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Highland park (Chicago suburb) parade shooting. No way to prevent this.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is either incredibly gullible or knows her followers are. I happened to see the other day where she shared an image that was obviously photoshopped. It could have just been a photo of someone's face cut out and pasted onto a photo of the interior of a cell.
She's also now beating this drum that psychiatric medications are actually the reason for mass shootings, which is a new one to me. It'll be both bizarre and tragic if Republicans go from just using "mental health" as a distraction to trying to restrict access to medication based on the idea that somehow it's actually to blame.
I like how she's channeling early 2000's Jack Thompson.
I feel this goes against the entire spirit of "Don't post their propaganda here."
It's probably important to see what the fascists are saying about mass shootings, but I tend to agree. Marge's bit is so tired at this point, that there's little point in talking about it. She's a simple minded, sadistic, troll. And is always going to be.
You can discuss what they're saying without screengrabbing their Twitter
If people want more they can easily look it up, though
But that would require me to look up her twitter. Sorry, there are some sewers I don't want to swim in.
Yes, that's the point. You don't want to look it up on her Twitter, people here don't want her Twitter inflicted upon them.
Plus plenty of news orgs are covering it without requiring you to swim directly in the shitwater that is her general being.
Its hard to balance but I do think there's some value in occasional firsthand knowledge of what she and her ilk are saying. I dont mind it not being present at all but a specific response on the subject of the thread feels like it would be at least a little useful to know about. Maybe under spoilers?
At no point in my day to day life is knowing exactly what a fascist says word for word either made me more or less in favor of them. Unless they have a massive change of heart and start campaigning for sanity in gun control I'm not interested in picking apart their statements word for word. They're all just regurgitated FOX and Trump talking points that repeat the same fucking script over and over, the only change is their brashness in dismissing the value of human life and their willingness to be openly bigoted due to them having an audience of people fawning over their words, for good or ill.
What usually happens lately is I need to spend the next few hours decompressing after reading such blatant disregard for basic human decency, otherwise I get snarky and nasty all day and that's the kind of person I'm not trying to be anymore.
It has a measurable negative effect on my mental health and attitude with zero benefit. But if that's what people desire and I'm actually alone here I'll just excuse myself from the thread because I can't do that shit anymore.
'Alternate reality games.'
I appreciate it
I think the picture itself is interesting, and the ramifications that so many clods are going out of their way to believe it are terrifying.
But here we are, in the land of Team Sports Politics.
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I understand geolocating things for people internationally or wanting to help narrow down a location to a significant identifier in few words, but "chicago shooting" can and will and is currently being used by right wing news to connect it to how we're an apocalyptic wasteland of gang warfare to them and that's why it happened instead of any actual reason
No kidding. There are 4 towns between Highland Park and Chicago.
Per Wikipedia:
I would argue that's not "completely" different, though obviously Highland Park is distinct from Chicago proper. Generally when a town is "a suburb" that means it's a suburb of another city, from which it is not generally considered to be meaningfully different.
You're quoting Wikipedia to folks who actually live in Chicago or its suburbs. Nobody from around here would ever refer to Highland Park as Chicago. It's not even in the same county.
I guarantee you that folks who live in Chicago consider the suburbs to be meaningfully different, and vice-versa.
Either way, it's 25 miles.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-shinzo-abe-shot-rcna37228
Fucking can we be done with guns, period.
Anyone can build a primitive shotgun on their kitchen table with around $10-$15 worth of materials, which can be concealed anywhere you can conceal an 18-24" length of 3/4" pipe (inside of a coat, down a pant leg, whatever). It is not a complicated process either, if you can build a Lego set than you can build a firearm. If you duct tape a piece of scrap wood to it to function as a "stock" (to bring the entire thing to a minimum length) its even legal in most of the country.
Shooter hadn't planned it out and thought he had a higher chance of being caught/injured/killed if he went through with it.
The Reuters headline on this I saw made sure to point out that it was in in a gun free nation. The implication that that means gun restrictions are meaningless was disgusting.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/mostly-gun-free-nation-japanese-stunned-by-abe-killing-2022-07-08/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0jjphEv81I33j8PP5XbUx-9s1zkEI3tj7MrrMFJsOSvDqV3YWPajGKbMU
That makes sense. I may just be a bit reactionary from the general counter gun control response after this and Uvalde.
Please do not give handy tips for building your own firearm in the thread about a mass shooting, fucking Christ.