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kazil posted:http://imgur.com/gallery/mIpQY Somebody spent a lot of effort on something containing the words 'citizens of the internet' 
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kazil posted:http://imgur.com/gallery/mIpQY Apparently "meme" means "fad" now? Also 
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Dec 1, 2015 21:01
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Mu Zeta posted:Imgur seems to be getting more cynical by the day and can immediately call out bullshit While this story is stdh it is the most plausible stdh which is weird that they will call this out but not more ridiculous poo poo. I had a landlord who did this one year. He did really well that year and gave me and my neighbors (it was a duplex) nov + dec rent free as a christmas present. He gave us christmas presents every year just not always something so insane. That's like 2k out of his pocket and i dunno if he owned more property he was doing it to. I've had dozens of other landlords in my life and not a single other one gave christmas presents or even a card even if I gave them a card they just usually mutter thanks and don't reciprocate.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:41
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Puppy Time posted:Apparently "meme" means "fad" now? 
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Dec 2, 2015 00:05
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Puppy Time posted:Apparently "meme" means "fad" now? This person hasn't been outside in years.
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Dec 2, 2015 02:33
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twistedmentat posted:This person hasn't been outside in years. Turn on your monitor.
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Dec 2, 2015 03:49
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twistedmentat posted:This person hasn't been outside in years. I think it's better that way.
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Dec 2, 2015 03:54
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Uh why would I ever go out if I can instead be part of the golden Internet civilization reading dank memes?
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Dec 2, 2015 09:55
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Turn on your monitor. Oof.
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Dec 2, 2015 10:08
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Life is like a meme, don't you think? At first, it so funny, create much mirth and happiness in your heart. After some time it become not so happy creating, it become stale. But the meme (LIFE) continue. It becomes difficult to bear, it hurts in your stomach to see. Unlike life meme cannot die, it is eternal suffering. Meme hell.
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Dec 2, 2015 22:50
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Shayu posted:Life is like a meme, don't you think? At first, it so funny, create much mirth and happiness in your heart. After some time it become not so happy creating, it become stale. But the meme (LIFE) continue. It becomes difficult to bear, it hurts in your stomach to see. Unlike life meme cannot die, it is eternal suffering. Meme hell. 
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Dec 3, 2015 01:58
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I've noticed the worst of the worst hate content on imgur tends to hit the frontpage at around Saturday night. Normal, well-adjusted people have better things to do then, I guess. Well, content anyway: http://imgur.com/gallery/3gGgSTI Plan Z has a new favorite as of 09:11 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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Dec 3, 2015 09:08
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Plan Z posted:Well, content anyway: http://imgur.com/gallery/3gGgSTI "The solution to gun violence is more guns!" Its funny how these guys never seem to acknowledge that countries with stricter gun laws than ours all seem to have very few incidents like the ones we have every week. Also, has there ever been a situation that's been resolved by a bystander who was carrying at the time? I mean, they all claim it's the answer so it seems like there should have been maybe one or two but I sure as hell can't think of any.
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Dec 3, 2015 14:42
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The Mentalizer posted:like the ones we have every week. More like everyday https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/30/there-have-been-334-days-and-351-mass-shootings-so-far-this-year/ The Mentalizer posted:Also, has there ever been a situation that's been resolved by a bystander who was carrying at the time? http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/texas-good-guy-with-a-gun-shoots-carjacking-victim-in-head-then-runs-away/ 
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Dec 3, 2015 15:08
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The Mentalizer posted:"The solution to gun violence is more guns!" There was one case where a guy with a concealed carry tried to take down a shooter, but then he realized the person he was aiming at was trying to pull the gun away from the shooter. So these people like to think they're all badass but I'm guessing the fear of accidentally hitting an innocent person is stopping them from living their self defense fantasies. So good on them for that?
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Dec 3, 2015 15:13
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There was the case of a lady in Michigan firing her concealed weapon at a car that was driven by someone who had shoplifted. Luckily the gun people had the good sense to admonish this behavior and I believe she got her CCW license suspended or revoked.
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Dec 3, 2015 15:37
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There was also at least one guy who was carrying during the Oregon shooting who said he didn't use his weapon out of (understandable) fear of being mistaken for one of the suspects.
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Dec 3, 2015 15:42
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There was a shootout in the 80's where a guy with body armor and an actual AK killed his wife and iirc her lawyer on the courthouse steps. A bystander shot and hit him but the armor stopped it and the gunman killed the guy. Also I think only a tiny tiny percentage of people actually carry. Even a small gun is super uncomfortable to carry concealed and I personally know a ton of people who have permits but don't actually carry.
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Dec 3, 2015 16:52
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Fathis Munk posted:More like everyday https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/30/there-have-been-334-days-and-351-mass-shootings-so-far-this-year/ I couldn't remember where I saw that chart before so I went with 'every week' to be safe, but goddamn. Fathis Munk posted:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/texas-good-guy-with-a-gun-shoots-carjacking-victim-in-head-then-runs-away/ I can't help but laugh at this even though I know I shouldn't. I like that the guy had the presence of mind to collect his shell casings before getting the gently caress out of there. Borden posted:There was one case where a guy with a concealed carry tried to take down a shooter, but then he realized the person he was aiming at was trying to pull the gun away from the shooter. I remember hearing about that, wasn't it from the Gabrielle Giffords shooting?
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The Mentalizer posted:
Yep. Basically the guy realized what the person was doing by the time he lined up the shot. The shooter would have been able to reload and the concealed carry guy would have those people's deaths on his conscience.
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Dec 3, 2015 19:36
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The Mentalizer posted:"The solution to gun violence is more guns!" In Colorado Springs (no, not this time, about a decade ago) there was a guy who had shot up some sort of religious camp. The next day he went into a church, started shooting, and someone with a carry permit shot him. There was also a shooting at Appalachian state or something like that where one of the school administrators had a gun in his car and held the shooter at gun point until the cops got there. I also remember hearing about someone in South America running off several people armed with AKs without killing any of them. But that one I have zero evidence of it ever happening. Most of the self-defense uses of guns don't really get on the radar because nobody gets shot. Most people don't want to do stuff enough to risk getting shot for it. But like the guy above me said, I wouldn't be surprised if most people with carry permits just had them as proof of background check approval. And then even more people take the classes and don't get their licenses. I took a class as a condition of my dad buying me my first .22 because it doubled as a safety, handling, and maintenance class.
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Borden posted:Yep. Basically the guy realized what the person was doing by the time he lined up the shot. The shooter would have been able to reload and the concealed carry guy would have those people's deaths on his conscience. Both CCW classes I've been in were very specific about not intervening in poo poo because You Are Not A Cop and You Don't Know What's Going On. Your gun is for You and the people you are with. Fathis Munk posted:More like everyday https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/30/there-have-been-334-days-and-351-mass-shootings-so-far-this-year/ The link to the study this goes off of is down, and it's from a "reddit community", so I'm wondering how many of the 'mass shootings' are gang/drug related, or whatever the term is for stuff the news doesn't care about until it's useful for a study like this.
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Atmus posted:The link to the study this goes off of is down, and it's from a "reddit community", so I'm wondering how many of the 'mass shootings' are gang/drug related, or whatever the term is for stuff the news doesn't care about until it's useful for a study like this. It also uses a different definition of mass shooting than the one the FBI uses. I believe the FBI defines a mass shooting as when four or more people are killed in an incident (not counting gang/drug related, I think) whereas the information gathered for that study is incidents where four or more people are actually shot. I think it ignores gang/drug related shootings.
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It's just "three or more people shot" because it shouldn't really matter how deadly the shooting was if they at least attempted to kill a bunch of people. They count gang and drug related shootings because there's not really any reason to not count them. It's not like those aren't a problem too.
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The movie Reservoir Dogs has a girl try to shoot two criminals and shoots the under cover cop in the stomach then the other bad guy kills her. I thought this was a cool movie, would not have been as cool to view if there were no guns. So this is a good reason for guns to be allowed .
