A small thread of Amerikkkan freedom (hexbear.net)

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[-] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

I flipped a guy off two or three weeks ago because he blew through a four way stop and almost got either of us killed. Well he did a u turn and blew through the stop again and followed me home and yelled at me about how I "shouldn't do that because dangerous people will hurt me" and I asked if he was warning me or threatening me and he said "I'm threatening you" and then shoved me against my car before trying to run me over while I got his license plate number

I still haven't gone to the cops and a small part of why is everybody acts like I'm the fucking asshole. "You shouldn't have done that" from my girlfriend, brother, parents. FUCK YOU. I made a rude gesture because someone did something dangerous that could have gotten someone killed. I'm not the fucking asshole here. Maybe if I weren't male I'd get more sympathy but instead it's like "woops you fucked around and found out" and it's my fault instead of this person being utterly fucking insane.

[-] bigmonkey@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Asshole tries to kill you, but you're slightly rude to him in response. He responds by trying to kill you again. PLAY STUPID GAMES WIN STUPID PRIZES!!!

*/s

[-] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago

Typical liberal mentality. Being uncivil to someone who is a legitimate danger to the lives of others is worse than actually putting people in danger

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

“Liberals are like dogs, they don’t understand words, only tone”

[-] Currently_on_Nitrous@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

A friend of mine was shot and killed over a road rage incident. The shooter was illegally carrying the gun, got off with a slap on the wrist. My friend was black, the shooter was white. Happened just outside the city limits of Portland.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

The quote comes from a science fiction novel called 'Beyond This Horizon.' Written by Robert A. Heinlein.

In the book, the government encourages particular couples to wed because of eugenics. A waiter spilling soup in a restaurant leads to a gunfight.

Heinlein loved throwing crazy idea around.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

I guess that's one way to say he was a fascist.

[-] richietozier4@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago

It's time for more "Deep Thoughts with Heinlein". "Human society brainwashes us into accepting artificial limitations on our lives and our choices. This is wrong! Love should be free, and without limit. Unless it's gay of course!" And that concludes our "Deep Thoughts with Heinlein.

OSP's review of Stranger in a Strange Land

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

OMG! Someone wrote bad things about gay people in 1964. They must be horrible, horrible people!!

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago

Go back to reddit

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

So, I shouldn't read Sherlock Holmes, because he was in favor of the British Empire?

How about Greeks and Romans who endorsed slavery?

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sorry, I should have explained. Here, we generally believe that it is ok to consume media made by shitty people but that you should place it into the correct context, which in Heinlein's case is that he had bigoted and proto-fascist beliefs that influenced his work. We don't think it's necessary to defend someone (or their work) from fair criticism just because we enjoy consuming what they create.

So yes, read Sherlock Holmes and Greek and Roman works, but do not think that Doyle's western chauvinism doesn't color his works and acknowledge that Plato or Cicero had crappy beliefs that should remain dead and buried with them, but still expand your mind by becoming aware of what they believed and why by reading them. Do not uncritically accept their beliefs and do not defend them or their beliefs just because they are talented or interesting or important.

Criticism is not, in itself, censorship, and understanding requires context and critique.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

you cannot be serious

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Some more info on the "armed society is a polite society" quote.

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

“Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things to kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both. It’s a good thing.”

Get that? The intention of “an armed society” isn’t to reduce gun violence. The whole purpose is to increase gun violence, to generate an excuse for murder that helps “cull” the weaker members of society. That’s what people are promoting when they use this quote.