Well, it obviously also helps to be white. And male. And completely devoid of any sense of shame or humility or compassion. You put all those things together and you’re golden. Or at least in a position to buy a golden toilet.
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Clearly.
Aye.
The message was completely overshadowed by the needlessly condescending and hostile tone.
Even Paris Hilton has better business sense than he does.
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Also the leaked video relating to her sex life didn’t reveal anything non-consensual.
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Any condescension and hostility is completely unintended in the context of this board. Fully intended in the context of the NRA, 45 and other fear-mongers who will use this tragedy for their own advancement and self-interest. To be fair, those people don’t read BB.
I still think it is worthwhile to frame these tragedies in an objective assessment of risk, to avoid unnecessary fear, and to allow effective policy to be shaped in a rational fashion.
Then there’s the fact that she even has a better sense of self-awareness and the concept of consequences for one’s actions.
Despite her typical attention-seeking antics, notice how we haven’t really heard jack about PH in the last few years?
She just kinda ‘fell off the radar’… coincidentally not too long after Grand-Daddy Hilton told her to get some ‘act right’ or her inheritance would get cut.
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I would say it would be primarily gun-rights people that would attack him as a coward precisely because it disproves the good guy with a gun theory, and makes it even more ridiculous to try to arm teachers.
Because now you have to not only hire trained armed guards but make sure they are ‘brave’ as well.
Considering that even in Dallas the police used a robot with a bomb to kill the shooter, were they cowards as well?
BTW I heard that yesterday, some kid in an elementary school found a gun in a teacher’s drawer prompting a lockdown and the police being summoned. Maybe that will be the NRA;'s next step why not just arm the kids, I mean there’s a country in Africa, I don’t know where exactly, but they have a whole army of kids.
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I’ve heard that he’s quite clever, but maybe “criminal” is better than War criminal 43, so far no wars.
(Though I hope it’s true that the 3 generals Mattis, etc have an unspoken agreement not to be all out of the country at the same time, to prevent him from over-reacting to Fox news report on some other NK missile test and turning it into a carpark.)
You don’t need to start a new war to commit war crimes. Which, arguably, this administration already has by bombing hospitals and ramping up civilian casualties by considerable margins.
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Just for Donald, are you able to narrow that down to gun violence?
Good stats. Absolutely terrifying. Descent of an empire? Jeez but jeez.
The kids are alright
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That is great stuff. Are we on the cusp of change? It would be nice to think so.
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This is what happens when a generation that spent decades tolerating the Cult of Moloch* finally loses its electoral and market clout to a generation that saw too many of its own members thrown into the furnace: the “slow AIs” suddenly start paying attention to murdered HS school students in 2018 in a way that they didn’t to 20 murdered preschool kids just 6 years ago.
Here’s list of the slow AIs of today:
[* amongst other conservative cults of death, hate, fear, and greed]
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Don’t leave out this one:
“The latest company to distance itself from the NRA was insurer Chubb Ltd (CB.N), which on Friday said it would stop underwriting a controversial NRA-branded insurance policy for gun owners that covers legal costs in self-defense shootings.” -Reuters
So, when the city folk anti-gun liberals come out into the country side to kill them what’s going to protect them now? /X s
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I was watching a Joe Rogan clip on this recently. He seemed conflicted on what to do. He brought up an instance where a GGwaG (Good Guy with a Gun) stopped a knifey-stabby mall shooter. Joe acknowledged he didn’t know the exact details, wasn’t sure of the state, etc. As they continued to talk, someone off screen corrected Joe about the state.
Then they collectively tried to come up with more examples but couldn’t. There was some confusion about the one example already given. Perhaps Joe’s original location was really a separate incident? Or was the same incident, they just confused it to two incidents due to two states being mentioned. I didn’t watch 'til the end; perhaps they came up with more examples of GGwaG.
Anyhow, my point is, or rather, what I shouted at the laptop screen, I’d bet my left arm that Joe or his guests could easily rattle off 5, perhaps even 10 different mass shootings. And many people could do the same. I’d bet the other arm that a majority of randomly selected persons-in-the-street could name & describe the basic details (name of incident, number of people killed/wounded, name of the shooter(s), etc) of 3 or 4 mass shootings, but not a single GGwaG, and certainly not in detail.
The only people who have the GGwaG details would be 2nd Amendment enthusiasts, anxious to find any example to use as support.
Puts it in perspective. As do all the other stats.
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Yep - spot on.
Suicide by cop will become suicide by teacher.
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Odd. There are entire web sites devoted to it, easily found.
Only since it became the case that just as many terrorists are fantasising about attacking schools as are fantasising about attacking American embassies. And getting good at making their fantasies real.
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I’m assuming that the armed guard who didn’t go in has now resigned in protest at not being given enough of the right sort of guns to be able to do his job properly.
