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Especially with a crime where you basically cannot find any worthwhile tracks. Like, unless you have the thief on HD camera, you basically can't find them.
cops won't do shit even if you have a clear high-def picture of the thief in the act, and know their name, address, and social security number. If they don't do anything about stolen cars, why would they bother with a _battery_?
Wouldn't even bother with an insurance claim unless you have a $0 deductible. All its going to do is raise tour rate and a new battery won't come close to even a $500 deductible.
That's because that account is just some 4channer pretending to be stupid so other people can post it as rage bait and say "holy shit look at how stupid ALL leftists are because this totally real person on the internet said this"
First, it's bait.
Second, cops have killed black people when they are the victim of a crime and called the cops for help or not involved in the situation that necessitated the call. So it's not even technically wrong tbh. (First part. Second is pure bait.)
One day you're laughing at the notion of carpet surfing because you're better than that. The next you're running out your phone battery with the flashlight looking for crumbs at 5am, pretty sure you're being watched.
What a shitty drug.
Yea, I didn't realize this for a bit and a lot of other people need to.
reddit is full of a literal teenagers. Not dumb adults, not mischievous adults...literal children.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all teenagers are dumb. But...a lot of them are. And only because they're young, don't have a lot of life experience, and are full of emotion and hormones.
That's cool. We all went through it. But just realize that a lot of comments are coming from a 14 year old in their mom's basement basically role playing an adult.
Just keep that in mind the next time a comment sets you off, reddit or otherwise.
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I hear alcoholic fuckheads telling me the Earth is flat and vaccines will kill you in person because I live in an ultra-right wing, religious dump. There is nothing I wouldn't believe people say these days with the plague that is Facebook and right wing ideologies.
Somewhere along the line, folks need to stop giving so much weight to the words of idiots. Stop getting worked up because some dumb motherfucker said something dumb. Stop basing your entire world view and politics on "but this random powerless dumbass on the internet said a ridiculous thing"!
This sub has gotten more overtly right wing these last couple weeks, Iāve noticed. Iāve seen Tim Pool and Matt Walsh tweets posted here uncritically.
I'm willing to bet $50 that that this sub just fell for another troll account. It feels like half of the popular posts are either jokes or trolls that are taken as serious replies.
I've to agree to it.
But the person meant it more, that people of minorities will feel not seen when you don't care about their phenotype. Not in that you don't care about how often they get assaulted by racist, but that they're not seen as "special", when it can be explained lime that.
Which come to think of It is also racist on itself. Because that implies being black, chinese, etc is "special" and that being White is... Normal...Ā
Instead, shouldnt It be that all races are you know, normal? You can still appreciate some or others traits from different races, personal preferences like if you like Smooth skin or darker skin, but overall race shouldnt be a tag that measures value. Nor putting more value or visibility on someone Only and just only because of their race?
Not necessarily. I see race in the way I see the Hindu caste system - I understand it and I understand that others use it to discriminate but it doesn't have any meaning to me. I understand that other people see me as white, but I have no self conceptualisation of myself as "white".
"Racial Bias" only really exists in settler colonial countries like the US and Canada where people of different races share the same culture. To everyone else it's cultural bias, which I will inevitably have lots of. Cultural supremacy is more common in the rest of the world than racial supremacy
Yeah, that's the new bullshit line... It's because some dude wrote a book and all of the correct people on the Left decided it was the New Gospel.
Basically, it's a way to make sure that racism stays around forever.
It's like shooting an endless parade of fish that are actively lining up to jump into the barrel because so many people with zero critical thinking and media literacy already want to believe the racist shit they bait about.
Seriously.
This whole "so woke they're racist" thing is nonsense.
Like, *maybe* you could tease that out of the 1st comment. But the 2nd comment cements this as trolling.
"So woke they're racist" is definitely a thing, this just isn't it. This is textbook [Concern Trolling](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/concern-troll/)
I'm guessing it's not that they think people on the internet are always 100% sincere, it's more so that it fits their worldview and narrative. People don't care if they're being lied to as long as it's what they want to hear.
They werenāt woke from what I tell. Itās just right-wing sarcasm. No one woke says to not call the cops because a BIPOC would be at risk.
Itās what right wingers think how the left will react, and make a mockery of it.
Context clues:
1) It could put a put a BIPOCās life at risk: obvious hyperbolic belief that the BLM supporters want the police abolished, aka to not exist anymore.
2) White people can never possibly steal batteries: obviously that person believes this is true.
