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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 53 points 1 month ago

Given the skin tone and sunglasses, one could put that picture of the suspect they're looking for in there and see if anyone notices

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

.... like do they think cheap knockoff sunglasses from a gas station make them look cool? Its got some weird 14 year old boy energy.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My dad is the coolest most scrappiest Appalachian mountain man who managed to escape the cult of republicanism 2 decades ago. This is one remnant, those damn sunglasses, from those days, and I try not to judge but I do cringe a bit. He fucking despises Trump and Republicans, mind you.

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like sunglasses can be cool. I despise richard nixon but having a bunch of dudes in wayfarers behind him in his speeches did look cool. Maybe your dad would like to embrace the wayfarer look?

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How else do you attract 14yr old boys?

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well thats a terrifying revelation.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On at least two different levels

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago

It could be argued which is worse, but it's the same people doing it anyway.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's cause that's when they peaked.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's when they peaked mentally, too.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

No no, they make up the cool by taking a picture from the drivers seat of their 12 year old Ford Escape.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I like that sort of glasses for driving. Don't need to be expensive to be good for that

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve gotten death threats for posting Kirk’s own words about acceptable gun deaths and dismissing empathy, sometimes in the same breath as calling out the “violent left”, while not knowing the ideology of the shooter. They’re fucking insane.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Lol I've just calmly expressed how easily the red hat would make it to dome them at a distance, not one has considered continuing the conversation past that, like yes those are my ideas actually.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

funniest thing to me is this is exactly how the "person of interest" dressed.

just, well played m'lord

[–] sausager@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was looking for his pic in the group. Missed opportunity imo

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

The median voter strikes again

[–] falynns@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why do they always have terrible profile photos. Sunglasses and the same dumb expression.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Because they're in the same cult.

Not only is conformity encouraged, but deviating from their group norms even slightly is met with suspicion if not outright fear and hostility.

Plus that's what people who are emotionally stuck in adolescence and/or the 80s think looks cool.

[–] derry@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey leave the 80s out of this. Some of us from that time period are not terrible people.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True. I was born during the 80s and thought sunglasses were automatically SUPER cool until well into the 90s myself.

That doesn't make me a terrible and/or extremely cringe person, but never progressing from that does, is my point 😉

[–] derry@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

True. I was born during the 80s Nice. I was a teen/young adult at the time.

and thought sunglasses were automatically SUPER cool until well into the 90s myself. Ha, sunglasses are still cool 😎. Now parachute pants lol j/k

That doesn't make me a terrible and/or extremely cringe person, but never progressing from that does, is my point 😉 Agree 💯.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/x1bwsd/guy_asked_random_guy_whos_the_hottest_red_sox/

Cannot for a moment leave a shred of evidence that he even knows what an attractive man might look like.

What an exhausting existence.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Lol I'd just answer I don't know what any of them look like and go on with my day

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not it their dumb expression, that's their dumb faces.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

A felon that then pardoned people responsible for the deaths of five police officers who died stopping an attempted coup from said felon.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do so many conservatives do sunglasses? Like, isn't their whole schtick that they're individuals and mavericks? Fucking copy paste.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, real mavericks wear monocles and rhyme every so often but not every time. That's the kinda maverick I want avenging me.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I want the Mavericks to avenge the night away for me.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's no cognitive dissonance where there's no cognition.

Just letting you know you've forced my hand and I'm stealing that line. 👍

Half these guys have a secret Grindr

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What’s the collective noun for chunguses?

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s gotta be Chungi, right?

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're talking about a collection of animals, not the plural form of the word (which chunguses is). Like a group of crows is called a murder.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the plural should be chungi, and the collective noun either a clowder, or a murder.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would you besmirch cats and crows that way? The collective noun should be something vaguely derogatory, like "heap" or "clump."

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not so much to do with the current designation of clowder, but rather I was inspired by the origin of the word.

A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott (“round mass, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball, testicle”), Danish klods (“a block, lump”) and German Klotz (“lump, block”)).

As for murder, I think labelling them with their intent is simply a good idea.

I've nothing against crows or cats, but the person who coined their respective collective nouns probably did.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Ok, I did not know the origin of clowder, and retract my earlier objection.

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

The collective noun should be bag of dicks. Or bag for short.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago

Looks suspiciously like the same pictures that keep messaging me on grindr. Coincidence?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm a middle-aged white guy, salt-and-pepper-goatee. Let them think I am MAGA. When I speak out on them in public, they have been surprised. And now I have to go armed, non-stop, and it sucks.

Pretty sure I’ve argued with that tnn jerkoff but who knows theres probably 20 that look exactly like him

[–] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, if there was an AI bot swarm to try to affect public opinion, and they needed to generate profile pics...

[–] lack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It must be really bright where they all live. And they must live in their cars. Also they like denim.

[–] Ghis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

In reality it's just yet another example of rightie on rightie violence.

Let the monkeys kill each other idgaf