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Size comparison, bud.
Edit from the problem here; OP forgot his meds and let a stupid straw break a camel's back that let through a lot of pent up shit- I'll better clarify below, but no one was crazy but me.
First things first, I'm sorry for popping off-- Had my hands in too many discussions at once and aimed poorly in the process. Feel free to dislike me (it's justified), but I can honestly say there's no beef here from me with anyone that isn't supporting genocide.
Next, I had no idea so many people took potshots at Jersey, so I'll keep that in mind going forward. 'Desert New Jersey' comes from I think Hasan mentioning how wild it was that all this war criming is coming from such a relatively small place in the world and it stuck as an internal censor for Israel. I absolutely don't think ~10mil actual people in the state are like the cultists, so I'm sorry about that misunderstanding, too.
All that said, I don't dirty delete so my shame will remain there and I will go smoke a bowl and try not to cause any stupid altercations for the rest of my weekend. Be safe and fuck Zion.
Well obviously that's not clear, and I imagine there's a large chunk of the ~10 million people living in NJ who wouldn't appreciate the comparison.
NJ gets shit on all the time, so I assumed that this is what that was.
As a resident of the state, yeah I assumed we were getting shit on again for some reason. I’ve never once heard this size comparison before.
As someone who lives an entire ocean and then half a continent away, I also thought people were shitting on NJ again because even I'm aware of NJ being a literal meme. I remember even HIMYM gave it a lovingly joking "ew Jersey" vibe when one of Ted's girlfriends lived there.
I literally know nothing else about your joke other than the fact that the rest of the US memes about it. And that Weehawken is supposedly an OK place to live if you work in Manhattan?
I mean yes, I also know that The Sopranos took place there, but the setting felt pretty generic to me. I know NYC is known for the mafia families and it seems likely that that would've transferred over to Jersey as well, but nothing about the show ever screamed "this could only happen here" lol
Yeah NJ mostly became a meme because New Yorkers and Philadelphians love to make fun of it despite coming to our beaches in the summers in droves. The Jersey Shore show didn’t help with our image, but again, 3/4 of the people on that show are out of staters. NJ had no more of a mob problem than NY or Philly, and most of the mob has been neutered across the board. Government corruption still very much a problem in the state though.
There’s lots of nice places to live that are relatively easy to get into Manhattan from along the Hudson. Hoboken is my favorite.
Ugh the Jersey Shore people never felt like real people, the show obviously found some of the worst around lol. What the hell is a Snooki even
One of the actual New Jerseyans, unfortunately. Well, she grew up here at least. She does falsely claim to be from NY though so they can have her
I meant more that they obviously found people who are caricatures rather than... Well... Real people.
Thanks for confirming that I'm not insane (well for this reason at least).
I was thinking “is it cause a lot of Jewish people live here?” OP responding to you like you personally beat Greta up or sent them mean DMs
This is what it's like dealing with y'all "ACHEWUALLY" fuckin goombas when we're dealing with a group that controls and censors like 80% of social media NOT EVEN INCLUDING BOTFARMS.
It's very fucking clear I'm not talking about the ~10 million people in the US - You want to argue semantics? Go elsewhere for it.
What does this have to do with leftism? You straight up compared an entire US state to a genocidal ethnostate. Sorry that raised some eyebrows.
It's not fucking clear at all. You called Israel "Desert New Jersey." You are the only one who immediately goes to "size"
You could have just said, "I can see why you would have interpreted it that way, my bad"
Fucking weirdo.
Forgive me for not holding your hand through every sentence and syllable while my other inboxes are full of threats of violence and reminders that the US camps will come for me next, 'fucking weirdo'- Perhaps you'd like a step by step next time OR like the other people in this SAME THREAD you can see that it's simple manner of skirting the horseshit.
Any other minor fucking problems with a shit post you'd like to complain about? The font I use to skirt the bots, maybe? Didn't get the spacing to your liking? Was my grammar not up to par for you?
I need notes so that my 'one dude doing what he can as the world turns to shit' act doesn't lose any of its prestige.
OK bud. Have a nice day.
I think you need to reconsider who you're actually angry at. Your response above, with the meme, is not normal.
The person you’re responding to, and these memes, aren’t interested in discussing anything.
Things don’t need to make sense. They just have to be provocative and engage people.
The intent is to normalize their message through the lens of things we can kinda agree on. Idk if they expected anyone to not want to dunk on NJ, because their prop sheet says we like to dunk on NJ.
Hey, I may be a lot of things (specifically terrible at social interaction and emotional regulation under stress) but I am not some fuckin' shill with a script, pal. A script would actually avoid this kind of dense shit on my part.
Also, who the hell is running so many campaigns against New Jersey that you think a prop sheet would specify focusing on New Jersey?
Can I say something to you? Something I've learned in life is to see when you are wrong. Step back, take a breathe and look at what you said. Multiple people are giving you a reason why what you said might be taken wrong. Hell, you have even more downvotes.
It's okay to be wrong, dude. We're not right wing nut jobs who will hold it against you. Calm down, and think about it. You could've easily said, "My bad, I wasn't trying to offend anyone." And accepted the L. But now you look like a jackass.
I agree- you just caught me as I was coming back from the cool off. I edited my initial dumbass comment above with an apology, and I'm off to smoke a bowl to finish cooling off.
I'm an idiot, but I try to be a stand up idiot at least.
Good on you man for calming yourself and taking a moment to reflect. It takes practice to get better at it. Therapy can be surprisingly helpful at giving you tools to help if that's something you would consider.
Oh, I wasn't being entirely facetious when I said OP forgot his meds- It's been a hell of a week/month/season/year and ya boy got goldfish brain. Everyone should have a therapist though, even if they aren't potentially coo coo bananas.
Lol no worries man, we are all speedrunning this dystopian hellscape together.
We're all idiots, it's up to us how much of an idiot do we want to be.
Dude, there's a ton of that. Alot of people aren't a fan of Jersey, so its easy to conflate that.
... Is it like leftover hate from Snooki? I just thought it was like an "across the river" type beef between NYC/NJ whenever I see Jersey smack talkin'.
Oh no, I recently went to Jersey for a concert and I had multiple family members ask me why 'cause its dirty'.
Every day my hope for our species dims a little more. 🫠💀 That's such a goofy way to think about another state- as if the whole country isn't just a big mess.
I mean, maybe, but thats just how things are, at least this, has been for awhile.
Think Florida, Texas, Ohio or Mississippi. They all have stereotypes.
Yeah I had no idea thats what you were doing. Thought it was a jab at Jersey.
OP is very clearly changing their intent so as to appear right.