Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick Dealing, and protection used to be the traditional ones. I don't want to shit on all of them because some are legit great but a lot of the old gangs were pretty bad. That shootout a few years back was pretty emblematic of it.

@sim@shitposter.club @Flick @LostInCalifornia Back in the day, police would usually have had informants or actual officers on both sides, observing and - unfortunately in some cases - inciting. If they haven't done that here, it's because they're not taking it seriously or don't have resources.

@sim@shitposter.club @Flick @LostInCalifornia Someone is going to get seriously hurt, and there's going to be no spinning it. It'll probably be a woman.

@sim@shitposter.club @Flick @LostInCalifornia Counter protest is just what twats say to justify grudgers turning up for a fight. It's an old hooliganism playbook.

@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick It's also extremely divisive. It's sold as a systemic disease with no actual cure, the only remedy being constant recognition of original sin and defining yourself strictly along racial lines which is just super for any civilisation.

@sim@shitposter.club @Flick @LostInCalifornia It's the trouble element. You get them at every protest, they are there to kick off, and everyone watches them, which is why proper policing (including actually turning up...) is so important.

@Mitsu lmao I'm getting a new car, so someone else can deal with it (which means I will have to buy another set...)

@Mitsu $700 and they didn't see a fucking flake of snow on the roads lol

@vriska Great! I used to get it real bad during immunotherapy. I hate nausea above all things.

@Mitsu Of course, this was the first winter I shelled out for proper winter tyres fml

@Mitsu We hardly had any this year. Not one snowfall event was more than an inch, and it didn't stay around long. Mildest winter I have seen in 11 years here. By far.

@vriska Feeling better?

@Flick @sim@shitposter.club @LostInCalifornia Do you think someone, watching that video, contemplating direct action, is going to be emboldened? I do.

@Flick @sim@shitposter.club @LostInCalifornia I used to work for plod, three decades ago. The sergeant in charge of my office told me a criminal element will always do whatever police let them do. He was talking about football hooligans because I said I thought policing was a bit heavy handed (I lived next to the stadium...)

@sim@shitposter.club @Flick @LostInCalifornia The police messaging would be anti KJK but it is strange they allowed the law to be broken. That smirking goon that poured the bottle on her should have been nicked.

@sim@shitposter.club @Flick @LostInCalifornia Sort of. They're not as prominent as they used to be and they're still essentially organised crime groups (the ones you're thinking of, anyway) but I think they got rolled up by the feds a long time ago.

@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick There's no moral absolutes, everything is a social construct (which makes the moral judgements passed down especially weird) and things mean whatever people want them to mean, simply by repeating the lie. it's so very, very odd. *Almost* like the birth of religion.

@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick For whatever reason, these ideas were not challenged at all. Now they're fucking *everywhere*.

@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick Someone said to me on Twitter a decade ago "Why is my child repeating the tenets of critical theory? The question is where this has come from, and how. It didn't just materialise"

@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick Irresponsible and dangerous ideas have crept into the mainstream discourse (from cozy little faculty offices) and anybody opposing them gets characterised as some sort of terrorist.