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It's amazing how lacking an understanding of materialism fails to hold powerful people accountable. Surely no theorists warned about conflating reduced harm with harm-reduction.

Politicians can just not harm. Them reducing the harm they do isn't a good thing.

Anyway, that was a fun thread.

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thank the man who stabbed me 7 times, because he could have stabbed me 8 theory-gary

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually it's praxis, because Elmer Fudd is a fucking bloodmouth.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

That's a good point then. Critical support to comrade Bugs in his half-hearted dedication to animal liberation.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fun fact, Nimrod was a character in the Torah renowned for his hunting skill, so when Bugs Bunny referred to Elmer Fudd as a Nimrod it was an ironic reference. The American public didn't catch the allusion, and so instead it became synonymous with "idiot" or "oaf."

Anyway the anvil will just cause a five inch lump on his head that he'll hammer back in with his fist and'll be right as rain, doesn't even need a doctor visit, so no harm done in the first place, really.

[–] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please tell me you are joking with the nimrod part guaido-despair

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Genesis 10:9:

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

Read it for a class in undergrad, saw the name, had questions. Got answers (the answers may not surprise you!)

[–] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, I know bible stuff, I meant the other part, but yeah oh-shit

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, that part is also not a joke. Nimrod was a pretty common playground insult when I was a kid (probably less so now but idk what invectives kids these days have coined so maybe it's still around). Americans do not truck with their own holy texts unless they're passing them out on street corners.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

I remember my mom scolding me for calling my brother nimrod because I didn't get the joke and thought it was just an insult.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, Bugs gave some pretty subtle roasts

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to do a harm reductionhesitation-1

Instead of shooting you dead, I'm just gonna shoot you in the leghesitation-2

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2020 presidential election was between two candidates who both advocated that protestors be shot in the legs

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

What a time to be alivewith a gaping leg wound and no healthcare.

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Shame I missed that one

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems you, too, have been visited by the spirit of enlightened rational liberalism. maybe-later-honey

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

The very same. That shit was wild

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could bugs bunny conjure a weight so heavy even he couldn't lift it?

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

He cut Florida off of the US. I never saw Goku do that.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah, could really do without that level of ignorance displayed on my hexbear. That's the downside of not having downvotes, you're either wholly reliant on mods to filter the ignorance or you're left with individual users stuck trying to cap hegemonic sewage outlets with corks.

[–] Finger@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

no more half measures walter