• Lem Jukes
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    19 hours ago

    Is it just me or is this context kinda some horseshit? To me ‘snitches get stitches’ means ‘don’t rat out the people you were doing the thing with because that makes you a traitor’. This comes off as ‘don’t speak up when you’ve been abused’. I get it’s a joke I’m just saying it kinda rubbed me the wrong way and could be framed better and still be funny.

    • @GreenKnight23
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      551 minutes ago

      holy shit, did you write your dissertation on over-elaborating internet funnies?

      2x01sl-2269469170

      • Lem Jukes
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        11 minute ago

        Holy shit, it’s an open forum where we can talk about whatever the fuck we want. Why not just block me instead of being obnoxious?

    • @[email protected]
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      21 hour ago

      To me ‘snitches get stitches’ means ‘don’t rat out the people you were doing the thing with because that makes you a traitor’.

      Least people who do shitty things… don’t tend to make that distinction. It’s often used as a threat to bystanders and even victims. IE I took your lunch money, if you go to the teacher about it, we will beat you up.

      If you are talking friends who participate, the implied violence would be unnecessary really. You roll on your friends when doing something against the rules, your friends will never include you in their activities again.

    • southsamurai
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      Thing is, the whole threatening the victim has always been a part of the phrase. Don’t tattle, don’t snitch, it’s part of the built in bullshit of school, and even teachers and staff sometimes buy into it, indirectly penalizing students that report abuse from other students. Even more common is nothing at all being done to prevent retaliation, so the cycle of it continues.

      This is a joke, obviously. They’re turning the idea around, it’s just that the fact there’s an idea to turn around in the first place is so horrible that the joke kinda falls flat unless you have a dark sense of humor.

      • Lem Jukes
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        513 hours ago

        Sub the kid for an injured mob guy and the parents for his mob guy friends and the question for ‘can you tell me what happened?’ And boom I think you got an alternate version of the joke that sidesteps the iffy framing

        • @AugustWest
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          I don’t think the framing is iffy at all. There is no distinction in the phrase limiting it to only conspirators. Snitching is snitching.

          You are latching onto the bullying aspect and adding emotional context to a simple comic with a straightforward pun.

    • @Shapillon
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      2517 hours ago

      Imho the joke is that “snitches get stitches”

      absolutely doesn’t imply that “non snitches don’t get snitches”

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      3019 hours ago

      Had it been at school you would have been expelled. Our society now teaches people to be victims or face the consequences.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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        Lmao, it was during highschool. I was 17. I got suspended immediatelty and they tried to expel me, but failed. I said fuck them anyways and dropped out and just got GED instead, my state still give a certificate that use the word “Diploma” for it and my GED scores looked much better than my GPA too. I got accepted to a state university, but I eventually have to drop out due to depression.

        Also I got en existential crisis about the possibility of deportations. But luckily in this timeline, I was already a US Citizen derived fron my mother’s Citizenship. Wonder what’s happening with me in the other timelines in which I didn’t have Citizenship yet.

        Charges eventually got dropped via some “diversion” BS but I did not have to admit any guilt so I just took it, I would’ve fought it though the courts if any plea deals required admission of guilt.

        And theres also some BS with juveniles technically not getting a Jury Trial, so its just a judge deciding it, even though it carries similar consequences as an adult conviction for an assult charge.

        So much fucking bullshit.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          618 hours ago

          Yeah, it’s quite amazing that the policy never seems to apply to the actual bullies.

          • @[email protected]
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            1118 hours ago

            In my school the bullies rarely used actual physical violence. It was all threats and toeing the line while using their elevated position in the social hierarchy to make fun of the lower kids for anything and everything. The other kids couldn’t fight back because no one else would ever side with them and risk becoming a target as well.

  • @Allonzee
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    719 hours ago

    Could have been worse.

    He won’t end up in a ditch.

    • @[email protected]
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      Lol.

      There was something magical when a mean kid would realize that my brothers’ and my idea of a rollicking good time was a serious ass kicking on their scale.

      I’ll admit, it doesn’t speak well to my brothers’ or my intellect, but I guess messing with us was particularly stupid.

    • palordrolap
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      621 hours ago

      Indeed. We should be suspicious of this doctor’s diagnostic ability, if that’s not another leap of logic too far.