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[–] 121 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Is this the bookshelf of a thrice-divorced 45 year-old or a 15 year-old who wears a suit to school every day because he wants to be a businessman when he grows up?

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    [+] 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 83 points 2 years ago

    Incredible that Death Note is the least cringe thing on the shelf.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This bookshelf tells me you're always at best 2 beers away from suggesting we should abolish age of consent laws.

    Thats gonna be off-putting to most women

    Lol

    ... The female equivalent bookshelf is like nothing but Harry Potter, Hilary Clinton's memoir and "Lean In."

    Lmao

    Funny comment on Reddit? Is this a miracle?

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Shelf? Honey, that's a book cubbyhole. 😂

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    Content aside (cringey doesn't even cover it) can you really call that a proper bookshelf?

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago

    Seeing death note alone is not cringe for me. But seeing it along libertarian "theory" would make me assume that I'm in the home of a serial killer

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Death note? reasonable. everything else? major red flags, somebody like that should get no love.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's Killers of the Flower Moon bad? I haven't read it

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's fine but it's the kinda book that this guy would only have bought because he worships Scorsese as the pinnacle of Kino, and has not actually read it. It's so unrelated to and unlike the rest of his stuff that no other outcome is likely. Check out that perfect spine.

    Actually, check out the perfect spines on everything but the two Death note re-releases.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair like 3/4ths of the books on this 'shelf' are hardcovers and aren't exactly going to show any wear in the spines if read. Hell, how hard do you have to treat a average sized paperback like the Killers of the Flower Moon copy to have it show any sort of wear on the spine in a tight bookshelf like that

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    how hard do you have to treat a average sized paperback like the Killers of the Flower Moon copy to have it show any sort of wear on the spine in a tight bookshelf like that

    To be fair I like to beat the heck out of my books so they know who's boss

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Rate my bookshelf: calvin and hobbes, berserk, dark souls and bloodborne comics, massive library of ps2 games, not one iota of theory

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  • [+] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    men posting their Ls

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That subreddit is the saddest place ever. Full of PUA level content, whiny men asking why they aren't getting smashed every night, and then stuff like this. I would probably end things too if I met a woman with Ron Paul books on her bookshelf.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Ron Paul I can kind of understand as he was the only anti war candidate during the Iraq war and thus had some non batshit support, but Yang is unforgivable.

    Edit: just realized that the events I’m thinking of were 20 years ago and crumbling into dust.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I guess it would depend on when she had them or her age. If she's a 23 year old who was 10 when Ron Paul was big then I would be suspicious.

    32 and was at the age to be more politically aware at that time, possibly liking him for his anti-war positions? I could understand that.

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  • [+] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    why you booing her? she's right

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Before I discovered that my childhood friend had become a Christchurch Shooter loving fascist piece of shit, I had the opportunity to meet some of their new friends in person. They were copy pastes of the same PUA archetype in 2016, and this one guy had Snowball and Art of The Deal on his shelf. Cringiest shit I have ever seen.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    unlimited break-ups on libertarian "intelligent mangas" readers

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    Yang pilled math guy

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago*

    data-laughing Bless that girl.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    Yang gang yang gang yang gang

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    looks like everything's from 2010

    • Death Note
    • End the Fed
    • the fact that there's books
    • the fact that they care about them
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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    Not even a single funko pop smh

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How could someone even survive with a "bookshelf" that small? I've have way more than a dozen times that, in the room I'm currently in alone. I ran out of shelf space years ago (yes, I've acquired more shelves since then. instantly filled.).

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    I think you already know that this dude does not read. He probably didn't even read these books. The books are in plain view, on a shelf, and organized for a reason. They're probably the only decorations in the room. I'm willing to bet that he specifically brought them up because he thinks they make him seem smart as opposed to everyone else perceives him; as a clown.

    ancaptain stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My book shelf is just Mushishi and a vast collection of space opera. Tinder dates have no power over me.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    common redditor L

    Death to America

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    missing infinite's jest to be uber cringe

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