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June 8, 2011 8:03 PM   Subscribe

It's World War 3 many people have died - it could be the end of the world

WARNING: nothing much happens
posted by philip-random (19 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Video isn't that great, conversation is kind of tanking too, sorry. -- mathowie



 
I wish every child had the opportunity to grow up and become a combat veteran
posted by Renoroc at 8:07 PM on June 8, 2011


This is an ultimate troll video, judging by the comments.

"this is the dumbest video ever made your a idiot"
posted by Threeway Handshake at 8:21 PM on June 8, 2011


Fuck, two of us holed up in a 2009 Southwind for two days. We had been driving to the line and the DVD/TV had broken, flat out gone. We had a DVD/TV in the front compartment but not in the bunkbeds, we were in the shit and we knew it. It gets to you, you know? Watching Party Down knowing that it is only two seasons, and you can't do fuck about it. We were short on Energizers and command felt the need to send us some Duracells. Fuck. Duracells, where we're going? Might as well take our dog tags.

When I went home after my first tour, I said shit until I finally said "Yes" to some Bagel Bites. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. No XBox Live, no LA Noire, no fruit smoothies. When I was here in the RV it was worse. Every minute I stay in this room, sitting here waiting for a mission, Charlie gets stronger. I get bored and the walls move in tighter.

I was in the worst place in the world and didn't even know it. Weeks away from school being over and hundreds of feet into well-manicured yards. Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted to play, and for my sins, they let me. It was real choice and after it was over, I never wanted to play again.
posted by geoff. at 8:43 PM on June 8, 2011 [18 favorites]


this is terrible please delete.
posted by sweetkid at 8:57 PM on June 8, 2011 [3 favorites]


You know one thing? Black kids virtually never play with guns that look this real, cause their mothers (and soon enough, they themselves) know that some cop would more than likely kill them. For real.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:02 PM on June 8, 2011


Doesn't that sort of depend on the neighborhood and the part of the world, though?

I'm sure it does. Admittedly, I was thinking mostly of the US. But, just about anywhere in the US, what I said would probably apply.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:18 PM on June 8, 2011


The text of this FPP (as it appears in on the main list) makes a good pretty good rap.

"It's World War 3, many people have died!
It could be the end of the world! [more inside]"
posted by ShutterBun at 9:20 PM on June 8, 2011 [2 favorites]



You know one thing? Black kids virtually never play with guns that look this real, cause their mothers (and soon enough, they themselves) know that some cop would more than likely kill them. For real.



I'm sure it does. Admittedly, I was thinking mostly of the US. But, just about anywhere in the US, what I said would probably apply.


Yeah no, suburbs, wealthy suburbs, black people live there, I promise.
posted by sweetkid at 9:23 PM on June 8, 2011


Yeah no, suburbs, wealthy suburbs, black people live there, I promise.

Uh huh. Don't mean they won't die there, either, at the hands of some nervous cop. Or do you think wealth means that that just can't happen?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:38 PM on June 8, 2011


OK, then, The World Famous, your personal anecdotal experience invalidates what I said. I take it all back. Black youth are in absolutely no inordinate danger from the police when they play with realistic looking toy guns in the leafy suburbs of the United States. Since, you know, you can't recall ever seeing a police car. Okey dokey!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:00 PM on June 8, 2011



Yeah no, suburbs, wealthy suburbs, black people live there, I promise.

Uh huh. Don't mean they won't die there, either, at the hands of some nervous cop. Or do you think wealth means that that just can't happen?


No, just the whole BLACK PEOPLE HAVE IT SO BAD we don't know thing gets really tired on MeFi. Brandon Blatcher explains better than I can. But I can say that I grew up with a lot of black kids who played along with the rest of us and went to great schools, great jobs, have awesome kids, and I know that their parents didn't give them lectures on getting shot. Like others have said, the US is a country that thinks it's divided by race, but it's actually divided by class/economics.
posted by sweetkid at 10:00 PM on June 8, 2011 [4 favorites]


This FPP wins simply for leading me to this "related" video on Youtube.

D-Day Invasion: Omaha Beach (ambitious kids re-enact the opening of Saving Private Ryan) And just a couple days late!
posted by ShutterBun at 10:02 PM on June 8, 2011


The US is a country that's divided by a lot of things. Some people transcend some of the divisions but few transcend them all. On the one hand, that's what you get from not being a homogenous mass. On the other, "divide and conquer" works very well here.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:05 PM on June 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


Hey, sweetkid, that you would twist what I said into some sort of indication that I am unaware that there are middle class (or wealthier) black people who "went to great schools" have "great jobs" and have "awesome kids" is a really weird leap. It started with your smug little "I promise" line, which I decided to just ignore, but then your second comment really took it over the top.

And on preview, what oneswellfoop said just above.

And also on preview, no problem, TWF. But thanks for the clarification, cause it did kinda seem like that was the indication.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:10 PM on June 8, 2011



Hey, sweetkid, that you would twist what I said into some sort of indication that I am unaware that there are middle class (or wealthier) black people who "went to great schools" have "great jobs" and have "awesome kids" is a really weird leap. It started with your smug little "I promise" line, which I decided to just ignore, but then your second comment really took it over the top.


You can think whatever you want, but saying that black people get shot no matter how they grow up and what neighborhoods they live in is really wrong. I'm writing this living across from the projects, in which black people get shot for very real endemic sociological and economic reasons, but the black kids I grew up with in the suburbs didn't have the same concerns and they still don't.
posted by sweetkid at 10:19 PM on June 8, 2011


Black youth are in absolutely no inordinate danger from the police when they play with realistic looking toy guns in the leafy suburbs of the United States. Since, you know, you can't recall ever seeing a police car. Okey dokey!

just a funny side story, several friends of mine got the cops called on them for larping vampire back in the day (mid 90s), while they were at a perkins and talking about the game. After that, the police seriously thought and acted like all of us (basically any of the punk/goth crowd in town) were part of a satanic gang. No one was using fake guns, or any other fake weapons, yet they stopped us at any occasion. Point of the story? I don't know, i'm tired and on meds, but i just feel that if there were fake guns, several of us would have been dead, but that could just be because of all the out of control cops i've been reading about lately.

Haven't watched the video yet though, for what it's worth.
posted by usagizero at 10:45 PM on June 8, 2011


... In the early days of World War III, guerrillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so that 'this nation shall not perish from the earth.
posted by squalor at 11:10 PM on June 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


First of all, it makes me sick watching kids play kill-the-enemy.

Secondly, yeah, I'm with flapjax. This would not fly is so many places for all bad reasons. And the places it does fly makes me sick thinking about where and why.

Classism uses racism to maintain classism. And in the US, that's not just status quo it's OK.

Kids who were playing this same game in neighborhoods that are not typically causcasian do in the most obvious way really stand such an enormously realistic chance of getting killed most anywhere in the US.

That's not just unsettling, that's reason enough to raise kids elsewhere.
posted by humannaire at 11:23 PM on June 8, 2011


Jezzus, flapjax... way to poison the well, playing the race card out of the blue like that.
posted by 2N2222 at 11:41 PM on June 8, 2011


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