TIL that when Bugs Bunny drops a 1-ton anvil on Elmer Fudd, that's harm reduction because he could've dropped a 2-ton anvil. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Magician@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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It's amazing how lacking an understanding of materialism fails to hold powerful people accountable. Surely no theorists warned about conflating reduced harm with harm-reduction.

Politicians can just not harm. Them reducing the harm they do isn't a good thing.

Anyway, that was a fun thread.

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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, Nimrod was a character in the Torah renowned for his hunting skill, so when Bugs Bunny referred to Elmer Fudd as a Nimrod it was an ironic reference. The American public didn't catch the allusion, and so instead it became synonymous with "idiot" or "oaf."

Anyway the anvil will just cause a five inch lump on his head that he'll hammer back in with his fist and'll be right as rain, doesn't even need a doctor visit, so no harm done in the first place, really.

[-] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Please tell me you are joking with the nimrod part guaido-despair

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Genesis 10:9:

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

Read it for a class in undergrad, saw the name, had questions. Got answers (the answers may not surprise you!)

[-] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Oh, I know bible stuff, I meant the other part, but yeah oh-shit

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Oh, that part is also not a joke. Nimrod was a pretty common playground insult when I was a kid (probably less so now but idk what invectives kids these days have coined so maybe it's still around). Americans do not truck with their own holy texts unless they're passing them out on street corners.