resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoVillager sentenced to 90 days in jail for tormenting bicyclists in her Mercedes - Villages-News.comwww.villages-news.comexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: micromobility@lemmy.world
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minus-squareNaich@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·3 days ago“Tormenting” = she tried to hit them with her car multiple times.
minus-squarewerty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoMerriem webster includes the infliction of torture (as by rack or wheel. in the definition of torment. I really don’t understand how so many people in this thread think that this word usage is minimisation.
minus-squareNaich@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoThe attempted murder aspect of the incident outweighing the “torment” aspect in people’s minds, perhaps?
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoIt sounds like she tried to come close hitting them multiple times. Thus tormenting them.
minus-squaregedfromgont@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·2 days agoTried to come close hitting them = trying to run them over with a car, a multiple ton killing machine that can 100% end the life of anyone you run over. But we just do a little tormenting, for good measure.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agofor clarity, what do you think torment is?
“Tormenting” = she tried to hit them with her car multiple times.
Murder is the new annoying.
But only if you do it in a car.
Merriem webster includes
in the definition of torment. I really don’t understand how so many people in this thread think that this word usage is minimisation.
The attempted murder aspect of the incident outweighing the “torment” aspect in people’s minds, perhaps?
It sounds like she tried to come close hitting them multiple times. Thus tormenting them.
Tried to come close hitting them = trying to run them over with a car, a multiple ton killing machine that can 100% end the life of anyone you run over. But we just do a little tormenting, for good measure.
for clarity, what do you think torment is?