[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Fair enough. Drunk 20-somethings military dudes getting a walk-in tattoo in some random country probably aren't going to be making many smart decisions. It was clearly not a well thought-out tattoo.

Nevertheless, I don't think the debate is about whether this guy got a bad tattoo or not, it's about whether he is a nazi or knowingly got a nazi tattoo.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago

To be fair, just look at all the people who have Chinese words written on them that say something that they weren't trying to say. How many of those people have had those tattoos for many years without ever learning that they were incorrect or fixing them?

I wouldn't go this route personally, but I know enough about tattoos to say with a high degree of confidence that many people just pick something out of the books on the day of the walk-in because they think it looks cool. I could totally believe this guy and his marine buddies said "that's a cool skull, let's get that".

It's like, how many people have Punisher stickers or t-shirts but have never read a comic book in their lives? Probably most of them...

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 19 points 3 days ago

He truly is one of the dumbest people I've ever witnessed.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago

And while we're at it, Haiti and the DR too. :(

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 21 points 3 days ago

Uh oh... Good luck Jamaica.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 46 points 3 days ago

BREAKING NEWS: Guy who said he wanted to be a dictator and that you will never have to vote again intends to stay President for life.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 38 points 3 days ago

If they can afford to buy Trump gifts, they can afford to pay taxes.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 41 points 3 days ago

If the last decade has taught me anything, it's that the civil war never ended.

Many of today's Republicans would be perfectly happy to bring back slavery, but just like they wouldn't cop to Project 2025, they just don't feel that the overton window has shifted quite enough yet to be comfortable admitting it.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago

Once they start squealing, that's a bad sign.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago
  1. A competent government would see Ticketmaster and LiveNation as the effective trust/monopoly that they are, and break them up into multiple smaller, competing companies.
  2. To his credit, Biden passed executive action to ban bullshit "junk fees" that get tacked on to ticket prices (among other things). I'm honestly not sure what became of that rule once Trump got into power, but it is absolutely a rule that we need.
  3. We need like 50x more scrutiny on corporate mergers and collusion of corporate entities to jack up prices.
[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 35 points 3 days ago

It's hard to know if GoT counts as "controversial" because it seems like everyone unanimously hated it.

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