I still remember when bumble had to change their entire premise and business model because as it turns out women are worse at starting conversations than men lmao.

I wholeheartedly believe that the Internet and smart phones have been the biggest double edge swords in human history. We have the entire globes collected knowledge at our fingertips with the ability to connect with any other person on the planet instantly and it has caused the largest shift in loneliness and depression ever.

Humans simply are not wired for social media and the Internet. Seeing every single person you know posting themselves beautiful and dressed up doing the coolest things 24/7 will make anyone feel ugly and like they aren’t doing anything with their lives. It takes real focused effort to remember that people (generally) only post when they are doing something special and what you don’t see are the days or weeks between posts that show they live the same boring life you live.

I’m ranting for no reason. I think when we lost in person social gatherings as the primary method of meeting new people is when society kicked that concrete block off the cliff. Right now we are just waiting for the rope to snap taught and drag us all into the abyss.

Both is good is more in reference to picking both as the problem is good. Not that either choice is any good lol.

… Are you seriously implying that SAYING SOMETHING HATEFUL is on the same level as physically violating someone???

I’ve been physically assaulted. I would choose hateful words every single fucking day.

Jesus Christ it’s like trying to explain true empathy to a narcissist. I give up. You’re not emotionally intelligent enough for me to bother attempting to explain any further. Have a good night.

Yeah it IS you people that need help. Because I’m not defending a Nazi. I am defending a person that made edgy Nazi jokes in their youth because I have enough brain power and human experience to know that not every single edgy teenager and young adult goes on to actually support extremist crap. It’s almost like humans spend their youth learning what’s ok in society. What’s not ok. Where they land on issues. Where other people land on issues.

What’s more important to me and most other humans is what kind of person someone is today. What kind of person they have been like in the last few years of their lives.

Every single human makes mistakes. How they learn from those mistakes is generally more important than the mistakes themselves (obviously not always the case).

Grow up.

We had a lot of VHS tapes that got worn out over time because they got watched so many times. My little brothers watched chitty chitty bang bang so much that the quality of the entire film was noticably worse by the time the tape got accidentally stepped on and destroyed.

Also mysteriously all the sex scenes with the incredibly attractive women in the Pierce Brosnan James bond films were worn out too. I wouldn’t know anything about that nor does it have anything to do with why I’m now a masochist whos into women that bite, scratch and even stab me from time to time… No correlation whatsoever.

I’m not gonna bother arguing with you. We clearly have a fundamental difference of opinion when it comes to our ability to forgive past transgressions of others when we see personal growth and change from them.

Have a good day.

I’m older than PewDiePie. I have two little brothers that grew up watching him religiously so I ended up seeing a lot of his content and being looped in on his controversies.

What mentally insane people believe is completely irrelevant. Plenty of insane people have taken words of peace and love and somehow found ways to twist them into calls of violence.

Using mentally deranged peoples actions to blame a public figure is actually insane. Not once did PewDiePie ever make any calls to action and in fact he publicly denounced those people and what they did.

YOU need help.

He is not a Nazi apologist at all lmao.

He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like “death to Jews” or something like that. He didn’t think they would actually do it and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.

When he got backlash for the “joke” by mainstream media he felt they were purposely twisting things around in a certain way to make him look worse and he was going to prove it. He then wore a British WW2 military officers uniform for a video where he claimed they would purposely cut the video to misrepresent things and that’s exactly what happened. They claimed he doubled down and wore a Nazi uniform because he was a Nazi.

Not long after that whole debacle he then had the infamous “bridge incident” where he called some random gamer the n word while he was live on twitch playing PUBG. He made an apology video after that where he said: “It was something I said in the heat of the moment. I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out. I’m not going to make any excuses as to why it did, because there are no excuses for it.”

Absolutely worth being criticized for the things he did in his past, but I don’t think it’s fair to cancel the guy forever because of those things. Especially when it appears that he has grown up quite significantly since those days.

You seem to be holding onto a lot of hate for something a very different guy did 10+ years ago. He’s gotten married, had a kid and moved his family to Japan since his young edgy days.

He absolutely deserved criticism for the stupid shit he was doing when his channel was exploding, but I think holding onto that level of vitriol for this long isn’t healthy.

People are allowed to grow and change. Im sure you said or did some incredibly stupid shit in your teenage and young adult years. I know I fucking did. If we never allow people to grow and change for the better then we are permanently locking each person to their lowest point and holding them there forever. I think that is an incredible robotic and inhuman way to approach the human condition.

Calm down there brother. I just noticed something that looked off to me and was seeing if anyone else saw the same thing. Clearly most people agree it’s just a cheap shitty flag that wasnt ironed. I must have gotten lucky with all my flags because none of them had creases or wrinkles after a few days of being hung up.

I have a similarly old redbull f1 flag on my wall at home. It doesn’t have any creases anymore. I wonder if heat/humidity have anything to do with it. It does get hella hot here in the summer. Multiple days over 110 most summers.

Fair point lol.

Maybe I just got lucky with my Nazi flags. The creases were gone after a few days.

/s

Do those flags look like they were unfolded and put up at the same time 10 minutes before the picture was taken to anyone else?

I am generally not a conspiracy guy, but I have had my fair share of wall hung flags in my life and they don’t look like that for very long.

They just look weirdly staged or planted.

…did you read my comment at all? I very clearly stated that those are popular tourist destinations that people are still visiting all year round. As in people don’t find THOSE places too dangerous to visit why should they worry about america?

Both of those places are significantly more dangerous than the overwhelming majority of America as I very clearly explained in the rest of my comment.

I don’t think you read my comment at all. If you did you certainly didn’t understand anything I said.

Try again.

What that data fails to properly explain is that outside of a few counties you are basically never going to see a gun homicide in the US. The city I live in has some of the highest gun crime in the country, but it is almost exclusively in a few small areas that tourists would never really go anywhere near.

Of our yearly gun homicides ~82% of it is African Americans killing other African Americans. Often in gang related disputes in very specific areas in a couple of states.

Depending on where someone is visiting they are likely much safer here than in many other countries on average.

Statistics are a wonderful thing, but it’s important to fully understand the data rather than just applying that average to the entire united states without any nuance.

Mississippi had a gun death rate of 29.6 per 100k in 2022.

Rhode Island had a a gun death rate of 3.1 per 100k in 2022.

Both those numbers include suicide by gun and suicide has outpaced homicide for at least the last 40 years.

Another thing to note is that the USA over all has lower gun homicide rates today than back in 1970s.

For comparison Jamaica had 44.7 gun death per 100k in 2022.

The Bahamas had 28.5 per 100k in 2022.

Plenty of people still feel comfortable traveling to those places year round.

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