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CommunistPancake posted:It's just "three or more people shot" because it shouldn't really matter how deadly the shooting was if they at least attempted to kill a bunch of people. They count gang and drug related shootings because there's not really any reason to not count them. It's not like those aren't a problem too. Yeah, but it's a "Different" (albeit probably worse) problem. The root problems and solutions to gang and drug violence are vastly different than the ones for spree shooters/domestic terrorists, so it's kind of dishonest to include them. It's like using lake and bathtub drownings in a report about why pool drownings are so bad. It's an editorial based on a subforum's project, so I guess I should be happy they bothered to spellecheck it. This isn't even a 'stop demonizin mah gunz' thing for me, it's just really irritating that they only sorta care about that issue now, while it's useful for them.
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Atmus posted:I should be happy they bothered to spellecheck it. Please tell me this is not on purpose  I dunno getting shot with a gun is getting shot with a gun. Is the cause that important when you want to show there is a problem about the number of people getting shot with guns ?
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Fathis Munk posted:Please tell me this is not on purpose Well at least I don't pretend I'm a professional!  The root cause of the problem does kinda matter if you want to solve the problem and not just treat the symptoms. But the article's main goal was to get traffic, so I guess it was a success.
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That's a bit cynical I guess. I just figured it was another attempt to raise awareness as to the high level of gun violence in the US. And even if they are due to different causes, it doesn't change that there are mass shooting events with an alarming frequency. Anyways, maybe I'm being too naive and of course part of the reason was just to drive traffic. Still think the point is valid and I'll stop here for this derail.
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Dec 3, 2015 22:12
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Atmus posted:Yeah, but it's a "Different" (albeit probably worse) problem. The root problems and solutions to gang and drug violence are vastly different than the ones for spree shooters/domestic terrorists, so it's kind of dishonest to include them. It's like using lake and bathtub drownings in a report about why pool drownings are so bad. It's an editorial based on a subforum's project, so I guess I should be happy they bothered to spellecheck it. If the argument is "guns are too easily available and lead to too many people getting shot", then there is no reason to not include gang/drug shootings.
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This got to their front page again:
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Yellow people!  (IE; Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, etc.)Brown people! (IE; Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Mexicans, Argentinians, etc.)Black people! (IE; Nigerians, Haitians, etc.)White people!  (IE; Scots-Irish, German, Armenians, Russians, I'm bored with this gag.)
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Dec 4, 2015 00:05
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There's gotta be a way to make that seem like an insult, like phrasing it along the lines of not believing white people were so sensitive that they needed their feelings constantly thought off because they're not all pussies or something but guess they need trigger warnings just like everyone else.
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Dec 4, 2015 00:08
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kazil posted:If the argument is "guns are too easily available and lead to too many people getting shot", then there is no reason to not include gang/drug shootings. No, there wouldn't be, if that was their argument. That piece doesn't even imply that, which is weird considering any article involving guns related violence is either blatantly pro-gun, or blatantly anti-gun. This reads like it can't decide between being impartial facts (though I still believe it's taking liberties) or merely stating that there's too many mass shootings. It doesn't really draw any conclusions so it's either avoiding it deliberately, or it assumes its readership is already on board and that doing so would be unnecessary. Having looked at a few other editorials on that site, they don't seem to have a unified opinion. Having said all that, I agree with Pan Z, Imgur people shouldn't be expressing opinions either way.
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Dec 4, 2015 00:33
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One of the comments on that article: quote:How many of these newly defined "mass killings" were caused by criminals?
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Laverna posted:One of the comments on that article: Sorry you must be new. "Criminal" means black man.
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Dec 4, 2015 07:46
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kazil posted:Sorry you must be new. I was going to ask if criminal is a euphemism for "thug" but I thought no way that's not what they mean.
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RareAcumen posted:There's gotta be a way to make that seem like an insult, like phrasing it along the lines of not believing white people were so sensitive that they needed their feelings constantly thought off because they're not all pussies or something but guess they need trigger warnings just like everyone else. Here's a good idea, person with 2 pages of posts lamenting misogynist racists om imgur, what if you don't hilariously think up ways to "seem" to insult any races at all. Idiots on Imgur: we have met the idiots, and they are us.
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Nick Rivers posted:Here's a good idea, person with 2 pages of posts lamenting misogynist racists om imgur, what if you don't hilariously think up ways to "seem" to insult any races at all. 
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Laverna posted:One of the comments on that article: Probably as in "a person with a prior criminal record," versus someone for whom the shooting was their first criminal act.
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