I never made the association. Idk. Maybe I haven't been looking carefully enough.
To be fair, I don't seem to encounter a lot of racists, because I usually actively avoid them, and I also really haven't used Pepe very much either.
There's no lack of memes to replace Pepe, so I'm mostly unbothered by all of this.
I've been on the Internet too long to bother with every nuance of everything that's going on. There's way too much on here for me to care.
From what I'm gathering, it seems like one group is more "traditionally" American racism... And the other group is more like WW2 Nazi racists?
Either way, they're racists and not worth the oxygen they're consuming.
Can I just continue to have incredible distain for all racism? Because I'd hate to be branded as a sympathizer to either group. They both sound horrible.
The only surprising thing to me here is that racists hate eachother enough for this level of violence. I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing, I just thought they would... I dunno, bond over their mutual hatred of other races, rather than fight eachother over who is more racist.
... Not that I'm complaining. Having racists kill other racists makes it easier to fight against the groups that remain. Both groups of racists deserve to be put down. Not that I have the ability, capability, opportunity nor motivation to do that work myself..... I'm just not going to complain when one group kills the other, and the first group ends up in jail for life because of it. Honestly, that's an absolute win IMO.
They adopted Pepe?
That's a shame. It was a good meme there for a while. I had no idea that it was being tied to racist bullshit.
Thanks for the heads up. I guess I can't use that meme anymore. I don't want to be associated with these chuckle fucks.
They flop around more than a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man.
I'm in this boat. I didn't hate BL3. The story was meh, the antagonists were unlikeable, but they were supposed to be, so good job there. Overall, I enjoyed my time with it.
I tried to go back to BL1/2 and was hit in the face by all the usability issues, since it seems like they added mouse and keyboard support as an afterthought. BL3 is one of few borderlands games I can stand the UI enough to actually play.
My expectations from BL4 were/are small. Better mouse/kB support (or at least on par with BL3), and more story. I could give a fuck about the graphics, and most of the "loot" is randomly generated vendor trash. Unless it has a name and a gold title, most people couldn't give any fewer shits about it. So all they literally had to do was mix up the gold tier weapons, and work on the plot line.
I see they fucked with the engine, otherwise it wouldn't be so bloody unstable.
Oh well. I'll wait for the goty/master collection/turbo Max ultra digital edition or whatever, that has the game and includes all the nickel and dime bullshit they're going to try to get people to buy.... Then wait for it to go on sale.
They're not special. They're going to end up enshittifying the game. It's happening. I'm just going to stand on the side lines and watch.
I mean. Even putting all the borderlands expectations aside, it was a pretty low quality movie.
Like, a lot of films that are adapted from games or other media, if you set aside expectations from the original media, you at least end up with a halfway decent movie.
This one was just a train wreck all the way through.
I like dark humor. A lot of the discourse surrounding Kirk has been downright hilarious.
I'm sure some Nazi motherfuckers take offense, but not me
I agree that we should not ever celebrate someone's death. Violence isn't the answer. Sometimes it's required to defend yourself, but it doesn't solve problems.
With all that being said, if you think that motivation for his killing was that he was a right wing, 2nd amendment type, well, I've got some land in Australia I'd like to sell you.
The guy was genuinely horrible to a lot of non conservatives, and thought gun violence was "a small price to pay" for the second amendment.
Others have detailed his horrific viewpoints far better than I could, so I'll just leave it at that.
As much as I don't condone violence, I'm not going to get sad about someone I didn't know, who held beliefs I don't agree with, has died. I have some measure of sympathy for his kids. His spouse knew who they were marrying, so I have less sympathy for them, but the kids, in my opinion, are the victims in all of this, if anyone. They didn't ask for this guy to be their father, and they certainly don't deserve to lose their father in such a public and very visible way. I have zero doubts that they will eventually see the footage that's floated around the Internet, if they have not seen it already. That's a tragedy. They'll have to see, in full color, the last moments of their fathers life.
I can only imagine the kind of trauma that could impart. I truly feel bad for those kids.
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I have no idea what this image means.
It can be. It depends on context and tone.
If they say that shit with a tone of defeat, I'd address it head on. If it's typical banter like this sucks kind of tone then whatever.
People say a lot of concerning shit if you take everything that they say literally. Fact is that a lot of us use sarcasm and hyperbole as coping mechanisms.
Today, I joked with a buddy at work that the day made me want to hang myself from my shoelaces. I have zero suicidal ideation right now, I'm just unhappy that I have to put up with the people I have to work with right now. He's much the same, sick of the shit, so he gets me.
It really depends on the tone and context more than anything.
Yup. We are. I'll be the first to admit that I've made some pretty extensive assumptions here, and I don't have nearly enough information to say either way.
I don't think we'll ever get any more info than we have here.
My main concern with the body count comments is.... If that's not the primary motivation for his decision, why bring it up at all? Seems unnecessary.
Bringing it up just makes me think it's more important to Anon than he leads everyone to believe in the first part of his post.
There's a whole thing about body count in simp/FA type groups, that having a nontrivial body count somehow invalidates a person. By bringing it up, at all, it makes me think that Anon is a part of that group, or at least catering to them for attention, which might be just as bad or worse.
My official standpoint is that both Anon and the girl are terrible people. Good on Anon for not being that person's backup plan, but the reasons for rejecting the request are in question... And make me think Anon isn't a good person either.