• Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Haha yea it’s the best, I couldn’t not use it.

      But the fidget guns are real.

      That’s why I linked the Amazon thing too.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Wanted to buy it in pink after seeing this post but it seems to be bad quality. Looks nice in the renders though.

  • amio@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    What a weird overtone of moral outrage this has, considering your comments. But admittedly, the user reviews are fucking gold as a non-American.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      If you’re looking at it morally, I think I understand your confusion.

      This isn’t so much a comment on the moral horror(that does fundamentally exist) as it is utter shock at the reckless marketing of pretty toy guns that children will like in a country with such a horrifying real problem of children and adults shooting each other.

      All this gun does is make you comfortable pulling a trigger.

      It’s entirely absurd to market cute toy guns as anxiety relievers to the children living in the worst gun violence circumstances in the world, where they are literally a constant risk of being shot in a supermarket or library or school.

      It’s the height of practical insanity and cultural irresponsibility that these are being sold.

      • amio@kbin.run
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, I’m sure these toy guns are the real reasons shooting sprees are routine in the US

    • NotNotMike@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Also how is this being exclusively associated with the US?

      I mean I get it, we like guns and this is the US version of Amazon, but it’s not like we have these toys in every household. And it’s not like other countries don’t have guns present in their culture (video games, movies, etc.).

      They are most likely produced in China and are definitely going to be uncommon.

      It’s like making a post “the US has 80-gallon drums of lube no joke”. It just feels like rage bait with an anti-US agenda

        • amio@kbin.run
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          4 months ago

          Who’d’a thunk a bunch of angry (self-styled-)commie trolls who got punted off Reddit and decided to make their own, with Marxist blackjack and Marxister hookers, would eventually deteriorate into this shit.

  • Sparkles@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    I ordered a box of fidgets for my kids and it came with like a fidget switchblade.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    We know?

    Toy guns have existed basically as long as guns have. I’ll blow your mind by further pointing out that so have toy swords and toy bows and arrows.

    All of us grew up with cap guns as kids. Or suction cup dart guns, or airsoft guns, or those little plastic disk shooter guns, or battery powered M16’s with a little light bulb in the muzzle that went rat-a-tat-tat-tat through a tinny little speaker when you held down the trigger. When I was a kid, one friend of mine had a battery powered minigun like Arnold had in the Predator movie, and in addition to mock gunfire noises it would spin all the barrels and it had a motorized knocker in it that simulated recoil. For an eight year old kid, it was the best thing ever short if something that fired an actual projectile.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Nah, those are all pretty common, not wowing the way you assumed.

      Sound fun though.