• @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    I get annoyed by people who post about a problem but haven’t done anything to understand it or come up with a rational solution.

    Screaming ACAB a million times may make them feel good, but it doesn’t do anything useful.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      Not everyone is qualified to propose good ideas, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t qualified to point out a problem. I also feel that some things are hard to avoid on certain parts of the internet. I fully back BLM, but there have been times that I just want to enjoy memes without seeing yet another BLM post. That’s not because I think its been said to death, but it gets tiring to constantly be reminded of something terrible happening in the world. Sometimes you just need a break from it. ACAB is another example of that i think many people feel. I think you’re right though that not many people have offered good solutions, but I think we are still in the phase that there are plenty of people who still fully back the terrible acts being done by American police. So for now it’s still mostly just saying ACAB.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Not everyone is qualified to propose good ideas,

        Almost as if it’s incumbent on us to seek out the good ideas other people have proposed.

    • TheLowestStone
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      102 months ago

      Screaming ACAB a million times may make them feel good, but it doesn’t do anything useful.

      Niether did this comment.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      I get annoyed by people who post about a problem but haven’t done anything to understand it or come up with a rational solution.

      If I take, for example, your phone and smash it to a million tiny pieces do you need to understand, in depth, how a phone works to the point of creating a complete and rational blueprint of a replacement before you can say “smashing someone else’s things is a dick move”?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Screaming ACAB a million times may make them feel good, but it doesn’t do anything useful.

        You can’t actually deal with what I wrote, so you have to come up with some fantasy scenario.

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          31 month ago

          You’re missing the point of the metaphor and isn’t saying the exact same thing over and over again what your original complaint is?

          You’re not wrong that screaming isn’t going to directly repair/replace your phone, but it’s not about “feeling good” or “doing anything useful” it’s about preventing further damage.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            I’m not missing the point of the metaphor; I’m saying you are using a metaphor to avoid dealing with what I wrote.

            It’s funny that you’d want police to defuse a tense situation, and then say yelling is a reasonable way to stop the cops from getting angry.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 month ago

                It’s funny that you’d want police to defuse a tense situation, and then say yelling is a reasonable way to stop the cops from getting angry.

                How about dealing with things I’ve written and not trying to turn back the page?

                • @[email protected]
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                  31 month ago

                  you’d want police to defuse a tense situation

                  At no point did I say that, defusing a tense situation does not resolve the tension and can easily be counterproductive.

                  yelling is a reasonable way to stop the cops from getting angry.

                  Again I did not say that. Their anger is their emotions and nobody else can control that. Yelling can be a very useful tool to disrupt, distract or be confrontational in order protect others, redirect that anger, or aggressively educate.

                  You’re getting mad and arguing with an imaginary Boogeyman.

                  Your turn to deal with what I’ve written.

    • Noxy
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      72 months ago

      Abolishing the police is the solution.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            You should have just kept quiet.

            If you had an actual plan you’d be showing it to everyone, including me, if only to make me look silly.

            Congratulations, you played yourself.