• ohmyiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    *Today you learned that random Chinese companies on Amazon sell fidget guns.

    Congrats, you have now learned that cheap manufacturers will market anything in anyway that they can to make money.

  • amio@kbin.run
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    11 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.

    • NotNotMike@programming.devEnglish
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      11 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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          11 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.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      11 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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        11 months ago

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

  • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Good thing the people in the ad is white… if they weren’t they would have been shot before the ad team could take the photo.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 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.

  • Sparkles@fedia.io
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    11 months ago

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

  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If it isn’t illegal to sell and someone can make money off of an idiot, it will be sold.

  • MagnyusG@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    toy guns have been a thing since before your grandparent’s grandparents were born, slapping ‘fidget’ to them doesn’t suddenly make them new. not to mention these look like they’re made by the same people who made the viral “carrot” knife Korea was freaking out about.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Not entirely new, but US mass shootings happening twice a day are new and the hip new toy craze is teaching kids and adults to be comfortable pulling triggers on cute guns?

      To “relieve anxiety”?

      Not the same as pushing a hoop down the street with a stick.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I believe everybody should learn about guns: how to handle them, and how to shoot them. I imagine that could go a long way toward addressing some gun issues (like accidental shootings). It wouldn’t be a silver bullet; I’m not that naive, but kids learning gun safety might not be a bad thing.

        That said, I don’t care how colorful they make them, whether out of plastic or metal, there is no reason to make guns into toys. That clearly sends the wrong message.

        I do enjoy nerf guns, so I’d consider them exceptions. Their designs, that I’ve seen, do not resemble real guns. But I understand not everyone may feel the same way and would want to abolish them too.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Don’t ever call a Nerf gun a “gun” in front of Hasbro any dedicated Nerf Nerds.

          They are quite insistent that are “blasters,” specifically to disassociate them from firearms.

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Education can be helpful, but I don’t think mandatory childhood education on deadly weapons is necessary or lwouod be significantly helpful with respect to the US shootings problem.

          In this case, as you have pointed out, there’s no educational benefit getting people comfortable solely pulling triggers and treating guns as toys.