@jk Yes, and most of all when those doing the scamming are clearly higher on the social status scale. Getting scammed or robbed by a loser sucks, but getting taken by a megacorp, by a rich guy, or by the state itself is multiple times more scarring
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@jk Yes, and most of all when those doing the scamming are clearly higher on the social status scale. Getting scammed or robbed by a loser sucks, but getting taken by a megacorp, by a rich guy, or by the state itself is multiple times more scarring 10 comments
@stevenbodzin @jk As I drove my 12yo to school this morning, we encountered a road-raging driver in an Escalade. Half again the size of my vehicle. With behaviors aimed at me and my car, the man behind the wheel yelled, honked, flipped me off, ran up hard on my bumper, tried to push me out of my lane with his massive vehicle, got in front of me and braked hard, and just otherwise bullied me for more than 2 miles. 1/2 @stevenbodzin @jk All because minutes before, I'd signalled my intentions & changed lanes into a lane with a gap of 4 or 5 car lengths behind me. Bad luck for me, I was going the speed limit and Escalade cockwomble was going about 10mph above, and the lane I entered apparently belonged to him. After harassing me for 2 miles, he finally gunned his engine & zoomed ahead to run up on several other cars & get pushy with their lanes too. I called the police and gave them his license plate. 2/2 @courtcan that´s so terrifying and unpleasant. It´s good you kept your head and that you felt comfortable calling the cops. Around here I would assume it was a cop. Good luck. @Uair @courtcan This is an interesting perspective to consider. All limitation of anti-social behavior is supposed to fall to the state now but the state does jackshit about any of it below or above a given threshold. Like you said, ways people used to discourage certain types of antisocial behavior weren't always good, but letting it go unchecked is likely worse in some ways, especially when it comes to shit like straight-up nazis feeling comfortable as hell in public now. I was on a highway here recently where a guy was being dangerously aggressive. I pulled over to call the police and let him go ahead - but you have to be careful stopping when you are dealing with someone like that. Anyway, just as I was about to turn off the highway about 20 minutes later, I saw the police had him pulled over. Call them in. Get a dash cam. They endanger everyone on the road. Let their insurance companies deal with them. |
@jk Whenever people bring up "broken windows" or its more reputable offspring, I just think about cars. All these Porsche Cayennes and giant Escalades zooming around, cutting me off, killing my friends, often as not with concealed license plates and a high-status, perfectly coiffed person behind the wheel.
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