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Pokelego999

Pokelego999

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  • Pokelego999
    People in the Newcomer Speculation pretending they know Kirby to back up their ideas just makes me mad on so many levels.
    "Dark Matter was a two off"
    "Bandana Waddle Dee is unimportant"
    Jeez people learn your Kirby if you're gonna talk about it.
    Pokelego999
    Because Angry Birds Star Wars ll was still on the tablet, I tested out my old telepods collection. 5 don't work anymore, 4 work when they feel like it, and the rest are fine. I'm hoping to get some more sometime.
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    I've got some really cool ideas for a fighting game. If only I knew how to code.
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    Dang, I though I could get all the free BW pokemon from mystery gift via this cool cheat, but lo and behold, no compatible network. Followed all the rules and everything and it still wouldn't connect. Hate these scams.
    https://youtu.be/_pX9obSoQq0
    Link if anyone wants to try. Still think it's a scam but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt if someone can figure it out.
    Pokelego999
    Why do people in murder mysteries always die from falling down the stairs? I always had that happen when I was three and I was a ok. And I'm gonna say I'm not a big guy, so there should be no reason these fully grown adults should be dying from a flight of steps covered in soft carpet.
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    Why do people want to get rid of the police? Do they not understand their job?
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    StoicPhantom
    Defund isn't really that big of a deal as has been gone into. If funding something is putting money into it, then defunding is taking it back out. It's no different than "budget cuts" to education and the like. But neither is abolition. Abolition doesn't mean to do away with the concept of police entirely. It means dissolving the current police structures and rebuilding them into something better. It goes in hand with increasing budgets to actual crime prevention such as mental health, education, housing, and reducing poverty.

    Because we are way past reform. Just looking at the trend with these incidents have them start with someone leaking these videos within the department, sometimes months after they happened, and it completely contradicts the official report, which means they were lying. That means they've been reviewed by the department and then quietly covered up. When they do leak, the District Attorney often declines to prosecute while the department starts combing through the deceased's history and starts parading every blemish around to justify their shooting.

    If you get lucky and public pressure forces the DA to do their job, then everything from the coroner to the prosecution themselves bends over backwards to manipulate, tamper, and cover up evidence or otherwise muck up the investigation. Independent coroner examinations and witness testimony always end up contradicting the state's.

    And if by some miracle you get a conviction through all of that, the judge will give them a very light sentence and sometimes the officer will be allowed to keep his job. In the case that they don't, a nearby department will hire them, which is why a lot of these officers have long histories of abuse. And then the process starts over again when they eventually get caught next time.

    It's pretty clear the system is completely rotten to the core. All of the checks on the police end up working with them and shielding them. You can look at the DOJ's investigation of any major police department's history, such as Baltimore's, and find not tens, not dozens, not even hundreds sometimes, but thousands of cases of misconduct, from planting drugs on people to coercing prostitutes to give them sexual favors. It also doesn't help that they often have powerful union's that help shield them and "donate" to the city council's political campaigns.


    In the face of all of that, abolition isn't really that crazy. Dissolve the department, roll them into the county police force which is allowed to go anywhere in the county, and you essentially have increased the number of officers patrolling the city without actually hiring anymore. Take the money that was going to the department and invest into the community. You can essentially bust the union, rewrite the rules and codes of conduct, while improving the community.
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    On the idea of there only being a few bad apples in the bunch, it's not as black and white as that. For every bad officer that does bad things, there are dozens to hundreds that allow it to happen and cover it up. Even if it was only one that killed the person in question, like in the case of George Floyd, there were other officers that just stood by and let it happen. When these things get public attention, the whole department stands behind the bad officers.

