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I'm not a rat! (lemmy.world)
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[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 48 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

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

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[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours 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?

[-] revlayle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Holy shit, why are people holy shitting?

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours 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@sh.itjust.works 14 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 6 points 15 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@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

You’re the second person to use the lack of specificity in the joke as a means of mollifying what I’m calling iffy. I concede entirely that the joke doesn’t limit us to only interpreting it one way. I’m simply commenting on the text that is actually present.

your whole second point

Yes that’s exactly what I’m doing. Because that’s how opinions and discussion works. This isn’t challenging my position, this is challenging the fact that I have a position at all. Akin to saying ‘it’s just a joke, let it go.’

I firmly believe there is a massive difference between confessing/divulging info about your co-conspirators, and accusing your abuser to authority. One is snitching, the other is how the concept justice is supposed to work.

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 27 points 19 hours ago

Imho the joke is that "snitches get stitches"

absolutely doesn't imply that "non snitches don't get snitches"

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

What? That’s exactly what the text is implying?

The last panel is literally the doctor saying ‘I cannot give your son stitches because they did not snitch’

Alternatively, I defended myself against a bully and got arrested. (Bully never got punished)

ACAB

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

"Zero tolerance" == Let the kids from fucked up households and shitty parents fuck your kids up for life, because that's our policy.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 19 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.

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 62 points 1 day ago

Click here if you don't understand the punchlineSnitches get stitches.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 40 points 22 hours ago
[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago
[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 7 points 19 hours ago

Feeding the pixel addiction

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago

Same, its a good one

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Could have been worse.

He won't end up in a ditch.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I made my bully cry when he "kicked my ass" and I just laughed because my younger brothers could hit harder.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 20 hours ago

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.

[-] opdua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago
[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 23 hours ago

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

this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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