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      Can we do radio shack from the 80s early 90s over the cellphone retailer they turned into before death.

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        Just before they flatlined, they started stocking more modern hobbyist stuff. Arduinos, shields, Parallax Propeller, and Vex, but stupid expensive.

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      I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.

      • Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.

      • None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.

      • RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah. Also, not to mention, fuck corporations and chain stores and consumerism.

      And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.

      No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan.

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        I mean, if we’re bringing like Bible Jesus back, I’d agree. But if we were to bring back the actual Jesus, he’d probably just be some religious lefty with a podcast and no one would care.

        I’m not sure how a socialist jew half way around the world from me is going to help me find a specific value capacitor that I need immediately to fix an AV reciever I just picked up from goodwill.

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          He does make a good point. As much as I like online ordering, being able to go to a store and get what I need the same day is something else

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          [Incoming text message] Cast your eyes to the other side of the car, my child. That discarded television contains the capacitor you need at the end of the spotted blue and white cable.

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        Not to mention the absolute melt down that would happen with the worst of Americans if he came back the same race he was when he died.

        Oh man the amount of evangelical Christians in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.

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          The amount of evangelical Christian’s in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.

          You mean…100%?

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            While the irony of the distraction of most of them along with the rest of us would be briefly enjoyable, I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.

            I am irked by the fact that some of them are actively seeking to trigger a real Armageddon, though. That group should be handled with extreme prejudice.

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          As a kid, it was where you got all the coolest remote controlled cars and helicopters (pre drones). As an electronics tinkerer, they had drawers full of components and other parts for all electronic needs.

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      The same old 555 timers, opamps, and LED PCB xmas trees they’ve been selling for 30 years are nice but…there’s much more interesting shit now and they didnt seem to catch on to that until the very end when they suddenly rushed out all the Arduino shit.

      Around here, Micro Center replaced Radio Shack for my component impulse buy needs, and they even have Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff, and several aisles of a variety of other hobby electronics stuff. It’s RadioShack x100.

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    Jesus.

    Only because I want to see how Right wing “Christians” would react to being faced with their messiah being a middle-eastern globalist communist that preaches love and acceptance.

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      Honestly this time, instead of crucifying him, we really should strap him down to a table and put him in a lab to see if we can figure out some more medical modern miracles before he rage quits to heaven again.

      Not like anyone on this Earth is going to gain anything from listening to his actual teachings or anything.

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      That is a good reason. It almost compensates for the fact that when he does come back, most everything is going to hell In a handbasket.

      So, I’ll go with another option, thank you.

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        If you believe a book that says there is a magic man in the sky who made us in his image, but is angry with how we turned out.

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          Let’s be honest. If he comes back, doesn’t that mean that book is true? We’re literally acting under the presumption of the guy coming back.

          Which means there would be a pissy magic man in the sky. And that means we would go to hell in a handbasket.

          So I’m voting on Radio Shack.

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      My first thought was he’d be cancelled or get crucified again. He’d need to show some full on magic to get our attention today. Water to wine or walking on water is too “street magic” today.

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        Yeah, he’d need to demonstrate better powers or he’d be dead very quickly.

        Maybe if he could wave his hand at an army and turn all the water in the soldiers bodies to wine? That’d be cool.

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        Copied from Reddit user Right-Fisherman-1234 detailing the accounts of the Republican parties documented history of sexual misconduct.

        Ummmm ok?

        Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

        Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

        Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

        Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

        Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

        Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

        Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

        Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

        Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

        Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

        Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

        Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

        Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

        Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

        Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

        Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

        Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

        Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

        Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

        Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

        Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

        Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

        Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

        Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

        Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

        Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

        Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

        Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

        Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

        Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

        Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

        Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

        Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

        Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

        Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

        Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

        Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

        Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

        Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

        Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

        Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

        Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

        Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

        Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

        Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women

        Donald Trump walked into Miss Teen USA change rooms with girls as young as 14 changing. He has been accused of raping a 13 -year-old with an independent witness.

        https://baptistaccountability.org/

        https://www.goodpeoplefund.org/news/a-14-year-old-bride-wed-to-her-rapist-playing-on-a-jungle-gym/

        https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/married-young-the-fight-over-child-marriage-in-america/

        https://crossroadjunction.com/2013/04/01/predatory-grooming-in-our-churches/

        https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-evangelical-roy-moore-girls-1115-20171114-story.html

        https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-based-church-leader-pleads-guilty-sexually-abusing-3-children-2022-06-04/

        https://www.thedailybeast.com/pastor-john-lowes-adultery-confession-in-warsaw-indiana-church-goes-sideways-victim-says-i-was-just-16

        https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Bombshell-400-page-report-finds-Southern-Baptist-17190816.php#photo-22508589

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            Being overly defensive after being purposely deceptive you may not support them but you’d fit right in

            That being said I’m not American and I don’t support either party either but you certainly gave the impression you did. Because the only place that uses the right and the left like that is generally the United States everywhere else I’ve been to use the actual party names

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    Either RadioShack or Toys R Us. The other two, one is useless in this day and age, and the other is Blockbuster

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    RadioShack had everything you were looking for and absolutely nothing at the same time. It was glorious.

