I would counter this by saying that even Bernie Sanders, who’s entire platform is to dethrone the billionaires, IS a billionaire who became a billionaire by being a politician.

HEY!!! GET OFF LEMMY AND GET HIM A 3RD SHOT!!!

Why was he drinking a bowl of spaghetti?

…why?

That’s the opposite of how Steve Jobbs died.

I was wondering why a cook would meet with trump.

And that kids, is how I met your mother!

This suit wasn’t cheap. You outta know. You bought it!

Or we convince him that it will improve his approval ratings for the election in November, and hope he truly DOES have dementia. Maybe he won’t realize it’s December? Maybe he forgot he’s not running for a 2nd term?

Law says you can’t pee in the bathroom? That’s ok. Pee in their mouths instead!

Ah, but then the media would run amok with stories like “Trans perverts are peeing everywhere! What you can do to protect your kids!”

Why do so many afraid people think kids need protecting? You know what my dad did when I was a kid? Nothing. He was passed out drunk on the living room floor after watching football at 2pm on a sunday.

You know what I was doing? Roaming the city. We lived in a bad neighborhood too. Our street was known as a drug and prostitute meetup spot. I can remember going to the playground at 5 years old, which had a basketball court, and a big grass field. I found something shiny in the grass. I picked it up not knowing what it was. Suddenly I hear “Hey yo! What’re doin?” I turn around, and about 15 gang members, who were just a moment ago playing basketball had now turned their attention to me. I was holding something of theirs. I didn’t know it, but I just picked up a brass knuckles.

I wasn’t scared. I was too stupid to be scared. I just happily said “I found this thing!” and he said “No, you got MY thing!”. To which I said “Oh, it’s yours? Ok. You should put it over here. Are these bags yours? Here, I’ll show you.”

So now still holding the brass knuckles, and now grabbing a duffle bag, I walk onto the basketball court they were using. Just on the other side of it, is a bunch of pine trees in the grass. I used the sawed off tree branches as hooks to hang the bag, and then slid the brass knuckles into a side pocket.

I said “See? Now you can keep an eye on it, so someone doesn’t mistakenly walk off with something, not knowing it’s yours.”

And this one of them walked over to the bag and said “You wanna see something?” and he reaches into the bag, pulls out a gun and starts shooting down past the trees onto the railroad tracks.

And so I said “Wait, hold on a second, don’t fire that for a little bit. I have an idea.”

And I reached into the trash, pulled out 4 beer cans that someone threw away, jumped the fence, put them on the tracks, came back, jumped back over the fence, and now pointed at the 4 beer cans I placed on the track, about a foot apart from each other. They were about 200 feet away. I said “Think you can hit those?” Sure enough he did. 4 shots, 4 hits.

So we played basketball together until the cops came, and they all ran. I didn’t run. I didn’t understand what was going on.

Cop comes up to me thinking I was hurt or something. They got reports of gunshots. I said “Well yeah. I put those beer cans on the track to see if Devon could hit them. And he did. Want me to set them up again for you, to see if you can hit them?”

Cop was quite confused, said no, and then insisted he take me home. Which was literally across the street. When the cop woke my dad up, he thought I got arrested, and yelled at the cop for arresting a 5 year old. Cop could tell he was still drunk, and just gave me over to my dad, who passed back out after the cop left. I just went upstairs and played Sega Genesis.

To this day, my dad refuses to believe that I was too dumb to realize I was in danger multiple times, and did illegal things. But that’s what I did. Nobody taught me how dangerous guns were. Nobody taught me what gang members did. I just saw a bunch of new friends, and that’s how they acted for the 45 minutes or so we interacted. Never saw them again.

And now, being 41 years old, I see these people today saying “Oh, the world is too scary to let them out of my sight! We must protect the bathrooms from people with different genitalia! Oh everything is scary!”

Meanwhile I’m a little 5 year old white boy walking up to gun carrying gang members, like “Hey guys! Let’s play!”

So they can fuck off with this bullshit of kids not being able to handle themselves. Just like when I was a kid and ran after a bear with a stick, and the bear runs off. Sometimes in life, you just gotta stop being a little bitch, and stop being afraid. Even the things that DO want to kill you aren’t going to fuck with you if you know you’re not going to get fucked with.

In conclusion, I don’t care what genitals you have. Go pee in the toilet. Fuck everybody else.

Cool! I had just gotten back from being in the cold for 40 minutes. 21F here. For 40 minutes. High winds. I was miserable. And then I saw that dog pic, and I was like "I’m gonna be mad if that dog is being forced to go through what I’m going through.

The fuck??? How is the human not bringing this dog IN the store??? Looks like a rockstar, with places to be, and peoples lives to brighten with his presence.

I hope this wasn’t taken in the cold part of the country…wait, this is Lemmy. This could be ANYWHERE on earth. It BETTER be warm…

Your dog fell asleep a YEAR AGO??? Uh…yeah…that’s what happened for sure…

^^^^Guys… ^^^^I ^^^^don’t ^^^^have ^^^^the ^^^^heart ^^^^to ^^^^tell ^^^^him…

Edit…Oh, I guess that doesn’t make text small on Lemmy…

Stuff like this happens all the time in Russia. People who live in 1 floor houses falling out of their 14th floor window for no understood reason. Windows are a mystery in Russia…Oh, this happened in America? Well THAT’S new…

I LOVE your enthusiasm. I don’t fully understand everything you said, but that’s ok. I just love it when people are excited for stuff.

Ok, but what if I think about 40-60% are assholes, 30% are dumbasses, 90% of people come off ass dumbasses because they don’t think things through, 80% of people are disgusting, 30% of people have a good heart, 10% of people are too trusting, 60% of people have depression, 85% of women have prior experiences being on the recieving end of unwanted sexual advances by force, 80% of guys follow sports because they have no other way to communicate with other guys, 7% of people are color blind, and 100% of people think I’m the greatest human being who’s ever existed?

Heart attacks are still on the table. I mean dude DOES work at mcdonalds…unless the media LIED to me!

I have not. I did not know that was a thing.

Oldest president in history, assuming he serves all 4 years. What’s your definition of “early”?

Now JFK? That guy knew how to hit the grave early!

I mean…I don’t think trump is going to shoot himself before 1945…