    When those officers that pushed that 75-year-old man and put him in the ICU got suspended, 57 officers resigned in protest. Whenever an officer speaks out or whistle blows on the department, they are promptly fired for snitching. If a civilian is witness to a crime and doesn't report it, that is considered being an accessory to a crime and is a crime itself. By all rights those officers should have been charged along with the perpetrator but they never are.

    https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1271659130781130759

    That clip there seems to be a coordinated effort by that team to give them an excuse to arrest the leader of that protest. That's not a bad cop acting on his own, they were trained and have practiced for that. Budget isn't the only problem, there is a major issue with police culture and accountability.
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    StoicPhantom
    Let's also not forget that there are maybe 30,000 or so police to about 350 million people in America. The idea that they are what stands between total chaos and order is ignorant of that fact. The police are not there to deter or prevent, they are there to detain and isolate. There's a reason why they always show up after the incident. It's the Social Contract and most people inherently desiring to follow the rules of society that we have social order. If people desire otherwise the police would be helpless to stop it and society would crumble.

    Ask yourself if **** was legal tomorrow, would you commit it? No? How about murder? Still no? How about robbery? Only if you were starving? There you go. People have a moral code inherent to them and are actually psychologically resistant to harming other humans. The idea that you need an inquisition and a guillotine to keep the masses in line is an inherently authoritarian one. Most people understand on some level that anti-social behaviors like the above are destructive to a peaceful society and don't desire to commit them.

    Those rare few that don't are why we have police forces to begin with. And because they are so few, we don't need heavily armed, authoritarian, state sanctioned gangs that violate the social order they are supposed to uphold.
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    I rewatched Destiny Deoxys, quote quote my favorite childhood movie. Not as good as I remember. But it wasn't bad either. I'm gonna watch my other childhood favorite, Pokemon Heroes later.
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    I didn't really care about the George Floyd protests until yesterday night when there was a riot in a city nearby where I lived. Seriously, most of the people there seem sane, why should they be destroying property, looting, attacking police, etc. He** the only reason these riots happen is because they're using it as an excuse, at least for a large amount of people. Using it as an exxuse to commit illegal activities without punishment, under the moniker that they care about one guy who died miles away. 3/4 of them probably don't care about this man. I'm betting only the actual peaceful protesters in the day care about what's happening. These night riots are tarnishing the names of these peaceful protests with these illegal acts. Just because one idiot police officer killed a guy who happened to be black miles away. It wasn't right, I agree, but this dosen't mean all police are bad. Sure theres a few rotten eggs here and there, but it's ridiculous inmocent police officers are being attacked because of one idiot. One single god*** idiot. These rioters are a disgrace to our state and to our country. The only ones trying to be good here are the peaceful protesters. I'm seriously fed up with how dumb the world can be sometimes.
    Pokelego999
    A friend of mine on discord got really angry the other day. I said a relatively small insult and he f***ing EXPLODED. Started saying stuff like the time I "embarassed" him with a bad joke he couldn't understand (no one said a word nor mentioned it again) the time I said he should be careful outside (he got really ticked off about that, what's the issue with one minor thing, it's like saying have a good day or something) etc. Started going on and on about how we didn't treat him properly, why he really shouldve committed suicide, why people always joked around when he talked about serious stuff, why people always responded to him in the channel where you tell about real life things and get help for, etc. Literally kicked me out of the alliance we were in in a camp (something I won't explain rn) and I'm pretty certain he removed me from his friends list, then told me to stop talking to him. It got worse, as one guy came in talking about how he should stop helping the friend because of his outbursts whenever people responded to his messages (things like this happen a lot, just less... worse, let's just say.) and the fact he pushed everyone who tried to help his irl problems away. He blew up yet again, even worse, and another friend tried to calm him down. He then started talking about how we didn't understand what he was going through (his dad caught covid-19 a couple weeks back, his school life was not going well, and a few other things) and then brought up the fact that it was about something he didn't tell us that was making him so on edge. I was thinking "Dude, how are we meant to understand you if you don't tell us?"
    That was a small fraction of what happened, but I don't really know what I should do about this. I missed a good amount of the conversation cause I got my ohone taken away, so.... um... any tips or anything on what to do?
    Pokelego999
    Here to celebrate my one year anniversery of being on smashboards. How time flies.
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