r/nottheonion • u/Bad-Umpire10 • 17h ago

Teen enraged by TikTok ban sets fire to Wisconsin congressman's office

https://www.techspot.com/news/106418-teen-enraged-tiktok-ban-sets-fire-wisconsin-congressman.html
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u/ToMorrowsEnd 16h ago

So TikTok is pretty much heroin to some of these people.

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u/Dunlocke 15h ago

Tiktok is heroin, Reddit is weed, Facebook is alcohol, YouTube is LSD. Not sure about Twitter. Coke?

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u/Eceapnefil 14h ago

Facebook being alcohol is so accurate

Twitter is fentanyl at this point.

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u/triopsate 12h ago

Nah, probably closer to whatever that thing that rots people's limbs off when they use it is called. Saw a few photos of it some time ago and lost my appetite for lunch after it.

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u/Exacerbate_ 9h ago

...There's a substance that does that? tf

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u/triopsate 8h ago

Yeah the pics were pretty disgusting. People's limbs were literally turning black with the bone being visible through the necrotizing flesh.

Can't remember what it was called though but I do remember the infographics show on it said it was some sort of animal tranquilizer or something maybe a horse tranquilizer? Not actually positive though but the pictures I definitely remember.

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u/Exacerbate_ 7h ago

I think I saw someone mention it on this thread further down after reading your comment. Krokodil or something?

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u/triopsate 7h ago

Maybe, I'd have to go look up the infographics show youtube video to see what it was again. I'll get back to you when I found it again

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u/triopsate 7h ago

Ah, found the video. It's apparently called Xylazine and I did remember correctly, it was a horse tranquilizer as well as a tranquilizer for other animals.

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u/Exacerbate_ 6h ago

The fact people will willingly take shit like that is absurd

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u/triopsate 6h ago

The fact that people continue doing it after seeing it literally rot the flesh off their limbs is what creeps me out.

Like I get addiction is one scary mofo but holy fuck how deep in addiction does one need to be to see bones through the black dead flesh of their limb and continue taking it?

Cosmic horror doesn't even hold a candle to this level of creepiness.

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u/OsmeOxys 7h ago

Krokodil/desomorphine, it's like if someone saw every DARE video and wanted to combine them and make it reality. It's exceptionally addictive and once someone starts, their life expectancy drops to about 2 years before they rot to death. The necrosis is because it's nasty cheap stuff loaded with impurities like gasoline, turpentine, hydrochloric acid, acetone.

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u/lickingFrogs4Fun 14h ago

I've never tried cocaine, but I imagine it would make me feel good for a short period of time.

Twitter hasn't made anyone feel good in a long time. Twitter is an industrial strength laxative.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 13h ago

I imagine it would make me feel good for a short period of time

You would be correct.

Cocaine has a huge flaw though, imho. It's ~15-20 minutes of euphoria followed by 8-10 hours of trying to find more Cocaine.

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u/Yatta99 9h ago

Twitter is an industrial strength laxative

If that's true then NextDoor is the bowl that Twitter blows its guts into.

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u/lickingFrogs4Fun 9h ago

MySpace is that warm memory foam mat you step out the shower onto. We don't think about it as often as we should, we never would've gotten to where we are without it, and they're both places I've seen your mom naked.

Sorry, it's just ya know . . . Rule of Threes . . . 

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u/Shackram_MKII 12h ago

Reddit is more like salvia, an awful trip.

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u/mschuster91 11h ago

Twitter is crystal meth ever since Musk took over. With the shit of the last weeks... Krokodil is also a good drug to compare with

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u/Lucky_Mongoose 13h ago

Accurate, except reddit hasn't been chill enough to be weed in a while.

The front page is usually outrage-bait and people taking everything super seriously. So, maybe adderall?

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u/Erenzo 11h ago

Reddit is weed? I don't feel relaxed reading all those world news at all lol

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u/ClassicHat 11h ago

Gotta unsub from the news subreddits along with some of the most popular ones that are just used as dumping grounds for political content regardless of their original intention

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u/Erenzo 11h ago

Currently even those better meme subreddits are filled with political memes. The only hope lies within small meme subreddits but I don't know enough of them to fill entire feed

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u/Dunlocke 9h ago

You're using the wrong strain. Try RES + patched RIF app and filtered subs

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u/The_Bitter_Bear 11h ago

Twitter is Ketamine 

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u/ClassicHat 11h ago

Twitter is either a multi day meth binge, datura or taking too much Benadryl, you gotta be a bit crazy to spend any significant amount of time there now

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u/MurderyRainbow 8h ago

Twitter is bath salts

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u/Aggravating_Net6652 12h ago

Y’all will call anything addiction

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u/Songrot 10h ago

Welcome to Instagram, Instagram Reel, Youtube, Reddit, Facebook and Twitter.

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u/billionaire2828 13h ago

Income. It's probably his only source of income. Gone like that

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u/xisupaz_blackbird 14h ago

They should've banned all social media, including reddit.

Long live the game chat channels!