I wonder (IE this is almost certainly bollocks) whether an increased belief in large-scale conspiracy theories is influenced by increased awareness of actual large-scale conspiracies, less Stonecutters-style centralisation than 'everyone knows but no-one says' that ensure that, say, African Americans are generally getting the worst end of the economy whether it's up or down, or women have been vulnerable whatever their level of fame.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
the first time i heard the 'various sports stadiums around the country are being quietly eminent domained by FEMA to serve as future concentration camps' story in 2002 it was from a middle aged african american guy in Atlanta. He also told me about how blood pressure medicines were deliberately formulated to reduce male libido and thereby ensure continuous reduction in African-American population.
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
i remember digesting it similarly to what you just described, asking myself 'if i had lived your life,would i be so confident that this is paranoia'?
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
Andrew otm.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
Per Alfred's point, I kinda wonder if we couldn't migrate general gun control conversation to the gun control thread. It really does feel dreadful and shitty to see this thread constantly floating to the top of SNA.
― Wine Ape (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
plus, just wait a week or month and it'll rise to the top of the thread because of the news, anyway (also dreadful and shitty.)
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
xp agreed
― sleeve, Friday, 9 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
This thread might also be good for some of this discussion: conspiracy theories that ended up being true
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
#BREAKING UPDATE: Active shooter reported at veterans home in Yountville. Shots reportedly fired near main dining hall. https://t.co/HUYTeBbxSF [Photo: @NapaRegister] pic.twitter.com/3JqLzkP2J1— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) March 9, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
hostages, jesus
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 March 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
That's right across the freeway from The French Laundry.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
holy shit :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Active-shooter-reported-at-Yountville-veterans-12741622.php
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
more info on the shooter
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
not much info on the hostages
pres conference confirmed 3 hostages
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Very sad to read that all three hostages are dead. Their killer also took his own life.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
jesus
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
A veteran, yet again. "Service" is a reliable cofactor for this mayhem.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
oh god how tragic. i read that the veteran had been asked to leave the program he’d been getting treatment from, and that the hostages were employees and part of that specific program. i’m guessing that was one of a number of contributing stressors to set this off.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
i guess he originally took 5 hostages & released 2? i can’t imagine how they are feeling nowmore details herehttps://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Active-shooter-reported-at-Yountville-veterans-12741622.php
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
man. horrible.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
gunman was only 36. everything about this is just awful.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:49 (six years ago) link
The women who were murdered today in #Yountville have been identified:-Dr. Jen Golick, therapist-Dr. Jen Gonzalez, psychologist-Dr. Christine Loeber, Executive Director of the Pathways program https://t.co/Grf1OFCsSo pic.twitter.com/fJZKiREOjs— 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚒𝚎 (@resisterhood) March 10, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2018 07:15 (six years ago) link
God dammit
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Just found out that my friend and former neighbor’s cousin was the psychologist who was killed.
― joygoat, Sunday, 11 March 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
as expected, florida will seek to kill Nikolas Cruz. there are already 347 other people who are scheduled to be murdered by the state, though, so everyone is going to have to wait a while before killing another person makes everyone else feel better.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/nikolas-cruz-death-penalty.html
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
if you'll excuse me i have to get back to watching my 24/7 stream of animals fighting each other while i snarl and gnaw at a synthetic rope toy
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Get it up to 365 and you could legally kill, one day at a time, for a year, huzzah!
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
great idea! what the US needs to do is go ahead and clear out the backlog of hundreds of people on deathrow, maybe in a public place where large crowds of civilians can gather around and witness the awe-inspiring power of the state. then we can go ahead and just kill one person a day. since we don't care enough about spree shootings to try to prevent them, we should soon have enough mass murderers queued up to kill one off in prime time, every night.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article205168669.html
― how's life, Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
Dylan Roof's little sister arrested.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
in addition to all the obvious ways this is horrifying, it's also horrifying that the educational system is such that kids would rather be literally beaten than take the chance -- even a small chance, given that most colleges have said it won't affect admissions -- of not getting into college
My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today. They were given two punishment options. They chose corporal punishment. This generation is not playing around. #walkout— Jerusalem Greer (@JerusalemGreer) March 14, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
Jesus Christ I had no idea corporal punishment was still legal in 22 states.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
I didn't realize how widespread corporal punishment in public schools still was.
"more than 167,000 students were paddled in the 2011-2012 school year in American public schools.[152]"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment#United_States
― jmm, Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Conservatives: 'we want smaller government! but the state should be allowed to beat children'
― jmm, Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
The land of the free to beat kids
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
Have noticed a few comment sections of news articles in the past week that have been overrun by republicans smearing the protest kids as "bullies". It was those protesters who drove the shooters to kill by bullying them, you see, and now they're being hypocrites by asking stop the violence. I'm certain that a few years ago when schools were really starting to make huge strides in anti-bullying initiatives that you would find these same republicans arguing that back in their day kids didn't need to be mollycoddled and this nonsense is all the result of helicopter parents who need to teach their kids to grow a spine.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
yeah it makes no sense, the only winning move is not to ever read the comments on anything ever
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I know that and I usually do not enter there. I just wanted to point out their cute little change of heart about bullying.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
sorry guys, but this one's been blown wide open
https://www.facebook.com/james.h.fetzer/videos/10156040035767978/?hc_location=ufi
― the late great, Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
― how's life
"heart"
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
School shooting in St. Mary's County Maryland. Not much known at the moment.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
https://wtop.com/maryland/2018/03/shooting-reported-high-school-st-marys-co/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Not a spree but police claim a person with shotgun held to someone's head in a Panera Bread in Princeton, NJ:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/man_with_gun_reported_at_eatery_near_princeton_uni.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
I can relate
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
looks like the armed officer actually worked this time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
NRA rushed out a video bragging about it on the same day. Not too soon to politicize that tragedy!
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
hmm, shooter wasn't a teacher, he wasn't hiding outside with two other officers, perpetrator had a handgun and not an AR-15, obv we found the solution that will work in all situations, good going guys.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.statesman.com/news/crime--law/updated-bombing-suspect-mark-conditt-wrote-political-views-blog/CQUCcXNJ9nb2iFs8sSq0pK/
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link