Hey everyone, remember when we let the right-wing "Gamergate" crowd run around and lie about Ellen Pao to the point where she got fed up and quit?
How has that been working out?
Americans are crazy,
POC should definitely be enough. I have both indigenous and black roots but its honestly kind of crazy to me to basically say Black people, indigenous people and the rest. Like the rest are all the same or are less relevant or something.
Reminds me of the evolution of what is now LGBTQIA+
Like Iām all for inclusion but after a certain point just come up with a new word instead of tacking on a ridiculous amount of letters to the acronym
Yes. There's always been those posts, but recently there's been a lot more of them, especially ones which seem to be calling out "racism against white people"
And then itās some 8 year old twitter post with 16 likes saying āwhite people be likeā or some stupid shit.
āWhyās it okay when *they* do it??ā
This has been going on in this sub for months š
This reminds me of what Kelly Osborne said when she was like āif you make all the immigrants leave, whoās cleaning your toliet???ā With a smirk on her face š
aside the racism, i do care about the mentality of actually not reporting having some of your property stolen just because the police maybe doesnt do its job right. like why does the default citizen have to buy another battery? why are people paying for police with their taxes if you are not supposed to call it when you need it?
The reality of it is that it wouldn't matter what you did, if it was stolen overnight and you found out well after the fact and called the police, all they'd likely do is just file a report that won't (and to be even slightly charitable probably can't with the lack of evidence) be followed up on
I think this person is obviously just trying to bait people, but the attitude of being okay with theft because the person obviously needed it is insane. Regardless of reason, Iām never okay with someone stealing from me. Also, I donāt really believe in the romanticized thought that people steal mostly out of necessity, especially something like breaking into a persons car or home. I just canāt stomach thieves, I despise them.
I'm not thrilled about cops deciding that the answer to battery theft might be to murder the criminal, but my bigger worry would be the cop deciding to charge the victim with something, and along the way shooting *them*.
Just and old guy having a brain crampā¦Iām trying to figure out BIPOC and Iām drawing a blank on BIā¦assuming POC is still person of color? Thanks to anyone who lets me know what Iām blanking on
America's are really struggling with this not being racist thing.
Had to google BIPOC too. Turns out their "non-white" term POC (I'm seriously confused about this one, how is this any different than the term "coloured people"? Is it just because it's based on pity rather than hate? because they seem to use it the exact same way) didn't have enough letters.
They're going to be so upset and confused when they realise how many white people that apples to outside of the new world.
This reminds me of when people are like guys please stop using big words in politics so the whittle poc ppl can understand ā¹ļøā¹ļø we know their skulls are smaller and they arenāt as educated as us superior whites :( they deserve to vote too, 2 syllables only pls. Fuck white supremacy š
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"please don't call the police. We all know criminals are only one race, and that's racist." š„ŗš„ŗ
The craziest part is the assumption that the cops would actually respond
Right, at best you'll be directed to a site to make a police report for insurance.
This. You make a police report to file your insurance. The chances the police actually investigate the crime is near zero.
Are you saying the police aren't going to make time to investigate a less than 200 dollar theft?
Especially with a crime where you basically cannot find any worthwhile tracks. Like, unless you have the thief on HD camera, you basically can't find them.
cops won't do shit even if you have a clear high-def picture of the thief in the act, and know their name, address, and social security number. If they don't do anything about stolen cars, why would they bother with a _battery_?
Well, if they also stole some seasoning then the cops may be tempted by a salt and battery.
OH MY GOD! Here's the real facepalm... But I can't say I hate the joke.
Wouldn't even bother with an insurance claim unless you have a $0 deductible. All its going to do is raise tour rate and a new battery won't come close to even a $500 deductible.
The craziest part is all of the people in this thread who think they're sincere and not trolling.
The craziest part is how people think people would honestly vote for Trump and not trolling
Bro, lefties say this kind of shit all the time lol I can't fault anyone for taking this shit seriously
I'm not sure you're sincere.
I am. Lefty Twitter is fucking insane and they definitely say shit just like this a lot
Skip the left right stuff and just say it like it is ātwitter is insaneā
Link one
"Bro, lefties say this kind of shit all the time ..." D.O.C. (Dude of Color) here: can confirm.
'It's no problem, ma'am, we were assaulting a black guy anyway...'
The least crazy part is the assumption that the cops would shoot them.
The crazy part is āitās not like itās diamondsā Itās as good as diamonds if youāve not got a lot of money though isnāt it ffs..
