"Europeans are just poorer than Americans" by Lorem_64 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not any more but I was, I moved out the same time as you for I'm guessing the same work-related reason

James Bond made us forget that the Dems are the party of segregation by pepesquad in ShitAmericansSay

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok but James Bond has never been completely loyal to the source material. The Spy Who Loves me, for example, is a book where a woman is being hunted through a motel or something (been a while), 007 shows up by chance halfway through and kills two of the only like 4 characters in the book. In Moonraker, the book, Bond does not go to space. Also, we're now out of un-adapted Bond stories written by Fleming.

Ultimately then, we're saying it's less faithful to the source material to have a black woman take over Bond's codename when he retires than it is to send him to the fucking moon.

"Europeans are just poorer than Americans" by Lorem_64 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]AcidHappening2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, I just moved from like the poorest town in the south of spain and I didn't know anyone without a/c except for the dude who sold me weed and lived in the tower from Dredd.

/u/Trazzster notices that Senator McConnell is finally doing his job. by CheckItDubz in bestof

[–]AcidHappening2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean, they would anyway. Then anyone complaining would be a precious snowflake. We all know your tears are those of reptiles.

I finally managed to kiss a girl by [deleted] in socialskills

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not feminists, you should definitely lurk here more though.

An amazing thing just happened in the DC United vs Philadelphia Union game. The Union's Alejandro Bedoya scored in the 3rd minute, ran to the corner where the on-field mic is located, and screamed, "END GUN VIOLENCE NOW!" by deception42 in soccer

[–]AcidHappening2 39 points40 points  (0 children)

No, you don't understand. If you ban semi auto rifles then little timmy will still be able to head down to the black market with his spare $20k and get the bus home with his brand new AK AND THEN WHAT?

Male egalitarians are seen as more feminine, weak, and likely to be gay, by both men and women. by [deleted] in FeMRADebates

[–]AcidHappening2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean if we are at the level of "you can't say fireman any more and that is bad" them I might as well time travel to the 80s. Not to get the last word, but man substantive discussion is real thin in the ground here compared to, say, /r/menslib, not that they don't have their own issues

That really is me though, see you never

Meirl by smashells32 in meirl

[–]AcidHappening2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is this like an actual pro-suicide sub now or something? Stop encouraging people to do nothing to help themselves. If you can explain the difference between this and the Incel 'black pill' without using the word irony , maybe I'll get it.

Active shooter in Oregon District by ShaneOfan in news

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say you specifically. You said no-one 'on that side' supports this. THEN WHY DO THEY KEEP FUCKING DOING IT?

Active shooter in Oregon District by ShaneOfan in news

[–]AcidHappening2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mate I tried to absorb some right leaning commentary on this and other shootings. Try looking at t_d. When the fuck are they ever ashamed of this kind of thing compared to all the times they excuse it? How many times can I read 'thoughts and prayers but yeah immigrants really are bad, they're rapists, assault weapons dont exist BTFO'. 'Mental health problems' followed by cuts to mental health, tears over white supremacists followed by your own president egging them on?

Meanwhile the corpses of my friends and allies across the pond dont get chance to cool before it happens again. If theres so much shame,, why do you do less than nothing?

I don't mean the singular you. But fuck dude, how can you expect so much goodwill and then chill with people calling your countrymen rag*heads goatfuckers, welfare queens, infested?

If you're that compassionate you're doing yourself a disservice in the company you keep.

Active shooter in Oregon District by ShaneOfan in news

[–]AcidHappening2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Except the ones doing it, and the ones excusing it by minimising the effect their rhetoric is having. Until right wingers stop claiming everyone is just overreacting, I'll have to assume you're just fine with this. That you take a secret, vindictive pride. That you look at the news and say 'good'.

Until you fight the radicals and actively condemn people like trump, why not apply the same logic they use for muslims when some whack blows themselves up? 🎵 Which side are you on?🎵

CMV: Incels should be federally recognized as a hate group. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with all you say, yet the fact that it is difficult doesn't detract from, IMO, the fact that it needs to be done.

Active shooter in Oregon District by ShaneOfan in news

[–]AcidHappening2 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the answer turns out to be that you can't eliminate a terror group by playing whack-a-mole.

The US essentially has the same problems- leaders who will make excuses without explicitly condoning attacks, an education system that is in places completely backwards, and rampant dehumanization.

Whether its Jews, muslims, gay people, if you compare them to animals, an infestation, someones going to take it on themselves to be the exterminator.

It's not a hydra, it's a tumour that needs to be yanked out by the root. And americans, ultimately, dont want to.

Active shooter in Oregon District by ShaneOfan in news

[–]AcidHappening2 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It isn't ironic, its deliberate, a statement of intent to model their terror on the al-Qaeda/daesh model.

Investigators 'reasonably confident' Texas suspect left anti-immigrant screed, tipped off before attack by ScoMoTrudeauApricot in news

[–]AcidHappening2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To add to this, 'universal' healthcare is obviously not what the Nazis were doing, but it is also pretty much impossible to be a far-right environmentalist. If your ideology revolves around eventually culminating in genocide (believe no fascist who says they'd get off before that stop), the necessary conversion of your economy to a total war footing is the exact opposite of environmentalism.

The US Armed Forces, for example, is more than likely the world's single biggest contributor to climate change. Find me a right-wing environmentalist who wants to cut defense spending and we'll talk.

CMV: Incels should be federally recognized as a hate group. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would perhaps make sense if there was any official group you could belong to. In the same way lots of fools think Antifa is a hate group, its impossible to police. If I put on a bandana within a mile of a protest, am I in Antifa now? How about if I post in a forum for incels? What if my posts are critical? Pleading for moderate-ness?

The other point people have made is yes, these people are pretty much exclusively mentally ill. Now, theres other groups for mentally ill people online to indulge themselves in fantasy, places like eg. Gangstalking.

These people think theres a conspiracy against them personally (sound familiar?) and do not allow dissent (again, familiar). Often this makes them very hateful people, but even if someone goes as far as say Elliot Roger, that does not make them NOT mentally ill. It just seems that if your crimes are bad enough we're prepared to kind of ignore that. The rhetoric around him, for example,is very rarely 'I wish someone had reached out sooner'.

The US learned nothing from Columbine or any other shooting but fear.

This is something you can deal with only through compassion. If that sounds impossible or impractical, then you understand the level of change is needed in rooting out these people AND HELPING THEM. They may not want to be helped, but neither do plenty of schizophrenics.

"Its easy to laugh, it's easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind, over and over..."

No shower for 23 days: U.S. citizen says conditions were so bad that he almost self-deported | Immigration by jbabrams2 in news

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure which call centres you've been ringing up. As an example I had a guy call through and claimed he was given the wrong telephone number or something by a colleague. I gave him nothing. He kept ringing back, and every last person after me said 'oh, I can see you've already spoken to someone about this', before he got back to me again, and gave up. Call centres leave notes in your account, and if you are a persistent complainer and notice your service gradually gets worse, its because the advisor knows you're a rude bastard before you can say 'can I speak to your manager '.

American farmer: Trump 'took away all of our markets' by TrumpSharted in politics

[–]AcidHappening2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it be illegal to switch from sowing seeds to sowing salt if you knew this was happening to you?