I just searched this up as best I could and discovered that the stabber and stabee were both women. Is this meme referencing a different use of the regrettable taunt?
What are you talking about? This is from an actual news broadcast in Spokane Washington many years ago. There’s a transcript of the broadcast on this page. One man stabbed another man who was arguing with his wife.
I mean they have to hit you with just the right amount of a lot of things to make you funny, but I’d put a lot of determiners far ahead of any possible correlation to trauma
critical/analytical thinking
a personality that sees ‘attention’ as a reward
strong social drive and desire to please others
communication skills
To be more ‘funny’ than ‘suicidal,’ wouldn’t the right amount of trauma always be as little trauma as possible?
Valid point. But, there are many reasons people are funny and like funny things. Sometimes I get the feel that I am laughing at something just to forget the harshness in life. Bo Burnham in “What’s Funny” explains it better:
“Humor is often linked to shared experience
Like, a guy gets up and says
“Have you noticed that public restrooms have really inefficient hand-dryers?”
Oh, my god! Yes, I have!
Ha-ha-ha, really good point
They should fix that…
It’s good to know that somebody finally gets me
Because my wife divorced me, which subconsciously forced me
To lose all sense of self
So, it’s nice to think about hand-dryers and not that cheating whore”
The worst thing you can do is burn bridges with people you disagree with.
The best way to make a bigot not be a bigot anymore is for the people they hate to be friendly to them.
There’s this one black musician that has gotten quite a few grand wizards of the KKK to leave the clan, just by having friendly conversations with them.
Doing that makes them realize that they’re going through the same shit as the people they hate, which then makes them realize that the people they really should be directing their hate toward are billionaires.
Because we’re all getting a lower wage that we should be, we’re all paying a higher interest on debt than we should be, we’re all paying higher rent than we should be. We’re all paying more for our necessities than we should be. And the billionaires’ unbridled narcissistic avarice is why we’re all suffering.
That’s why every media outlet always twists narratives to make people hate each other. If we’re fighting each other, we won’t focus on the real evil that’s looming over all of us.
while I absolutely agree with you in a private setting, in a public setting I believe it does more harm than good to provide a platform for people to preach hate.
Saying certain things are hate crimes, and shouldn’t be allowed. Like burning crosses, etc.
If you’re burning a cross in someone else’s property, that’s a crime vandalism, trespassing harassment.
Saying naughty words and only saying naughty words doesn’t actually hurt anything besides people’s feelings
Do you really want to live in a place where you can be arrested for saying something that offends people?
If that’s the standard for what kind of speech we outlaw, then it’s only a matter of time before religious lunatics start throwing people in the gulag for saying “god damnit”. or “Jesus” as a stand-in for some kind of curse word.
If we lose free speech, you may agree with the one that’s allowed to censor things, but what happens when free speech is gone and someone new, who you strongly disagree with is now allowed to censor things?
I’ll say again. The same laws that allow bigots to say what they say are the same laws that allow us to make fun of them.
Free speech already isn’t absolute. Free speech isn’t about words, it’s about expression of opinions. And it’s illegal to express some opinions in some ways. For example you can’t discriminate based on race when you hire employees.
We’re already willing to draw a line, and the world hasn’t gone to hell.
I actually live in Canada, where we have Hate Speech laws (like exist in many countries), where speech that is significantly harmful to marginalized communities is considered illegal. Despite what the Flu Trucks Clan ironically claim, they’re not being censored.
The line isn’t gonna slide one way out of control and nobody can stop it, the line is drawn where the people of the country largely think it should be. In some non-secular countries, the line is drawn very far and I think it’s gross. In other countries like the USA I think the line hasn’t been drawn far enough and people are put in needless harm.
Besides, were talking about Lemmy here, not laws for which you can be thrown in jail.
Free speech already isn’t absolute. Free speech isn’t about words, it’s about expression of opinions. And it’s illegal to express some opinions in some ways. For example you can’t discriminate based on race when you hire employees.
You’re confusing words with other things that have nothing to do with words.
I actually live in Canada, where we have Hate Speech laws (like exist in many countries), where speech that is significantly harmful to marginalized communities is considered illegal. Despite what the Flu Trucks Clan ironically claim, they’re not being censored.
Words are words, violence is violence.
And I saw the videos that were taken from inside of the trucker’s protest, they were completely peaceful. The truckers were protesting the dystopian surveillance that came along with those QR code apps. Did you know that those apps communicate your personal details wirelessly? Completely without your consent?
The sheer volume of databreaches that big-tech-owned services go through all the time and you feel comfortable letting those idiots handle all your identity information and to let them send it to anyone who’s able to spoof the signal to download it?
You’re probably thinking about the nazi flags that were seen at the trucker protests. And those people holding those flags were definitely NOT feds helping to peddle a narrative…right? It’s not like the media would lie to get us to hate our neighbors without listening to what they have to say or anything.
You’re confusing words with other things that have nothing to do with words.
Free speech is freedom of expression. Expression extends beyond words. If all you protect is words, then you’re not protecting much. But if you allow any expression, then bad things happen.
Wow, you put a lot of words in my mouth, ostensibly to give yourself something to fight me about. It’s too bad I never said any of that stuff, and super suspicious that you completely ignored what I did say about the flu trucks Clan. Almost like you’re trying to peddle a narrative 🤔
I think that “spread” in that definition is meant to be past tense. Posting an image, at least originally, didn’t make it a meme. What made it a meme was people resharing over and over to the point it was like an icon that most people knew. Like Rick rolling was a meme. Whereas the billions of other posts that year which weren’t popular, were not.
The trailer: great footage of an open world game, interesting plot, etc.
The first cut scene: meet your character that beheads a dragon using an epic display of super human athletics and strength.
The tutorial level: do a twelve button combo in 2 seconds to perry.
Open world: you can’t jump over a 2ft fence, you cannot bust open a wood door with your battle axe, and any drop over 3ft will kill you.
Side quest: Install mods to fix poor performance and graphics, get rid of repetitive character lines, fix the wired UI, fix fall damage, and cheat through the unlock puzzle that was only fun the first time, not the 300th time.
When you get to the “major city”: buy this mount, buy this armor skin, buy these resources, buy the mission table resources, buy a map to show all the useless collectables, buy this different money that you can convert to the first money for a conversation fee using a third money you can only get by doing dailies.
patch day; install a giant patch that fixes some bugs, makes more bugs and breaks the mods that fixed everything else.
Someone dies in a cut scene; you can do nothing despite carrying a bag of heath and revive potions that are so common even your car sells them.
End of game: you’ve spent hours preparing, endure an epic 30 minute battle to get the final boss to 1 heath only to be defeated in a cut scene. He runs and the credits roll.
buy dlc go chase after the bad guy in a new zone, but first completely upgrade your gear because your old stuff can’t hurt a fly. Then finally catch the bad guy and defeat him using an all new bejeweled inspired fight system rendering all your equipment and combat skills pointless.
just replay modded Skyrim and have a completely new experience every time
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