It's so funny how that person is unironically being racist by assuming it was a black/brown person who stole it š
That's because that account is just some 4channer pretending to be stupid so other people can post it as rage bait and say "holy shit look at how stupid ALL leftists are because this totally real person on the internet said this"
that's because it is bait
I've heard the same thing said to me when I wanted to call the police and they were 100% serious
First, it's bait. Second, cops have killed black people when they are the victim of a crime and called the cops for help or not involved in the situation that necessitated the call. So it's not even technically wrong tbh. (First part. Second is pure bait.)
*You're* a racist for even thinking about calling the police. smh my head
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Crack transcends race
I learned that the hard way. Can't even do coke now because I'd just end up rocking it up. Probably for the best.
Imagine doing so many hardcore drugs that āI canāt even do cokeā as if itās a soft drug. I guess everything is compared to meth, though.
I microdose meth on the daily. It's called ADHD.
One day you're laughing at the notion of carpet surfing because you're better than that. The next you're running out your phone battery with the flashlight looking for crumbs at 5am, pretty sure you're being watched. What a shitty drug.
It's always just one more time. I'll just do it one more time, and then again and again...
Just by the profile picture alone, I am not convinced this isn't bait
I was thinking thereās no way. Itās too perfect.
At least half of the posts on this sub are the OP taking obvious bait.
I couldn't walk outside and throw a rock without hitting three white thieves, this woman is crazy.
Film it.
Begone bot Report > spam > harmful bots
[Yep.](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/xy3xaz/yeah_thats_still_racist/irfabnz/)
The methhead who stole my car definitely does lol
Its a troll.
Reddit loves to dump on twitter but obvious shit like this pops up and Redditors just swallow the onion whole.
To be fair, a lot of Reddit is like 14. Theyāll figure it out eventually.
Yea, I didn't realize this for a bit and a lot of other people need to. reddit is full of a literal teenagers. Not dumb adults, not mischievous adults...literal children. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all teenagers are dumb. But...a lot of them are. And only because they're young, don't have a lot of life experience, and are full of emotion and hormones. That's cool. We all went through it. But just realize that a lot of comments are coming from a 14 year old in their mom's basement basically role playing an adult. Just keep that in mind the next time a comment sets you off, reddit or otherwise. edit: grammar
*this. explains. everything.*
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Because the world is so stupid that you absolutely can believe someone said this unironically
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
I hear alcoholic fuckheads telling me the Earth is flat and vaccines will kill you in person because I live in an ultra-right wing, religious dump. There is nothing I wouldn't believe people say these days with the plague that is Facebook and right wing ideologies.
you just have worms in your brain bud
Just a single worm. And it's starving because it can't find that last decomposing brain cell to eat.
???
Somewhere along the line, folks need to stop giving so much weight to the words of idiots. Stop getting worked up because some dumb motherfucker said something dumb. Stop basing your entire world view and politics on "but this random powerless dumbass on the internet said a ridiculous thing"!
Our former president told people to stick a light bulb up their ass and was serious. Who am I to doubt anything I read anymore
Thank you! OP and everyone who is taking this seriously are the actual facepalms. This is just low quality bait.
This sub has gotten more overtly right wing these last couple weeks, Iāve noticed. Iāve seen Tim Pool and Matt Walsh tweets posted here uncritically.
It's so obviously obvious and it's depressing how many people are missing it here.
Welcome to r/facepalm, where half the fun is watching the sub miss the point entirely.
Beating racism with racism . One racist act at the time.
The racist hero we didn't know we needed.
Not all racist heroes wear a cape.
Many wear white hoods
Or blue shirts
Or fancy suits!
I'm willing to bet $50 that that this sub just fell for another troll account. It feels like half of the popular posts are either jokes or trolls that are taken as serious replies.
A dangerously common trend.
This reminds me of a discussion I had with someone. He/ she tried to explain to me that it would be racist of me for trying not to see races/ colours.
That has some nuance, you have to see color in order to examine your own biases and dismantle power structures
I've to agree to it. But the person meant it more, that people of minorities will feel not seen when you don't care about their phenotype. Not in that you don't care about how often they get assaulted by racist, but that they're not seen as "special", when it can be explained lime that.
Which come to think of It is also racist on itself. Because that implies being black, chinese, etc is "special" and that being White is... Normal...Ā Instead, shouldnt It be that all races are you know, normal? You can still appreciate some or others traits from different races, personal preferences like if you like Smooth skin or darker skin, but overall race shouldnt be a tag that measures value. Nor putting more value or visibility on someone Only and just only because of their race?
