>> ^bobknight33:

So you are saying that this shit would have happened back in the 50's and 60's when society was more conservative? Sure the kids might have thought the things but would have the proper respect not to say shit.
Once again ignorant fools like you shame this community.
>> ^probie:
>> ^bobknight33:
This is another example of why Liberalism is totally wrong and destructive to society.

bobknight33, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.



You just proved to me and everyone else that you belong on that bus with the rest of the children.

So you are saying that this shit would have happened back in the 50's and 60's when society was more conservative? Sure the kids might have thought the things but would have the proper respect not to say shit.

Once again ignorant fools like you shame this community.
>> ^probie:

>> ^bobknight33:
This is another example of why Liberalism is totally wrong and destructive to society.

bobknight33, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

>> ^bobknight33:

This is another example of why Liberalism is totally wrong and destructive to society.


bobknight33, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

much dumber than the movie. In fact people who espouse this line of thinking are much dumber than the movie.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Just open the register and put your hands up. The money's insured, and doesn't belong to you anyway - it's your employer's and so isn't worth dying for. The line between "brave" and "stupid" is very blurry, and the line between "coward/living" and "brave/stupid/dead" is very easily crossed.

This guy did it for himself. He's fucking awesome and this will get him laid for years to come. I quote: "He made him clean up his own blood while he was waiting for police and paramedics."

If that was why he did it, then that's a pretty selfish reason to risk your life. Think of your friends and family - why would you put them through all the grief and stress of having to deal with that, just for the sake of your employer's money, which is insured anyway?
Of course, I don't think that's why he did it, anyway. People don't think like that in a crisis - but discretion is the better part of valour. I'd rather be a living chicken than a dead duck, so I'd let the guy take the money.


I didn't say it was justified. Just that regardless of his indiscretion he came out better for it and will likely benefit over the long term. Unless hubris strikes and he dies doing something even dumber. Seriously. Become a soldier, get a medal, bang chicks. Or become a solider, die, your family gets a medal to remember your heroic efforts. Idealism versus the true nature of reality. Stop complaining. You're right, but it doesn't matter and people will behave however the fuck they want to.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Shit, if I were that stupid I would have ended up in Amsterdam.
>> ^gwiz665:

I would totally do that if @Lann were dumber.

I would totally do that if @Lann were dumber.

i dont know who is dumber, they guys that thought a metal fence of all things would stop people, or the drug runners for filming and posting how they did it.

>> ^bmacs27:

My boss has been teaching the same class the same way at the college undergrad level for 25 years. The failure rate has gone from 5% to 25%. They're getting dumber.


SAT scores had to be re-normed to a lower level in the 90s because a larger portion of society was going to college.

The smart fraction is just as smart as they've always been, but they're a much smaller proportion of society now for various reasons.

My boss has been teaching the same class the same way at the college undergrad level for 25 years. The failure rate has gone from 5% to 25%. They're getting dumber.

I feel bad for the mayor. To me he comes off as someone who's not racist, but hasn't verbalized his thoughts and opinions in his head and as such puts his foot in his mouth when confronted on the issue. Getting flustered and frantically digging himself deeper in his hole after the initial stupid comment just makes him look dumber. But if you try to understand what he's trying to say, he's trying to make the point that he thinks his community is more tolerant than what the media portrays it to be, that while this incident sets a horrible example, it's not indicative of the community as a whole.

I think that people get outraged way too easily and that the word racism is thrown around much too liberally. Personally, I try to separate what a person thinks, what the person tries to say and what actually comes out of the mouth. Poorly verbalized thoughts are a more common occurrence where I work, perhaps, but to me a ridiculously ethnically insensitive sentence doesn't make someone a racist. To me it only makes them a racist when the sentence is the correctly formed verbalization of that persons thoughts and opinions.

Well Said.
You must be one of those 1%ers of educated elite who post at this site.

Keep educating the other 99%. Granted they are dumber than a bag of hammers and need to be enlightened.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Ah, Gates. Another zillionaire apparently unaware the wealthy already pay the most in taxes, and at higher tax rates.
It's the 'bottom' 50% presently paying no income tax but gobbling up plenty of "free services" that should be chipping in.

"What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice." ---T. Sowell

One vote proves groupthink? Seriously?

I can show you votes where a majority of any particular group votes one way. On that particular election, there are other explanations: 1) the mormons heavily canvassed black communities, while the opponents of the measure took it for granted blacks would vote for their issue. 2) the rampant anti-black racism present in many pockets of the gay community in California.

On your link, I could pick out the qualities on that list and apply them to any given ethnic group, if I were to use stereotyping and conjecture, as you have done.

Race is a social construct, with real consequences for the people put in a group by society. Blackness in America is defined by appearance and the "one drop rule". Blackness is also defined by a shared culture and history, especially due to the forced isolation of black americans over the years. Given that, for you to flippantly say that blackness doesn't even exist (and to imply that by extension anti-black messages and bigotry similarly don't exist) is absurd and kind of arrogant.

All that said, the black american community still has a rainbow of perspectives, political views, religious views, aesthetic tastes, etc, that belies the premise of this video.

Don't work too hard. Peace out.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Sorry @longde, not to be too rude but.. you clearly don't know what the hell you're talking about.
The way the majority of Californian blacks voted for Proposition 8 [Nov 2008] show clear signs of groupthink.
http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm
[3 & 4 mainly].
I'm gonna assume you're a white dude viewing this video thru a lens of what appears to be white guilt.
Which is alright, but it definitely limits your understanding of my point I guess.
Tho as a half blackie with a vehement black power father, I'll have to assure you I know just how inculcated old black men can become on positions of race and morality. [Never torture your kids by taking them to NAACP meetings please]
Moreover, since RACE DOESN'T EXIST - only skin tones and culture - it's even dumber for you, white people, black people or any people to be upset about this group of black people for supporting "anti-black" rhetoric.
I'll discuss this further if your want to understand these people's reasoning better. Late for work right now tho.
Peace

Sorry @longde, not to be too rude but.. you clearly don't know what the hell you're talking about.

The way the majority of Californian blacks voted for Proposition 8 [Nov 2008] show clear signs of groupthink.

http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm

[3 & 4 mainly].

I'm gonna assume you're a white dude viewing this video thru a lens of what appears to be white guilt.
Which is alright, but it definitely limits your understanding of my point I guess.

Tho as a half blackie with a vehement black power father, I'll have to assure you I know just how inculcated old black men can become on positions of race and morality. [Never torture your kids by taking them to NAACP meetings please]

Moreover, since RACE DOESN'T EXIST - only skin tones and culture - it's even dumber for you, white people, black people or any people to be upset about this group of black people for supporting "anti-black" rhetoric.

I'll discuss this further if your want to understand these people's reasoning better. Late for work right now tho.

Peace