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[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Snowflakes can't take a joke.

[–] HappycamperNZ 70 points 3 months ago

Something something cancel culture.

Something something right of free speech

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile a couple of links down on my feed there's an article about one of the Heritage Foundation guys claiming most political violence is committed by the left.. 🙄

The projection never ends..

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's tiring dealing with these dipshits. Brainwashed dumbasses.

[–] Cadeillac 12 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it isn't great for my mental health, but this is the most important election in history, and I have to fight until the end

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I mean they can't aim for shit so...

[–] Melvin_Ferd 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Comment has been reported to TPUSA report center

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh man, if he’d have gone for Charlie he wouldn’t have missed

[–] MegaUltraChicken 10 points 3 months ago

Definitely wouldnt hit that teeny tiny face though.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (6 children)

"And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise." He said, looking at a sand crawler with random scortch marks all over the hull that still looks fairly intact.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Sorry I couldn’t hear you, there’s a tampon in my ear 👂

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For people who oppose cancel culture so much, suddenly it’s not so bad when they can use it to their advantage.

[–] Cadeillac 18 points 3 months ago

You are mistaken my friend. They oppose anyone but them using cancel culture, just like everything else. I'm sure their motto is 'if you can't win, cheat!'

[–] carl_dungeon 73 points 3 months ago

Man, trump can’t even take a bullet let alone a joke.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago

I live in Canada, so...

Give it your best shot? At most, I'd lose an ear so...

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't heard enough, tbh. Maybe I just missed them. I'll try to keep an ear out for new ones. I'd give a shot at making one, but I think the joke would not land.

P.S. To my FBI agent: This is an attempt at humor. Please text me back, bro.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 56 points 3 months ago

My favorite I've heard so far was "this is the one time I wish a politician leaned further right"

[–] Pronell 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

And people mocked Jack Black for canceling his tour.

You can't put on a good performance while also putting your audience in danger.

These people need to be locked the fuck up for death threats. It's very, very simple.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Because kowtowing to the American Nazi Party is obviously the right solution

[–] Pronell 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is just so glib.

I mean I get your point. I even back you to a degree.

But you're calling out a popular entertainer for not wanting to put on a show - which requires a support staff, venue, and audience - while now having to think what nut might be in the audience waiting to take a shot.

MAYBE this shit is already stressful enough for Jack without worrying about everyone around him and how that extra stress will undermine their performances as they do this shit night after night for the entire tour.

But no, tell him he must go on. It doesn't cost you shit. You don't have to live with the stress of it all.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't care about the cancelation of the tour, but him saying he iced all projects with Kyle does not sit right with me

If they were friends like Jack claims, he would say something like: "I know him very well. It was a joke in poor taste, but it was only a stupid joke in the spur of the moment. " instead of distancing himself from the heat

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[–] Mediocre_Bard 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I'm in danger.

How did Trump know that everyone was talking about his political campaign?

His ear was burning.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

He was within earshot (not my original)

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm tempted to make one now out of pure spite, but there is no joke that is bigger than Donald himself.

[–] Cadeillac 16 points 3 months ago

Set your VPN to Russia for maximum funsies

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[–] boatsnhos931 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you miss a bright orange target that hoots and hollers

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When the fuck are people gonna start ignoring the pearl clutching by the right? Anyone who says "so much for the tolerant left" should get the shit beat out of them.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 38 points 3 months ago

They'll of course equally condemn the "second amendment people" comment and Paul Pelosi jokes, right?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Maybe he actually got hit in the head, but there was nothing inside.

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[–] TunaCowboy 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Freefall 28 points 3 months ago

What's wild is the bullet went in one ear and out the other without doing any more damage.

[–] Nightwingdragon 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

More evidence of the GOP mantra; use threats of violence to get what you want. This is what their voters want for the country. To be able to get what they want, and use violence whenever they don't to force compliance.

And what's worse, if the examples in the article are any indication, is that companies are going along. Those examples will encourage more doxxing because it worked. And especially if Trump ends up winning, it'll soon be apparently a fireable offense to have the wrong political opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Somehow "MAGA hackers" are still holding a banjo in my head.

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[–] CharlesDarwin 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So....cancel culture?

I thought they didn't like that?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago
[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 18 points 3 months ago

Who's joking? He's a fascist, pedophile rapist piece of shit It's a god damn shame he missed.

[–] banshee 18 points 3 months ago

I just feel bad for the bullet. I can't imagine the shit it went through.

[–] AshMan85 18 points 3 months ago

"Fellow pedophiles, lend me your ear"

[–] iAvicenna 18 points 3 months ago

while Trump sells assassination sneakers?

[–] Fedizen 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Republicans need better aim.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've seen country bar bathrooms before. Trust me, it's not just bullets they miss.

[–] billiam0202 12 points 3 months ago

They miss Trump, they miss toilets, they miss the Confederacy...

[–] Tronn4 17 points 3 months ago
[–] not_that_guy05 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't have missed this pig skin, reptile, child molesters, Cheeto Mussolini.

[–] HappycamperNZ 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Couldn't hit the side of a Trump at 140 yards.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Shouldn't have missed. This fucker should be DEAD.

[–] ZK686 9 points 3 months ago

Trump assassination jokes have been going on since Trump was President 5 years ago... it seemed like it was only yesterday that Depp talked about killing Trump and Griffin held up a severed head of him...

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