Offside Chat Archives (2014-2021)

Paul Martinez73 said:Who am I even arguing with here... 🤦

urbanhawk17 said:They have no business touching her or slamming doors to crush her fingers. It’s just pure circus behavior. Neither of them had any reason to be swinging stuff at a reporter's camera or phone.

Paul Martinez73 said:It seems like nobody here has quite grasped the concepts of private property and filming permits yet.
If the cops gunned you down after you broke into a precinct to film them, you'd probably be telling everyone you got exactly what you deserved
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urbanhawk17 said:Whether you expected it or not, they don't have any say in what happens to her.

Elizabeth Mendoza said:Doesn't the church and God belong to the people? How on earth can a church own things privately?

Paul Martinez73 said:It seems like nobody here has quite grasped the concepts of private property and filming permits yet.
If the cops gunned you down after you broke into a precinct to film them, you'd probably be telling everyone you got exactly what you deserved
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brightpilot6 said:You claimed she was looking for a "fight," and that she got exactly what she wanted. That's a bold take, unless you happen to know her personally.

I wonder if you would be typing the exact same thing if, say, the police had opened fire on her while she was filming them? That would certainly make for a more compelling headline, wouldn't it?

restlesssurfer97 said:The bottom line is that this woman basically manufactured a whole drama out of thin air because the church was empty—which, honestly, I’m still wrapping my head around myself—so there was zero actual substance to work with. She walked inside, ran straight into a total jerk, and then got exactly what she wanted: a confrontation she could spin into some big headline. If that guy hadn't stepped up and shut her down, she would've almost certainly marched right up to the altar, filming everything closer and closer until someone else intervened, and when nobody stopped her, she probably would've started badgering those poor old ladies sitting in the pews just to fish for some ridiculous quote so she could make the whole country laugh at how clueless these religious types are.

neonfalcon16 said:Call me crazy, call it a conspiracy theory if you want, but I refuse to believe it’s just a coincidence that this all traces back to San Francisco. It feels calculated. Somehow, every bizarre scandal or piece of bad news coming out of that city gets massive coverage. Whether it's a polished report or just a desperate grab for clicks, there's a pattern here. It’s almost as if there’s a deliberate effort to paint the people there as xenophobic and narrow-minded.
Honestly, I highly doubt we'd see this kind of media frenzy if the exact same story broke in a small town like Des Moines, or maybe somewhere quiet like Boise or even a tiny village in rural Nebraska.

Joseph Clark37 said:Of course they had no right to attack her. If she walks in there and starts filming, an altercation is basically a statistical certainty. She went in looking for a scandal and she found one. Mission accomplished...

Paul Martinez73 said:Please, don't embarrass yourself like this. Do you actually realize what you're typing? 🤦

But then again, it's hardly surprising since you have zero actual arguments, just insults and attacks, and now you're trying to play the intellectual with these ridiculous tropes... it's honestly pathetic.

This is my last word to you, so feel free to find someone else to bother.

urbanhawk17 said:Just crushing some artisanal Wisconsin cheese. It's actually killer.

Amanda Evans2 said:And then, out of nowhere, some random journalist with a smartphone starts filming you while you're tearing into that cheese.
What exactly are you going to do about that?

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brightpilot6 said:Well, given that particular value system, I can't say I'm surprised this gets the green light.

The next time someone tries to snap my picture with a phone or camera during a baptism at church without asking first, I might just have to throw a punch and cite your logic as my defense.

brightpilot6 said:Well, given that particular value system, I can't say I'm surprised this gets the green light.

The next time someone tries to snap my picture with a phone or camera during a baptism at church without asking first, I might just have to throw a punch and cite your logic as my defense.

Elizabeth Mendoza said:Is a church a private corporation now? Does it own its own private plot of land?🕺

restlesssurfer97 said:Anyway, it’s honestly kind of wild how a topic this "insignificant" managed to spark an entire multi-page debate over on Reddit. We can go ahead and trash the media all we want, but at the end of the day, they’re really just serving us exactly what we’re looking for.

And here's another thing, I feel like the whole idea that the media dictates public opinion is pretty outdated now, because everything today is driven by clicks, and the algorithms give such a crystal clear picture of what people actually care about versus what they ignore. Nowadays, the media just feeds us whatever we’re already hunting for, more than anyone ever could before, and everything is basically custom-tailored just for us.

Amanda Evans2 said:And then, out of nowhere, some random journalist with a smartphone starts filming you while you're tearing into that cheese.
What exactly are you going to do about that?

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Elizabeth Mendoza said:That was a pretty weak response, just like your buddy Bijeliprah over there.🕺