I Weep for the Future

[Tubesock Shakur]

I lost 73 lbs of AIDS on my walk.

[Hannahrain]

I do not twat.

I disagree.

[marooko]

It may not be recorded via video, but it's recorded here nonetheless.

[nyarlathotoats]

Fuck those kids. They have issues, and they'll grow up to worthless assholes.

[unit300021]

Wow if I ever pulled a stunt like that to an old lady my dad would have beaten the crap out of me like no other. That's what those kids need is a good slap from their parents. However if a parent does that now it's child abuse. That is what is wrong with kids these days, no fear of their parent's so they just do whatever they want.

[guedita]

To be honest, I don't really feel like I know about Rodney King or Kent State Shootings. My memory just has some tags on them, like so:

Rodney King: Race Riots -- Los Angeles

Kent State Shootings: Protesting Hippies -- National Guard

Actually, now I'm wondering if I'm confusing the Kent State Shootings with some other campus shooting. Am I? Further more, if you ask me about the Race Riots, this is what my memory tells me:

Race Riots: Rodney King -- Los Angeles

If you asked me what the resultes of the Race Riots and the Kent State Shootings were, I wouldn't know what the right answer is. Did the Race Riots lead to the formation of the Black Panthers? All I ever learned in school was that these things happened.

EDIT: See, I just looked this noise up, and I didn't even realize how recent the Race Riots were. I thought that was from the 60s. Now I can do this:

Race Riots: Rodney King -- Los Angeles -- the 90s

It's not as if the King inspired Race Riots in LA were the only race riots in the history of the US.

[SlowMotionApocalypse]

Thats because he went by Glen

[SoulDischarge]

Jesus. Maybe I should start a Kickstarter to try to get my life off the ground. I was teased a lot more brutally than that for fucking years and it's probably a good reason why I'm such a fucked up adult who can't keep his life together. GIVE ME MONEY.

[xuclarockerx]

This is possible too much money. Almost $150,000 raised since this morning alone. (Currently at $337k) I was thinking earlier if I was this lady I might feel a little uncomfortable getting all this money for something really out of my control. I suppose she can donate some of it if she wants to.

This really dwarfs The Oatmeal's saga.

[guedita]

In jr. high my friends and I wrote a fairly nasty letter to this girl (who had once been my best friend in elementary school, until she told me that we couldn't hang out any more because I didn't have the potential to be "popular"). Anyway, a lot of people disliked this girl for a myriad of reasons, and I'm not quite sure what prompted the letter writing. But we wrote cruel things. And then my best friend and I signed the letter with our full names. Which seemed like a very natural and smart thing to do when we were writing the letter during our volleyball game. Though everyone else just wrote mean things on the letter and didn't sign their name. So we got caught, naturally, and had to do community service and shit. And I remember my dad asking me why I was so stupid as to write my full name on that letter and not being able to answer him.

And when I see now that kids are not only doing mean and cruel things, which seems to be fairly standard pre-adolescent behavior unfortunately, it's similarly baffling to me that they would video tape it? Or let it be video taped? Or write things publicly on other people's facebook pages? I don't know.

[SoulDischarge]

Because kids and teenagers don't have a whole lot of foresight, which is why they inevitably do a bunch of stupid shit until they learn to think ahead a little?

[guedita]

Or their parents aren't teaching them the right lessons like my dad did. Leave no trace of your identity when perpetrating hate crimes.

[Robin]

I enjoy reading articles about people who commit crimes, then post pictures on Facebook.


http://theweek.com/article/index/227...t-via-facebook

[Tubesock Shakur]

My new life goal is to seek out kids filming hate and to make sure im their target. Gunna be so rich.

[SoulDischarge]

You've already got that dumpy hobo aura kids love to prey upon.

[Tubesock Shakur]

Yes!!!! now kick me in the scrotum. Wait, zoom in, tight shot.

[JustSteve]

I love that so much money came in to help her.

seriously. my wife hates stories like this so i rarely share them with her, so started out telling her how happy the ending was, haha.

[TomAz]

AIDS Walk

This makes me weep for our future more than anything else in this thread.

[amyzzz]

My new life goal is to seek out kids filming hate and to make sure im their target. Gunna be so rich.

I'm not sure a pirate is a victim the general public can be sympathetic to.

[SoulDischarge]

Notice how I purposely avoided any hook jokes and Amyzzz went in for the kill. New Board Order.

[Tubesock Shakur]

All this hate is giving me a money boner.

[amyzzz]

I feel so ambivalent right now.

[Alchemy]

It's not as if the King inspired Race Riots in LA were the only race riots in the history of the US.

Well, yeah. But if we were doing word association and you said, "Race Riots," I would either say "LA" or "Rodney King," just because that's all that I've encountered in the subject.

Well, that's not entirely correct. I seem to recall the Zoot Suit Riots, which was also a race riot in LA, but having nothing to do with Rodney King. But other than that, I'm afraid Race Riots is not a category of Jeopardy that I'm ready for.

[TheWatcher]

I think anybody who lived in the LA area and was old enough to remember anything about that year would know who Rodney King was. I remember where I was... everything closed when the riots started: the malls, the stores, everything. We were at the city recreation center and they sent everyone home. There were armed riot police on the roofs. It was on all the news stations. 24/7 coverage on some I believe. Then there was that stupid curfew. Our city has police who managed to keep out the rioters who tried to come here. But, we had to be inside by 7pm I think.

But, for anyone younger than about 25, or anyone fairly young who did not live in California, it might be understandable to not know.

I heard about the Kent State shootings when they happened, and I was only 10.

[Alchemy]

I was five years old and in El Paso, TX (for the Rodney King Riots). I don't remember it at all.

I think the first historical event that happened when my brain was recording stuff was the O. J. Simpson low-speed chase. I remember watching that on TV.

[amyzzz]

I remember John Lennon being shot. I was 7. Not that you asked.

[Alchemy]

I don't remember the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster, even though I was 16 years old. I'm pretty sure I thought that people were just looking back at the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster when it happened, until much later, when I realized that it was a new disaster.

[amyzzz]

Oh I remember the Challenger one. The teachers at my junior high school class told us while we were in school. Sad.

[marooko]

Who is John....Who was John Lennon?

[Alchemy]

He was president of the USSR.