Druff, no doubt will get around to posting this news account of the shooting in front of Bellagio last night. But I wanted to make a mention right here, this shooting involved social media people that were feuding. Just what I was talking about several days earlier. :(
Social media and by extension internet forums fuel feuds, hate and anger that all too often spills out into real life violence and shootings. It isn't all just fun and games.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...ay/ar-AA1GmGFS
Druff put up a video on youtube about it early this morningQuote:
Originally Posted by kewlJ
Druff, no doubt will get around to posting this news account of the shooting in front of Bellagio last night. But I wanted to make a mention right here, quoting my above post, because almost as if on que, this shooting involved social media people that were feuding. Just what I was talking about several days earlier. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by kewlJDgenBen, if this were true, I would agree that there is some value in that. But not only do I think this is not true, I think it is the opposite effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by DGenBen
Hate and intolerance grows rapidly on social media of which I include internet forums (at least an extension of). Almost any time there is some horrific incident, shooting, multiple shooting of someone that is related to them being part of a group, Jews, Gays, ect, there is a direct connection to social media and internet participation. It is one of the first things police investigate when looking for a motive.
The internet and particularly the social media aspect of it (including forums) is...in my opinion, one of the worst things that could have come along.
(1) It allows people to talk and act in a manor they wouldn't have dared done so 20+ years ago.
(2) It allows people to connect with other like-minded folks and unfortunately that includes people festering hate and bigotry towards other groups of people
(3) And unfortunately, finding other like-minded people offers some support, whether real or imagined, for some to take shit off-line and do some of the things that hit the news almost everyday.
I guess the 2 words that best describe this are tribalism and demonization. You demonize those not in your tribe (in any way different than you) and that provides justification for shit that would be completely unacceptable 20 years ago. Not everybody of course, but those with any sort of issue, it feeds and fuels that issue.
We are just heading in the wrong direction.
Social media and by extension internet forums fuel feuds, hate and anger that all too often spills out into real life violence and shootings. It isn't all just fun and games.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...ay/ar-AA1GmGFS
https://youtu.be/xsgfJchwnCQ
Really weird shit!
I don't understand or in any way "get" this weird subculture of influencers and their followers. Really don't get the followers. Why does someone want to spend their life, watching what other people are doing like that? And it isn't even interesting. again...just weird to me.
That said, The guy that was doing nothing but trolling is now dead. I don't feel bad for him.
We have a guy on this forum (several actually) that do nothing but troll. Contribute nothing else. I wouldn't mind seeing the same outcome for them. :rolleyes: Maybe in front of Cosmo would be more fitting. :D
Good stuff, Dan.
I don’t know.Quote:
Originally Posted by kewlJ
I think death might be a little bit too extreme of a penalty for trolling.
https://i.imgur.com/O6EOFOuh.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QAuSgOIh.jpg
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Originally Posted by jdog
Dude, it is a thuggish black dude and a thuggish Latino. No one is sentencing them to death, but if they want to shoot one another....power to them. :D Let's add Arabs to the list.Quote:
Originally Posted by DGenBen
Article about the murder in LVRJ today discusses the video Dan Druff posted.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...io%20fountains
Hey, KJ: methinks you're taking this shit way too seriously.
People troll: it's what we do.
You troll in response, which isn't as effective as simply ignoring the pests but better than making a seemingly veiled threat or two: c'mon man, it's just words on a screen, trying to evoke a response from you.
I'm certainly not one to recommend that anyone take the high road, but if you can't take the trolling without over-reacting then like Dan suggested in his video it might be best not to stay involved in the ongoing flame wars.
Isn't one extreme essentially the same as the other?Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
Better do some more pondering. Ha.
As the "vice" tightens ...
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Originally Posted by MisterV
You know, the dude that was doing the trolling...the one that ended up getting himself and his GF/Wife killed, he wasn't just trolling the other guy. He called the guys grandmother several times and harassed her.Quote:
Originally Posted by DGenBen
I am not saying that warrants death. But, you do stupid shit like that, I am not going to feel sorry for the dude.
Ok, I can buy that.Quote:
Originally Posted by kewlJYou know, the dude that was doing the trolling...the one that ended up getting himself and his GF/Wife killed, he wasn't just trolling the other guy. He called the guys grandmother several times and harassed her.Quote:
Originally Posted by DGenBen
I am not saying that warrants death. But, you do stupid shit like that, I am not going to feel sorry for the dude.
It’s not reasonable to kill someone over this, but the victim was not sympathetic.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes as the saying goes….
Yeah, and a few days before heading to sin city Vinny, channeling perhaps a gift of prophecy, commented how "mentally ill" Ruiz was.
Finny, Manny, blah blah blah. Here's a flash: blacks and spics kill each other every day in big cities, and no one gives a shit because most of them contribute nothing--like these two losers. These minorities have nothing to lose.
Someone like kew talks a lot of dumb smack and tells basically nothing but lies about several people right here, and most of it's far worse than what these bozos came up with. But the people he goes after are successful people, they have brains that work, and they know a loser when they see one.
At the end of the day, what'd we lose--2 "fine citizens"? And this Manny hothead will be either in prison for life or 6 feet under soon enuf. Big whoop.
Next.
KJ with the outside the box legal analysis as usual.
LVRJ article says Finny Da Legend made fun of Manny's wife's looks? Looked at her instagram and she's not ugly at all.
Finny Da Legend and his wife on the other hand look like this:
No words.
Finny was mocking her body shape, saying she had an "innie" ass not an "outie" or something to that effect.
It's one thing to fuck with a mentally ill YouTuber and an entirely different kettle of bullets to insult his woman.
Man, I'm old and I grew up with old school religious/superstitious parents who drilled into me that you should never publicly make fun of people in this manner. You're inviting the wrath of the God they believed in. Like if you told someone their face looks like a burnt frozen pizza Mom would say you'll get hit by a car for saying that cuz God likes to spite people. I think nowadays parents tell their kids about "inside thoughts" and "outside thoughts" or whatever religious-free language is au courant. Especially if you don't look like Brad Pitt and your wife is no Julia Roberts then just keep your mouth shut. Maybe crazy old Mom was right after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
My God, Funny and his Wife look like Brother and Sister. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by pinchingyourballsLVRJ article says Finny Da Legend made fun of Manny's wife's looks? Looked at her instagram and she's not ugly at all.
Finny Da Legend and his wife on the other hand look like this:
No words.
At the risk of getting hit by a car, I would even go so far as to say that Finny and his wife look like their parents are brother and sister. Sorry, Mom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasha