Nobody says “Won’t someone think of their kids?” when celebrating a mass shooter or a drug kingpin or a foreign dictator being deposed. It’s a shitty argument here, too.
Yeah I never heard anyone say “won’t someone think of Osama bin Laden’s, like, 30 fukken kids?” Genghis Khan had so many goddam kids that we’re still finding bits of Mongol warlord genome stuck in random places like it’s craft glitter. Fuckin’ Leopold II had four kids, went off to make people-hand soup down in the Congo, and then had three more kids while he was doing it! This is not necessarily an indicator of virtue, folks!
fukken
Short for ‘fukkeng’, obviously; whatever the hell that means. Sounds like a city in China.
Nobody says “what about their kids” when a poor single parent stealing food to live ends up in jail and their kids in foster care.
Those criminals would have raised their kids to be criminals, too. It’s good the kids will be taken away to be raised by a system that will [checks notes] orphan them, abuse them, and raise them to be institutionalised. That will totally fix the problems of generational poverty and waste of societal potential, preventing those kids from becoming adults who have to steal food so their own kids can live.
Nobody says “Won’t someone think of their kids?” when celebrating a mass shooter or a drug kingpin or a foreign dictator being deposed.
I’ve heard it said unironically a few times about dictators we’re allied with who have a sudden fall from grace. The Shah of Iran, the Batista Regime in Cuba, and the brief failed Jeanine Áñez coup in Bolivia all leap to mind. I’m sure we’ll get some kind of “President Yoon was a cool dude with a family why is everyone in South Korea so mean to him?” Op-Ed sooner or later. We just stuck the head of Al Qaeda in Syria in charge of the country and I don’t doubt we’ll get a bunch of “Damn, what a cool guy I can’t believe he got got his family will be so sad” stories if he ever accidentally swallows a hand grenade in a power dispute.
And I can’t count the number of articles, TV Shows, and movies that try to lionize the CIA. They’re some of the biggest drug runners on the planet. Hell “Charlie Wilson’s War” might as well have been “Dr. Heroin the Child Rapist or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Mujaheddin”.
And then you’ve got the real heavy hitters like American Sniper and Rambo II. Talk about celebrating mass shooters.
Is this a crossover episode?
This whole thing has me thinking about the gun control episode of Bojack a lot.
The moment rich white guys felt threatened (by women in that case) guns were completely outlawed, and I think this is the closest we’ll ever get to that in real life. If a few more CEOs are knocked off I could see it being discussed. If 10 or 20 more are killed I think we would actually see severe restrictions put in place.
This is literally what Reagan did as governor of California when Black Panthers were arming themselves.
2A is unassailable … until the wrong people decide to embrace it. Be one of those people.
In the 1960s, the US government started cracking down on buying firearms. Bombings suddenly became rampant. In 1970, the US averaged more than a bombing a day. The government then tightened up restrictions on buying explosives further than they had for firearms, and Americans resigned themselves to going back to buying guns and shooting each other.
If the US government were to further restrict guns, people would notice that it’s easier to DIY a bomb than it is to DIY a gun, and that the former is also quite a bit more effective at making a point.
You can purchase everything you need to manufacture explosives in a supermarket.
Hell, my father died and I was excited and happy as a clam, and he was just a normal dickhead.
For all we know, it was the guys kid who made several of the first memes about it!
If my biological father could just go ahead and kick the bucket, the world would be a slightly better place.
Mine died this year. I was like huh, damn I guess I better go to the ceremony. He told me so many times over the years that he had something saved up for me and my brother when he died, as he brushed close to death right after my brother was born and a few times since. I’m not complaining because I don’t care, he was an asshole, but either he was lying about that too or his disgusting wife just got it. She’s so terrible I thought she was Jewish the first two years I knew her. It turns out that she just did a “funny” Jew impression and then turned that into her entire personality. My dad had a legit full auto Thompson he promised me as well. I imagine she already sold that.
You should steal her cell phone everytime she walks away from it, and throw it in a lake later on. Fuck her.
God, he sounds insufferable. Sorry you had to deal with that.
Mine was an abusive meth head. Beat and berated my brother, my mother, and me all the way up until CPS took us out when I was 15. I was terrified of men for a long time, and I can still be pretty standoffish with them, even at 32. I can remember being 8 years old, washing dishes. I dropped a glass. It broke. The next thing I knew, I was suspended 3 feet in the air by my neck and being thrown into a wall. For dropping a glass.
I always loved my mother. I was given her phone number recently, but I’ve been hesitant to call. I know she’s with a different man these days and is genuinely happy with him. He’s good to her. She finally left my father after he broke several of her ribs, punctured a lung, and nearly killed her. I know she was always scared he’d kill her if she left, but I suppose that she got so close to it that death didn’t seem like such a bad alternative to the life she had with him.
So yeah, the day he breathes his last will be cause for celebration in my circle.
If he didn’t get around to making a will, all would have gone to his wife
When my step grandfather died, we had a party. Most of the folk there showed up to make sure he was dead and maybe piss on his grave a little.
this hypothetical pondering isn’t reality. mega wealthy people don’t care if poor people suffer or die. they don’t see us as humans. we are just parasites that cost them money. it literally doesn’t matter that we generate all the money for them–we are repulsive to them, and the celebration over CEO extermination just pushes us even further into “other” territory
this is how kids are raised in billionaire households. you think that asshole’s kids plays with poor kids? or even has any kind of meaningful interaction with them? hell fucking no. they go to private school with other rich kids, get chauffeured everywhere, vacation in places only they can afford, and on and on-- how else would all these kids grow up to be exactly the same as the assholes who raised them?
to hell with the lot of them i say
The news of course mentioned they go to public high school. I’m sure they never go hungry at school.
is it this high school? https://www.woldae.com/portfolio/wayzata-high-school
i won’t dig up pics of schools in poor neighborhoods
If you don’t want people to celebrate your death, don’t live in a way that makes people want to celebrate your death.
What’s the saying? You shouldn’t say anything about the dead unless it’s good. So he’s dead. Good!
You shouldn’t say anything about the dead unless it’s good. So he’s dead. Good!
this sounds like a joke from an 80 year old jewish man.
Thing is that cuts both ways. Lots of us would be happy if certain politicians came to an “untimely end,” and just about as many would be pissed as hell. “Doing good” is too often up to the eye of the beholder.