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  • Optional@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•vsdvsdvsdvsd
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    7 days ago

    Haha - I was just having this conversation about JR flavors yesterday. There are often people who don’t know what Jolly Ranchers are or care about them, so here’s my attempt at explaining:

    Jolly Ranchers are a hard candy in the following flavors: Cherry, Apple, Blue Raspberry, Watermelon, and Grape. There are pockets of people who have Jolly Ranchers regularly, and those who know them who get Jolly Ranchers regularly - for example, if your ears have trouble readjusting after a plane flight, sucking on a Jolly Rancher may help.

    Now, among those pockets of people, there are strong allegiances to the “best” flavors. Some people really like the Blue Raspberry. Some people like everything but one or two flavors. But the One True Jolly Rancher Flavor Aficianado understands that the best flavor is, of course, Watermelon.

    Unfortunately the casually racist and actually super racist people of the world love to associate Watermelon with black people as a racist trope. (See trump MSG rally “comedian”'s comment to random black trump supporter in the crowd)

    So, in this comic, the white guy shares a Jolly Rancher with the black guy and it’s not the Watermelon flavor - specifically to get around the baggage of the trope.

    Whether it’s funny or not is of course subjective, but it’s funnier if you have accepted into your heart the truth that Watermelon JR is the best flavor.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 12/18/2024
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    8 days ago

    You’d have to check with your local criminal lawyer or DA who would likely point out such exciting charges as accessory to a crime, accessory to murder, aiding and abetting a crime, criminal conspiracy, and 8 or 12 other extremely similiar charges which would all be dropped simultaneously on you and you’d either have to hope a competent attorney can navigate those charges for you and convince a judge and jury you ain’t done nothin’, or, as they’d prefer, you plea to something like manslaughter and only spend a few years in prison and a decade on parole, or, just sign the paper that your friend did it and talked about it and only get six months and 8 years on parole (which is $350/mo, usually). Bear in mind you’ll be in jail until all that is settled, which hopefully is less than a year but no promises. Unless you have $50,000 on you, cash.

    Oh, btw, the justice system is super fucked up.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 12/18/2024
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    8 days ago

    The US companies that sold the product were, as far as anyone knows, ignorant of the contamination, buying from people ignorant of it who bought from people ignorant of it.

    A fair point. But in criminal law when you don’t know the guy in the passenger seat is going to jump out and shoot someone you still get life in prison for it. Civil litigation is not even bound by that and I would think a finding that they burned all their internal documentation to avoid discovery that they knew very well there was lead in it would be enough to award damages.