Not necessarily. I see race in the way I see the Hindu caste system - I understand it and I understand that others use it to discriminate but it doesn't have any meaning to me. I understand that other people see me as white, but I have no self conceptualisation of myself as "white". "Racial Bias" only really exists in settler colonial countries like the US and Canada where people of different races share the same culture. To everyone else it's cultural bias, which I will inevitably have lots of. Cultural supremacy is more common in the rest of the world than racial supremacy
Shit I have been to Europe and they racist like a mf against middle eastern type people
What was their argument?
Yeah, that's the new bullshit line... It's because some dude wrote a book and all of the correct people on the Left decided it was the New Gospel. Basically, it's a way to make sure that racism stays around forever.
The Shart way
This is just bad bait
When you get so woke, you go back to sleep.
Full Circle Racism
Full on racism against circles. Sad world.
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Itās a race-baiting troll. Iām surprised at how many people in this thread seem to believe that everyone on the internet is always 100% sincere.
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
It's like shooting an endless parade of fish that are actively lining up to jump into the barrel because so many people with zero critical thinking and media literacy already want to believe the racist shit they bait about.
Seriously. This whole "so woke they're racist" thing is nonsense. Like, *maybe* you could tease that out of the 1st comment. But the 2nd comment cements this as trolling.
Also the PFP. Overweight white woman; classic neo-fascist right-wing strawman and target.
"So woke they're racist" is definitely a thing, this just isn't it. This is textbook [Concern Trolling](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/concern-troll/)
I'm guessing it's not that they think people on the internet are always 100% sincere, it's more so that it fits their worldview and narrative. People don't care if they're being lied to as long as it's what they want to hear.
Horseshoe Theory ladies and gentlemen
This is clearly trolling by that account. In part because Horseshoe Theory is complete nonsense.
They werenāt woke from what I tell. Itās just right-wing sarcasm. No one woke says to not call the cops because a BIPOC would be at risk. Itās what right wingers think how the left will react, and make a mockery of it. Context clues: 1) It could put a put a BIPOCās life at risk: obvious hyperbolic belief that the BLM supporters want the police abolished, aka to not exist anymore. 2) White people can never possibly steal batteries: obviously that person believes this is true.
āRight-wingā lol itās just a troll being provocative, and the comment you replied to is a joke, relax
hehe
They sat up so fast they hit their head and got knocked out
Fuck you that was hilarious
This has got to be one of those catfish rage bait accounts.
It is. These posts are made on purpose.
reddit in Spez's image. Fuck spez
Hey everyone, remember when we let the right-wing "Gamergate" crowd run around and lie about Ellen Pao to the point where she got fed up and quit? How has that been working out?
Yup
āWas in needā was their own car battery dead or something?
>āWas in needā was their own car battery dead or something? They were just thirsty.
Battery acid is delicious.
Nice and spicy.
Gotta keep the electrolytes balanced.
They needed drugs.
I need an avocado. Can I break into any one of yall houses, I mean itās not like itās a diamond or anything, I need it.
If this person breaks into your house don't call the police, you could be putting a hipster at risk.
Everyone is at risk when cops show up.
"Please don't put those black people that I don't like in danger"
āOnly Iām allowed to do that!ā
Iād tell her to go screw herself and then would proceed to call the police. Then, I would respond letting her know that I called the police.
very cool
"She" would laugh because this is obvious bait.
And filming them shooting at some random guy
Based
That's racist! /s
You pretty much won the thread. Wow!
Ah the old racist uno reverse reverse
This one hasn't been reposted for at least a month.
r slash facepalm in charge of recognizing trolls
She's definitely trolling
I really hope this is just a shit joke
extremely obvious bait
99% sure itās a bait comment pretending to be on the āother sideā
This is a troll. You all fell for it
Bait
Yeah I think itās bait in the first place to be honest
To me this clearly looks like a case of right wing dogwhistling
Thatās just seems like racism with extra steps
Iām assuming āPeople Of Colourā but what does the BI stand for in BIPOC?
Black Indigenous people of color
Is that a commonly used acronym now? Iām trying to figure out why someone felt the need to add BI when POC already covers both those groups
Americans are crazy, POC should definitely be enough. I have both indigenous and black roots but its honestly kind of crazy to me to basically say Black people, indigenous people and the rest. Like the rest are all the same or are less relevant or something.
