They joke, but I legitimately know people whose parents were the super Christian "any book about controversial topics is the devil and so are video games and TV" to the point where when she found out her daughter had Harry potter book, she burned every book of hers that wasn't directly religious.
Well guess who decided to "give them a try" since "the author clearly has the right ideas about life" since all her children are out of the house and the only ones who bother visiting are the two with kids (who would never admit it but they're only there for free babysitting and future help) and one who just doubled down into the religion despite witnessing the same bullshit as her siblings....
So yeah, this may have been intended as a joke, but they're closer to the truth than they might know.
Funny how quickly things turned to "no political violence is okay and joking about it makes you a terrorist" when only weeks before I was hearing and seeing "jokes" about certain politicians and death, assault (of varying kinds...), and all manner of "violent" things.
But suddenly after Ajent Ornj takes a bit of shrapnel, it's "not okay"
And all the people who "hate Trump" who sit by day after day and say nothing about the other "jokes" because "we expect that from them" but jump in to lecture you about how you're wrong... Well, are you hypocrites or just cowards? Why is it suddenly "not okay"?
Don't feel bad, I know people who didn't make the connection of "one of the bad guys from jurassic world", despite watching that and Daredevil on the same day.
Weird, I've literally always heard "ignorance of the law is no excuse to break the law", which seems to imply criminal intent doesn't matter. Only that the action that was take was illegal.
Yeah, I've never once seen anything but criticism over the US's involvement in the middle east.
The most I've seen is a couple people saying the equivalent of "well SOMEONE had to do something about X" And a bunch of others jumping on them to clarify that X either never existed, or was massively exaggerated and the US isn't the World Police.
Genuinely would love to see someone link a good faith comment trying to argue the above, so I can tell them all about how they're a fucknut
Just enough to convince the people that are convinced of his innocence that he's being wrongfully punished, those who don't bother looking into the punishment to say"yep he got punished", and it's not like they have anything to worry about from the rest of the population who will only be upset over a light slap on the wrist but not do anything about it.
Can you truly say you've had the HB experience if you haven't recieved emoji/sticker/gif spam from people who weren't alive for 9/11, have never been outside their country, and refuse to listen to opposing views, but know with full certainty that all western countries are 100% full of genociders and colonial rapists who all deserve the glorious death the super benign, extremely peaceful and misunderstood countries of North Korea, China, and Russia who have never once been correctly accused of human rights violations....
And of course, if they point out that your country has dipped into those things in the past, well your entire worldview is shattered and their whataboutism has solved everything and proves you deserve the death they crave for you.
Well... Just poison the right watering holes that the people who have the power to act care about, and suddenly they'll care about the EPA and water quality regulations.
I hear what you're saying, and I recognize anyone inside would be safe from being eaten.... However, as with an elephant, I wouldn't want to be woken up in the middle of the night having intruded upon their home.
They joke, but I legitimately know people whose parents were the super Christian "any book about controversial topics is the devil and so are video games and TV" to the point where when she found out her daughter had Harry potter book, she burned every book of hers that wasn't directly religious.
Well guess who decided to "give them a try" since "the author clearly has the right ideas about life" since all her children are out of the house and the only ones who bother visiting are the two with kids (who would never admit it but they're only there for free babysitting and future help) and one who just doubled down into the religion despite witnessing the same bullshit as her siblings....
So yeah, this may have been intended as a joke, but they're closer to the truth than they might know.