St. Louis hits a comments tipping point

I've been out of the game for a little bit because the whole Ferguson thing really turned the normal shit show of news comments into a constant repetition of idiocy. There are only so many times I can screen cap "Where are the protests against black on black crimes?!?!" Or "Pants up, Don't Loot" before you're going to start getting really irritated with my updates.

This weekend St. Louis police shot and killed a man in South City who allegedly shot at the cop first. There's plenty of speculation and blah blah blah, you know the drill.

But a tipping point has been reached and things have gotten weird.

What a magical flag we have. Obviously everyone angry and protesting are on welfare because that's the only thing that makes sense to most of these people. Why on earth would someone who makes a living wage ever be angry about something?

You'll notice a pattern with this kind of thinking. If you call anyone out for a comment like this, you know they're going to say "Well, I didn't say black, you did "YOU'RE TOTALLY THE RACIST NOT ME" when you know beyond a shadow of a doubt they aren't picturing a white person when they say this shit. Yet whenever a white person kills someone, words like "Thug" aren't used. Welfare isn't brought up and comments sections tend to be more sympathetic.

Comments like this aren't exactly word soup because there's a coherent thought pattern, but at the same time it makes no god damn sense. When people talk about white privilege, remember this post. Because even the dumbest dipshits in the world can make enough money to post on facebook if they are white

Micheal Wilding gets featured here a lot for his not-racist but totally racist remarks. I doubt any protester had this guy as a supporter ever for anything. Unless it's protesting common sense.

And I don't know where this idea comes from that everyone protesting is on welfare. I know the Darren Wilson supporters liked to tell protesters to get a job during the Ferguson protests. Of course, completely ignoring the "We support Darren Wilson" protesters I've seen in the middle of the day. I'm sure they all just have vacation days to use up.

As for respect, fuck you Josh. Everyone should get the same amount of respect as a human being. Every time I meet someone who tells me I have to "earn their respect" I generally discover they aren't people who's respect I give a damn about.

Yes, I hope all these bad black people get shot because the nice black man named Michael at work doesn't deserve this. In fact, Michael hasn't said anything about how these protesters are bad, so he might be just as terrible. At least his name isn't DeShaun or something that doesn't sound like a good, Christian Anglo name. Why, Michael even talks in a way I can understand! And he introduced me to good black music, like Luther Vandross. None of that hoppety-hip that THOSE people listen to! Not my Michael!

Can anyone tell me what a common black person is? 

David apparently has finger diarrhea because he is just typing shit all over my internet. I'm not sure how the Swedish police system works, but I'm fairly sure there isn't anything about killing based on gender.

Take note of these assholes because they are straight up calling to go around shooting people in the streets. I doubt they would because these are the words of cowards, whiners and over all little children, but they are certainly tough keyboard warriors.

This is what I hate about some gun owners. They want to kill someone. They hope and pray and dream of the day that they can pull the trigger. They probably hope it's against a black man who's broken into their house to steal the gold they've been hording and afterward raping their women.

When we talk about mental health in the gun culture, remember these people as well. Remember Rich Novak, Jose Capo and Michael Wilding because they all probably have no difficulties obtaining firearms. And they obviously have no business owning them.

It's a god damn flag, you assholes. Lighting one on fire isn't going to bring Washington DC to its knees. If it did, you'd probably have done it as soon as Obama was elected.

You can't deport someone who's from America. You'd just be forcing them to live somewhere else. And then probably bitching about how much it would cost in taxes.

Well Panama, the two aren't the same people. Most people are praying and peacefully protesting. A small minority are acting like dicks.

Nice Assyrian mythology call-out, though.

I'm fairly certain this is some kind of flash mob/improve class homework.

Literally every cliche possible. All it needs is a "Winners don't do drugs" to cap it off.

Houston weighing in on the South City economic stability. Glad to hear all about how our city doesn't have people who can pass the Police test from some dipshit over a thousand miles away.

Honestly, the reason no one in TGS becomes a cop is because they are all vegetarian and couldn't abide becoming pigs.

Ugh, this guy. Apparently A) Marines are so dumb they would blindly shoot people in South St. Louis because someone tells them it's Fallujah and B) I manged to Bootstrap my way to the top so THE REST OF YOU CERTAINLY CAN AS WELL

As always, I believe about 15% of things I read on the internet, and even less in a the comments section. Fuck this guy and his profile picture of a shot grouping. And fuck you calling for contractors to use MY TAXES to quell a protest. Blackwater was a joke and most of us in Iraq hated them because they managed to fuck everything up with their cavalier "Fuck it, shoot them all" attitude that would get us dragged to the Hague.

I mean shit, someone broke a window, stole a flag and burned it. Someone best call the National Guard because shit is about to turn into Shock and Awe up in here.

Poor Sonia, she needs to get up tomorrow to go to HER JOB where she MAKES MONEY for the HOUSE SHE OWNS in THE NEIGHBORHOOD SHE LIVES IN and has no time for rowdy protesters!

And how dare anyone show any solidarity with their fellow people. Am I not allowed to come to TGS to protest because I live in Carondelet? Because I've been reading people not even from this damn country weighing in on what's been going on in the area.

Though to be fair, I make fun of the Cherokee street hipsters because I've never seen people more up their own asses about neighborhoods they don't live in. Buy by god do I want their money to pour into my neighborhood.

If there's one thing I can say came from these protests, it's the first time this statement has been uttered.

For the next decade, every shooting in St. Louis is going to be compared to Mike Brown, and in many ways we should be questioning the way our police do their business.

But these people make it hard to listen to what anyone else has to say outside of their echo chamber. There are deep seated issues in this county and especially this city, and no one on top of the racial food chain wants to sit down and talk about it.