• atro_city@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Are finger guns going to become the equivalent of a middle finger in the US because of how many people die to guns?

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      2 months ago

      Much like the middle finger gesture is offensive because outside the US many people die to birds.

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        2 months ago

        That’s one way to misunderstand the sentence. Impressive. The USA preschool reading level isn’t a joke after all.

        Half of U.S. adults can’t read a book written at the 8th-grade level.

        sauce

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          2 months ago

          You are replying to the most obvious of jokes, but even if it wasn’t a joke your response doesn’t really make sense. There is nothing in that comment that would imply that the person writing that comment misunderstood what you wrote.

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          Are you describing yourself here or what?

          You made a snarky comment, I made a snarky joke in the same vein, you decide to bring in statistics (of the wrong country btw)? Why?

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      2 months ago

      No. It’s hysterical admins using lousy logic to conclude that finger guns = violence. The logic is something along the lines of finger guns = real guns = killing people.

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          2 months ago

          The only time I really heard this talked about was in elementary school, and finger guns were never a threat at the school I went to. Not even once, but the teachers and administration would harp on about it like kids were demonic for making them.

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            They could get you expelled at mine, but not charged. IIRC even water guns would get you actually charged. Tbf it was shortly after 9/11, but still.