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    4318 hours ago

    Couldn’t even wait until their braces were off to potentially throw away their future.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2518 hours ago

      The tradition is that when someone’s young, dumb, and full of naivety, you get them all hopped-up on patriotic fervor and send them to go serve in the military shooting at some hapless villagers somewhere who never did anything to them, to make someone who lives in Maryland or owns shares in Raytheon a half a billion dollars richer.

      Sometimes they got wiser, but sometimes they wound up dying by the side of the road somewhere, so far from home they can’t conceive of the distance, and the wisdom came too late. Or they came back with no legs or a traumatic brain injury. Now we’re hopping those same people up on faux 1776 imagery and turning them loose on Ethel who’s volunteering at the senior center as a poll worker.

      I have to say I think this way is better, because it gives them a lot gentler chance at redemption and wisdom. That’s still contingent on the hope that it doesn’t actually work, and nobody chops up Ethel, but I think this way is better. I think.

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        17 hours ago

        Frankly I don’t like that tradition either, but I don’t see any realistic way that it ever changes.

      • ArtieShaw
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        I don’t know, man. What does this Ethel chopping job pay? /s

        I just get the feeling that these kids aren’t the type who are worried about where their next meal is going to come from. Or in other words, they’re hobbyists and the military was never going to be an option.

  • @[email protected]
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    2317 hours ago

    Bro is ballsy, stand your ground state. Your dumbass running around with a machete? Dumb rewards.

  • @cymbal_king
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    1717 hours ago

    A guy campaigning for Republican candidates was getting arrested at my polling station (in a very blue area/state) when I went to early voting this weekend. Got into an argument with a Democrat and threatened them with a knife… I’m nervous about Tuesday

  • frustrated_phagocytosis
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    I wonder what his parents will cry about him being interrupted from doing in court while insisting he’s a good boy

  • Optional
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    Police arrested an 18-year-old wielding a machete with an 18-inch blade outside a polling station in Florida on Tuesday, who was part of a group of teenagers accused of intimidating Democratic supporters.

    The teenager, Caleb James Williams, was arrested after 4 p.m. when officers were called to the Beaches Branch Library in Neptune Beach.

    Williams was arrested on charges of aggravated assault for allegedly brandishing his weapon at two unidentified women, ages 71 and 54, and improper exhibition of a weapon, Neptune Beach Police Department said.

    Florida Not-a-Man

    • @Nastybutler
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      1115 hours ago

      Threatening two older women. What a beta cuck

    • SharkEatingBreakfast
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      212 hours ago

      Notice that he was threatening people who were the least likely to pose a threat to him / fight back.

      Trans folk being a threat to women? HA!!!

  • @Feathercrown
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    417 hours ago

    It’s all fun and games until the swordfights break out

    • @[email protected]
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      215 hours ago

      I don’t know, i made some prop swords in high school for the play once. Afterwards, we jumped on stage and started a swordfight. That was pretty fun, until one of us started bleeding.

      • @Feathercrown
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        215 hours ago

        As much as fantasizing about winning a swordfight with a Trump voter is fun, you know the rule: Nobody wins a knife fight.