[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

What up baby, heard your dad was murdered, wanna bang it out or what? Or I could arrest you, totally up to you to consent. Like my hat?

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is like basic common sense that is drilled into you from a young age if you're not white.

Got a problem and you call the cops? Now you've got two problems.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Complain about it online and hope someone else does something about it, as far as I can tell.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Cool cool. LMK

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, the socialists have definitely been winning this epic fight.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

AND PET A DOG BECAUSE DOGS ARE GREAT!!1!!

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IN THAT ORDER MFER!!! AROOOOOOO

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

OH MY GOD. OK, thank you. I didn't understand that. Much funnier now. And then he misses the actually request because he's screwing around. It makes way more sense now lol

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Well. He did lose weight, allegedly from Ozempic and Adderall, but that does seem like a pretty flattering picture. And his thumbs are double jointed/flexible. You can see it all the time when he plays his invisible accordion.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't get this one. Or maybe I do and I just find it less funny than usual? Is the joke that he's just messing around? I feel like in these comics he's usually so excited to get to do something, this seems out of character.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Why are white people so worried about being a minority in the US? Are minorities treated poorly or something?

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Middle, upper-middle, and upper class=wealth flows down.

If you're poor, and sometimes just not white, wealth flows where it's needed. Coworkers were very confused why I'm trying to save money to help my parents -- who do and have always rented -- when they're too old to work.

Like they literally struggled to wrap their minds around the idea that a) not only can my parents not afford to retire, b) they can't afford care when they can no longer work, c) they currently take care of my grandma who is in that position right now, d) I don't, haven't, and won't be receiving some sort of windfall in the form of property or money when they die, e) the best off of me and my siblings are who tries to help out financially for the siblings that are having tougher times, not our parents.

They looked at me like I had grown a second head, but I work around almost exclusively upper middle class white people.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you think gun control is far away now, we're SUPER far away from much if any regulation on pistols. Everyone tends to focus on the scary black rifles, because they're associated with the bigger mass shootings, and bigger mass shootings are often indiscriminate, so it scares middle- and upper-middle class white people and white women in general. This is generally born out in polling demographics around "banning assault rifles."

Handguns are the overwhelming murder weapon of choice in gun murders in the US, as in this case. Meanwhile the scary rifles are used in about 3% of gun murders.

Yet people will regularly and plausibly talk about banning "assault rifles" but the idea of banning handguns isn't ever mentioned. Not that it matters much, the US has pretty clearly decided to make guns more protected than than women's bodies or children's lives.

It would take a) a president willing, b) a shift in public opinion, c) a dramatic recomposition of the supreme court, d) multiple court cases, and e) possibly an amendment to the constitution, at this point, to actually get some national gun control in the US. So, I guess it just is what it is.

And what it is is hella fucked.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by WoahWoah@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

As this recently updated article discusses, while extremely unlikely, given the way this timeline is going it's possible the electoral college ends in a tie. Nate Silver projects this as a .3% possibility.

Things to think about:

  1. Only about half of the states require their electors to vote for the person that won their state. Who are the electors? Generally no one you know.

  2. If there's a tie, the House elects a president and the Senate elects a VP. Sub-consideration: it is the composition of the House and Senate after the November election that makes those determinations.

  3. This would all technically be decided on January 6th. And you remember how that went last time.

Regardless, it's highly unlikely this will happen. Still, this would be utter and complete madness. There is literally a non-zero chance we have a Trump/Harris administration. 🤣

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by WoahWoah@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Why are knife control laws so strong in the United States as opposed to gun control?

I was realizing it would be nice to have a knife with auto opening for boxes, etc., basically a switch blade or similar, and I found out that they are super illegal in my state (and/or there are length restrictions, or both sides of the blade can't be sharp, etc), but I can go into a sporting goods store and buy a pistol and ammo in under 30min.

Shooting open an Amazon box seems inefficient. What is up with restrictive knife-control laws??

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Ok, so obviously no one here has done anything to make this world what it is. Wall Street, corporations, and racist social structures are why the world is how it is, and that is just the truth.

I don't understand why I should feel bad about anything when obviously all of these rich assholes and structures of oppression exist. I didn't make them.

Until the corporations and wealthy people change, why should I feel guilty or bad about things. This literally isn't my fault, they did this, so I just feel like I should be able to live my life and not have to worry about all this. Why can't I?

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