At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.
Can I quote myself without sounding arrogant? Brian Killmeade called for homeless to be shot, then retracted.
But he said it. The message has been delivered, and spread. Saying and apologizing is not the same as not saying it.
The redactions never travel as fast or far as the original message. They know this.
Saying and apologizing is not the same as not saying it
I love this. Well said.
Are they gonna lower flags to half mast? Will there be a moment of silence? Are they gonna take responsibility? Will they persecute anyone who cheers on these deaths? Do pigs fly?
Move past pointing out hypocrisy. They don’t care. We all know and on the scale of shit they’re guilty of; it seems petty. The institutions are not going to do shit.
Consider what you will be doing about this.
Pointing out hypocrisy is not usually for the benefit of the hypocrite, it’s for the benefit of everyone else.
But we know and it just seems like an excuse to not talk about solutions at this point.
Who’s stopping you from talking about Solutions?
Not knowing shit about signal electrowhatever or guns, which seem like the two bodies of knowledge a solution would come from.
So your own ignorance is the only thing stopping you?
Comrade, organizing online is fraught in the best of times but I think people are hyper aware of the risks of talking about these things online right now.
Okay and I get that, but the hypocrisy thing just feels tedious. Like someone’s trying very hard to miss what they’re even doing when they make phonemes.
I say this with kindness: what do your comments add to the discussion? Sometimes people just want to vent. It’s cool. Just scroll past.
Why didn’t I scroll past your comment? Because I thought it might be useful to remind people to shut the fuck up.
Just the opposite. Continue to point it out at every opportunity. They hate being called out. It doesn’t matter if they care about what they practice, they hate hearing it.
So far, it only seems to be ratcheting up persecution.
I’m pretty sure at this point if you’re not doing anything else you’re just emphasizing impunity and lack of consequences.
If Republicans didn’t have mirrors they wouldn’t know their own reflection
So, what, some sort if orbital magnifying glass to burn them with? Wouldn’t the atmosphere make that really hard?
Not a magnifying glass. Giant tungton rods. No explosive need. Just drop them from space. Kinetic energy does the rest
This happened Monday, and this is the first I’ve heard of it.
But, today some cops were shot in PA, and it’s immediately all over the news. There’s a press conference going on now, and everyone is shocked and sad.
…today some cops were shot in PA…
Some? I saw one about a guy who went into work and having seen someone there with a gun before not in uniform and said he decided he was going to shoot him. Last I knew he didn’t even ask for a lawyer, he just brought his gun in, shot him and put it back in the car after apparently then let them arrest him.
Guess I’ll have to go searching for the others
I just had this exact same experience.
Tearing each other apart while the billionaires laugh at us.
because no one cares when homeless people die. And in fact the fox news guy just said the quiet part out loud of what A LOT of people think.
I do volunteer work outreach work for the homeless and it’s a weekly thing to see homeless people beaten up, attacked in their sleep, etc. This isn’t a new thing.
Women, children, differently gendered and slight of build are raped regularly, in addition to other physical abuse on the streets as well.
FFS Republicans. You own this 100%
They dont ever own shit
Well, sometimes they own other people
Because they never pay. They just keep getting free passes.
The problem is that they’re happy to own it.
So how do we stop them? Law’s not gonna do shit, but fox news did incite multiple mass murders here. What kind of consequences can be applied?
The only downside to a strike is not enough people striking.
So, a ‘strike’ has come to mean ‘work stoppage’
And historically that has been the most mild of its possible meanings.
Sabotage of machinery and doing work as normal but dividing the product up among workers or giving it out for free, lying to suppliers, and all sorts of more aggressive tactics have traditionally been included in what that word meant. A lot of that doesn’t take a lot of people.
If you were to hack Grindr…
Don’t ask what I’m gonna do, comrade.
[ Removed by Reddit ] is the only idea that comes to mind, alas.
So, like, anything between a gently worded letter that never quite asks explicitly but strongly implies what you’d like and full on accellerationist posadism?
Members of the fascist party could not be reached for comment, but their neighbors did report noise complaints, from the volume of masturbation.
Arm the homeless
House the homeless!
Kill two birds with one stone:
I bet you’ve been just waiting for this moment, to pull that one out, haven’t you?
I was a boy scout and loved The Lion King; I am always prepared.
And I just noticed something: that’s a white house, and the roof and upper floor has been thoroughly washed in dried blood from impaled jabronies. :(
I was just listening to the Hell House theme a moment ago!
But I’m a gunsmith, not a carpenter. You don’t want me building houses. However, if you need some tips on making firearms out of things easily lifted from home depo, I’m your man.
“Alright, so get your power drill, and carefully duct tape it to the gun. That way, when you pull the trigger, you got a revolver.”
That’s a lot more expensive.
But a lot more stable in the long run.
So the cops are just okay with it? You don’t need to arm them?
I’m not sure giving people on the streets weapons wholesale is the answer when many are there due to illnesses that manifest in violence.
That’s exactly what they’re hoping for. Dehumanizing vulnerable people like that …
Well, I think we found our next target
"That’s the way it has to be now. Or, involuntary lethal injection. Yeah. Or something. Just kill ‘em, yeah,” Kilmeade said in response to his co-host suggesting homeless people suffering from mental illness be imprisoned if they do not accept treatment.
Can’t believe this is a real quote WTF
Yeah, Nexstar canceled Kimmel for calling this behavior out but still carries Fox
Ah. So that is why they call it TV programming.
so are we supposed to now talk about the fox host and his loving non bigoted rhetoric did not at all help this unfold? (/s)
I think we’re supposed to do something about it.
Just fucking stop
The Right are the party of murder.
Correction…MASS murder.
They know what they’re doing when they make stupid, inflammatory statements
There are countless stupid, hateful people itching for an excuse to be violent, and the people who call them to arms can deny all responsibility
But, do we know who the shooter voted for?
Were they brown, gay, or trans? Better question, were they influenced by the Bible?
Sturmabteilung taking it upon themselves to “rid society of the burden of the undesirables”. Just lovely. /s
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I don’t think you’re saying this in good faith
FistingEnthusiast, always bringing the truth.
There is literally zero chance that there were two separate incidents shortly after the guy saying that shit that weren’t related in any way.
I don’t know about you, but this is the first homeless camp mass shooting I’ve ever heard of, so the timing is more than a little curious no?
you look exactly as removed as they do.
tf?
Weird, your instance must be censoring the word. I see it here, but won’t repeat the ableist slur.