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      When they started filling the store with more cell phone advertising space than anything I knew they were done for… Who in the hell bought cell phones at RadioShack? They stopped carrying much of what I went for, so I stopped going.

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        The other stuff they were selling didn’t sell well. My ex worked at one during that transition. They made most of their money from cell phone sales so it kind of made sense to pivot.

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          A pivot made sense, just don’t think becoming a cell store was the call. Clearly didn’t work out so hot as a long term strategy.

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    I’d say Jesus. Either to prove everything written in the bible is fake or to watch some sweet miracles happen. Either way, I win.

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      “You didn’t bring back the real Jesus. This is a false flag. Jesus was a Soros plant and not the same savior mentioned in the Bible.” Is probably what people will say if you did the former.

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      Isn’t rapture supposed to happen upon his return? Idk your life, but I’m personally not rooting for that lol.

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        Secular scholarly consensus is that Jesus did in fact exist. The religion named after him doesn’t have much to do with his message, and he certainly didn’t resurrect or do miracles, but he did exist. The idea that he is entirely mythical is a fringe theory held by literally one scholar, Richard Carrier. It’s certainly psychologically appealing to many ex-tians but doesn’t hold water.

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    I would choose Jesus and I’m not even Cristian 🤣🤣🤣

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      You monster. You know the modern Christians would just kill him again. And he wouldn’t fare any better if he came back in a Muslim country either.

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        That is the point, then we can finally lay Christianity to rest. It is clear the majority of Christians are not followers of Christ. Killing off or ignoring their own prophet would force them to recognize they are just authoritarian assholes.

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          Killing off or ignoring their own prophet would force them to recognize they are just authoritarian assholes.

          I think you have too much faith in them, ironically.

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    RadioShack.

    I remember going as a kid, once. I was 5 I think. It was…unique. A shit ton of red I remember. And cheap cell phone cords. Wish I could’ve experienced it more. Especially during the 90s. But that’s before my time.

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      If you think 90s Radio Shack was great, trust me when I say that 80s Radio shack was even better. They had Heathkit project kits, robots, various TRS and Tandys, plus PARTS. It was so good.

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      There is a single one-off store in my city (Copenhagen, Denmark) that is almost exactly like a mid 90s radioshack. Cheap cables, electronics projects, bargain bin full of random components, shoddy soldering irons, etc.

      Somehow it’s still around. I’m deathly afraid that it’ll close some day, so I try to shop there whenever possible.

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      I remember going to RadioShack as a kid too and they had a Tandy computer setup. It was magical for 8 year old me. I think they even did repairs back then because that electrical soldering smell is seared in my memory.

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          My family’s fist computer was a Tandy 1000 around 92. I was so stoked to make video games on the fly like Clarissa Explains It All did.

          Little did I know game development takes a little more elbow grease than cutting and pasting pictures of your friends into an existing game format.

          I learned a lot about getting around in DOS because the desktop OS it shipped with was garbage, at least.

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      1980s-90s RadioShack, yes.

      They really went off the rails during their decline. They became a cellphone store, and not at all a good one… Their pricing on EVERYTHING was not only non-competitive, it was ludicrously expensive.

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    I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.

    Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.

    Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.

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    I’d like to bring back the market environment that made Radio Shack profitable - when the “right to repair” was a given, and not something that needed to be fought for in court.

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    Jesus. Imagine how much of the world would react if

    1: jesus literally proved he existed to faiths that say he’s a hoax (im agnostic btw)

    2: He reforms the groups that use his name as a pretext to exclude & marginalize others.

    3: Dude turned out to have been gaming like a boss in heaven, like dude comes down & faces the pope in Dungeons & Dragons or Pokemon lmfaooo

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      1. World Christian churches split into at least 2 additional factions per each existing faction (Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, whatever orthodox, and whatever else exists). Each having a slightly different view on the new Jesus dude.

      Nevermind if Jesus turns up to be non binary I expect a meltdown then.

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    Jesus. He is slated to return one day anyway but we need him now to show republicans what christianity is all about