Gen Chat X^2+Y^2=C^2: "I totally forgot what number we're on" edition

LegendX48 wrote:would it be silly to buy the hardcover version of a comic I already own?

-Mazer wrote:

LegendX48 wrote:would it be silly to buy the hardcover version of a comic I already own?

I dun think so. I've been tempted to get the hardcovers of the Avatar Airbender series despite buying them paperback alright

LegendX48 wrote:would it be silly to buy the hardcover version of a comic I already own?

LegendX48 wrote:First you guys say double dipping is a no no, now you say it's cool. Conflicting messages!

Cybersix wrote:

LegendX48 wrote:First you guys say double dipping is a no no, now you say it's cool. Conflicting messages!

When it comes to books? Fuck yeah I'd double dip.

Social-justice activists and left-leaning websites criticized the timing of the event, which took place on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Mo., but team officials insist it was simply a coincidence.

Blue Lives Matter NYC, a charity for the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, hosted the fundraising event during a baseball game between the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark.

The families of NYPD detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos — who were shot and killed by a lone gunman in Brooklyn in December 2014 — were honored during the ball game. One of Liu’s family members threw out the ceremonial first pitch.

“It was treated just as we do with every group that comes in. It was pretty standard. We get these inquiries many times a week,” Jane Rogers, the team’s president and general manager, said in an interview with Yahoo News.

“It was really a coincidence that it fell on the anniversary date,” Rogers said. “There was never any intent to connect the days in any way. We just wanted to provide a space like any other group looking to fundraise at the ballpark.”

NYPD Sgt. Joe Imperatrice, the nonprofit’s founder and president, likened the organization to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He said no one was aware of the date’s significance during preparation.

“We were just focused on having something positive come out of something negative,” he told Yahoo News. “We just wanted to get them out of the house and put a smile on their face.”

Their goal was to raise money for the Liu and Ramos families, who lost their main source of income, to help pay for their
Attendees received a Blue Lives Matter wristband featuring the Staten Island Yankees logo with every ticket purchase.

“We’re not here to take sides. We’re not here to back anything politically,” he said. “We’re here to tell the families that we’ll never let them down and we’re always here to help them.”

Many Black Lives Matter demonstrators are offended by the slogans Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter.


Kirsten Savali, a cultural critic for the Root, an online magazine on African-American culture, said that with this event the baseball team “unapologetically spits” in the face of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“The Staten Island Yankees wanted to send a statement today, and they did: Black lives don’t matter to them or the Yankees organization,” Savali wrote. “On today of all days, they made it clear that not only is baseball ‘America’s Favorite Pastime,’ but it goes hand in hand with the continued dehumanization of black Americans.”

Similarly, Judd Legum, the editor in chief of the liberal blog Think Progress, argued that Blue Lives Matter is insensitive in that it draws attention away from victims of police violence.

“Like the refrain ‘All Lives Matter,’ it is used — online and elsewhere — to undercut the notion that there is a particular problem with police brutality against people of color,” he wrote.

Luna wrote:I have to side, to a certain extent, with the "Black Lives Matter" side of this. First of all, if they were gonna use a version of that, then they should have been informed about the anniversary of Michael Brown's death. It's tied together, maybe not directly, to the deaths of those officers since they were supposedly killed in retaliation to police killing minorities (Eric Garner and Michael Brown...the guy who's death anniversary it was). I am not gonna just accept that they went with the name and decided to be ignorant about the movement their parodying (?).

Now that by itself doesn't excuse everything, but again, I have to take an issue against "Blue Lives Matter" and "All Lives Matter." Nobody is saying those don't, "Black Lives Matter" is a reactionary movement to the perception that Black people are overwhelmingly killed, by percentage I think it was, by police officers and the fact that nobody has been making an issue about it, before the movement itself that is. They're not saying "Only Black Lives Matter," as many like to accuse them of, the message is supposed to be "Black Lives Matter Too." Just that nobody has cared for the longest time. Hell, look at the difference in coverage between people peacefully protesting and violent riots? When does the media pay attention? Only when shit really goes down. Only then do those in power feel like they have to respond.

girl on the left is Marissa Johnson, a so-called BlackLivesMatter member who shut down Bernie Sanders's rally in seattle to get 4 minutes of silence for Michael Brown who has been shot by a cop. They even called Bernie Sanders a White Supremacist. DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH before doing something so stupid, bernie sanders is one of the only politicians that actually marched with Martin Luther King and fought against racism 50 years ago. thousands of time more than your senseless anger and racism. wrote:

Luna wrote:So you are tossing aside the movement as a farce completely because of the idiots? I don't disagree about the idiots, I never have and usually stay out of any support on social media because I know how easy it is for the mob mentality to get riled up over unconfirmed, or falsified, reports.

Again, my issue is with the timing on the "Blue Lives Matter." The killer of the cops mentions Michael Brown, it's connected in some way there. They should have known and made the connection. Also, saying it's from half way across the country doesn't count. That shit was HUMONGOUS news. The protest, then riots were all over the place. You can't pass it off as some local event that people at the other side of the country wouldn't notice, come on! Hell I heard about the Ferguson stuff and I'm on the other side of the country, from Ferguson,as well. Just as far, if not farther from Ferguson than NY is from it.

uthorities declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday to prevent a repeat of the violence that erupted during protests overnight to mark the police shooting of an unarmed black man one year ago that ignited a national firestorm on race relations.

The order was issued for the St. Louis suburb and surrounding areas amid tensions between residents and police after officers shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old man in an exchange of gunfire that marred what had been a day of peaceful demonstrations.

Prosecutors charged the man, Tyrone Harris, who was in critical condition in a hospital, with four criminal counts, including "assault on law enforcement" and shooting at a motor vehicle. His bond was set at $250,000.

St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger said he made the state of emergency declaration because of "the potential for harm to persons and property". It marked another chapter in the turmoil that has gripped Ferguson since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot dead by white officer Darren Wilson a year ago.

In Ferguson, a few merchants said they were ready to protect their businesses with firearms, while store owners pleaded for calm.

Dellena Jones, an owner of a Ferguson hair salon vandalized on Sunday night, boarded up a smashed window and had a sign displayed in a window still intact that read: “We Must Stop Killing Each Other.”

On a day of civil disobedience called by activists to protest the shooting of Brown and other unarmed black men across the United States by police, 57 people were arrested as they broke through barricades at a courthouse in St. Louis and blocked the entrance, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said.

Among those arrested was Princeton University professor and activist Cornel West, according to a protest organizer.

Clergy and civil rights groups led the rally of more than 100 people through city streets, shouting, "This is what democracy looks like" and "Black lives matter".

Luna wrote:I'm saying that I understand the point, to an extent, of where the "Black Lives Matter" people may find it offensive. Intent or not, they had an event with "Blue Lives Matter" on/very near the anniversary of one of those that kickstarted the "Black Lives Matter" campaign. The perception can easily be seen that it's to offend. Especially when they're parodying, I don't know if it's in solidarity or not, the name of the movement and it's to honor and remember police officers, which were the perpetrators in the other one.
I'm not saying that the officers shouldn't be honored, just that the timing and who it was can be perceived as a jab.

As for the Ferguson stuff, yeah I heard about it. I always lament when it turns violent. When people looking for an opportunity to mess around join in and ruin it for the ones doing things seriously.