Okay, youngblood, lemme school ya about the okey-doke. Many a police officer knows all about it, but you don't. Not yet, anyhow. But you will, and all too soon at that. The okey-doke is an illusion of process at the very hands of those who took it away from you. Take, as an example, the murder of George Floyd and the fact that his murderer was well, charged with murder. Okey-doke, right? Nope!
The Okey-Doke is a feint at best perpetrated by the system that stole due process right up from under your nose. Yes, Derek Chauvin was charged with murder after killing George Floyd. However, there's a couple of caveats that could see him go free, free like the bird in the tree. Let us take a look at exhibit numero uno from the Star Tribune entitled: "Officer charged with George Floyd's death as protests flare."
This is a good thing, right? Well, the answer to that is both yes and no. It's always good when a cop is deservingly charged with murder. This is because—cops, just like anyone else, shouldn't be able to get off scot-free after committing a lawless killing. But what about the Okey-Doke? The Okey-Doke charges the cop so that people can have instant gratification.
Unfortunately, the okey-doke is a tactic used to quell the people's outrage for a prescribed number of months until the name of the victim is no longer paramount in the minds of the outraged.
Then, as no one is paying attention, the perpetrator is promptly acquitted of all charges. Now, that right there, my friend, is the okey-doke. It's the illusion of justice used to lull you back to sleep right before the justUS happens. Please tune into my next article as I demystify "excited delirium."
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Blue cities, especially Minneapolis, train their police officers to render alleged suspects or whoever unconscious, to do exactly what the one officer did to George Floyd, and that means the city is liable for the death and it could be argued that they in fact murdered that man.
I agree. Thanks for sharing your take on the
matter, @joeyarnoldvn. & ty for the resteem!
Sadly, @hivewatchers thinks I am spam and is going after me. I just wrote an article about it. This happens to me almost yearly since 2017, people put me on blacklists on Steem a few times or many times and it may happen again very soon.
What would you do if you didn't have time to tailor comments to thousands of people who may never respond back? Plus, what if you accidentally say a bunch of repeated phrases like how are you? There are so many things that can be identical. How many stories begin with once upon a time and ends with that they live happily ever after, the end? There are so many repeated phrases, slogans, idioms, patterns, generalities, and I used to talk about this when I would teach people English in Vietnam for five years. I know what spam is and I also know that it is kind of anti-art so to speak. Spam is the monster that lives under your bed. Art and beauty can be in the eye of the beholder and spam too. And spam can be compared to alleged infringing upon alleged copyrights, patents, trademarks, etc, allegedly, to an extent perhaps or even absolutely. Spam can be compared to plagiarism but it always comes down to what percentage might be too high or too low as things like I said can be repeated. Some people might say that if you purposely copy and paste what others wrote and say you wrote it, then that would be considered plagiarism and perhaps theft. I wonder if you were to simply rephrase the content and then say it was yours, is that also plagiarism? Of course, people may say it is not plagiarism if it was rephrased and everything enough, whatever enough means. But if you got ideas from other people and don't give them credit, then how is it not theft? My answer would be that people either steal or borrow or whatever as there is nothing new under the sun as King Solomon of David said about three thousand years ago. I say spam is like hate speech. The most important aspect to what spam is is that it is unwanted but by who is a critical question. What is one man's treasure is another man's trash and vice versa. The same thing with spam. In advertisement, Nike spams their ads and commercials and product placements and signs and billboards and papers and articles and all kinds of different things online and offline. Companies spam. People spam when they say hi, how are you? People say that again and again. If I don't like it when you say, "I'm sorry for your loss," if somebody dies, I could say you are spam as you are just saying you are sorry for my loss and yet you might be spamming me. You might just be saying it. I repeat myself especially when I talk to new people because I am testing them. I may just say hi. Because they may say nothing in return. And not a lot of people may see their posts. And they might be boring. And they might be bots. And there are so many factors. When you comment, it is like dating. But writing a long non-spam comment like the one I am writing would be like asking a girl to marry you on the first date. If your comment is too big and too long, it is like meeting a new person and trying to talk for ten hours straight to the stranger in a monologue where you talk not to them but at them. This comment for example might be too long for some people. Perhaps this comment is not spam to some people. But this comment could be considered spam to those who do not like it. One definition of spam is when words are repeated. I would argue that if letters are repeated, that is the same as when words are repeated. Another definition of spam is anything a person may not like or may not want which is subjective to the individual who can choose to not like bad things and good things.
Great comment, I see you put a lot of thought into the topic of spam. What it is, what it's not, and how much of that can be open to interpretation. I'm not going to defend what the folks at hivewatchers do. I think the onus of hiding the things we don't want to see is on us. All we need to do is utilize the mute button, and like magic, the people whose posts we don't want to see will vanish.
I don't have the time or will to try and talk to thousands of people. The only possible scenario where I might try to do that is if I was focused on selling them a product. In which case, I wouldn't be communicating so much as advertising.
If you were a door greeter at a big mega-church, a giant soccer or football stadium, a movie theater, a Billy Graham crusade, a concert, on the side of a highway, etc, imagine saying hello to thousands of people, but what if you were accused of being spam or being fake and corny for saying hello again and again and then ask yourself a more important, what if certain aspects of the Internet could be like as Trump put it the other day like a digital version of a public town square? Now, I am not saying that Hive is a town square but I would simply add that if Hive people were to claim they were a town square, then I would have a few things to say to them in regards to that. Spam can be Repetition-Spam and spam can be Unwanted-Info Spam and spam can be a bit of both of those two things. People can call me spam if they want and sometimes I spam and sometimes I don't. It depends. And I do both kinds of spamming at times. And people can try to stop me from spamming repetition or spamming things they don't like. One problem I have is when I am accused of spamming unwanted text when my crime at a given case was actually repetition spam and not unwanted text spam. Of course, many people can say it doesn't matter which of the two it is or might be at any given situation. And of course people may have the freedom to create bots to attack spammers and others who may or may not be spammers and other things.
Marketing
Everything is advertising even when you are not aware of it, directly indirectly, and that is why actors are paid so much money and they put the actors in commercials knowing that the face of the actor will psychologically connect people to their products and services whenever they see William Shatner at a convention or when they are watching Star Trek for example. Your brain does it on a subconscious level. It is subliminal. So, even if Star Trek is not marketing, not an ad, not advertisement at all of anything let's just say for argument sake, it then still is used as a form of marketing retrospectively. Likewise, I could sell stuff to you without selling stuff to you. If I go on Facebook and I am friends with people and they find out that I am on Hive, I am in fact selling Hive to them.
Mute Button
Yes, a mute button is a great thing as is customization which MySpace had more when compared to Facebook and I would prefer MySpace.