The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 210

Im having another one of "those" nights, where I can't shake depressive thoughts and wish I was never born. I hate myself so so much. Im pathetic in almost every way. Someone should kill me and do the world a favor

Good riddance backstabbing piece of shit "friend".

Good riddance, bitch! like literally....we had been a couple for 1 year and a half...then she left.
About 5 months later we start seeing each other again, hanging out a lot, sleeping over...all the good stuff.

One day she decides to drop the bomb: while we had been separated she had been sleeping with this guy(among many, but that's not the point nor is it any of my business at that time) and actually took money for it?! WTactualF....left me speechless, still does. At least I had the guts to call it quits at that point, dunno couldn't really handle that. It's not even that she would actually need the money....she's got plenty from her rich parents.

Damn...I love her and she pisses me off so much!!

Another fucking school shooting in my country. We've had one per day all fucking year long. Over a dozen gunned down at Umpqua Community College in Oregon

I'm convinced that things won't change until the kids killed end up being the sons and daughter of NRA members/ high profile Republicans.

It's so frustrating to have half a country that literally doesn't care about the safety of its citizens (particularly the children), especially when they think a misinterpretation of the Second Amendment grants them the right to screw everyone else over.

Oh man that's awful x.x That cat is pretty cute

RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRR....I fucking hate the fact that I'm addicted to smoking yet whenever I try to quit the smallest amount of shit going wrong suffices to get me back on track to frickin lung cancer....GAWD I hate myself so much for that

I'm having another one of those nights where I feel absolutely worthless and pathetic and like I just don't really want to be anymore. Not that I'm suicidal, I just don't want to be me I guess. I was doing so well for a while, why are these feelings coming back more and more frequently lately?

I live in the United States. Around these here parts, people love their guns. I made like, REALLY love their guns. There are also a lot of fucking nutjobs on the internet. Therefore, if I ever use the internet to talk to someone about a political issue, they almost always assume that I am at one extreme end or another of the political spectrum, aka, one of the nutjobs.

Side note: what is a 'nutjob' anyway? If a handjob is where you use your hand to stimulate someone, then is a nutjob where you rub your nuts on someone's member to get them off?

So, anywayz, someone stated that guns kill less people than obesity, and therefore, cheeseburgers are more dangerous than a firearm. Now, I am not someone who supports banning firearms. This is important to remember for the purpose of this story. There are many countries where there are a lot of firearms in the hands of private citizens, like Canada and Switzerland. The fact is, though, in the United States, there is a school-shooting phenomenon which exists in other countries, but does not occur with the same frequency as in the United States. The reasons for this are very complex, and to propose a simple solution to a complex problem is completely futile. Yet, there are many extreme liberals who advocate the total banishment of all firearms and weaponry in the United States. I find this proposal to be astonishingly stupid in its lack of understanding for why mass murder occurs. I have my own hypothesis on this, but I'm not going to get into that right now. The main point is that I am not in favor of banning firearms.

So, we come back to this statement: "Cheeseburgers are more dangerous than firearms". This is a very obviously stupid comparison, because cheeseburgers are not effective as weapons. Also, eating a single cheeseburger will not kill you unless you have a wheat allergy and the bun contains enough wheat to kill you off. Taking a single bullet into your body from a gun will almost certainly cause a serious injury, unless you are the hero in an action film, and then the bullet will only hit you where you will not immediately die. To die from cheeseburgers, you would need to eat a few thousand cheeseburgers at the very least. If you took a thousand bullets to your body, you would die instantly and probably be so badly mangled that you would be unrecognizable.

Saying something this retarded will never persuade anyone to your point of view. I pointed out that it was a very bad comparison, and of course, a creative discussion ensued between myself and a half-dozen gun-supporters telling me I was wrong for suggesting that we ban guns. Except that I didn't. I said that the analogy of obesity to gun violence was erroneous because it is normal human behavior to eat things that taste good, and abnormal human behavior to be a psychotic mass murderer. That sentiment was met with the rebuttal: "If they didn't have guns to murder people with, they would use bombs or knives." which clearly has nothing to do with what I was talking about, but sure, I get to be strawmanned because even the slightest criticism of pro-gun propaganda is parallel to "omg ban all guns". I also got into this weird tangent about the leading causes of heart disease, because the biggest killers in the United States are heart disease and cancer. WHY? New paragraph please!

Before you kiss my ass and be like "u go gurl" and "those gun ppl are such idiots", let me explain the logic behind the propaganda. It's a bit skewed, but bear with me. The idea is that the anti-gun hysteria is misplaced because there are so many people dying from obesity, and that we should be horrified by that instead. Why can't we be horrified by two things at once? I don't know. I had to clarify that I hated the fast food industry, but that the leading cause of death in the United States was not 'obesity', but rather, heart disease. So some guy is like "SO WUT CAUSES HEART DISEASE? HUH? OBESITY." because he has to prove that the dangers of obesity heavily outweigh (whoa, did I intend for that play on words, or did it just happen magically?) the dangers of gun ownership. The OP also classified gun deaths and obesity as both 'health risks'.

Keep in mind that, at this point, I was discussing this with like five people who were all circle-jerking each other super hard, and I was getting agitated. Unfortunately, I took the bait and started talking about the causes of heart disease for awhile. As it turns out, tobacco usage is a big factor, but I use the word 'factor', and not 'cause' deliberately; both obesity and tobacco usage are said to contribute to heart disease, not cause it directly. This also takes place over the course of decades, and involves the person not exercising and probably also drinking. This person is making choices over and over to drink, smoke and eat unhealthily, although we could get really philosophical and ask what 'choice' truly is. But let's not. Taking a bullet to the head is generally not a choice you make if you are: 1) planning to be alive the next day from today, and 2) someone else is holding the gun.

All this was countered with "Exactly. It's freedom of choice. People can choose to smoke, they can choose to drink, they can choose to eat fast food, and they can choose to use firearms and who are you to say they can't?" AND I NEVER SAID THEY COULDN'T YOU FFFFFFGGGGGHHHHHHPFFFFFFFFTYTTTT. So they go back to fighting the strawman that never existed, and I say "No, I'm against banning firearms." which leads to "I'm sorry, I misunderstood your point, but still, obesity is the leading cause of heart disease." ok w/e m8 fk off

Eventually, I say to OP: "I'm not suggesting we ban firearms, stop getting so defensive.", but not before we jumped through a few more hoops before he got around to talking about how we have the right to own firearms again, which I then had to correct yet again. So he replies "I'm not being defensive. You're the only who started this argument and I don't even know what you're trying to say."

*sigh*

I'm saying your analogy is fucking stupid!!!! It fucking sucks dicks and licks assholes!!! It makes proponents of gun ownership look like simpletons for latching onto idiotic slogans that use faulty logic to support their arguments, you fucking shitter. I mean Jesus holy shit, obesity is a huge (there go those puns again) problem in the United States, and yes, it's killing people, but it's not being perpetrated by a criminal, and they aren't being murdered, you fucking dense drooling retards. Just because obesity is such a large, big, fat problem, it does not mean that we need to put on blinders and forget all other problems to tackle that problem first. We can look at smaller problems along with bigger blubbery problems. Hell, let's solve the fucking problem of people getting their dicks stuck in plug sockets and being electrocuted when their semen conducts 8000 jiggawatts of pure Zeus-lightning into their bodies. GODDAMN IT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

I'm so fucking scared of trying again. I can't get my life together, I can't even will myself to look into it. I'm such a lazy piece of shit, I deserve nothing of what I have. I should have starved in a ditch long ago. I'm so fucking pathetic and I willfully continue being like this.