VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[benjipwns]

lol at all the people in the robbery thread who have never seen this kind of thing and being shocked and amazed by it existing

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the best part is all the customers in the picture being a cac

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[Dennis]

lol at all the people in the robbery thread who have never seen this kind of thing and being shocked and amazed by it existing
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the best part is all the customers in the picture are a cac

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What does this say about America?

Never seen anything like this anywhere else.

[stufte]

I've never seen it outside of convenience stores and payday loan places in bad neighborhoods. I've yet to see a fast food place with those.

[benjipwns]

See, this is what I was talking about before. The robber did not get "exactly what was coming to him" when he received a fatal head wound, just because he was stupid or callous enough to commit an armed robbery. He didn't deserve to lose his one chance at living.

He shouldn't have threatened that employee, and that employee shouldn't have had a gun. It's the free and easy access to personal killing machines that leads to this kind of escalation.

It's generally a deterrent. They want money, and the gun is there so you'll let them take it. The safe play is to comply and give them what they want.

In NY, if you're robbed at any business, armed or otherwise, you just hand over whatever they want, because we live in a society where they can be identified almost immediately through security footage and it's not worth the loss of life. (on either end)

Employees escalating a situation by introducing their own firearms and fighting back seems like putting their coworkers at further risk, as well as guaranteeing a death.

This situation is more complicated than "but it was an armed robbery", because armed robberies are not always carried out with the intention to kill. This is why people put their hands in their pockets and pretend to have a gun when robbing banks - that doesn't mean the bank teller has carte blanche to pull out a shotgun and blow the guy's head off.

Pretty disgusting. Listen, I get the robbers were in the wrong and HAD guns, but they didn't use them to kill and were nothing more than thieves. I feel bad for the guy that got killed, and now his family has him no longer, and neither do his friends.

On the same token, the shooter was probably terrified and maybe he was carrying a gun because this was a common theme in his area or something? But sometimes you let the robbers take what they want and play by their rules instead of acting like a cop and trying to deliver justice. Now his life is going to be all screwed up because he made a wrong and poor decision to kill a robber in a Pizza Hut where you aren't supposed to have guns.

Quit acting like the guy deserved to die because he was stealing from Pizza Hut. This could have gone with out death.

Someone robbing a store is just robbing a store. Comply and give them whatever the fuck you can. You're not being a hero for anyone but a corporation that doesn't give a shit about you. Don't risk your life and the lives of everyone else in the store by going Rambo.

It's not, because of statistics. Even if that were the case, you're increasing your chances of getting shot beyond 50/50 by trying to force his hand from a position where he has the advantage.

[benjipwns]

Jesus.

HD-VHS
Banned

thank god, these fucking Trump supporters

[benjipwns]

It says there are areas where places get robbed so often that we'll serve $5 pizza from behind a bullet proof window.

 

 

[I'm a Puppy!]

lol at all the people in the robbery thread who have never seen this kind of thing and being shocked and amazed by it existing
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the best part is all the customers in the picture are a cac

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What does this say about America?

Never seen anything like this anywhere else.

You just ruined that scene in Snatch for me

[benjipwns]

What does this say about America?

Never seen anything like this anywhere else.

I'm gonna assume you're talking about the disgraceful forced by law calorie counts on the menu.

[clothedmacuser]

Yeah, when there's comments here of "but he had kids" and then we have threads with people saying they don't care about the collateral damage of children and families when exposing private racists, I think it's easy to make charges of inconsistency in empathy

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222993947&postcount=542


On GAF  a 17 year old wear blackface and everyone is like "He's old enough to know better," "I never did that when I was 17," but a 28 year old man commits armed robbery and everyone talks about how he didn't have good life-choices and he just needs to be given love and reformed.

[benjipwns]

you aren't born a racist like you are an armed robber, it's disgusting that you would label it as a life choice

[benjipwns]

GAF should at least be as tolerant as Washington state prisons:

Washington prison inmates will no longer be called “offenders.” The Secretary of Corrections made that announcement in an all-staff message Tuesday.

In his memo, Secretary Dick Morgan said the term “offender” has a negative connotation and adds that “Times change, and so does our language.”

Loretta Fisher with Prison Voice Washington was “overjoyed.” She said inmate advocates have been lobbying for a move away from the term “offender” for some time.

