My city subreddit isn’t even the worst, but someone asks how to ride the trolley for free and gets downvoted to shit and shamed.
Mine doxxed me over a post some busybody made about a McDonald’s putting a sign up saying to stop stealing soap. I dared suggest that someone willing to bother stealing soap from McDonald’s probably needs it. Not like there’s a resale market
Just pause for a minute and imagine where you are in life where stealing the soap from a McDonald’s is even remotely desirable. Then imagine the kind of ghouls that want to form a stakeout team to catch the McDonald’s Wet Bandit.
I don’t have to imagine. If I needed soap and was using the bathroom at McDonald’s I’m taking their soap instead of buying some still. The disposers are really easy to open. I’ve found Wendy’s toilet paper disposers have really flimsy plastic that you can bend enough to get the rolls out, those bigass TP roles last a long time too.
I was specifically thinking of like a grimy bottle with a pump head. I swear in my mind I even imagined some still having a bar of soap sitting at the counter. I guess what I’m saying is that Covid has warped my mind and made me forget what any bathroom that isn’t mine has inside of it.
I think you can easily make over 100k and still think about pocketing a roll of toilet paper in a pinch every now and then. At the very least unrolling like the whole thing and stuffing the wad in a backpack or something.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually on pro-cop indoctrination shows. US people are some of the most heavily propagandized in the world and a lot of that propaganda encourages boot licking.
I feel like city subreddits are 60% suburban and rural boomers that don’t even live in the city but have strong and dumb opinions about it, 15% college kids and other newbs, and 15% locals of usual Reddit demographics (25-35 libs, more dudes than us reasonable).
Most Americans already love licking cop boot, and local subreddits are basically just NextDoor for millennials. It self-selects for NIMBYs, cop worshippers, and other assorted reactionaries.
app that lets you connect with your local neighborhood. its mostly rich people posting about how they saw a black guy walk in front of their house
NextDoor has to be a perfect example of a platform that could have tons of value for organizing communities, but the cultural illness of America and the business model (profit motive) completely recuperate the real value proposition into toxic late capitalist hellscape that reinforces/reproduces the status quo
the saddest part is that the people that run NextDoor probably think of it as success to have good ‘upper class demos’ engagement instead of actual metrics on overall community enagagement
Rich people have a lot of free time to argue with people online and they love cops because they kill the poors.
