Sightly related to the road rage stuff.
I tend to drive very conservatively when it comes to acceleration. I have a hybrid and I love getting 50-60mpg, plus I find that my slow acceleration often makes it so I don’t get caught at red lights; all the while people who punch it end up hurrying up only to wait. So and way, had a guy in an F150 passing me pretty aggressively recently, but as he does so I hear a scraping and banging sound. I look left to see his kayak skidding down the road next to me.
Whenever I see someone speed around other cars I think,
Damn, he gets to stop at the light firstI’m better at going than the person ahead of me at the light, I want to go first so I’m not stuck behind grandma as she swerves down the road 10 miles under the speed limit
Damn, you get to stop at the light first.
Yeah, that’s what I said!
I mean, it’s dangerous, but wrt driving 10mph: the lights are usually synced, so if you’re consistently slow you’re going to run into more red lights where you could’ve made it through by a wide margin if you were going 20. It’s also not just you and another car on the road. It’s going to effect the cars all the way back through the line not to mention the dangerous swerving from everyone else who needs to get to work by 7 or be subject to their boss’s narcissistic tirade.
Petite boat owner class??
It’s stressful how mad everyone in Texas is too. Especially while driving. If they’re delayed 5 seconds, it’s grounds for a shouting and slurs. If they’re delayed 1 minute or more, a gun comes out. Everyone here needs to go as fast as possible while visibly armed.
I was fixing my bike on the sidewalk in a suburb about a year ago and two guys with guns came out to threaten me, told me I was acting suspicious. I have a feeling if I weren’t white I’d have been shot. I’ve also had drivers in big trucks tap me from behind while biking.
My cousin once shot at a lost driver who was simply using his driveway to turn around. He carries an actual SMG to meet UPS at the door too. Everyone’s paranoid that a civil war will erupt at any moment. Pure narcissistic lily white panic.
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.
I do pretty regularly flip people off on the road when they are acting crazy, but one time a car almost side swiped me and I honked and flipped the driver off as second nature. The young girl driving the car was mortified and I really hated the way I acted. Can’t avoid using a car in Amerikkka unfortunately and I see how it can turn people into monsters.
👎 may still get you killed with the wrong person, but a little less aggressive while still getting the point across
i’m also a fan of Thumbing one’s nose as it communicates derision, but also you look silly doing it so it’s comes off more lighthearted
yeah i try to enter a zen state, just like refuse to get mad, because the truth is there’s nothing we can do to improve other drivers. Pretty much the only things I do are honk when someone’s going the wrong way on a one way and flash my lights when someone’s driving dark at night.
Asshole tries to kill you, but you’re slightly rude to him in response. He responds by trying to kill you again. PLAY STUPID GAMES WIN STUPID PRIZES!!!
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Typical liberal mentality. Being uncivil to someone who is a legitimate danger to the lives of others is worse than actually putting people in danger
“Liberals are like dogs, they don’t understand words, only tone”
That is a good one
Idk where it originated but I always hear it in the voice of either Milo or Alice from TF and
I heard it on Chapo from Matt back in 2017 or 2018 but idk if he coined the phrase or not.
yeah see, thanks, eat me
Had a similar situation. Stare a guy down and yelled at him to slow down when he blew past us at like 50 mph in my neighborhood while I’m walking with my kid, partner, and dog. The dude slams on his brakes(now he’s not in a hurry), says “do that again I’ll bust your ass” and flashes his gun. Then my partner was like “you shouldn’t have done that”. People are insane.
Great example of not being submissive ended up risking your life. The lesson here is to always be submissive.
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Your assailant is going to hurt or kill another person with his reckless driving. The right answer here is to preserve and protect your life and your family’s, as their reprimand was warning not to escalate with the
for your safety as well as theirs.But what happened to you were crimes. At least Assault and battery, reckless driving, and menacing.
Either way, I hope you never run into this person again. Maybe get a dash cam with a cloud.
I’m sorry that happened to you and I hope that asshole gets got
Thanks. I’ve thought about putting a wrench through his windshield since I very easily found where he lives. But i should probably let it go (and also don’t know if he owns the car)
Just let it go. I’m not a great example of this, but don’t hold grudges against idiots that endanger others for the sake of getting that last word in. That revenge shit, it’s not in our hands. Also, the liberal driller is still out and about.
the liberal driller is still out and about
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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.
Heinlein loved throwing crazy idea around.
Imagine being such a NPC that you write a book without any workers in it and think “I’m not a fascist”
I guess that’s one way to say he was a fascist.
Heinlein’s great because every one of his novels sounds like hack dystopia fiction, but then he’s like “yeah so pretty dope right? we should definitely do this, yeah? anyway please vote for me in the next school board election.”
It’s time for more “Deep Thoughts with Heinlein”. “Human society brainwashes us into accepting artificial limitations on our lives and our choices. This is wrong! Love should be free, and without limit. Unless it’s gay of course!” And that concludes our "Deep Thoughts with Heinlein.
OSP’s review of Stranger in a Strange Land
OMG! Someone wrote bad things about gay people in 1964. They must be horrible, horrible people!!
Go back to reddit
So, I shouldn’t read Sherlock Holmes, because he was in favor of the British Empire?
How about Greeks and Romans who endorsed slavery?
Sorry, I should have explained. Here, we generally believe that it is ok to consume media made by shitty people but that you should place it into the correct context, which in Heinlein’s case is that he had bigoted and proto-fascist beliefs that influenced his work. We don’t think it’s necessary to defend someone (or their work) from fair criticism just because we enjoy consuming what they create.
So yes, read Sherlock Holmes and Greek and Roman works, but do not think that Doyle’s western chauvinism doesn’t color his works and acknowledge that Plato or Cicero had crappy beliefs that should remain dead and buried with them, but still expand your mind by becoming aware of what they believed and why by reading them. Do not uncritically accept their beliefs and do not defend them or their beliefs just because they are talented or interesting or important.
Criticism is not, in itself, censorship, and understanding requires context and critique.
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you cannot be serious
Oh but the second someone nominally leftie shoots a republican fascist at a baseball game everyone wants gun control. Not when a white boater kulak shoots a black mom of three in the back for being rude to him at a gas station.
Wasn’t that guy a huge Rachel Maddow fan?
The fact that “road rage shootings” are a thing in the US is so fucked up. You can just get executed in broad daylight by a random lunatic because both of you are so alienated from one another through your individual metal boxes that a mild annoyance is enough for people to reach for a lethal weapon.
These are the same people who claim that California is a shithole because they don’t do quite enough to round up all the homeless and put them in camps
He could just get a gun if he’s afraid everyone’s gonna walk all over him for being a wuss.
America-brained response
I live in Texas but I shouldn’t carry a gun because I’d have probably shot some racist idiot in CounterStrike: Global Offensive by now.
doing the revolver ocelot twirling routine to deescalate confrontations at the whole foods
