Author Topic: The funny/strange/interesting/random pictures thread (Read 3587875 times)

EliJelly · « **Reply #12840 on:** November 16, 2021, 08:51:55 PM »

Quote from: justaregularguy on November 16, 2021, 07:57:27 PM

explain-

Are you saying he only uses that kosher phone to contact ppl?

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2016/03/26/schumer-flip-phone/82295264/

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/why-senator-schumer-still-uses-a-flip-phone/102275005

YitzyS · « **Reply #12841 on:** November 17, 2021, 08:19:52 AM »

TimT · « **Reply #12842 on:** November 17, 2021, 08:32:25 AM »

Quote from: EliJelly on November 15, 2021, 02:18:57 PM

Senator Schumer showing his kosher flip phone

He’s trying to get an einikal accepted into satmar yeshiva.

sguitarist18 · « **Reply #12843 on:** November 17, 2021, 10:56:07 AM »

Happyguy · « **Reply #12844 on:** November 17, 2021, 06:40:48 PM »

etech0 · « **Reply #12845 on:** November 17, 2021, 08:53:46 PM »

YitzyS · « **Reply #12846 on:** November 18, 2021, 01:02:49 PM »

Happyguy · « **Reply #12847 on:** November 18, 2021, 01:31:01 PM »

YitzyS · « **Reply #12848 on:** November 18, 2021, 01:32:37 PM »

Quote from: Happyguy on November 18, 2021, 01:31:01 PM

Life hack: Keep an airpod in your ear and just gesture to it if you meet anyone you don't want to socialize with.

lubaby · « **Reply #12849 on:** November 18, 2021, 01:49:11 PM »

Quote from: YitzyS on November 18, 2021, 01:32:37 PM

Life hack: Keep an airpod in your ear and just gesture to it if you meet anyone you don't want to socialize with.

Or put a banana to your ear and start talking into it like a phone. Will keep them from coming back next time

sguitarist18 · « **Reply #12850 on:** November 18, 2021, 01:58:17 PM »

As a friend of mine once advised me: Start a conversation with the guy walking next to you...even when there's no one walking next to you.

Euclid · « **Reply #12851 on:** November 18, 2021, 02:39:06 PM »

Quote from: sguitarist18 on November 18, 2021, 01:58:17 PM

As a friend of mine once advised me: Start a conversation with the guy walking next to you...even when there's no one walking next to you.

Did he advise you when he walking next to you?

sguitarist18 · « **Reply #12852 on:** November 18, 2021, 02:46:06 PM »

Oh yes, he gives me the best advice, everyone else is just jealous that he only talks to me.

Ver hut gazugt · « **Reply #12853 on:** November 21, 2021, 12:12:29 AM »

Dan · « **Reply #12854 on:** November 21, 2021, 09:20:19 AM »

How is this CNN homepage from last night not racist? Can you even imagine if they inserted any other color or ethnicity here?

Yehuda57 · « **Reply #12855 on:** November 21, 2021, 10:08:55 AM »

Inal, and I know defamation cases against the press are extremely difficult to win in the US, but anyone calling him a white supremacist or vigilante has to be worried about getting sued, no?

S209 · « **Reply #12856 on:** November 21, 2021, 10:23:40 AM »

Quote from: Dan on November 21, 2021, 09:20:19 AM

How is this CNN homepage from last night not racist? Can you even imagine if they inserted any other color or ethnicity here?

In law reverse racism is generally not considered racism (or reverse sexism etc.)

Also, hilarious how they try to portray him as an “angry White man” while he looks like a 12 year old in that picture.

aygart · « **Reply #12857 on:** November 21, 2021, 10:25:55 AM »

Quote from: Yehuda57 on November 21, 2021, 10:08:55 AM

Inal, and I know defamation cases against the press are extremely difficult to win in the US, but anyone calling him a white supremacist or vigilante has to be worried about getting sued, no?

You don't consider him a vigilante?

Yehuda57 · « **Reply #12858 on:** November 21, 2021, 10:32:52 AM »

Quote from: aygart on November 21, 2021, 10:25:55 AM

You don't consider him a vigilante?

No. The prosecution specifically tried to tie him to a group (the primary definition of vigilante) and failed. He was proven, on many videos, to be out there "protecting" (essentially a deterant), offering first aid, and extinguishing fires. He didn't try arrest anyone or use any force whatsoever to enforce any laws on his own. He used force in self defense and gave himself up to law enforcement.

drosenberg88429 · « **Reply #12859 on:** November 21, 2021, 10:47:14 AM »

Quote from: Yehuda57 on November 21, 2021, 10:32:52 AM

No. The prosecution specifically tried to tie him to a group (the primary definition of vigilante) and failed. He was proven, on many videos, to be out there "protecting" (essentially a deterant), offering first aid, and extinguishing fires. He didn't try arrest anyone or use any force whatsoever to enforce any laws on his own. He used force in self defense and gave himself up to law enforcement.

IANAL either, but I would think that vigilante is a fairly generic adjective, and would be difficult to win a defamation lawsuit objecting to the usage. Tying him to a specific group or accusing him of a specific act which is objectively true or not true would seem to be a more risky proposition, but I can't imagine him getting a judgement for not being happy with the terminology used to describe him.

Definition of vigilante
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice