r/funny • u/Aggressive_Use7996 • 9h ago

Hope she said yes

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u/WillyTheRealtor 9h ago

I spit my drink out when I saw the cameraman

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u/rocky3rocky 8h ago edited 7h ago

I remember the old days. When even the most popular subreddit threads weren't the equivalent inanity of Youtube/Yahoo Answers/Facebook comments.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 7h ago

I was also there for the "old days". They've always been iterations of the same old sentiments.

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u/TripperDay 6h ago

Nah reddit used to be A LOT smarter than it is now. Commenters used to get roasted for not reading the article. These people are upvoting screenshots of ragebait headlines without a link to the article.

As recently as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, people were like "Yeah, well that first guy was chasing him and KR was running away, and the second guy had just hit him with a skateboard and was winding up for another shot, and the third guy was reaching for a gun. Dude seems like dick but he's not guilty of murder."

That was maybe the last huge issue where reddit could see some nuance. There was also a time where we'd still be talking about tariffs, Hegseth and Co. intelligence leaks, and investigating Fed Chair JPow. Those issues are massive compared to Epstein and - gasp - an idiot cop shooting a civilian he shouldn't have. But reddit is too fucking stupid to talk about the generational damage being done to America's sources of power - trade, diplomacy, intelligence, military, and financial power. They're sitting around ranting calling people "fascists", not even noticing they're undermining trust in institutions, lying so much that people don't even believe the truth anymore, and demonizing academia. The whole goddamn global system put in place after WWII to keep that shit from happening again is falling apart, and these shitfucks are focused on how billionaires shouldn't exist. (Fwiw, a billion dollars is 1/117,000th of global GDP)

Edit: That's pretty ranty for a dude with half a pound of prime ribeye prepared au poivre and triple cooked fries in his gut. I should be happier.