[-] [email protected] 109 points 4 days ago

Anderson lied to police, saying a hitchhiker was driving at the time of the crash.

Prosecutor Emma Dowling said a roadside breath test showed Anderson was nearly three times over the limit driving after drinking. An empty vodka bottle was found in his car.

Witnesses later reported that he had been driving dangerously for 20 miles (32 kilometers) and his phone showed he had been sending text messages. 

At a police station, he told officers he had driven into the back of a car. 

“Sometimes mistakes happen," he said. "But I’m not a bad person.”

Sometimes mistakes happen!!!??? My dude, you murdered two people out of sheer recklessness and negligence and then lied about it. You don’t get to excuse your behaviour by saying “oh, I’m not a bad person…”

Take some fucking responsibility. Although, I guess if you were capable of taking responsibility for your actions you wouldn’t be on your phone while driving double the highway speed limit and drunk off your ass.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Please drink your confirmation can now

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The other misogynistic element is the Madonna/Whore complex, in my opinion.

Mothers are often classically viewed as the Madonna (it’s in the name), so they’re good and kind and virtuous.

However, I’ve insinuated that I fucked your mom, and if your mom has fucked, that means she’s a Whore because a Good Woman^tm^ doesn’t have a sexuality. By claiming that I’ve fucked your mom, I’m claiming to have defiled the sacred Madonna and turned her into a profane Whore.

In other words, saying “I fucked your mom” is basically saying “your mom’s a slut”, and in a worldview where women wanting to fuck is a sign of evil, that’s an insult.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Re: #6 prior to the invasions of the Angles/Saxons England was invaded by the Romans and a number of cities sprung up in the south populated by latin-speaking peoples. When Western Rome collapsed, the state capacity needed to maintain large urban centers went with it. The Roman inhabitants didn’t leave, though, but instead mixed with the local culture and the language dispersed into the general population of England.

At the same time the only thing left of Western Rome’s larger institutions was the Church, whose organization was inherited from Roman civic structures and who were the ones preserving written knowledge, which would be written in Latin.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

But how else can the poor widdwe phawmaceuticaw congwomewate affowd to ~~lobby government and aggressively market our crap to overpaid private healthcare companies so we can keep overcharging the fuck out of drugs we can make for pennies~~ do aww ouw impowtant weseawch ~~that’s paid for by taxpayers with subsidies and grants~~.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Irish isn’t a race

Well, not any more, anyways.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I agree that seeing the current regional conflicts as the opening shots of WWIII is a bit hyperbolic, but I also think a much better comparison is the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the related July Crisis considering how the major powers are being lead through proxy conflicts into “a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations.”

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

If the reason is something other than “culture war bullshit” I’ll eat an uncooked hot dog.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Shout out to California’s gun laws only existing because of the Black Panthers.

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