I flipped a guy off two or three weeks ago because he blew through a four way stop and almost got either of us killed. Well he did a u turn and blew through the stop again and followed me home and yelled at me about how I “shouldn’t do that because dangerous people will hurt me” and I asked if he was warning me or threatening me and he said “I’m threatening you” and then shoved me against my car before trying to run me over while I got his license plate number
I still haven’t gone to the cops and a small part of why is everybody acts like I’m the fucking asshole. “You shouldn’t have done that” from my girlfriend, brother, parents. FUCK YOU. I made a rude gesture because someone did something dangerous that could have gotten someone killed. I’m not the fucking asshole here. Maybe if I weren’t male I’d get more sympathy but instead it’s like “woops you fucked around and found out” and it’s my fault instead of this person being utterly fucking insane.
Asshole tries to kill you, but you’re slightly rude to him in response. He responds by trying to kill you again. PLAY STUPID GAMES WIN STUPID PRIZES!!!
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Typical liberal mentality. Being uncivil to someone who is a legitimate danger to the lives of others is worse than actually putting people in danger
A friend of mine was shot and killed over a road rage incident. The shooter was illegally carrying the gun, got off with a slap on the wrist. My friend was black, the shooter was white. Happened just outside the city limits of Portland.
Great example of not being submissive ended up risking your life. The lesson here is to always be submissive.
🥺👉👈
But what happened to you were crimes. At least Assault and battery, reckless driving, and menacing.
Yeah and I’m pretty sure backing his car up at me while I took a picture of his license plate is literally felony assault with a deadly weapon
I thought about going to the police just in case him having a record of this shit might matter or prevent him from hurting someone else but it just, idk, I barely have the energy to live my life and I’m worried it would turn into some draining ordeal that I wouldn’t be able to cope with. Idk.
I do pretty regularly flip people off on the road when they are acting crazy, but one time a car almost side swiped me and I honked and flipped the driver off as second nature. The young girl driving the car was mortified and I really hated the way I acted. Can’t avoid using a car in Amerikkka unfortunately and I see how it can turn people into monsters.
I do this, but I’m a pedestrian. Don’t care how bad I make anyone in a car feel.
I’ve taken to either giving them sarcastic double thumbs up followed by a derisive headshake, or just locking eyes and giving them a slow, negative headshake. Disappointment stings harder than insults.
👎 may still get you killed with the wrong person, but a little less aggressive while still getting the point across
i’m also a fan of Thumbing one’s nose as it communicates derision, but also you look silly doing it so it’s comes off more lighthearted
yeah i try to enter a zen state, just like refuse to get mad, because the truth is there’s nothing we can do to improve other drivers. Pretty much the only things I do are honk when someone’s going the wrong way on a one way and flash my lights when someone’s driving dark at night.
IDK, you should’ve shot him for shoving you. That’s my take.
Acknowledge the world that you live in, and do the things that you have to, to get by in it.
That would not have resulted in a better outcome than the one they got. Maybe a visible weapon would have gotten the asshole to back off, but escalating to murder is rarely a good time.
Maybe.
escalating to murder is rarely a good time.
It’s not an escalation if that’s exactly what the chud that assaulted them came there to do, which it sounds like it was from reading their post.
At some fucking point you have to actually be willing to defend yourself & your interests against those that would seek to destroy them, and the way you do that in the material world is through violence.
The only other alternative here, that I can see, is to just not have fucking opinions of any kind, and to accept ones role as an entirely passive social object. Is that what you think the correct option is?
Being easily offended:
Classy if you’re white or conservative, trashy if you’re literally anyone else.
Thanks. I’ve thought about putting a wrench through his windshield since I very easily found where he lives. But i should probably let it go (and also don’t know if he owns the car)
Just let it go. I’m not a great example of this, but don’t hold grudges against idiots that endanger others for the sake of getting that last word in. That revenge shit, it’s not in our hands. Also, the liberal driller is still out and about.
I remember growing up in the south that sometimes people would pull out their gun and wave it in response to being flipped off
Had a similar situation. Stare a guy down and yelled at him to slow down when he blew past us at like 50 mph in my neighborhood while I’m walking with my kid, partner, and dog. The dude slams on his brakes(now he’s not in a hurry), says “do that again I’ll bust your ass” and flashes his gun. Then my partner was like “you shouldn’t have done that”. People are insane.
I cant imagine such a miserable life as having such a shitty familly and girlfirend.
Sightly related to the road rage stuff.
I tend to drive very conservatively when it comes to acceleration. I have a hybrid and I love getting 50-60mpg, plus I find that my slow acceleration often makes it so I don’t get caught at red lights; all the while people who punch it end up hurrying up only to wait. So and way, had a guy in an F150 passing me pretty aggressively recently, but as he does so I hear a scraping and banging sound. I look left to see his kayak skidding down the road next to me.
Whenever I see someone speed around other cars I think,
Damn, he gets to stop at the light first
I’m better at going than the person ahead of me at the light, I want to go first so I’m not stuck behind grandma as she swerves down the road 10 miles under the speed limit
I mean, it’s dangerous, but wrt driving 10mph: the lights are usually synced, so if you’re consistently slow you’re going to run into more red lights where you could’ve made it through by a wide margin if you were going 20. It’s also not just you and another car on the road. It’s going to effect the cars all the way back through the line not to mention the dangerous swerving from everyone else who needs to get to work by 7 or be subject to their boss’s narcissistic tirade.
The quote comes from a science fiction novel called ‘Beyond This Horizon.’ Written by Robert A. Heinlein.
In the book, the government encourages particular couples to wed because of eugenics. A waiter spilling soup in a restaurant leads to a gunfight.
Heinlein loved throwing crazy idea around.
It’s time for more “Deep Thoughts with Heinlein”. “Human society brainwashes us into accepting artificial limitations on our lives and our choices. This is wrong! Love should be free, and without limit. Unless it’s gay of course!” And that concludes our "Deep Thoughts with Heinlein.
OSP’s review of Stranger in a Strange Land
OMG! Someone wrote bad things about gay people in 1964. They must be horrible, horrible people!!
Oh but the second someone nominally leftie shoots a republican fascist at a baseball game everyone wants gun control. Not when a white boater kulak shoots a black mom of three in the back for being rude to him at a gas station.
if turbo libs did more cool shit, i would be more forgiving of turbo libs
The fact that “road rage shootings” are a thing in the US is so fucked up. You can just get executed in broad daylight by a random lunatic because both of you are so alienated from one another through your individual metal boxes that a mild annoyance is enough for people to reach for a lethal weapon.
