Same basic reason they drink. It’s either party time, time to get lit, a time to get turnt, a time to cope with personal demons, Friday, Wednesday or they maybe just can’t function without constantly ripping on a 92 percent thc vape pen.
Aussies are still a little bit behind. Low quality bush weed oor hydroponic cannabis doused in pesticide or plant growth regulators is what you’ll typically find here.
I guess everyone responds differently, if I want to get lit in a crowded public place I’d vastly prefer alcohol. Cannabis makes me giggly, ravenously hungry, sleepy and “slows me down”. If I want to “get turnt” cannabis is the last thing I’d turn too.
If I want to play cards against humanity, wolf down a pizza then watch a movie and fall asleep with a small group of friends then cannabis is hypothetically what I’d choose.
Same goes for hypothetically drowning sorrows, for reasons I won’t explain I’d also prefer alcohol. Though the toxicity relative to dose is far higher with booze and to note I don’t advocate for substance abuse as a crutch/means to deal with past or present traumas/irritants in life.
It’s a slippery slope, generally not sustainable for many. Puts problems in the back burner for a moment, and while it serves as a massive fucking relief the problems don’t go away. Over time things are complicated and the negative elements of life may become further accentuated if you now have additional issues to deal with a result of the substance abuse.
At least this has been my hypothetical anecdotal observations pertaining to things of this nature
Yeah, that’s why it’s smart to not make snarky remarks to strangers because in many cases opponents pick you! A wiseass might not want to fight, but the person being insulted or humiliated does! And in some cases so do his buddies! Which is why I said that such snark and insult likely remains online, not just racist remarks. And likewise if someone is scary and strong enough, or has a few of the same sort of buddies around, he can likely say almost whatever the he wants to someone. For example, if someone as strong and big as Some famous Strongman competitors and some similar buddies were around and called me a k—— or a H— or some other racial epithets for Jews , I’d have to eat such insults. There’s actually a video of such a type of an encounter online in which the guy being insulted was driven to tears.
The guy I mentioned, that’s not the only attack he made and in another case, while the guy he picked for a fight was pleading that he didn’t want to fight, a nose-breaking left cross was delivered. He was also part of a “crew” that didn’t care for “fair ones”. Everything could be a big joke and game until a 6’2” violent drunk with fighting ability screams “throw your hands up! Fight!”
As said, it’s the internet though.
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This sounds like a clear case of felony assault.
I’ve been called this before (in person). The worst thing I’ve ever had said to me was “Hitler had the right idea about you guys”, though this was online.
It irritates me to know there are those who hate me so much on the simple basis of an ethnic/cultural trait. I don’t practice (aside from occasionally putting on tefililn and attending weekly Shabbas dinners), me being Jewish pertains to my cultural identity. It has nothing to do with my sense or morality or whether I serve as a productive member of society.
To hate me with such fervour just because I’m Jewish? To me indicates either ignorance or blanket hatred to be present (emotion based response as opposed to a logical one).
It is, and sometimes cases like this are prosecuted… Though this is rarely the case, esp if you don’t know the name of the perpetrator
We should all practice sprinting as fast as we can for as long as possible so we can run away from these situations if they occur 
“Let’s fight” - sprint like the roadrunner
Drunken people don’t always pick fights rationally. “King hit” assaults in Aus frequently occur for literally no reason, with the perpetrators typically under the influence of alcohol.
I’d assume a vested proclivity towards antisocial behaviour must exist prior to alcohol consumption though. I’ve drank alcohol and I have NEVER felt the urge to punch a random stranger in the back of the head as a result of it. Nor have I ever become violent, unruly, aggressive, rude or irritable as I’ve seen many others become time and time again.
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It was. He was part of a middle class Queens gang that loved graffiti and mayhem. Actually if one wrote to hashtag the name of it on the net they’d come across hundreds of old photographs of them and their “work”, even a news cover story.
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Shit, where I used to live, people would get into fights just for prolonged eye contact. It was some kind of “youth gang” thing. I had a friend who got off a bus and started one because someone at the bus stop was “starring” at him lol. I knew lots of nutjobs at that time.
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“Tilling my own grave to keep it level.”
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Where I grew up and have largely lived very few males smoked cigarettes. But we ALL chewed tobacco.
Day by day!
“Old New York” in the 80s and 90s had many gangs in lower and middle class towns. As said, they loved graffiti (“writing”) and brawling.
Although some people talk of the “knockout game” as new, it is not new, and likely the first to come up with the term was the Brooklyn gang Decepticons, though I think their exact wording was “One Punch Knockout”.
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Didn’t New York clamp down on grafitti by banning minors from purchasing spray paint and imposing large fines (like 400USD) for those caught tagging trains?
Yes. And the winding down of the “train era” ended with the rise of the “highway/street era” which eventually died down by the early 2000s.
I grew up around a lot of graff. As a validation seeking boy it was an attractive option but 1) I knew better, 2) I didn’t want to to fight, and “if you write, you can fight”, and 3) after hanging out with some writers once, I quickly realized it wasn’t for me.
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Even without brawling, kids I knew would do stupid things to themselves like applying pressure to the neck and choking one another out lol. We didn’t even know it’s an actual technique done in MMA at the time.
There was another variation of this. One guy would breath really fast. After that, another kid would press his chest really hard while he stood against the wall to cause him to pass out. Once, a friend of mine did it but fell hitting his head first on concrete when he passed out since there were only 3 of us present and I explicitly refused to partake in that nonsense but the 2 other idiots decided to do it anyway so no one was there to catch him.
The dumbass woke up with a mild concussion and didn’t remember anything prior to that and kept asking why his head hurt so bad lol.
Some idiots would just sniff glue and get brain damage. It got so bad the government had to ban the sale of glue to anyone under 18 and made shop owners record the details of everyone who purchased it.
People do lots of stupid things when they’re bored and angry.
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Of possible interest and related to Americans’ freedoms and this thread.
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I’m not opposed to the principle, but this seems scary.
I don’t think the government should get to decide what counts at hate speech and a policy like this could possibly exacerbate cancel culture
As of right now I am 100% opposed to this. If the goal is monitoring for domestic terror groups then I think it should be kept entirely within FBI, CIA, NSA territory and away from private firms.
I have enough concerns about surveillance of citizens as is without the added concern of PRIVATE firm access to and storage of citizen data without consent… Particularly when private firms are being hacked left and right and their data dumped.
If this isn’t targeting domestic terrorist groups then I don’t care how you label it, you have no business monitoring people for unfriendly opinions.
I may change my mind as I think and read but that’s my call now
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Many Americans say mean things about individuals and ethnic, racial, and religious groups behind closed doors and online with pseudonyms, as has been done and is done right on this forum. And contrary to popular belief, people who say mean things are not all stupid, jobless, violent, unhinged, “uneducated” (whatever this means), or “ignorant” (whatever this means) and nearly all don’t have some plan of inflicting harm on people, nor are they even capable.
So I believe this would highly dangerous.
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I do believe there is an entire industry known as “stand up comedy” that is based on this…
In all seriousness I agree with you.
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Exactly!
my parents both have two masters degrees from top universities. They are some of the most racist and homophobic ppl I know. Are they hateful ppl? No. Would they ever think of hurting anyone? No. Do they have the means of carrying out some form of mass harm? No
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This is why I was against the Patriot act that Bush passed
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