Justin and Mikey Shoot the Shit

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makingchangeatwalmart.org/2012/06/21/another-walmart-sweatshop-story/

www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/NLC_childlabor.html

[The Rocketmen]

Wow.

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Just search up Walmart Sweatshops and you'll find thousands of stuff. Same with Nike and Calvin Klein.

[The Rocketmen]

I knew Nike did, and I have been anti-Nike since I was ten.

[The Rocketmen]

...but now I know who to blame for my shitty shirts. Fucking kids.

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Don't blame the kids for what Walmart sells. Honestly I've been anti-sweatshop for the past 3 years (that's when I found out sweatshops existed) and I don't regret it. Those companies make billions a year and yet they pay those kids like 5 cents a day. When you buy a Nike show for $100 the person that actually made the show gets paid 0.1% of the $100. Which means they get paid 10 cents.

[The Rocketmen]

lol it was a joke

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I don't wanna sound rude or start up a fight but I don't like to joke about that kind of stuff.

[The Rocketmen]

You don't have to joke about anything, and you have the right to be offended, and I have the right to not care.

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And I have the right to call you a cuntnugget but I won't because I'm a nice person who doesn't make fun of child slavery

[The Rocketmen]

I do not believe there is anything in the world that should be untouched by comedy. I believe that comedy is a useful stress-reducer, as well as a great means of coping with grief and life. Comedy is not meant to hurt feelings but rather reduce the level of anxiety a person is feeling.

So when I say "now I know who fucked up my shirt I bought at Walmart" I am in no ways suggesting that child slavery is a good thing, I am rather attacking the subject by presenting a logical annoyance over my clothing by directing it at the most inappropriate, yet exactly right, people, which is addressing child slavery with comedy.

Maturity and whit will grow on you to appreciate that type of humour with time.

[The Rocketmen]

For instance. Today I learned that a show dog that some people in my town LOVE recently died. When someone asked me how (despite me not presenting the information) I replied that the dog could not live in a world without Robin Williams.

Now, the joke does not make fun of suicide, it does not make fun of the dog's death. It is instead joining two completely separate and impossibly connected things together to create a ridiculous solution to an otherwise mundane question, and thus the element of surprise is the punchline, and not actually Robin Williams or a dog's death.

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I will never appreciate that type of humour. There are things in this world that are above comedy.

[The Sandmen]

Nothing is above comedy. There are Oscar-winning comedies that take place during the Holocaust. Comedy is just another way of understanding tragedy.

[The Rocketmen]

Exactly, again, with age you'll understand that. I know a lot of adults who enjoy being offended and get all pissy over comedy, and I think those people are closed-minded and typically think their shit don't stink. They are douches.