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The Dank Knight 🦇
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Why don’t we just make murder illegal?

The least we could do is ban suicide, which makes up 60% of these deaths.

Or, just ban gang violence and accidental shootings.
Also, if we could only pass laws to keep guns out of the hands of violent felons.

Wait? We already have those laws? Oh well, just blame law abiding citizens I guess.
Well, the VERY least we could do is to make the NRA stop selling guns and forcing people to buy them.

Wait, that’s also not true?? I’ve been lied to somewhere along the way.
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The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich looks like John Lithgow.

That is all, carry on.
One was an actor in ‘3rd rock from the sun’

The other plays rock for his 3 sons.

Coincidence? I think not.
One was in the movie ‘Raising Cain’

The “other one” likes to raise Cain.

These are indisputable facts, people.
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The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
“An estimated 7,230 people will die of melanoma in 2019. Of those, 4,740 will be men and 2,490 will be women” -The skin cancer foundation

But please, go ahead and make fun.
My wife’s father had to have a skin graft so they could remove skin cancer from his head.

If I’m not mistaken, her grandfather lost his life because of skin cancer.

Skin cancer is not something to joke about.
I just went to the dermatologist and had a skin cancer scare.

I asked people on here to pray and I’d ask again tomorrow. I also prayed for @CalebJHull because it’s a serious thing.

Thank God mine came back negative.
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The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
After reading this tweet, I walked over to my truck and leaned on the hood. As tears filled my eyes, I begged it for forgiveness for callously calling it a she.

I heard it honk to let me know everything was gonna be alright.

I swear I heard the neighbors cheering.
We just don’t understand how sexist we are until we’re confronted with these indisputable facts. :(
I hope the distance I’ve caused between me and my truck can be mended.

“My truck” I haven’t learned anything, it has no master.

I WILL be better.
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