# \#TheResistance turns to self-harm **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371 "2018-09-15T01:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/21 "2018-09-15T10:11:46Z")
Has the OP mistaken this forum for a “What’s the dumbest thing you can post” contest? Or is it just another pathetic attempt at Gotcha libtards! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/22 "2018-09-15T10:25:40Z")
I don’t know why you thought this thread was a good idea. What is the purpose of this thread? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/23 "2018-09-15T11:38:43Z")
Its an urgent warning to those of us who have libtard moonbats as friends and relations. Julie has slyly maneuvered Mueller into granting Manafort complete cooperation, so he is now in a perfect position to reveal The Leader’s complete and total innocence! There are already reports of OWS and suicidal drum circles. Well, OK, rumors of reports. Sorta kinda maybe. Later on today, Pat Robertson will reveal that God downgraded Florence as a Sign of His endorsement, and that half of the 64 deaths in Puerto Rico were due to an antifas-MS13 terrorist cell under the direction of Beto. So, really, nothing but blue skies and sunshine ahead for the Trump Party! Oh, yeah, almost forgot, the official name change… ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/24 "2018-09-15T12:05:24Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I don’t know why you thought this thread was a good idea. What is the purpose of this thread? To demonstrate how seriously the right takes gun violence? As in, “Ha-ha!” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/25 "2018-09-15T12:12:18Z")
Reported for forum change to MPSIMS. This is more of a “news of the weird” than anything to do with elections. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/26 "2018-09-15T13:17:55Z")
Yeah, I’m not seeing a debate here. Or even an attempt at one. Or anything to do with Elections. HD, try better next time. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/27 "2018-09-15T13:19:09Z")
I’d suggest the Pit, but then the OP would only peer through the knothole in the playground fence for fear of scuffing his spit-shined Buster Browns. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/28 "2018-09-15T13:20:00Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > … What is the purpose of this thread? To discuss a current (politics-related) event. Just curious, do you think the LVRJ was wrong for writing a story about it? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/29 "2018-09-15T13:24:39Z")
If you ever have thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please reach out 24/7. Sometimes just hearing a kind voice can be the speed bump that keeps someone alive for another day. They love you and want you to be safe. [National Suicide Prevention Lifeline](https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/): 1-800-273-8255 [Veterans Crisis Line](https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/about/what-is-vcl): 1-800-273-8255, press 1 or text 838255 Other supports can be found here: [National Association on Mental Illness](https://www.nami.org/) I’ll let a finer wordsmith than me take it from there: > [@Kurt Vonnegut](#): > > Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” ---
**Author:** ![Trafalgar\_Laura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trafalgar_laura/32/2907_2.png) [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/30 "2018-09-15T13:30:03Z")
$100?! Mr. Professor, that is not even approaching compensation for the janitor finding you, after shooting yourself through the wrist/arm to bleed out across the floor… I have nothing to say to the OP, but this is a pretty sad article. I agree that those thinking of self-harm should seek help, thank you to **andros** for posting several links… and also, someone will find the body if you do this. Someone at home, someone at work, someone at a hotel, wheverever, and $100 won’t erase it for even a second. $100,000 won’t. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/31 "2018-09-15T13:34:26Z")
Well, I’ve long given you the benefit of a doubt, **HurricaneDitka** , but I guess the others were right about you, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/32 "2018-09-15T14:11:44Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > To discuss a current (politics-related) event. Just curious, do you think the LVRJ was wrong for writing a story about it? No, it’s lame for you to start a thread about it with no particular thing you wish to discuss. As it stands, the thread is basically like Donald Trump doing his impression of that disabled reporter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/33 "2018-09-15T14:23:04Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Dear Lord, as if we needed more evidence that the right is absolutely odious now making fun of the mentally ill is apparently funny At least **HD** ’s punching up. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/34 "2018-09-15T15:01:54Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I don’t know why you thought this thread was a good idea. What is the purpose of this thread? What!? Are you shitting me? You of all people questioning someone’s thread topic. The mind boggles… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/35 "2018-09-15T15:22:47Z")
I didn’t click the link. Do we know what subject the professor taught? If it was math, I hope he waited until after he’d given the lecture on How to Compute Percentages. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/36 "2018-09-15T16:04:58Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > To discuss a current (politics-related) event. Just curious, do you think the LVRJ was wrong for writing a story about it? Maybe it would have gone better if your tone was more like theirs, and less “Ha ha look at the stupid liberal shooting himself, what a disappointment, also he somehow represents the entire anti-trump resistance”. Given that this isn’t the pit, I’ll leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/37 "2018-09-15T16:10:53Z")
This is pretty much the state of the art for right wing insight. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/38 "2018-09-15T19:31:25Z")
I’m guessing that professor is a big _Blazing Saddles_ fan. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/39 "2018-09-15T19:38:51Z")
Strange that OP doesn’t want to participate in the Pit, but posts pitworthy shit elsewhere. (BTW: Andros, wonderful post.) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371/40 "2018-09-15T20:16:26Z")
If he was trying to harm himself to make a political statement, he has a lot of room for improvement. Shooting yourself is amateur shit. Instead he should support the party that is actively working to ruin his life and community. I mean, look at the people of Southeast Missouri. They went for Trump like 80-20, and now the biggest employer in the area is about to go bankrupt because of Trump’s tariffs. _That’s_ how you do self immolation these days! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theresistance-turns-to-self-harm/821371.md?page=3)