• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I appreciate that you tried to steer the discussion to be more about how driving is orders of magnitude more dangerous than the bullshit this politician is fearmongering about, but this is still pretty off-topic. I’m not removing it this time (in part because there was already a significant number of comments by the time I noticed it), but I was pretty on-the-fence about it and similar posts are likely to be removed in the future.

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    8 hours ago

    This man does not understand mathematics!!!

    And let’s keep it that way. If he is to learn it must be the hard way. I suggest finding bad drivers to cross paths with him regularly.

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    20 hours ago

    Scared white people are the worse. Just tell people you’re a baby back bitch already.

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    A black guy got his window punched out and was dragged out of his car and beat up by the cops for “not wearing a seatbelt”. Anyone who doesn’t carry proof of citizenship can be hauled away by ICE on the pretext of “not wearing a searbelt”. But sure, tell everyone how your white privilege lets you get away with not wearing one, fuckface.

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    2 days ago

    Why are we giving this attention. Clearly it’s just a dumb statement meant to get shared around and enforce the myth that DC is run by gangs.

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      2 days ago

      Honestly, that makes more sense than not wearing a seat belt so people won’t forcibly take your car. How is that even supposed to help?

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        It’s not so they won’t forcibly take your car, it’s so you won’t get tangled up in the seatbelt when they yank you out. Stupid any way you look at it considering how unlikely one thing is to happen vs the other, but at least there is some logic to it.

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      I actually did this to my friend who refused to wear seat belt who also didnt lock her car. I just ran up while she was on phone and pulled her 100lbs self out. Learned her lesson right there. BTW she had several stalkers so I scared the crap out her but that was the point. If I can do easily its over if someone who wanted to hurt her tried.

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          18 hours ago

          Trying to get your friend to lock doors and wear a seat belt regularly? Particularly when she is also concerned about ppl hurting her?

          I guess I should have just said my piece and just let the dice fall wherever.

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            That first paragraph is you admitting it is about control.

            Yes, that’s how bodily autonomy works - you say your piece and let people do what they want with their own body. She literally could have had you arrested and charged with assault, maybe battery depending on her injuries. You don’t get to grab others with your no no grabby hands. Didn’t you learn that in preschool?

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    my bad maths says thats a 900x increased probability from the average of this guy being splattered against the pavement as compared to the next guy so i got some satisfaction out of that. no, don’t correct me. anyway whats the bet he actually drives himself around

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    2 days ago

    I mean, you didn’t need to say more than “Oklahoma Senator” for me to know that he was an idiot, but the rest confirmed it. If you’re so scared, go back to OKC.