“When you’re a family member and you’re going into the prison to visit your loved one and you hear everyone calling them an offender and maybe you’re bringing your little child and your little child is hearing his or her father called an offender, it starts to feel like a very negative label,” Fisher said.

Instead of offender, the DOC will use terms like “individual”

[benjipwns]

LOL I love how these posters always add that they are not a Trump supporter.

Probably Putin supporters first.

[Dennis]

GAF should at least be as tolerant as Washington state prisons:

Washington prison inmates will no longer be called “offenders.” The Secretary of Corrections made that announcement in an all-staff message Tuesday.

In his memo, Secretary Dick Morgan said the term “offender” has a negative connotation and adds that “Times change, and so does our language.”

Loretta Fisher with Prison Voice Washington was “overjoyed.” She said inmate advocates have been lobbying for a move away from the term “offender” for some time.

“When you’re a family member and you’re going into the prison to visit your loved one and you hear everyone calling them an offender and maybe you’re bringing your little child and your little child is hearing his or her father called an offender, it starts to feel like a very negative label,” Fisher said.

Instead of offender, the DOC will use terms like “individual”

This offends me.

[VomKriege]

Pretty disgusting. Listen, I get the robbers were in the wrong and HAD guns, but they didn't use them to kill and were nothing more than thieves.

armed robberies are not always carried out with the intention to kill.

We need to put some GAFfers in a vat and we can have our own real version of Minority Report.

[Rufus]

Yeah, when there's comments here of "but he had kids" and then we have threads with people saying they don't care about the collateral damage of children and families when exposing private racists, I think it's easy to make charges of inconsistency in empathy

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222993947&postcount=542


On GAF  a 17 year old wear blackface and everyone is like "He's old enough to know better," "I never did that when I was 17," but a 28 year old man commits armed robbery and everyone talks about how he didn't have good life-choices and he just needs to be given love and reformed.

It's easier to be sympathetic to someone who paid the highest price for their idiocy.

[benjipwns]

stockholm syndrome by proxy

[Rufus]

Are avatars hosted on Tinypic and Photobucket broken for anyone else?

[Raist]

Are avatars hosted on Tinypic and Photobucket broken for anyone else?

What, here? On GAF? If it's the latter, the banned these eons ago.

[Rufus]

Here.

[VomKriege]

Here.

Some avatars have gone dark for me (can't comment on which site they are linked fom), for instance the one from CatsCatsCats.

[Mr. Nobody]

armed robberies are not always carried out with the intention to kill.

 

[CatsCatsCats]

Here.

Some avatars have gone dark for me (can't comment on which site they are linked fom), for instance the one from CatsCatsCats.

Yeah, what's up with that?

[Rufus]

Here.

Some avatars have gone dark for me (can't comment on which site they are linked fom), for instance the one from CatsCatsCats.

Arvie, Wrath, Mmarsu, MTW. All either on Photobucket or Tinypic. Photobucket is doing maintenance apparently, but Tinypic doesn't load at all. edit: Huh, they're owned by Photobucket. Well, that explains that then.

Headwalk's is on min.us, which doesn't even exist any more.

[Jansen]

I've never seen it outside of convenience stores and payday loan places in bad neighborhoods. I've yet to see a fast food place with those.

ive see these around here

[benjipwns]

headwalk's has been broken so long i identify it as his avatar

[Great Rumbler]

I don't think I've ever been in a fast food place where the workers were behind bullet-proof glass.

[benjipwns]

in my experience, the best fried chicken comes from behind bulletproof glass

and often good fried fish

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live most of your life inside/near I-69 brehs

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[Phoenix Dark]

in my experience, the best fried chicken comes from behind bulletproof glass

and often good fried fish

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live most of your life inside/near I-69 brehs

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my man benji

Yea having grown up in Detroit I'm not sure I ever walked into a KFC there that didn't have bullet proof glass and the little revolving door thingie for your food.

[benjipwns]

for reference for everybody else:

[Great Rumbler]

Trump's building a wall around Detroit, too?

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=44885646&postcount=43

[FStop7]

LOL I was born in Elkhart, adjacent to South Bend.

[benjipwns]

Oh wow, Benji is from Indiana area?

Flint/Lansing

Trump's building a wall around Detroit, too?

Gonna have to build it closer to I-275/I-696 than I-69 :

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blue is african-american, red is whites, orange is hispanic

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[daemon]

Reading GAF, you get the impression that a lot of Hillary supporters would be ripe for supporting a new Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hunting Russian "agents".

