too, as men who are seen as being sensitive are put down by their peers, both men and women, for being a "pussy" or whatever.
A major issue Men's Rights Advocates and Antifeminists have with Feminism isn't that they enable males to be emotional pussies and vulnerable whatevers. It's more that people self identifying as Feminists demonize men for being strong, masculine, or fulfilling traditional gender roles as though the drive for those things are all societal influences. As if there were no internal motivators for men wanting to feel powerful, or as if being boyish or manly were a flawed personality trait in boys and men.
Or succinctly: Misandry.
At 11/6/14 03:29 PM, LazyDrunk wrote: Free Obamaphones wut?
It's kind of awe inspiring once you realize how much money the government can save on broad stroke law enforcement by giving people who are embedded with black markets a cheap always-on GPS tracker which doubles as a listening device and middleman in all of their social connections.
While some states are yet to release the Return of Votes or in-depth statistics, analysts have already begun the clean-up.
1. Gerrymandering Rigged the 2014 Elections for GOP Advantage
2. How Much of a Difference Did New Voting Restrictions Make in Yesterday’s Close Races?
At 11/5/14 08:22 PM, DM692 wrote:At 11/5/14 01:48 PM, Kel-chan wrote: (but not really, since both parties are tards and I'm a libertarian. But its cool since the republicans are closer to libertarians than democraps)I've never put any effort into learning politics either, but I don't sound dumb by trying to talk about them.
You! Start doing either. Or both. People being dumb with eachother in an argument energizes the discussion and allows everyone to work toward a more thorough understanding. Being completely wrong, partly wrong, or arguing for a position you don't support sharpens the mind. Some people call it "thinking".
At 11/5/14 07:59 PM, Natick wrote:At 11/5/14 03:54 PM, orangebomb wrote: I love authoritarianism.maybe reading the news article before posting would help
It looks more like he has read several articles on this issue, possibly then had a discussion about it, then read this article, and then read the replies to this thread before responding.
Oh please. He's intentionally disregarding the new regulations which prohibit him from making a theatrical performance out of distributing free meals to homeless people in public spaces. He is doing this because he wants the media to pay attention to him so he can make a statement.
The city of Ft Lauderdale, Florida has a real problem with homeless people dropping out of the economies of other states and taking up residency on the streets. They bring crime, reduce the value of real estate, and cause problems just because they don't want to use the free housing and meals provided by the state.
People who feed the homeless in this way are doing nothing more than encouraging the folks to do their best to look downtrodden and congregate in high visibility sections of the city. They could do more to help eliminate the homeless problem by setting up security cameras and solving crime within shelters that drives people away from using them.
At 11/5/14 01:10 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: The Republicans had a very good night.
Very true.
Though votes are still being counted and the final numbers are not yet public, the outcome is quite clear.
Happy Burrhday girlie xoxo luv ya!
Aaaaaand just in case you ACTUALLY want the GOP to ever go Libertarian. You know, actually Libertarian and not this knock-off hypocrisy bullshit that they sell to idiots. You would need for them to lose several general elections in a row while encouraging grassroots Libertarian candidates. After winning this round, the GOP will be hardened in its position as the party of big government, militaristic foreign policy, and starving the poor. The libertarian agenda shift has been pushed back two years.
