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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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            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.

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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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    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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      We still have Toys R Us in Canada. As an adult there’s really not much to get excited about in there anymore. At least Radio Shack could bring out some middle aged tinkering in me.

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      Toys R Us

      I have too much nostalgia in my veins for Toys R Us, but I want to say that when I was under 12, there was nothing like it.

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

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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.