Hasn't it always kinda been that CIA is left-wing and FBI is right-wing

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222871687&postcount=13280



"Blabla both sides fallacy"

He's goddamn right. I mean, let's connect the dots

If communism is far left-wing
And Stalin was a commie
And he did make people disappear

I think we can conclude the CIA is left-wing

/caseclosed

[Rman]

for reference for everybody else:
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Ann Arbor is pretty dope.  Nice college town.

[zepblackstar]

 

She's legitimately mentally ill.



- Hugh Mungus

She called the one batshit insane socialist on the council Kshama Sawant a token....

[Phoenix Dark]

She's not the first person driven to insanity by white supremacy and toxic masculinity.

[railGUN]

I wouldn't believe anyone would sympathize with fucking armed robbers getting shot and killed during an armed robbery.

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[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223027527&postcount=33

totes not trolling

[VomKriege]

I don't think that's the real issue though. Nothing wrong with feeling empathy for a dead man (even if a robber and at fault), adressing the general issue of gun ownership or being cautious with regards to the exact facts of the case and the qualification of self-defense... as long as you're not trying to shift at all costs the blame (denying the victim empathy that you extended to the robber) and to claim that there is an absolute certainty that the situation would have been resolved with no violence if the victim of a robbery had just foregone his right to defend himself.

[benjipwns]

always and forever: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223035663&postcount=322

Look, can we please accept that some people don't care or notice the difference [between 30fps and 60fps]? You CAN, he CAN'T and I only notice when it's pointed out. I'd also point out that white on black is not a fair representation of watching complex, highly detailed geometry at 30fps, clearly the reason they did it this way.

Just accept some people don't care and move on for goodness sake.

[Yeti]

Ahh, yes.  I remember the good old days of serious JRPG plots like when a court jester became god.   

2016: The year 1994's JRPG plots become America's reality

[james]

lol at all the people in the robbery thread who have never seen this kind of thing and being shocked and amazed by it existing
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the best part is all the customers in the picture are a cac

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What does this say about America?

Never seen anything like this anywhere else.

Theres a chinese takeout place around here set up like that.

Also, a full size suburban-style Walgreen where everything is locked behind glass.

The shampoos.

The deodorant.

The toothbrushes.

Youre supposed to push a button at each aisle for someone to come open it for you.

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[thisismyusername]

I think I've only seen one bulletproof station, and that was in a gas station in an area that has like... 4 others that don't. Really threw me for a loop, especially as the place was new.

[Dennis]

lol at all the people in the robbery thread who have never seen this kind of thing and being shocked and amazed by it existing
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the best part is all the customers in the picture are a cac

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What does this say about America?

Never seen anything like this anywhere else.

Theres a chinese takeout place around here set up like that.

Also, a full size suburban-style Walgreen where everything is locked behind glass.

The shampoos.

The deodorant.

The toothbrushes.

Youre supposed to push a button at each aisle for someone to come open it for you.

...

Time to move.

[james]

lol at all the people in the robbery thread who have never seen this kind of thing and being shocked and amazed by it existing
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the best part is all the customers in the picture are a cac

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What does this say about America?

Never seen anything like this anywhere else.

Theres a chinese takeout place around here set up like that.

Also, a full size suburban-style Walgreen where everything is locked behind glass.

The shampoos.

The deodorant.

The toothbrushes.

Youre supposed to push a button at each aisle for someone to come open it for you.

...

Time to move.

I go to the Rite Aid instead

[seagrams hotsauce]

In university, I did a film course as part of my degree, and in my second year I produced a film which focused on a female friend of mine who was trying (and now has) broken into comedy. A large part of the film was focused on it being a boys club which made it harder for her, even though she was very talented. It wasn't a feminist film by any means - but it's just one example of how it would be laughable for someone in the real world to call me a sexist.

funniest shit in the thread so far 

[VomKriege]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223038999&postcount=100

AP: Melania Trump Worked Illegally in the US Before Getting Her Visa

She worked? Huh.

 

[Raist]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223038999&postcount=100

AP: Melania Trump Worked Illegally in the US Before Getting Her Visa

She worked? Huh.

 

Implying that women should stay at home and cook.
What a shitlord.

[Momo]

For people who keep complaining about useless/garbage/non-stories being posted about Hilary Clinton, GAF sure do love useless/garbage/non-stories about Trump.