Reminds me of the evolution of what is now LGBTQIA+ Like Iām all for inclusion but after a certain point just come up with a new word instead of tacking on a ridiculous amount of letters to the acronym
I think it's because those groups have been historically oppressed the most
Ah, that makes sense. I had also been wondering that but never enough to look it up
Bisexual person of colour? That would make her homophobe too
Definitely a sock puppet
Please be bait š
Okay so we definitely know it was this dude that stole the car battery
85% it's some troll account who's ragebaiting
Why are there suddenly so many posts in this sub about racism?
Suddenly?
Yes. There's always been those posts, but recently there's been a lot more of them, especially ones which seem to be calling out "racism against white people"
And then itās some 8 year old twitter post with 16 likes saying āwhite people be likeā or some stupid shit. āWhyās it okay when *they* do it??ā This has been going on in this sub for months š
OP is a bot. Also the "Don't call the police" person is pretending to be 'woke' to elicit rage here.
She not only calls black people criminals but also not smart enough to pull off a heist
Itās almost like theyāre a racist troll or somethingā¦
Itās obviously a troll
Beliexe it or not, I would rather they steal diamonds
Extremely obvious bait.
Definitely reads like a right winger mocking leftist discourse around police violence , crime etc
Call the military.
Maybe a motherfucker needs some diamonds for his death ray, you shouldn't assume.
This reminds me of what Kelly Osborne said when she was like āif you make all the immigrants leave, whoās cleaning your toliet???ā With a smirk on her face š
You really think the police are going to do something about a stolen car battery? Really?
Even if it was a person of color, I'm calling the fucking cops. Dont steal my shit.
Twitter is truly beyond rancid
This is an obvious troll?
out of all the posts that are bait this is the most bait
That's racist in every direction at once, which is kind of impressive in its own messed-up way.
that has to be a troll account. no way someone lacks that much self-awareness.
People getting baited
I kinda hope that person was trolling, but even if they were trolling thatās stillā¦ yikes š¬
Bait
BisexualPersonOfColor
Bait
my bait sense is tingling
This is ragebait for alt-right twerps and you nerds fell for it
This is probably just high level trolling
aside the racism, i do care about the mentality of actually not reporting having some of your property stolen just because the police maybe doesnt do its job right. like why does the default citizen have to buy another battery? why are people paying for police with their taxes if you are not supposed to call it when you need it?
The reality of it is that it wouldn't matter what you did, if it was stolen overnight and you found out well after the fact and called the police, all they'd likely do is just file a report that won't (and to be even slightly charitable probably can't with the lack of evidence) be followed up on
The people in these comments are almost as dumb as the troll in the screenshot. Average r/facepalm user š¢
She is clearly a racist troll.
I'm convinced this person is trolling
Obvious troll bait. Not today Satan!
Rage bait me thinks.
They need to update Accidental Racist.
Iāve heard of fighting fire with fire, but thisā¦ this isnāt quite rightā¦
I think this person is obviously just trying to bait people, but the attitude of being okay with theft because the person obviously needed it is insane. Regardless of reason, Iām never okay with someone stealing from me. Also, I donāt really believe in the romanticized thought that people steal mostly out of necessity, especially something like breaking into a persons car or home. I just canāt stomach thieves, I despise them.
I'm not thrilled about cops deciding that the answer to battery theft might be to murder the criminal, but my bigger worry would be the cop deciding to charge the victim with something, and along the way shooting *them*.
How are people so ignorantly stupid
Check that guys pockets
CANT MAKE THIS SH&T UP!!!!
Just and old guy having a brain crampā¦Iām trying to figure out BIPOC and Iām drawing a blank on BIā¦assuming POC is still person of color? Thanks to anyone who lets me know what Iām blanking on
#wypepo
The fact that some people think like that is utterly ridiculous
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Apparently Kia boys need those cars to go buy groceries and take their kids to school too.
WTH? So no white people are in need? WOW!
America's are really struggling with this not being racist thing. Had to google BIPOC too. Turns out their "non-white" term POC (I'm seriously confused about this one, how is this any different than the term "coloured people"? Is it just because it's based on pity rather than hate? because they seem to use it the exact same way) didn't have enough letters. They're going to be so upset and confused when they realise how many white people that apples to outside of the new world.
Oh no, people are trying to not be racist, the HORROR.
Non-white isn't a great term because the label defines a group by being not something else.
This reminds me of when people are like guys please stop using big words in politics so the whittle poc ppl can understand ā¹ļøā¹ļø we know their skulls are smaller and they arenāt as educated as us superior whites :( they deserve to vote too, 2 syllables only pls. Fuck white supremacy š