Oh for sure, they don't deserve any excuses. Just saying this is all ultimately about money.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
NRA is a bankrupt husk but they're still doing everything they can to make sure this happens again
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
The conservative pro-life position: we want you to quake in your shoes when you drop your kids off at school, consider ending a pregnancy, undergo gender affirmation surgery, and eat inside a restaurant. Because the GOP is the party of limited government.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
USA, 2022: The government is going to force you to have children, you will be bankrupted by hospital bills if a single thing goes wrong during the birth, and you will be forced to watch helplessly as a gunman enters their elementary school and no one does anything to prevent it.— Jordan Fraade (@schadenfraade) May 24, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
^ all things that increase GDP
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Thursday was supposed to be the last day of school in that district
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
general strike when
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
fuck this country
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
A man was dropping flowers off for his wife because it was her last day (she survived).
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
A state of fear benefits the far right. Fear keeps us quiet and compliant.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
Alfred, oh my god.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
After Sandy Hook, I read about how the group of parents waiting in a firehouse had dwindled until finally they were told that if they were still there, their children were dead. The reporters wrote that the screaming could be heard from the street.I will never forget that.— Maggie Astor (@MaggieAstor) May 24, 2022
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
maybe schools can start teaching classes past the security gates at the airport
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
xpost honestly the firehouse story was the first thing I thought of when I heard about today's shooting. there's no good way to break the news to anybody, but learning in that fashion has to be heartwrenching
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
I hope these parents don’t also have to face years of stalking by Alex Jones sickos
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
here's a thought i've been having post-Roe v. Wade and now this:
the other side got mad enough to storm the fucking capitol building
at what point does our side consider the same?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
i don't mean that to be, like, threatening or a mic drop moment or something.
i seriously wonder about that. do we ever get to that point?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
we had to endure that here in Orlando after Pulse. I lost my shit at one of the trolls and I didn't even know any of the victims (though my brother worked with one). can't even imagine how someone who did would - it's something that literally nobody had to deal with pre-internet/oversaturated 24-hour online news era.
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
xpost - I think a general strike would be more productive myself.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
here's a thought i've been having post-Roe v. Wade and now this:the other side got mad enough to storm the fucking capitol buildingat what point does our side consider the same?
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Except "our side's" elected officials would crumple and denounce us fucking immediately in the name of decorum.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Back to thinking how many kids were safer in 'lockdown'
― nashwan, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
^^ who knew being in school during a pandemic was the comparatively safer route?
xxxxxxpost violent revolution is necessary in certain circumstances. i don't know that our side would have the stomach for it though.
I remember reading a few people saying "if Trump does manage to steal this election, we will take to the streets and PEACEFULLY protest" and I was like, cool, the illegitimate President in power will say "we'll take your concerns under advisement". like had he been successful, 'peaceful' protests would have essentially been like handing the office to them without resistance. I hate violence but had the unthinkable happened, no peaceful protest would have made waves.
Republicans will show up at the steps of the Capitol if the price of a Whopper goes up 20 cents. Democrats will show up with shittily made signs and singing shitty songs when the streets are on fire.
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
Yeah, well such is the price of following the actual teachings of Jesus.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
I had jury duty earlier this month, and had to go through a full security shakedown and a metal detector.. not even a swiss army knife allowed
Maybe that's what it's coming to everywhere
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
yeah, it's hard to imagine what could cause an insurrection from the left. how much worse can it get than restricting women's personal health care decisions and killing our children...
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
yeah, it's hard to imagine what could cause an insurrection from the left
Having a president that would actively encourage one?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
Columbine survivor here. My oldest son just finished his first year of college. This is America. There is no end in sight for the steady cadence of mass gun violence we seem unwilling to ever address. A reality my peers could not have imagined on our worst day in April 1999.— Craig Nason (@nasoncraig) May 24, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
Manchin just last week expressed his opinion that even after the Buffalo shooting, movement on gun reform did not look likely.
“Are we going to another vote for the sake of taking a vote? Let’s do some mental illness reform,” Manchin said.
Yeah, let's reform mental illness man
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
People on the left definitely need to own more guns. Specifically, sniper's rifles.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
America's gun culture - in seven chartshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41488081
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
Lol mind ay how thrilled ppl were by the georgia runoff giving the democrats a senate majority
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
I remember that sense of optimism.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
americans bought 40 million guns in the calendar year 2020
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
40 million
actually that doesn't include guns bought in states without a background check, or guns bought illegally
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
when you google stuff like that pretty much every result is a pro-gun SEO farm
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
Republicans are afraid of their base and give them what they want. When are we going to make Democrats afraid of their base? Even darker thought: the right wing is deliberately murdering us. We need to fight back with their tactics.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
I think a big part of the problem is that the actual "left" in the U.S. is small, prone to infighting, disorganized and demoralized, and is certainly not represented by the Democrats in the way that the right wing is represented by the Republicans.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
i'll spare the newsmax video, but Texas AG Ken Paxton, asked in a newsmax "interview" what kinds of things should be done, said something about the buildings being built in a way so there is only one point of entry before switching to his thought that the teachers should have had guns
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
His repeated appearances on The Circus somehow almost managed to make me relieved it was Abbott in charge instead of him. (Emphasis on almost obv.)
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
now 18 children, 3 adults. fuck
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
how have mass-shootings not occurred at these nra conventions/meetings yet? or have they?
― dyl, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
I am so fucking tired of the “just vote, we all have to vote, voting is all we can do to change this” Twitter brigade. Bullshit, I’ve been voting for gun control and politicians in favor of gun control for two fucking decades now and absolutely fuck all has been done. It’s clear that isn’t enough and it isn’t working.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
even the politicians have stopped pretending that voting does anything
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
I’ve had it with this crap.
people (reportedly 4channers) have apparently just been grabbing random photos of trans women they think look remotely like the photos of the shooter they've apparently been able to find (or think they've found, who knows), and using them to claim the shooter was trans.— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) May 25, 2022
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 07:02 (one year ago) link
Really weird thing to say after this tragedy.
For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 24, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
Not a weird thing when you've transitioned into being a full-time troll whose media career subsists primarily on hate clicks.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 07:58 (one year ago) link
Looks like the cops were useless.
Oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/ybWMsZWbyP— Jordan (@SLCLunk) May 25, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 08:00 (one year ago) link