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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh come on. There can't possibly be that many people outside the US right?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, there are at least twelve of us

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah hold your horses there bossman. You and the guy in OPs post. You got a way to go before you can back that claim of "at least" up!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How sure are we that u/colmear isn't just an alt of OP? It could be just OP claiming they don't live in the US!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Your right. I'm such a fool! There's no hope!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Well, you have Mexico, European Mexico and The Surrenders.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

whaddaya mean, the united states is the entire world!

hell, look at every alien sighting and you have your proof.

just, yknow, ignore the 7.7 billion other people on the planet

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then how the bloody hell are we supposed to leave?!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

you just gotta double think even harder

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's because the rest of us just blame it on CIA weather balloons

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Funny, I'm an American and I also blame it on the military industrial complex.

Specifically, fucking planes and now drones.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have never thought about the alien sighting thing. Are they really all or mostly in the US?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One could certainly note that America also spends by far the most on things like stealth bombers and fighters, or that the most common types of sightings oh-so-coincidentally end up matching the profiles of those stealth planes once they become common knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember where I read it (this was years ago) but The US had purposely experimented during the cold war with making people think they've seen ufo's to gauge their reactions and to feed the frenzy to make russia think they have more tech than they actually do.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

a good 80% easily

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are 3 countries in the world. The United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alaska is up north so it's in Canada you idiot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You're thinking the state of seasonal depression

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YeS BuT YoU SpEaK EnGlIsH!

/S

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

You speak English because it's the only language you know.

I speak English because it's the only language you know.

We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why didn't they just say "in all states..." puzzles me. What other states can we be talking about?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Your neighbour, Mexico, has states for one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but no one actually lives there, right? And if they do, they're certainly not on the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All countries are states, and a good handful or so countries are federations which call their largest constituencies states, so Germany for example has states, as does Malaysia, as does Australia.

Edit: just reading now that there's no consensus on what a state is exactly, so, fuck knows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The US isn't the only country in the world with states.

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[–] Wisi_eu 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Arrêtez de parler anglais à ces abrutis... ils s'habituent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

speak american!

/s

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Literally DOZENS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The GOP is actively fighting to raise the voting age too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What sick fuck drinks vodka coke?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

He was 19ish he doesn't know good drinks yet, just knows that vodka gets you drunk and coke helps it go down lol

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This isn’t even true in all 50 US States. Bro was getting teased for only knowing only one country…he actually knows zero.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are states in the US with a lower drinking age?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

In what states is this not true? The National Minimum Drinking Age Act said that states needed to make the age 21 or else they would lose federal funding. Looks like they all complied from my quick research into it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US states

United states states?

[–] Classy 25 points 1 year ago

United States states, yeah that makes sense. States within the boundaries of the United States. How else would you say it? If you just say "states" it doesn't necessarily clarify them to be American states but could be ones in other countries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ok, I’m getting some reports about potentially xenophobic comments and insults in this thread. I’d like to remind everyone to be nice and abide by the rules. I’m going to lock the thread now because I’m the only mod and I need to go to sleep. Have a good weekend everyone, and remember, it’s just a stupid post on the internet.

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