Reminds me of bad old days when Ukrainian cops were the worst shit. Like - plant evidence and arrest you worst shit, beat you up in the alley because you look weird shit. You see a cop - you go the opposite side of the street as far as possible because that motherfucker will have a problem with you. And then one day - the government pulled the trigger on the police reform, fired pretty much anyone with any kind of negative rep and replaced them with new recruits and it is almost as if years of fucked up bullshit were all just the bad dream.
I guess Ukraine didn’t push enough propaganda on you to convince half your population that cops abusing your rights, and killing people at will, is great for Ukraine!
That’s how we do it in America, the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!®
Our copaganda never really had a chance to get going like that because for the longest time it was either produced by russians or for the russians. Because of that it was never associated with the Ukrainian police. Post-2014 and the police reform cop shows do their thing but the focus is about policemen being regular Joes like everyone else and the subjects of government corruption and especially corrupted judicial system and also loose cannon cops doing more damage than good are regular topics even for the most basic shows. Meanwhile the streaming shows either try to pull off a Columbo or Poirot style detective stories instead of regular cop show format.
See, the big problem in my opinion, is that they didn’t convince people that the cops are great. They convinced people that the cops are mostly abusing the people they want to see abused…
A big problem in that is the obvious and massive societal issue that so many people voted on, and seem to care about, above all else, whether or not the marginalized people they hate are being hurt.
The reason that police departments don’t sell beefcake calendars like fire departments do is because there aren’t enough cops without Nazi tattoos
Nice.
Might be the conspiratorial part of my brain coming through, but I’m half convinced it’s not just a stupid person, but an AI that completely missed the point.
I almost wonder if there shouldn’t be an extension or corollary of Hanlon’s Razor somewhere to account for AI.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be better explained by stupidity, but never attribute to stupidity that which can be better explained by malicious chatbots.”
Mind explaining? I dont get it (genuinly)
Hanlon’s Razor is an old adage that boils down to: when you think someone is intentionally trying to be evil and ruin something, take a step back and ask whether it’s likelier they’re trying to be intentionally malicious, or if they’re just stupid/incompetent.
For example, you go to a restaurant and tell the waiter that you can’t have dairy, so you order a pasta dish without cheese. They bring it out to you, but look, there’s cheese. You can assume either that the waiter or the staff in the kitchen absolutely hate you and intentionally gave you cheese just to spite you…or that they just screwed up and forgot. The latter is probably likelier.
I was half-joking about potentially updating this idea to include an additional stipulation about AI bots online, which are good at looking like stupid people but actually are often malicious. Bots are used to sway political opinions. You have cases where they are trying to pass themselves off as real people to drown out legitimate discourse with a simulation of it, and cases like Musk’s Grok AI where it’s programmed to ignore truth and instead answer questions in ways that further his agenda or inflate his ego.
So sometimes when you see political posts that just defy all logic, or are ignoring a hard truth that is staring them in the face, you’re inclined to ask “How can this person sincerely believe what they’re saying right now?” And often the answer will be that they don’t, because they’re not a person, they’re a bot just regurgitating propagandic talking points.
I almost wonder if there shouldn’t be an extension or corollary of Hanlon’s Razor somewhere to account for AI.
I feel like Hanlon’s Razor is a disease more than it is useful to anyone in any situation.
So frequently do normal people refuse to acknowledge that others can simply be malicious, that this rule only serves to aid people in giving the benefit of the doubt to people who act in ways to abuse it.
Politicians, shitty bosses, unscrupulous contractors, etc etc. All of these people hurt others by abusing their presumptions of innocence.
It’s not perfect, but the basic idea is that assuming malice as default in every scenario will cause one to spiral into paranoia.
It’s not saying “people are never malicious and always just stupid” but just asking someone to take a step back from the situation and ask which is likelier in context.
Look at their username. Being obtuse to obvious shit like that is a common right-wing play.
Out of curiosity, I just sent the screenshot of post (without comment) to ChatGPT and Gemini to asked for a comment and they got the point, maybe they are using smaller models that are cheaper to run.
The post is also from 2022, and the tech has changed a bit since then.
Hint:
Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses
That would make a kickass lyric someone should put that in a song
Fuck you.
