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  • It doesn’t disqualify him, it just lowers the bar for Trump

    This is the real takeaway. We’ve reached a point where we’re not even sure either one can stay awake during important meetings.

    See? Shoulda went with Bernie Sanders. He may be just as old, but he’s too angry to rest. He sees the injustices of the world, and he’s been barking about them since the 60s. Getting arrested for his causes.

    I’m not saying Biden isn’t sincere, but Sanders is so sincere that he’s passionately angry at the system. The only thing that disqualifies him in my eyes is his age…but fuck, if these are our only other two options, it’s not much of a disqualification, is it? Biden gets confused halfway through his thought process that he moves over to another thought process midsentence. And Trump doesn’t even start the sentence with a coherent thought process.

    So…uhhhh…guess we’re all just fucked?




  • I said this when Tamir Rice was killed. I said it in the 90s when the California kid was killed. And I’ll say it here too.

    There’s no one single person at fault, but the person at fault the most is the parents for not teaching their kid how not to be a dumbass.

    “Hey, what’cha doin’ Jimmy?”

    “Just taking my toy gun out to play”

    “Whoa there! That’s a bad idea. If this gets mistaken for a real gun, somebody will call the cops on you, and they’ll KILL you for real! Nope! You’re not going out with this gun. Even if it is plastic, a bb gun, a pellet gun, or anything else that could easily be mistaken as the real thing.”

    And I’ve heard it before: “But cops are the ones KILLING the kid!”

    Yes, and I do agree that a LOT of what the cops do is corrupt, this is the ONE CASE where you expect them to shoot to kill. When they are under the impression that you have an active shooter, you WANT them to shoot to kill.

    “But it’s NOT an active shooter! It’s a toy gun!”

    And how do the cops know that? They get a call that theres a kid with a gun. Have you SEEN how many kids get real guns and shoot up schools the last 20 years??? They have to treat these situations as real.

    “But he’s just a kid!”

    And a kid with a gun is just as deadly as an adult with a gun.

    The way to not have cops shoot you on the spot is to not appear like a deadly threat to society. Now we can sit around all day debating on how we got to this point, but the reality is we live in a world where kids shoot people with guns. If you have what looks to be a gun, you’re gonna get shot. And the kid may not even know what he did wrong…and thats the parents fault.

    Because if cops wait around, and figure things out first, you have Uvalde all over again. People were pissed, as they should be, that police showed up, and DIDN’T shoot a kid.

    I have no love for police in their current state. I’m even subscribed to a community on Lemmy called “the police problem”.

    However, this is like the ONE THING they’re good for, is stopping active shooters. Don’t want to get shot by police? Don’t make yourself appear as an active shooter.







  • He doesn’t affect me at all. I heard of him once about 5 years ago…and then I forgot he existed until this development.

    trump doesn’t affect me either…but he’s shoved into my face every minute of every day. And there’s no stopping it. Even if some nutjob killed him, he would STILL be in the news about why he was killed. Nobody talks about Lyndon Johnson, but everybody talks about JFK. Nobody talks about Andrew Johnson, but everybody remembers Lincoln.

    Point is, there is no escaping it. At least with dr disrespect, you can just move on from that ONE post, and your day will be free of him for the rest of your day. Not so with trump.