I really wish more folks would cite the entire saying rather than just the first four words.
Every time I hear a cop supporter or a police union rep say “You can’t judge us all because of a few bad apples” I want to reach through the TV and… well, probably not do anything violent because they are heavily armed, but do SOMETHING to them so that they remember that the full saying goes something like:
“A few bad apples spoiled the entire bushel”
Meaning that yeah, it’s not all of you guys, but if even one bad apple is left too long in the apple barrel, you’ll soon have to throw them all out because the presence of that one bad apple is enough to DESTROY EVERYONE OF YOU.
Thats like calling the Irish Potato Famine “a few bad potatoes”
Thrag
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Police confiscate arms from protester.
Wait, correction, make that legs.
I think I need to read some bleak, dystopian science fiction. Compared to reality it may cheer me up.
RichVR
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Read anything by Peter Watts.
It’s so weird, I was thinking the exact same thing.
Thrag
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I mean if we’re going to have a dystopia can’t we at least have Neuromancer like VR or space colonies or something? At least flying cars? Come on reptilian overlords! Throw us a bone here!
Leading rusher in the SEC last season. And a Mississippi native, apparently.
Police: “Look man, the Constitution said you have the right to bear arms. Nothin’ said about legs.”
(At the Man. City vs Burnley FC match in Manchester just a bit ago.)
(Premier League teams have been taking a knee together before matches, and for the first week of the season, all names on the backs of their jerseys have been replaced with “Black Lives Matter”)
NASCAR video. Beware of dust in the room.
It’s great to see a generation of athletes unafraid to take a stand on social issues like this, especially ‘amateur’ ones and thinking back to the athletes of my childhood and their “Republicans buy shoes too” attitude. This is the sort of thing @LockerK mentioned upthread.
Fucking good for NASCAR. The normalization effect of star entertainers’ behavior is real, and they’re doing a great job while leagues that have a much easier lane from an audience demo perspective are being absolute cowards.
ShivaX
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The replies though are a dumpster fire of everything you think when you think of Alabama and NASCAR.
ShivaX
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Portland PB maybe killed someone last night. He was lying there for 5-10 minutes before they bothered to do anything. PPB refusing to tell anyone anything, except press and only if they know the dude’s name. They don’t seem to believe press actually exist in the first place so no one knows anything.
It’s ok, the comments below the tweet are an antidote for any dust in the room.
BLM supporters at a NASCAR race during Bubba Wallace’s post-race interview:
Not trying to be glib, but this is probably the most diverse crowd NASCAR’s ever had in terms of percentage of non-white fans in attendance.
