u/Telling-the-Truths

Yes, they are young.

Yes they are below 18 and are minors, and no I am not suggesting it's okay for grown adults to talking with them.

But the amount of people acting like they're literal CHILDREN is absurd. Like full on acting like they are five year olds who can't name shapes.

16 year olds can drive, get a job, donate blood or even file legal independence from their parents. They aren't helpless, they are growing adults not five year olds.

The whole backlash about being a "pedophile" for talking to them honestly just feels like the modern day version of calling someone a witch. Hell I even seen a 17 year old girl admit that she was purposely talking to a creator to later accuse him of being a pedo and get bullied off the platform.

If they are trusted to drive a vehicle that can easily kill or maim someone, then they can be trusted to make good decisions.

Before you type in your million excuses and flimsy gaslighting to attempt to make me believe that "Well at least our schools aren't shooting ranges" on a post about butter on bread is "spreading awareness about gun violence" you might have well told me that unicorns exist, because both have me rolling my eyes.

I get that's it's the favorite little punchline of Europeans, Canadians or whatever those sad people who froth at the mouth at the mere existence of America come from, but honestly it's tiring besides seeing this boring overused cliché is them nor some other self-hating American try to justify this as "spreading awareness" or some

I shouldn't even have to say this, but since people seem to actually believe this crap I guess I have to.

They do not care about our children, about "spreading awareness" or some other fancy bullshit to act like they aren't turning children being murdered into a punchline.

All they care about "owning" Americans. Period.

And because I can already feel the predictable comments defending these equally predictable punchline, here is my response:

"We're not laughing at dead kids/we're laughing at the government for allowing it happen!"

• And? Does that make it any less insensitive? Does that change the fact they are bringing up children being shot over an totally innocuous post?

"Why don't you just stop it?"

• Let me press the "Stop school shootings" button that the parents and victims for some reason have not pressed.

And my personal favorite

"It's criticism/spreading awareness"

This is without a doubt, probably one of the most narcissistic, hypocritical and vapid piece of bullshit I have ever laid my eyes upon.

Honestly, I don't know even where to start. The flip-flopping between it being a punchline to them to the sudden moral high ground of "It's awful, but because your government allows you deserve it!" , or the it's "awareness" on a completely unrelated, non-political post.

Yeah, I'm sure making fun of dead children in a post about fucking butter is helpful to stop gun violence.

Americans use negative stereotypes too, but I have never seen a commenter of "A kid in Africa could have eaten that" say he's spreading awareness of African poverty nor act like he was doing it outside of being a dick.

And remember Uvalde? How the "Spreading awareness" that nobody fucking asked for, inspired the shooter to go out and commit a copy cat attack for notoriety, killing 21 people.

But sure, whine about how Americans have a drink called the "Irish Car Bomb" but in the same breath talk about school shootings 24/7.