Smoking these days is like being gay in the '70's.

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51 Comments

flamingsjack@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 74d (15 replies)

Except smoking absolutely harms your health & others (second & third hand smokers). Plus one chooses to smoke. One do not choose to be gay.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -26 pts · 74d (14 replies)

Thanks for helping me to prove my point.

flamingsjack@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 74d (13 replies)

And your point is.... ?

lance20000@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 74d (12 replies)

That they are an asshole.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -11 pts · 74d (11 replies)

It’s a direct quote from Fran Lebowitz that I heard today on NPR while I was showering.

lance20000@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 74d (4 replies)

So it's not even your point.

Here's a quote I like: "Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -10 pts · 74d (3 replies)

Fran is a woman.

lance20000@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 74d

Lol, this is fun. You need more practice trolling.

darvocet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d (5 replies)

You listen to Fran Lebowitz while you're jerking off?

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 74d (4 replies)

You don’t?

darvocet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 74d

I'm partial to all things considered myself.

Mothra@mander.xyz · 24 pts · 74d (4 replies)

Yeah finally someone saying it. All these passive gays and second hand gay activity that nobody consented to, so rude.

helix@feddit.org · 11 pts · 74d (1 reply)

I once stood next to a gay couple having a blowjob. A few seconds later I got blown aswell from one of them. Imagine my surprise as I'm not gay, I swear, I just happened to be there

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d

How is a straight guy getting a gay blowjob like walking a tightrope?

They're both extremely thrilling, just don't look down.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 74d (1 reply)

Where can one find secondhand gay? Asking for a friend

sunsofold@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 73d

Find where the rainbow touches the ground. Or, wait, that's leprechauns.

Janx@piefed.social · 20 pts · 74d

Ah yes, my firstborn came out smoking an unfiltered Camel... What the fuck are you talking about!?

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 74d (13 replies)

I've never known anyone to be beaten to death for smoking.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -12 pts · 74d (12 replies)
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 74d (8 replies)

Ok, here's something resembling an actual source: lawandcrime.com/crime/kicked-his-a-pretty-good-man-clobbers-drunk-roommate-asking-him-for-cigarettes-to-death-with-box-fan-and-stomps-to-his-face-cops-say/

The guy didn't kill the other one because one was a smoker and the other one wasn't.

Instead, both were smokers and one asked the other for cigarettes, which is what caused a fight and caused one to kill the other.

Thus: nobody here was killed "for smoking", as the comment you replied to put it.

So how does that relate to violence between gay and non-gay people?

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -9 pts · 74d (7 replies)

One never known anyone to be beaten to death for smoking.

And you’re saying if the smoker wasn’t a smoker they wouldn’t have asked for cigarettes so they wouldn’t have been killed.

squaresinger@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 74d (3 replies)

That's such a weak chain of reasoning.

With the same kind of reasoning you could say "The guy was beaten to death for being 65 years old, because if he was 2 years old, he wouldn't have been room mates with that guy, and then he wouldn't have asked for a cigarette, and then there wouldn't have been a fight over that, and then he wouldn't have been beaten to death".

If you say "He was beaten to death for smoking", then smoking would have to be the main (if not only) reason for that guy to have been beaten to death. Which was clearly not the case.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 0 pts · 73d (2 replies)

I guess the main thing is it isn't a 1:1 comparison it's more of the way society generally views each group.

squaresinger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d (1 reply)

No.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 0 pts · 73d

Okay.

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d

So this has gone from "im14andthisisdeep" to "I'll never admit I'm wrong." Goodbye forever.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d (1 reply)

You are the sort of person that needs to practice taking the L. At some point, trying desperately to be right just looks.... sad.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -1 pts · 73d

No it doesn’t.

Janx@piefed.social · 11 pts · 74d (2 replies)

And they... were born that way?

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -13 pts · 74d (1 reply)

No they were beaten to death for smoking.

squaresinger@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 74d

No, they were not.

lawandcrime.com/crime/kicked-his-a-pretty-good-man-clobbers-drunk-roommate-asking-him-for-cigarettes-to-death-with-box-fan-and-stomps-to-his-face-cops-say/

The guy was beaten to death by a smoker for asking that smoker for a cigarette.

Actually smoking wasn't involved in the murder.

rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 16 pts · 74d

Bait used to be believable

marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 74d

Only the cool people do it?

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 74d

No, it's not.

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 74d

Smoking these days is like being a homophobe in 2026

patruelis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 74d

Fuxk smoking and fuck people who smoke in public places that everyone else gets to inhale that shit.

And yes fuck the vapes for the same reasons.

And if you must ask, I did quit after 15 years, 20 years ago. Fuck that shit.

Miller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d

You are doing it wrong.

regdog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d

Do you smoke?

WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 74d

People need pariahs.

sixtoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 74d

Being gay now IS HORRIBLE. Fucking false equivalency of the grossest order. Also, fags and removeds? SMFH

PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 74d (4 replies)

I feel sorry for OP because years of social media conditioned people to react instead of think. You used trigger words here, it turns brains off, the moment you said gay this was all people could think about, while the post isn't about gay people, but about social acceptance.

call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 74d (1 reply)

Sure, if you completely ignore the concept of agency.

PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 74d

You still thinking this is about the smoker or the gay and not about the observer.

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d (1 reply)

I feel sorry for OP because years of social media conditioned people to react instead of think.

I've interacted with OP in the past. I don't feel sorry for OP in the slightest.

PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 73d

hehe fair enough (I know nothing about OP :P)