Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

LOLwut?

Every organism pays to live here: they expend energy to extract minerals from the soil, or kill one another, or swamp each other, all for some of the currency of life: time, energy, and space to use them. If that isn't work of the most intense and constant nature, I don't know what is.

And why are people making a big deal over the acquittal? I never quite understood the point behind the publicity in the first place: so what if some guy shot another guy? Try him, and see. No need for a farce.

[brandishwar]

How about Facebook posts asking Obama to overturn the decision?

Unfortunately I don't have any to actually share, but according to my buddy Matt, he saw at least one.

There is this, though: Civil Rights Prosecution of George Zimmerman by United States Department of Justice for death of Trayvon Martin. These people don't waste any time, do they?

[MrBogosity]

There is this, though: Civil Rights Prosecution of George Zimmerman by United States Department of Justice for death of Trayvon Martin. These people don't waste any time, do they?

What right did Zimmerman allegedly violate? Martin's right Not To Be Looked At While In Public? No such right.

[BlameThe1st]

Something "totally wack" from Yo, Is This Racist:

anonymous asked: Republicans who claim to only adhere to the economic or small government aspect of their party and not the social aspect are forgetting about the trickle down racism, homophobia, islamophobia, misogyny, and general shitholetude. And unlike the fiscal policy, this really does make its way down to the very bottom of society.

And Andew Ti's response:

Uh, also, after benefiting from 200 plus years of government sanctioned and implemented inequality, claiming that now it's time for government to take a smaller role in helping equalize opportunity and justice just in and of itself racist. That's right, you fucking "small government" assholes, you can go fuck yourselves.

Why yes, after 200 plus years of government sanctioned and implemented inequality, I do think it's high time that goverment stop meddling in race. But yo, that's something "totally wack" from a wacked-out libertarian like myself, amirite?!

[FSBlueApocalypse]

When all else fails, pull out the "You didn't grow up in the hood" card

thelakelander: There's no conflict if an armed GZ doesn't stalk/provoke TM.  The fact that a random guy can carry a firearm, provoke an altercation, shoot the victim when the victim starts to kick his ass, and walk away free from doing any prison time is a problem, IMO.

Me: Provoked....?  There lays a pivotal thing that needs to be proven, not assumed.

thelakelander: It was proven that GZ stalked/followed the kid.  Maybe it's just me and the experience of growing up as a black male in a different environment that many of our readers may not be familiar with...but if someone you don't know (who clearly isn't a police officer), follows you in the dark, you're being provoked and being put in a situation where you're on the defensive.  If not, in typical circumstances, your ass is as good as mugged, jumped or whatever.

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,18945.90.html

[FSBlueApocalypse]

From the same thread

Anyway, I agree the jury has spoken.  However, the ultimate impact of this night may just be beginning. The jury also spoke when Emmett Till was lynched in 1955.  The momentum generated from that injustice ultimately resulted in Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This case may have just turned TM into a martyr.

[AnCap Dave]

When all else fails, pull out the "You didn't grow up in the hood" card

thelakelander: There's no conflict if an armed GZ doesn't stalk/provoke TM.  The fact that a random guy can carry a firearm, provoke an altercation, shoot the victim when the victim starts to kick his ass, and walk away free from doing any prison time is a problem, IMO.

Me: Provoked....?  There lays a pivotal thing that needs to be proven, not assumed.

thelakelander: It was proven that GZ stalked/followed the kid.  Maybe it's just me and the experience of growing up as a black male in a different environment that many of our readers may not be familiar with...but if someone you don't know (who clearly isn't a police officer), follows you in the dark, you're being provoked and being put in a situation where you're on the defensive.  If not, in typical circumstances, your ass is as good as mugged, jumped or whatever.

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,18945.90.html

Let me just respond by saying as a white man who lives in "the hood" if someone follows you and you don't know who they are, you still don't have the fucking right to attack them.

[Travis Retriever]

"If all atheists could be aborted, the world would have been a much better place than it is today. Abort atheists. Forced abortions for atheists. Same for communists."--tinydancer1965 in the comments of this video:

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[Gumba Masta]

Let me just respond by saying as a white man who lives in "the hood" if someone follows you and you don't know who they are, you still don't have the fucking right to attack them.

Are you playing the "grown up in the hood" card now?
In any case you're right. It isn't a reason to attack them, not even if they followed you in their car, late at night gotten out to confront you. On the other hand seeing a black teen wearing a hoodie and carrying skittles shouldn't be enough reason to kill him.  If it had been Fruit Gushers maybe. Mind you, Zimmerman had a brocken nose and Trayvor Martin was shot dead sooo probably not really a proprotional response.

[MrBogosity]

On the other hand seeing a black teen wearing a hoodie and carrying skittles shouldn't be enough reason to kill him.

It is if he pushes you to the ground and wails on you MMA-style while banging your head against the concrete, as both eyewitnesses and Zimmerman's injuries confirm.

Mind you, Zimmerman had a brocken nose and Trayvor Martin was shot dead sooo probably not really a proprotional response.

With what Martin was doing to him, Zimmerman's death would have just been a matter of time--and not much at that. You can only sustain so many head injuries, and Martin showed no sign of stopping.

[Travis Retriever]

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[Gumba Masta]

It is if he pushes you to the ground and wails on you MMA-style while banging your head against the concrete, as both eyewitnesses and Zimmerman's injuries confirm.

With what Martin was doing to him, Zimmerman's death would have just been a matter of time--and not much at that. You can only sustain so many head injuries, and Martin showed no sign of stopping.

Yes, sadly in this matter it could've been just well Martin who had to sit in the defendants seat. Althought I was under the impression that MMA fighting involved more cock punching than head bashing. I haven't found any testimonies about how the struggle between the two started  except Zimmerman's but if it's true it still was stupid to leave the car and follow someone you thought to be a criminal on the prowl. It was equaly if not more stupid for Martin to confront someone who'd been following you in the middle of the night not to mention starting to beat him.  That is of course if it has happened that way. I suppose in Zimmerman's favor is that the investigation of the police force he called lazy and useless did help to aquitt him.... wait.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I knew it was only a matter of time being the L word starting coming out

...anyone who thinks this isn't anything but a state-sanctioned lynching is being naive.

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,18945.msg336553.html#msg336553

[Travis Retriever]

I knew it was only a matter of time being the L word starting coming out

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,18945.msg336553.html#msg336553

The race card--what's in YOUR wallet?  Stay classy OP, stay classy.
And yeah, seems like quote a few comments in that thread are epic fails...Will people PLEASE stop with the freakin' race baiting crap already?

[MrBogosity]

but if it's true it still was stupid to leave the car and follow someone you thought to be a criminal on the prowl.

He didn't. He left the car to find a street sign so he could tell the 911 operator where he was. Again, MARTIN came to HIM.