• GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I flipped a guy off two or three weeks ago because he blew through a four way stop and almost got either of us killed. Well he did a u turn and blew through the stop again and followed me home and yelled at me about how I “shouldn’t do that because dangerous people will hurt me” and I asked if he was warning me or threatening me and he said “I’m threatening you” and then shoved me against my car before trying to run me over while I got his license plate number

    I still haven’t gone to the cops and a small part of why is everybody acts like I’m the fucking asshole. “You shouldn’t have done that” from my girlfriend, brother, parents. FUCK YOU. I made a rude gesture because someone did something dangerous that could have gotten someone killed. I’m not the fucking asshole here. Maybe if I weren’t male I’d get more sympathy but instead it’s like “woops you fucked around and found out” and it’s my fault instead of this person being utterly fucking insane.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The quote comes from a science fiction novel called ‘Beyond This Horizon.’ Written by Robert A. Heinlein.

    In the book, the government encourages particular couples to wed because of eugenics. A waiter spilling soup in a restaurant leads to a gunfight.

    Heinlein loved throwing crazy idea around.

    • wopazoo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      “Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things to kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both. It’s a good thing.”

      Get that? The intention of “an armed society” isn’t to reduce gun violence. The whole purpose is to increase gun violence, to generate an excuse for murder that helps “cull” the weaker members of society. That’s what people are promoting when they use this quote.