Cager attempts to murder cyclists during protest demanding accountability for police cager who murdered pedestrian
Cager attempts to murder cyclists during protest demanding accountability for police cager who murdered pedestrian
Police are investigating after a man attempted to drive through a demonstration in downtown Winnipeg.
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/21922
Investigation underway after man attempts to drive through protest
Imagine attempting to kill people for your mild inconvenience.
33I don't need to. I'm a cyclist, I get it on a regular basis.
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I changed the title to get rid of the typical pro-cager spin and report what happened accurately.
While I'm at it, I'll also correct some of the disgusting passive-voice loaded-language in the article itself:
Protesters had gathered to demand accountability, after a
police car struck and killed a womanpolice officer killed a woman by hitting her with his car near a homeless encampment on Monday.22I give up, what’s a cager?
10A car driver, i.e., a person so cowardly that they insist on transporting themselves inside a cage (car frame) instead of walking or biking like a decent person.
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Just a little bit of feedback. Creative new language can be fun... but the headline is completely incomprehensible to me!
I often feel annoyed when checking out new communities that create their own "elitist" lingo or abbreviations to "save time". It doesn't save time for the reader!
BTW coded language is also a warning sign for cults :D
PS: Also maybe a better slang might be fucar (from fuck-cars)
1Weird way to defend your own ignorance ?
I've been riding motorcycles on roads for 40 years, as long as I have many other riders have referred to car drivers as cagers, and cars as cages. I don't use the terms but to infer its some new set of elite words becase you haven't heard it before is bizzare.
Open a dictionary, there will be many 1000s of words that are new to you.
Non car users are punching up, the world and its peoples are being destroyed and dominated by inappropriate car use.
1Thanks for the info, that is interesting. But you do agree that it is specific slang for a specific subculture, and the purpose of slang is to get people invested and define an in-group and out-group.
I read a headline in "all" that was completely incomprehensible to me. It DID make me feel stupid. Clearly this shows how I am not really part of the motorcycle or (UK?) bicycle scene and ignorant ;) Or maybe I am getting old and grumpy. I could have walked over to my wall with the bookshelves, opened the dictionary and looked it up and then "joined in". I grok! I can speek the leet too! :D
Maybe it is a good PR strategy in order to establish a "fuck cars" counterculture.
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Why aren't you posting an article with the video?
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6500228
Because it doesn't make the protestors look too good?
-12The protestors were protesting. This idiot could have turned around but he chose to start a fight. Once a fight starts, well, it's a fight. The video is damning for him even more.
14The driver stopped, someone went to their window, the driver felt threatened and tried to get out of the situation, it escalated from there.
Hell, someone entered the car from the passenger side and the driver had blood on their neck after the fact, that's from the original article. Someone tries to enter my car or jumps on the hood, sorry buddy but I'm getting the fuck out of there as well!
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Because the article I crossposted was the article I saw.
Also, having now seen the video, everything it shows the protestors doing was right and good and I support their actions 100%.
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