SanDiegoJuryDuty
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SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Half of black Americans declined to say it was okay to be white. Yes, it was just one poll. But isn't that the only part of this story that can reasonably be labeled 'crazy'?
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
This could reasonably be considered by some as cloying virtue signaling
Christ was so nervous beforehand that he sweat blood and he cried out 'father why have you forsaken me' on the cross. You don't have to smile and wave as you're crucified, not even Christ did that.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Tom Buchanan was written as gauche and pigheaded for vaguely and verbally opposing whatever term you'd like to apply to this broad phenomena (maybe black empowerment?) in the last 20's - so there's that
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
"The Unbearable Whiteness of Non-Violence: an exploration into the racist origins of mass shootings"
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
In my experience it's not that they 'don't believe' it as much as they are not even familiar with concepts like predestination. Typically, they get angry and confused when you bring it up
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Apparently we are not allowed to know, as Nashville PD has announced they will not be releasing the manifesto
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
At least one of the Uvalde cops, if I remember correctly, had a child inside the school and was restrained from entering. Still trying to get my head around the videos of all that beyond a dismissive 'people get weird in weird situations'
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
If someone shoots up a school, there's a non-zero chance I'm gonna call them a bad name because I disapprove of their actions. I really don't think it matters if kids are dead and someone gets misgendered or called a "nigger."
NB I don't think it matters in any case, because I was raised that 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.' But I especially don't care about their feelings if they shot up a school
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Causing offense does not cause me any alarm compared to causing death. In fact, some level of offense is inevitable in a world where people only have control over their own feelings, no?
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Oh yeah, ‘but what about China’ is already making the rounds: https://twitter.com/scobleizer/status/1641003564876087297?s=46&t=eRxnX0CnaM1TjjUItEyBeQ
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Unfortunately, I really want to talk about all the Bud Light stuff, and I don't want to make a new throwaway for it. So you will have to deal with this short summary of my jury duty instead of the nice effort post I've been cooking up on dog walks: 1) The pool is almost sarcastically diverse, as though someone had intentionally excluded anyone else resembling my 'peers.' 2) If someone shows up it's because they want to serve on a jury, and they find it strange that someone would intentionally decrease their chances of being selected 3) The entire experience can be a colossal waste of time and energy, 50 otherwise productive people spent all day not working because one illegal immigrant made a sexual innuendo to another illegal's girlfriend/stepdaughter. Why not just deport them?
Onto the Bud Light thing, as discussed earlier here yesterday. The short summary would be that someone (also from San Diego, coincidentally) decided about a year ago that they were a woman, and Bud Light decided to make them a special commemorative can, which apparently they drank in a bathtub as part of a marketing campaign. This has made a lot of people (including me) very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. I'm writing this post now because the company just offered its' first official response and it's perfect gpt fuel-on-the-fire. It's short so I won't give highlights, instead, a summary that suggests it pisses off everyone rather than mollifying anyone. I eagerly invite someone to provide a mirror image of 'their tribes' response but I want to share a few thoughts about mine in a few buckets:
1). For most of my adult life, I drank an incredible amount of Bud Light. Occasionally flirting with the limits of 'functional' alcoholism at ~30 a day, occasionally dipping below my typical 10-12, occasionally taking a month off because I'd been getting fat. This amount of consumption is not unusual in my peer group. Just do some napkin math: (minimally) one beer per half hour of time awake and 'off the clock.' Essentially, Bud Light is not a 6 pack that sits in your fridge for weeks, it's bought in 18 packs by people like me on the way home for the night.
2). We drink Bud Light for exactly the reason you (the proverbial 'you', of course) poke fun at it. It's thin, watery, and doesn't have a lot of alcohol. I can drink 30 a day and never get shithouse drunk the way I will after 3 bourbons on an empty stomach. I can drink more than a tiny sip and enjoy the flavor, unlike a double tangerine ipa. I like to sit around and drink beer, and it's a perfect beer for that.
3). I have my friends that drink Bud Light, and my friends that poke fun at me for drinking Bud Light. I love both, but with the later, we usually don't tool around in the garage while drinking. These days with the later it's usually more like visiting the latest pop-up microbrewery which may or may not have food (or anything drinkable). There's a culture, or if that's a bit grandiose, a vibe around a hot sunny day and a big cold box of weak watery beer.
