X201
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Post by X201 on May 7, 2023 5:02:34 GMT
Still on track for worst year ever for mass shootings Edit: Add link to save the strenuous activity of having to go back a page Texas shooting: Eight killed by gunman in Allen mall www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65515915
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Tuffty
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Post by Tuffty on May 7, 2023 8:08:36 GMT
Be careful about looking this up online. Images and video of the shooters dead body and of his victims just casually being shared around twitter and it is extremely graphic.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on May 7, 2023 9:20:25 GMT
Thoughts and Prayers.
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Tuffty
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Post by Tuffty on May 7, 2023 18:11:32 GMT
This guy, shifting blame onto others for not praying hard enough. Americas fucked.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 7, 2023 18:21:20 GMT
At this point you have to think they're actually worshipping the old gods who demand regular blood sacrifices.
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Post by hedben on May 7, 2023 18:41:45 GMT
… and now someone’s plowed their SUV through a line of people waiting for a bus in Brownsville, Texas. Near a “migrant centre” apparently. Possibly intentional, a quick scan of “Brownsville” on Twitter shows plenty of anti-immigrant stuff from before it happened so it seems quite possible it was some MAGA twat with a grudge.
I’ve also noticed with this incident and the Allen mall shooting that it seems much easier than it used to be to accidentally see horrible footage of the aftermath of these attacks with no warning. Kind of like the paid blue checks at the top of every reply just want engagement and don’t care about using shock value to get it.
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 7, 2023 19:15:20 GMT
We’re basically living a Paul Verhoeven film, and it’s not Show Girls.
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Post by reddevil93 on May 7, 2023 20:15:31 GMT
The paid blue checks making the discourse around guns even more horrible this mass shooting. And I know it’s not real life and something like 80% of Americans support stricter gun measures, but it’s all just getting so boosted on Musk’s new hellsite.
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Post by technoish on May 7, 2023 20:59:00 GMT
I mean, really, (still) using twitter to follow stuff like this as near to real time as you can. It's kind of morbid in the first place.
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Post by rockavitch on May 7, 2023 21:58:23 GMT
The blue tick thing is definitely making these images more noticeable. Seeing yet more pictures after whatever number shooting it was about a month ago was the final push for me to delete mine as even with a small following list and a shit load of muted words/topics I was still seeing it.
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Post by Zyrr on May 7, 2023 22:13:45 GMT
I've not really used Twitter for the past couple of weeks after a video of some guy getting hit by a train made into my timeline. It's the last thing I was expecting or wanted to see and, by the sounds of it, it wasn't an isolated incident.
I think I may finally be done with whatever Musk's transformed Twitter into. It's just a uniformly bad place to be now.
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cubby
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Post by cubby on May 7, 2023 23:30:25 GMT
It sounds like it's become 4chan.
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Tuffty
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Post by Tuffty on May 8, 2023 7:00:27 GMT
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Post by tommyunderwear on May 8, 2023 9:34:58 GMT
That’s gone completely in the face of the narrative that it’s a Mexican who is possibly illegal and working for the cartels and we need more guns, NOW. They’re also blaming the democrats as the mall was a no gun zone and because of this, there were no good guys with guns to go up against him. You’re right, Twitter has gone right down into the depths I honestly didn’t think was possible. An absolute shit show.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 8, 2023 9:41:26 GMT
A White supremacist with the surname Garcia implies a level of stupidity. So that would be... background checks on people buying and owning guns, right Gregg?
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on May 8, 2023 19:25:19 GMT
What can you say
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 8, 2023 20:03:48 GMT
If only they expended the same amount of energy of stopping abortions to actually preventing real, alive children from being mowed down.
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Post by Lizard on May 9, 2023 5:06:21 GMT
Once you're out of the womb the market will sort everything out.
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Post by Whizzo on May 9, 2023 6:55:01 GMT
Good grief the insanity of having a country where law enforcement puts out PSAs like this. Also the cops do absolutely nothing to stop the shooter, guess the Feds have little faith in them.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 7:03:54 GMT
Just needs an OCP logo at the end.
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Whizzo
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Post by Whizzo on May 9, 2023 7:09:59 GMT
It really is straight out of an Ed Neumeier script.
"Would you like to know more?"
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 9, 2023 7:13:34 GMT
Didn't Robocop have a mayor that took hostages because he lost the election?
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Post by Whizzo on May 9, 2023 7:21:36 GMT
He was a losing candidate that wanted a recount and a car with really shitty gas mileage. Pretty sure he never got one (with or without a Blaupunkt) after Murphy defenestrated him.
Apart from the cyborg it really doesn't feel far fetched now.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 7:39:40 GMT
A White supremacist with the surname Garcia implies a level of stupidity. So that would be... background checks on people buying and owning guns, right Gregg? Gregg Abbott has actually cut funding for mental healthcare in Texas. It's like a bad SNL sketch.
I don't know how many more children have to die before this motherfucker finally gets voted out of office.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 9, 2023 8:03:37 GMT
The best bit was the stuff the black woman had to do to make sure the cops didn't shoot her.
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Post by geefe on May 9, 2023 8:48:09 GMT
NGL I laughed at the line "I'm no victim".
The more I see, the more I massively judge my mates that moved over there.
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Post by geefe on May 9, 2023 8:49:25 GMT
The best bit was the stuff the black woman had to do to make sure the cops didn't shoot her. And the way she played it as "this applies for anyone, it just so happens that I'm black and running towards police".
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Post by nexus6 on May 9, 2023 8:57:13 GMT
The best bit was the stuff the black woman had to do to make sure the cops didn't shoot her. The best bit was the stuff the black woman had to do to make sure the cops didn't shoot her but they shot her anyway. Y'know, because she was black.
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Post by manfromdelmonte on May 9, 2023 9:39:31 GMT
"You CAN survive a mass shooting. And if you do, hey, you might get laid. Seriously guys, it's almost worth it for the trauma sex."
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Post by Tuffty on May 9, 2023 12:21:26 GMT
It's funny seeing the right wing mouthpieces desperately trying to pivot any responsibility. Went from "Wait for evidence" to "OK he had neo nazi slogans on his combat vest but they're ironic" to "OK he has SS and swastika tattoos but you can't see his face" to "OK he's a neo nazi but he was brainwashed by US government". Evidence showed he was a supporter of a right wing guy and his response to that is "Actually trans people are the problem". If a mass shooter was a fan of mine, I'd maybe take some self reflection and figure out why that is.
Suppose it is a nice little fuck you to the shooter. Guy thought he would die gloriously with the people he respects praising him as a blood and soil patriot. Instead they're all saying he's a false flag antifa supporter.
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