funniest part of this saga is people from the area chiming in like “everyone in park slope knows the bird is not for sale.”

i don’t mean to pick on you here but it’s funny to ask why people are confused and then describe a patently convoluted mechanical bird dupe situation

yeah fundamentally being like “here’s a cheaper alternative” when it’s a 15 thousand dollar mechanical bird feels very reasonable and it’s just bad luck to run into the one person in the world willing and able to buy it

doing a complete 180 every time i see a new response in the kelly clarkson/brooklyn home goods store beef. they’re both doing a really good job of arguing.

it’s embarrassing that it took the announcers that long

it’s not in the clip but the huddle was also suspiciously long

the only thing you can do here is spike it, so when i saw the motion i knew we were about to witness something beautiful.

been a long time since i saw something that stupid

lmao commanders

AI

am i crazy or did NFL players start using the raised fist 4th down signal a lot more in the past couple of years

this is why it’s so so important to be extremely rich

buddy this isn’t some kind of rhetorical trickery, i am both white and middle eastern. please get out of my mentions with this bullshit.

the point of my OP isn’t that you can’t find some similarities between police killings and public executions. of course you can. the point is that chiding people for treating them as distinct is silly.

if you’re speaking this broadly then essentially all state violence collapses into one phenomenon. you can maybe draw a line between police killings and, e.g., drone strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean, but i don’t think it’s very useful to think of them as a single problem

yeah i forgot to think about whether my jon ossoff white boy season joke caused me to forfeit my middle eastern heritage, good point

also, lol, if we’re going to be talking about who looks like whom, then you might want to think about who the man whose execution they want to televise looks like

i see this argument a lot but this is an aberration in some clear, material ways. it’s only not an aberration if you treat it as an abstraction.

i’ve seen this take a lot today but i really don’t understand the point of it. obviously there are material differences between this situation and police murders, which makes this type of argument just feel like semantics.