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    3 months ago

    “Dumb rich kid crashes really expensive car. More at 11”

    Who cares?

    And perhaps my least favorite part, aside from him walking away relatively unscathed, was that this shitty article goes on to just use other YouTubers and influencers for reaction quotes.

    It’s like the they tried to directly convert a 90 second YT local news story, into an article.

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        2 months ago

        Global News is a terrible sensationalist rag. I’m sorry it’s managed to fester outside of Canada.

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      2 months ago

      Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.

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        You mean someone who’s endangering the lives of the public for views…?

        Someone whose actions could have easily killed someone… for likes and hearts…?

        For the record, I’m not annoyed by them, I detest them. Not for their job, but because of their actions, you know, like a normal person would.

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            No, a normal person would hope that a shithead who is endangering the lives of the public, and who will eventually kill someone if they aren’t stopped, would have learned a lesson.

            Walking away unscathed, and continuing to stream for hearts and likes, while your friend is bleeding from the head, does not impart that lesson upon them.

            I didn’t say I wish they were dead, I said it’s unfortunate they weren’t hurt, because that might have saved someone else’s life in the future.

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              Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.

              They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.

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                What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.

                If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.

                But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…

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                  What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.

                  How unreasonable of me.

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      No, cancer kills healthy patients.

      This seems to be preying on the already ill, many of us seem immune.

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    3 months ago

    “Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.

    I’d like to think that if was helping, I would have the presence of mind to realize he was filming himself. I would have taken a moment to grab his fucking phone and fling it as far away into oncoming traffic as possible.

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    Called influencer and doing stupid shit. Might need to pass some laws on these things like you can’t yell fire in public locations because people might get hurt or marketing drugs and alcohol to kids because they might be tempted to use. The dumbasses influence our kids to do stupid shit.

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    I like it except for the part where he put other drivers at risk. Put this idiot on a private racetrack with a brick wall at the end of it and let nature take him out.

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    Insurance ain’t gonna pay that claim. And he got banned from the platform.

    But I’m sure most of the money came from his parents anyway. McLarens aren’t cheap; I doubt he bought it himself.