[Cerveza mas fina]

 this is not a garbage story

his whole campaign is against stealin our jerbs by illegals

wonder if they can take away her citizenship as she obtained it illegaly

[Momo]

For people who keep complaining about useless/garbage/non-stories being posted about Hilary Clinton, GAF sure do love useless/garbage/non-stories about Trump.

Hey, yeah. It's almost like they're biased or something.

Fuck you, I havent had breakfast yet 

[benjipwns]

Hey, yeah. It's almost like they're biased or something.

FAT CHECK:

a neutral ground where facts and evidence, presented within the confines of civil, inclusive discourse, prevail through careful moderation

[VomKriege]

I think he's implying that Melania is one of those model types that do nothing but sit on the couch reading their magazines and staying pretty for their husbands.

I mean that's what trophy wives tend to do.

There's records that she was registered with a model agent in the mid-nineties, performed a handful of modeling jobs and was paid for it.
Unless the comment is implying that modeling ain't a real job ?

That's what baffling me about the post : meaning is so obtuse.

[tiesto]

I think I've only seen one bulletproof station, and that was in a gas station in an area that has like... 4 others that don't. Really threw me for a loop, especially as the place was new.

I stopped in a bulletproof glass 7-11 in East New York one time. Being lost in the pre-GPS days sucked...

[Raist]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223059023&postcount=957

If you are a woman in countries like Norway, why would you pick comp sci knowing that the majority of the students will be male and you will likely be seen as "biological predetermined" to be bad at stem?
Women in more "equal" societies can afford to choose to not get into potentially hostile environments. Stem has not been friendly towards women in the recent decades in western societies, and despite the effort to bring more women into science programs, it's hard to change the male dominated culture that is already in place, "Women are just not good at stem, its in their biology". Or in the case of why fewer men major in nursing, "because it's a woman's job". It's hard to fight the sentiments with a few programs.
The sentiment of many posters in this thread is exactly why women avoid stem. It's not that they don't like or are not good at science, they just want to be far away from you.

 

Women are on average far better at socializing, bonding, giving care and empathy. So it's not a surprise they go for teaching, nursing etc instead of spending hours in a basement in front of a computer to code for whatever.

But no, hold on, there is no such thing as biological differences between men and women, and it's all because of that evil Norwegian patriarchy.

[Rufus]

Kara isn't here to do it, so I'll do it for him instead:

Sure is biotruths up in here.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Equal but not the same

[VomKriege]

Not sure I see how biology would play a role in the ability and willingness to code ? A quick google search on "female dominated jobs" seems to indicate that in the UK women makes up the majority of jobs such like accountants, tax collectors or financial specialists, jobs involving numbers and at a quick glance having little to do with the qualities you listed.

Are we gonna deny that some crafts are male dominated because of the heritage of a much more entrenched institutional sexism prevalent a few generations ago ? And that sexism can be perpetuated among other things by cultural & social norms on an inconscious level ? Just because we're rattled by a bit hyperbolic rhetoric ?

I wouldn't expect CompSci classes to be perfectly distributed between genders, but surely 20%-25% of female graduates (going per the stats in the thread) do warrant, at the very least, a discussion about whether or not such a ratio is really normal.

[Raist]

Not sure I see how biology would play a role in the ability and willingness to code ? A quick google search on "female dominated jobs" seems to indicate that in the UK women makes up the majority of jobs such like accountants, tax collectors or financial specialists, jobs involving numbers and at a quick glance having little to do with the qualities you listed.

Are we gonna deny that some crafts are male dominated because of the heritage of a much more entrenched institutional sexism prevalent a few generations ago ? And that sexism can be perpetuated among other things by cultural & social norms on an inconscious level ? Just because we're rattled by a bit hyperbolic rhetoric ?

I wouldn't expect CompSci classes to be perfectly distributed between genders, but surely 20%-25% of female graduates (going per the stats in the thread) do warrant, at the very least, a discussion about whether or not such a ratio is really normal.

Where did I say that women suck at maths? It's not about numbers. Nor is it about the ability to code. But what the profession will imply in terms of social interactions.

Besides, these professions you listed often involve some degree of social interactions where empathy and dialogue might be a plus, particularly helping people with their taxes, or providing financial advice in general, etc. I also used terms like "on average" and the like, so obviously I'm not making generalizations here.
Why do you think that countries like scandinavia, which are by far the most liberal and equalitarian in europe, still show these massive differences. While they tend to be far lower in countries like India?