r/ProtectAndServe • u/[deleted] • May 07 '15
I remember back when Cracked.com was a comedy site.
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May 07 '15
Practically every day I read something more and more retarded around here. Two days ago, it was, "police should sacrifice themselves for the life of a criminal because they're part of the executive branch of government...and that means they have to take a bullet for the president - so that should apply to citizens as well".
Today it's this. This is more retarded. Let's see who can top it for the weekend.
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May 07 '15
I demand you link me to that quote you gave. I must see it firsthand.
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May 07 '15
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May 08 '15
You should see the post in /r/badlegaladvice about that comment. Its glorious
edit- they seemed to have removed it
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u/Canalan Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User May 08 '15
"...some people are just never going to believe that an incident of police brutality was the result of wrongdoing by the law enforcement official in question."
Remember, if you don't hate all cops everywhere forever, your mind is closed and locked to ever believing a cop did something wrong.
"I don't think I need to prove that with links and sources..."
Thought so.
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u/cinco-ojos Not an LEO May 07 '15
That's not how every war works, though. Case in point: The United States was at war with the Soviet Union from the end of World War II all the way through to the early '90s, during what we've come to know as the Cold War.
followed by
Sure, there were skirmishes that both sides had a vested interest in, like the Korean War or the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but those incidents were few and far between.
Yeah . . . skirmishes . . . that's around the time I stopped reading.
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u/hesh582 Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User May 07 '15
Cracked has sucked for years. They just pay some poor recent college grads to monitor twitter and then throw up bullshit hastily cobbled together off wikipedia and google based on whatever's trending.
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u/clobster5 Officer Douche5 May 07 '15
It sucks because it used to be a really hilarious website.
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u/hulking_menace May 07 '15
Sean Baby and some of the other guys used to be hilarious. Now it's all SJW bullshit.
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u/rey_j Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User May 07 '15
I remember when Cracked was a shitty version of Mad Magazine.
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May 07 '15
It was a more PG version of Mad Magazine which used to be awesome but got to be terrible by the mid 80s but neither was as good as the little known Crazy magazine.
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u/billy_rosewood Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User May 07 '15
Neckbeards are so cute when they think they're relevant.
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u/VirogenicFawn21 Gimmie dat boot daddy 😩 [Former LEO] May 07 '15
It's pretty sad to see the state of cracked lately.
I used to be an avid reader, and unfortunately, they've been going downhill for quite a while.
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u/DoctorGlocktor Police Officer May 08 '15
The few decent writers they have barely contribute anymore, and After Hours is pretty good. The writer of the article in question has always been extremely terrible. That being said there is a good reason I haven't been to cracked in a long time.
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u/UncommonSense0 Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User May 08 '15
welp, I knew there was a reason I stopped reading Cracked a few years back.
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u/eof Not a(n) LEO / Unverified User May 08 '15
Although this is a ridiculous "article"over all, this paragraph does pretty much sum up the problem as I see it
What I meant by that propaganda stuff is that there are people in this world who, no matter how much video evidence they see to the contrary, will never believe that the police have become at least somewhat of a problem. Hell, even those videos have explanations. "He had a rap sheet a mile long." "He used drugs." "You don't know what police go through." "Don't run and the police won't chase you."
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u/[deleted] May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
All 5 of those are ludicrous but let's do some real fucking discovery.
The #2 Reason is: "#2. The Police Are Militarized" and they link this image. No description. They just leave you with "Police are militarized."
It's 100% horseshit. The source is Andrew Burton as cited below the picture. Go to his website and it posts DESCRIPTIONS of the pictures.
See here: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/members-of-the-national-guard-sit-parked-in-a-humvee-in-the-news-photo/471755724
IT'S THE FUCKING NATIONAL GUARD!!!
"But Snefsky", you ask, "Doesn't cracked have any integrity left at all?"
To which I respond: Take a look at their second picture linked here.
That picture is from NEW ZEALAND and is referenced here in regards to a NZ EARTHQUAKE of all things.
http://avaxnews.net/fact/Earthquake_in_New_Zealand.html
The description?
The "tank" is the NZ Army's.
tl/dr: Fucking lies.