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An Unforeseen Consequence
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Whether on Earth or planet Harambe, I just won’t pay retail price.

This is a deal breaking question that needs answering.

She grew up 20 minutes away from me and the pride my county feels is insane. Seriously every person you talk to about the Olympics around here is like, “Did you know Katie Ledecky is from Bethesda?!”

I really didn’t think Kotaku would ever stoop to overlapping with Know Your Meme

This was informative, only tangentially being aware of the phenomenon but not willing or curious enough to bother learning about.

Lol, took me like 3 seconds of Googling.

Consider, for a moment, the relative frequency of mass shootings in the US as compared to other nations (and I’m American, for reference).

Now, ask yourself the following question honestly, without letting your ego and sense of, “I know better than everyone else” get in the way:

Some dude gets on public transit carrying

airguns are still illegal in New York city.

People can just paint the tip of their real gun orange.

Don’t care if you’re cosplaying—you don’t bring something that looks like a goddamned rifle on mass transit. Or even to a f*cking movie theater. Have we not learned these goddamned lessons yet?

Better than the conservative utopia where you just get shot on sight. Oh wait, he's white.....

Airsoft guns haven’t been legal in NYC in a while. Kid was an idiot. He’s white though, so he’ll get off with a slap on the wrist.

Yep, there’s been nothing gun related in the news lately that would cause this kind of concern. Nothing at all. Nope. Not a thing.

Boy was I happy when this article was finally ogre.

Yes, it was great to hear a commentator correct that. He said “no she doesn’t! She swims like Katie Ledecky!”

He said something like “other people say she swims like a man, but that’s not true, she swims like Katie Ledecky!”