Another great line you’re good at this.
I won’t do what you tell me
damn. y’all writin a banger here
Nah bro. They are joking as per the post. All these are lyrics in Hannah Montana songs!
thank you for telling me! i’ll go do it!
Yes, THE anthem for police forces!
SOME OF THOSE WHO WORK FORCES, ARE THE SAME THAT BURN CROSSES
HGNUGH
Killing in the name of! Killing in the name of.
Some of those that burn crosses Are the same that hold office
(from the show outside the DNC in 2000. Watch it if you haven’t)
“Yes, Sir, I will do what you tell me!”
-TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress
Still waiting for Miley Cyrus Linux.
someone should make that
But what would happen if you dual-booted them?
A retired DC cop was convicted of tipping off Enrique Tarrio about an arrest warrant for burning a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed he was “building rapport” with Tarrio.
Conservatives inadvertently reaching the point
Wonder if he figured it out yet?
Figured what out?
–TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePressThat is a bit of a misnomer since figuring things out requires at least a double-digit IQ and I don’t have one of those.
–TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress
Well, a two digit IQ is below average (well median, but you get the idea) so…….
The median is an average
This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).
So they would be the mode of the mean below the median?
Wonder if he figured it out yet?
*checks date*
6/30/22
*interprets name *
TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress
… doubt it.
You know he saw that and probably thought how clever he was to point this out while posting it.
The Great White North Free Press is a far right white nationalist independent “news” media. They’re not getting it on purpose.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
- Upton Sinclair
I recently watched a video responding to a video about Supergirl. Idiot needs Supergirl to be bad so he can complain about it; his channel depends on complaining about popular movies. He complains that she shouldn’t be able to get drunk because alcohol doesn’t affect kryptonians. Someone explains to him directly that she goes to red sun planets so that she can get drunk, that she CAN get drunk on red sun planets, as was clearly explained at the end of Superman (2025), and his immediate response is “yeah but why drink if alcohol has no effect on her?”
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
- Rufus Miles
I came in like a wrecking ball
- Miley Cyrus
I’m cumming like you wrecked my balls
- Me, during a very serious CBT session
I detest that you call these brain-dead people doing it on purpose.
That’s not even what a “misnomer” is.
It’s a female gnome, right?
Yes; specifically an unmarried one.
… miznomer.
Possibly married. Possibly not.
Female Gnomes have beards, making them Trans.
I don’t know what to do with information, but I’m sure a MAGA would have lots of ideas.
I… …
I don’t know if having a beard is sufficient to make one trans.
Also, if gnome women just naturally have facial hair, then it obviously does not make them trans, they just do sexual dimorphism differently than humans do.
Stop, you’re confusing them! And when they get confused, they hurt everyone in their confusion!
Good catch. I overlooked that, overshadowed by the fail of missing the insinuation in the whimsical analogy.
A bit more and he gets it.
No, he won’t.
This guy must listen to RAtM and be like “I don’t get it, work forces, burn crosses, this metaphor doesn’t make sense!”
“Since when is RAtM political?!?!”
I still love the post where some dude bitches at Tom Morello something like “I liked RatM when you weren’t political” and Tom shot back asking him to name a single song that wasn’t political so he could delete it.
This one is still my favorite
Love that dude.
Never got to see RATM live, held tickets in my hand 3 times, and it was always cancelled (covid, Zach’s injury). At least I saw Morello a year ago, it was great.
No idea. I thought they just hate dishwashers or something.
So they don’t know what the word ‘misnomer’ means at all? You really gotta be brain dead…
misnomer [mis-ˈnō-mər ] noun. a metaphor that doesn’t make sense
In case anyone thinks you’re being serious:
misnomer /mĭs-nō′mər/
noun
- An error in naming a person or place.
- Application of a wrong name.
- A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or object.
https://www.wordnik.com/words/misnomer
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/misnomer
For what ever reason, your assumption that someone would just take it at face value and, presumably, use it incorrectly, made me think of that female redditor that used to call her short brother “a grower, not a shower” in front of people until she learned what it meant.
😂
They know what someone is who doesn’t have their own skin colour. Surely that must count for something
Right? It’s a song by AFI, duh.
Miss nomer can i
Oooo, so close!
