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Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. Juice

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    Publishing editorials is one thing, publishing editorials of someone openly praising Hitler is another.
     
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    Wonder if they’ll claim re-earthing these old tweets was just another right wing troll job to get him cancelled to run cover like they did with James Gunn?
     
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    "He's not really a pedophile, he was just kidding!!1!!"
     
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    I can understand being an edgelord aspiring filmmaker, it was just the selective outrage since that his problematic post were dug up by ‘right wing trolls.” So the content, which they’d have cancelled anyone for, didn’t count.

    Praising hitler. Don’t know what the fuck that’s about.
     
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    Why not? Kanye did it.
     
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    and marge schott!
     
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    mass shooting in Maine, just outside of Portland. Suspect still at large. Reports of 50-70 injured. Went into a bar, then a bowling alley, sounds like a walmart as well.
     
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    confirmed 20+ dead
     
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    Is it wrong that I just don't give a fuck about shootings anymore?

    Like yeah, I get it, it's sad, but really, don't care.
     
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    I'm with you. I can get into the statistics and shit, but.... whatever. Healthy people die after marathons too, in a not-uncommon manner. Life is crazy. Shit happens.

    That being said, I will absolutely watch the livestreams when they're chasing the fucking perp to see if it's a shootout or not.
     
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    I just hate how the MSM will leverage the shit out of this for the shock and awe and that's all we'll see on the news for the next few days... just like the bullshit Israel/Palestine/hamas bullshit...

    DON'T CARE... SHUT UP.
     
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    I'm not sure how much the Israel/Palestine crap will actually impact us on a national level, but on a local level, I live in a large military town, and we're already starting to get some refugees. Those who are wealthy enough to get out on their own have started to, and they either know people through the military and are staying with them, or just hear "San Antonio" (where A LOT of the soldiers, both US and foreign, train) and come here first. So I at least have to be aware of it in the general sense, and the sensitivities and cultural customs involved, because these refugees will be my neighbors and part of my community. I have to care, because I want to learn how to be a better part of the community and welcome them in.

    Today during my golf lessons, my golf pro said he was giving lessons to a group of Israelis yesterday. Like fresh off the plane, their children didn't speak a lick of English. Said he was stunned and asked them what they were doing, how they were holding up. "Bombs are dropping on our families so we wanted to get our mind off it and play golf.".... yeah, fair enough.
     
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    I’m following it because that’s about a half hour from my dad. But he is most likely asleep already and wouldn’t be at that bowling alley. I just know the area. I think there’s another TiBer up there somewhere too?

    the Maine subreddit is a shitshow right now. People trying to get info, and out of towners on all parts of the spectrum just jizzing politics on it.
     
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    I'm not super far as the crow flies, but still a few hours on these crazy winding roads. I had some family near Portland, but not familiar with the Lewiston area.
     
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    How much do y'all want to bet that if the perp ISN'T a straight, cisgender white male, this gets downplayed, and gets blamed on the patriarchy/ gun culture/ MAGA/ etc?

    On a related note, why has the transgendered Nashville shooter's manifesto never been published?
     
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    They've already released images. Looks like a bearded white dude in his 30s/40s.

    Because law enforcement doesn't release manifestos. They only become public if the perpetrator somehow publishes them in advance of the act.
     
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    Welp, looks like you're right.

    Now for my next questions:

    1) How will the media/ government spin this to make law abiding gun owners give up their guns?

    2) What do you think the odds are that the "authorities " already knew about This guy for weeks/ months prior?
     
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    My sister in law is Ukrainian and they got married right when Russia invaded crimea a number of years ago and her family came over and said don’t bring it up they were on vacation to have a good time. End of story. They came to live with them this summer to get away from the war and haven’t spoke about it once.
     
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    he was a military guy and firearms instructor who spent time in a mental institution after claiming he heard voices which told him to shoot up a military base
     
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    live stream of the police at the suspect's house trying to get him to come out