4). Unlike most potential boycotts, I (and my people) have some purchase with this one ('purchase' for the non-english natives among us here meaning 'agency, power, or leverage'). We get a little say. There is a little verve here. This is not nike, something I already didn't buy, or every insurance company known to man, something I can't really avoid buying, this is weak watery beer!
5). Unlike most Allied marketing, this feels like it was meant to hurt. I'm aware Bud Light has done rainbow pride cans before, and I've probably even bought some without thinking about it. But something feels wrong about buying this beer now that I know they intentionally had a AMAB in a bikini drinking their commemorative can celebrating '365 of womanhood.' Not only can I effectively boycott this, but I can't unfeel the desire to boycott this! This one might have legs.
After the non-apology from the brass, Bud Light may have terminally tarnished their brand. Planting a flag and vitally interested to hear your thoughts
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Them: Obvious demons demanding their right for public sexual performances, insisting prepubescent children must participate
You: This is a nothingburger
Me: Jesus Christ, King of Kings, King of my soul, forgive my years astray in Satan's grasp, forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
I'm not sure quite what to label the phenomena but when I think back to being exposed to unimaginably hardcore pornography (goatse, lemonparty, 2girls1cup, that nail in dick thing) at ~8 years old I'm existentially horrified, but also just laugh it off like most of my peers.
It's also just occurred to me as I'm typing this your kids' experience with all that may be a great deal more sanitized than mine.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
I think this is why the accusation of a conservative "moral panic" usually comes across as concern-trolling, because where and how exactly are conservatives supposed to provide pushback in similar measure?
I'm not clever enough to make the plan, but I saw a suggestion once that we meme into reality that only /ourguys/ wear baseball caps. Every once in a blue moon you come across an idea you hear just once that captivates (ha) you forever.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Maybe the reason nazi-adjacent homosexuals like Cole and Yiannopoulos as well as various other figures on the alt-right
I don't recognize the name Cole, but didn't Milo originally step in shit because he spoke publicly about his first gay consensual relationship being when he was like 9?
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
because I want culture war issues to be seen the same way companies treat religious issues.
Fascinatingly, I heard an ad on the radio earlier today that was approximately "Listen to the Holy Spirit, allow the Holy Spirit into your heart" brought to you by iHeartRadio, subscribe to iHeartRadio meditation today and I nearly pulled over and called to make sure my radio hadn't malfunctioned.
and I'm on a low carb diet.
Costco sells a Kirkland 0 carb seltzer, tastes better than 'virgin' to me. Might be worth trying
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Usually mom says 'we have McDonalds at home' but this time we called her on her bs! I didn't mean to make this explicitly oedipal but they didn't call it the Motherland by accident
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Who gives a fuck?
I will die on the hill that a very thin man in a bikini drinking bud light in his bathtub is not a woman in a bikini drinking bud light in her bathtub. Just because some people have absentmindedly skipped to 'okay now man=woman' does not mean I will subscribe to the changing ways of the world.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
I don't drink beer but if my favorite cider company did some ads with a NASCAR driver or Donald Trump or Kyle Rittenhouse or Ben Shapiro or whoever you think the opposite variant of Mulvaney might be then I just don't care.
You are telling on yourself, respectfully. That means NASCAR/Trump/Rittenhouse/Shapiro has never actively suggested anything like ‘man=woman’
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
I actually believe that a significant number of teachers are sexually/satanically activating prepubescent children for the purpose of future sexual gratification. That does not necessitate the groomer is the ‘beneficiary’
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
It's just a personal preference, but I deeply hope you're wrong. Both about 'lots of people,' and the consequences.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
whom I can't summon the urge to care about.
The degree to which I cannot summon the necessary agency to respond to your seeming inertia with anything but disdain, is great.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
But I do care buddy and the truth is I'm not going to buy bud light anymore. life is real beyond mental calculations of possibilities and hypotheticals
If you're supposed to be some kind of community leader this kind of 'boo outgroup' seems beneath you. It's only 'cringeworthy' to look at the contemporary state of the South and suggest that a different course might not have been better, perhaps one not mandated at the end of a barrel by Others.
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