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Tragic, but TIL that women can also be drag queens. RIP.
I don’t know that this is a “but” situation It’s still tragic even when you’ve learned something.
It’s a “but” situation because I learned something, which is good, but it was from finding out about a tragic event, which is bad.
I kind of feel like we’re in the Simpsons Frogurt Sketch.
Yes, that played in my head as I wrote the comment!
Can I go now?
Police responding to a shooting found Sanchez-McCray’s body in the early morning, according to early media reports, which misgendered her. Officers entered a home with an “unsecured door” and found Sanchez-McCray, who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene.
Damn, almost seems targeted
It is, I’m betting actual fucking money and organs that it is
The right has been dreaming of this shit for fucking YEARS. They DREAM of murdering minorities, and with Trump in the seat, they WILL NOT GET PUNISHED
As a person of color, I make it a point to avoid the south altogether. But Virginia’s not even that far south, it’s practically DC area (which I view as the border on the east coast).
I actually have a major life goal to that effect, “live my entire life without being stabbed or shot”. This is partly because I don’t want to be stabbed or shot, but also partly because I feel it’s an indicative event, that if my life has led to a point where stabbing is a serious concern, I have already made some poor choices. In my efforts to achieve this goal, there are now a lot of places on my no-go list.
- All former Confederate states
- Mexico
- All of the middle east (especially Israel)
- India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
- Egypt
- Sudan
- South Africa
- Congo (and surrounding area)
- Russia, (honestly most former Soviet nations)
- China
- Prison in general
I could probably consolidate the list by saying “any place where my ethnicity or spoken language would cause people to instantly distrust me, or where violence is widespread or indiscriminate”, but truth be told, that’s most of the world.
I also try to avoid bars & pubs.
Why Russia, though?
There are lots of nice places in Mexico. Prison in Norway is downright rehabilitative. You missed North Korea.Well, I think Russia is another one of those places where my ethnicity or language could make me a target. Truthfully, I think I’d be more worried about the govt/police than the average citizens.
There are totally safe parts of Mexico. I’ll stay out all the same.
Heh, I did skip right past NK, I guess I didn’t figure it needed to be said.
There’s a Spike Lee film called “The 25th Hour”, great movie. It takes place in NYC and has this one line delivered by someone playing a Russian Mob boss, a real intimidating character:
I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned?
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I learned prison is a bad place to be.
But I’m sure Norway is nice 😉
Is homosexuality not still literally outlawed in Russia?
It’s a terrible and gross law but there’s also a rich history I want to explore.
So if know why, then why ask why in the first place?
Ok, well if you’re not a straight person, not being imprisoned in a Russian jail seems like a good reason to avoid it.
Russian Project is effectively equivalent to manifest destiny, and the government has existed in service to white supremacy for a while. they call it “russian chauvanism” in the places it influences, but the Russian federation acts as a colonial imperial state
dude fuck you.
i got stabbed because i stepped out of a grocery store at the wrong time. i’ve spent my entire life working with the homeless and helping them get into housing you coward. what does that say about me and what does that say about you.
You know what, judging by your behaviour in this thread I kinda get why you got stabbed…
Surely all it says is that regardless of our hopes, plans, and intentions sometimes shit hits our fan and we have no control over it?
That youre a metaphorical offensive driver while this person is defensive?
what does opening a comment on here with “fuck you” say about you?
one way is not inheritently better than the other
The good thing about it is you don’t need to read past the first few words. Which saves us all a lot of time and effort in the long-run. A weird sort of way, it’s honest (albeit impulsive) discourse. Most people nowadays seem to hide what they really mean behind double-speak.
The bad thing is reading the rest of their comments makes me actually worried. We’ve all been in a bad place in our heads and some of us know just how f***ed up it can get.
, but also partly because I feel it’s an indicative event, that if my life has led to a point where stabbing is a serious concern, I have already made some poor choices
what were my poor choices?
You can make admirable choices that also put you in danger, that’s entirely valid, but that is making a deliberate choice. Routinely making poor choices however will put you into dangerous situations whether you intended to or not. Again just to be clear, I think doing humanitarian work like working with the homeless is absolutely a fantastic way to give back to your community and is in no way a poor choice.
All that said, I’m not certain I believe you. My mother did a lot of work with the homeless too, as part of a meal program run by her church. As she did that, I used to spend evenings at the church several times a week. All that is to say, I know that community fairly well, I know the kind of people who helped out there. I know they were all kind, forgiving, understanding people. They understood that people can end up needing their service for all kinds of reasons. You on the other hand, came out swinging, ready for an argument. You called me a coward without really having any idea what kind of person I am. It didn’t strike me as “kind” or “understanding”.
To sum up: “dude, chill”
you blamed me for being stabbed. fuck you for trying to ride on the coattails of your mother’s charity work. do your own, coward. do you blame rape victims like this too? want to know what i was wearing when i got stabbed?
Do you enjoy negative attention?
Why the fuck are you getting angry at others for your own hallucinations? What the holy fuck are you even talking about?
dude fuck you.
How about getting defensive over what someone is doing in their own life?
ooo! that led to me getting stabbed! thank you!
Well…yeah, maybe. Lots of people get stabbed for being a total prick like you, so definitely a possibility. No problem.
I think you could approach this a little less angrily given this person never actually directed any vitriol toward you.
that if my life has led to a point where stabbing is a serious concern, I have already made some poor choices
what’s that
They dont know you. They were sharing their own expierence.
so what in your opinion was the poor choice i made that led to me getting stabbed?
We don’t know and we won’t find out.
Did anyone in fact say to you directly that you made a poor choice or earned your stabbing?
Poor choices can lead to getting you stabbed but that isn’t the only way.
NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR LIFE CHOICES. YOU JUST INJECTED YOURSELF INTO THEIR STATEMENT, AND GOT ANGRY ABOUT IT.
Uh, I think it says nobody can predict the future. My system is not guaranteed to work, it’s aspirational. But it has worked for me up to this point, so I’m calling it a success so far.
I’m glad you do work for the homeless, that’s great.
, but also partly because I feel it’s an indicative event, that if my life has led to a point where stabbing is a serious concern, I have already made some poor choices
what were my poor choices? I don’t hold every single PoC responsible, but i was stabbed by a PoC so if you say “homeless people” i’ma come at you hard, considering i have never been a victim of crime from a single homeless person.
Nobody said anything about homeless people…
read a little closer. i did. twice. no three times. wait. it’s practically all i talk about. why? because people are terrified of homeless people because they’re scared they’ll catch the poor from them. they think they are dangerous because of, well, bigotry.
i thought i’d give an example of something most people view as a terrible life choice (i haven’t made a cent from it) that has been some of my life’s most rewarding work.
You’re not clever. You can’t pull off playing at being that obtuse, it just makes you look stupid.
Nobody else mentioned them, they were not part of the conversation, you injected the subject and then chose to be offensively pissed off about it.
Working with homeless is probably an acceptable stabbing risk.
yup. once they know you and know you help, the risk goes to zero
I can’t believe that you’re down voted and they are upvoted.
way she goes
Fuck.
