jaspersgroove

joined 1 year ago
[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That excess deaths number is the total for all above-ground nuclear bomb tests ever done combined.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago

“Meet me in the middle”, says the dishonest man

You take a step forward, he takes a step back

“Meet me in the middle”, says the dishonest man

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

-Jean-Paul Sartre

Replace ‘anti-semites’ with ‘right-wingers’, and there’s your answer

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

My brother in arms! lol

Was just having a conversation last week when the subject of roadside billboards came up, the other guy says to me that he reads every single one of them when he’s driving. I tell him when I look at billboards the only think I think about is how much fun it would be to cut them down and set them on fire. Dude looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Statistically speaking (and assuming you’re an American) you are an overweight 40-something hermaphrodite with some college education, who has 1.8 children and is going to die of congestive heart failure.

There are three kinds of untruth. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Well I could show you my gun collection but at this point I’m fairly certain that you would just shit yourself in fear.

Anyway, have fun being unarmed with the state of the world today. The far right will continue stockpiling weapons and you’ll be knocking on the doors of guys like me if and when they finally decide to use them.

That’s the thing that you’re not getting bud. The far right isn’t going to be using their guns against the military or the government. They’re going to be using the guns against us.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Ah yes, so the only other option is to roll over, give up your freedom, and trust the government to protect you from everything. Solid logic there.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (13 children)

Yes, proles. Give up your only means of fighting back. We promise your right to vote is strong enough to protect you from anything. The government that can’t keep its own cops under control will save you. Trust big brother.

Fucking delusional.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Ah right, because those other forms of social media aren’t also infested with politics.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.

  • Douglas Adams
[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It stopped at $400,000 because the state Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional and put a stop to the whole operation. He’d have made tens of millions if not more otherwise.

view more: next ›