Only around half of US households own a firearm, so it’s a lot less than that. Four times as many Americans don’t have guns as the entire population of Canada.

“…they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.”

Interestingly, Jean-Paul Sartre was referring to anti-Semites here, a term which has itself been irresponsibly twisted to mean “opposing Zionism and/or the government of Israel.”

My personal favorite is this one:

Those are fans in costume! Comic book fans are famously shredded just like superheroes, right?

Yeah, they left the ocean and then came back!

Why were they so afraid of Sweden?

Anyone to the left of Hitler is a radical revolutionary to them.

Close!

And yet it also seems highly apropos. Goya was paid handsomely to paint the out-of-touch elites of the Spanish royal court, yet he used his private sketchbooks and prints to expose their greed, ignorance, and vanity. This seems like a modern take on that sort of thing.

That means he would.

Yeah, my brain short-circuited trying to envision a guy saying “crikey” in a Scottish accent. Something like “craykey”, I guess.

Next to a castle that looked like Inverness since it reminded it of home.

No, they were stopped by outside force. I wish that could happen this time.

Careful throwing stones. That was German humor 80 years ago or so.

I believe it started with this post, which remains the most popular Lemmy post of all time.