[CW: Violence, Death, Stalking]
Updated body count as of a few minutes ago:
19 kids, 3 adults including the gunman.
He also cyberstalked a woman before shooting.
Fuck this country. 3rd deadliest school shooting after Sandy Hook and VA Tech.
This is just really hitting me like a train, comrades. These poor people, the tiny babies. Dead for what? This bullshit? 40,000 years of human civilization and this is the bastion of democracy?
I try to teach my own children to be kind and empathetic, to love and reach out with kindness in a world that already has so much cruelty, but how do you explain this? What do you say to the families that are so devastated? This is the price paid for freedom and consumption?
How are things so bad in the Imperial core? We sit atop plundered riches on a skull throne, and this is the bounty we've reaped? Just buckets of blood spilled?
I feel so terribly for my friends and family who are having kids now. I feel like I can hardly bring anything up about the future without some implicit warning about the health and safety of their children
It's hard sometimes, friend. I think on the world we've created, and the complicity I feel in the making of it. I don't know. It's just so much death. Covid, mass shootings, our periodic carpet bombing of the third world. And then just the poor innocent children slaughtered at elementary school or incinerated in a drone strike.
How does it all end? How did so much death become so normal? Columbine was such a big deal, and it was only 20 years ago. I feel crazy or something, like I'm the strange one for feeling this way.
I feel crazy or something, like I’m the strange one for feeling this way.
They've been trying to atomize this shit for decades now so we never see it for the systemic issue it is. At least here I can see sane and sober responses to this tragedy. Love to all my comrades, if you're feeling weird you can PM me and we can talk. Open invitation. Times like this we need human connections and if you aren't getting enough IRL or online or whatever I'll listen.
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What a deeply deeply sick and depraved country, absolutely pathetic and disgusting that this perverted country somehow continues normally existing. There are widespread guns and troubled young people in the whole world, but only the US has reached such a vile degree of wretchedness that accepts a reality where literal children are mercilessly gunned down in schools every few days. I truly wish that a merciless God exists and could condemn the evil society that has grown here.
It’s worse. The way Abbot said it live it is VERY clear he doesn’t give AF about the teacher. At least at Sandy Hook the teachers were respected as well. But nope, in current era the teachers can go fuck off and probably also deserve it according to most conservatives
I mean look at covid. Teachers were already on the sacrificial altar of capital. Kids are just the newest addition.
Kids are just the newest addition.
Sandy Hook was about 10 years ago.
I see what you're saying, but the indifference at this point is particularly striking. At least I had a small hope for change after Sandy Hook.
Hey, you forgot that some of the kids might have been killed by police crossfire.
They lit that place up.
He engaged with at least two officers inside the school who returned fire.
Weeks away from when they just drone strike the whole school and go "mission accomplished"
"Active shooter killed. Sixteen others dead in collateral. Investigation pending."
Absolutely bizarre how I have to go into work tomorrow, do my stupid fucking job and act as if 14 CHILDREN weren't gunned down at an elementary school
I think about that tweet that says something like "Every day I have to wake up and face the most horrific shit I've ever seen and then go around saying things like 'nice weather we're having'" a lot.
I usually actually say what I think usually people aren't too weirded out
Imagine having to send your kids to school tomorrow. I gotta GTFO of this shithole country
Kevlar backpacks should've been the signal for another country to take us over.
My country is also a neoliberal hellhole, but if this happened here it would be an unprecedented tragedy and there would at least be a nationwide minute of silence in schools tomorrow or something. Hell, I could see some elementary schools closing entirely for a day to allow freaked out parents to cool down.
Just how far gone the US are is nothing but shocking, it should be a cautionary to every nation on this planet, and the fact that there still people who glamorize it is absurd.
That would require every single school shooter to not be a dumb fucking dipshit. The stupidest, most worthless and cowardly evil.
The propaganda crafted by the CIA pushes people into this line of thinking so people never target those in power. It only works on the worst of us, but it only has to work on the worst of us.
If you’re gonna do a spree shooting how about a country club or a health insurance company headquarters?
ICE is on the scene of a shooting that took place in a heavily Hispanic school so undocumented parents have to consider arrest deportation before they go check to see if their kids are alive. What a fucking country.
They're considered "first responders" a whole 100 miles away from the border.
It’s been almost 10 years since Sandy Hook. Nothing has changed.
Truth-o-meter rating: False. We have even more lax gun ownership laws now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry
Honestly doesn't mean anything
A friend of mine recently cut off contact with a (latino) friend of their's because he was sympathetic to white nationalist rhetoric
I had a friend who was a gusano, big trump Stan, wouldn’t pass as white in the us but was relatively light complected and was definitely a white supremacist regardless
:wonder-who-thats-for:
I can't comprehend that level of bootlicking though. "Yes I deserve to be exterminated by the superior white race, shall I throw myself into the gas chamber for you, Master? :bootlicker: :bootlicker: :bootlicker: "
Imagine aspiring to be a Sonderkommando
I've got a latino coworker who keeps bringing up 4chan shit and always looks mad uncomfortable when I remind him that even /diy/ fell to /pol/ and blames bad drywall on the Jews.
That guy is definitely shitposting some questionable things.
DC shooter
there are so many shootings now that I don't recall hearing anything about this at all :desolate:
How does the protocol go? President makes somber speech. NRA holds rally in city of shooting. Flags fly at half mast. Michael Moore makes a movie. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Alex Jones sells turboforce to chuds that shave their mustache but leave a beard
Jones must be positively turgid right now reading the headlines for Sandy Hook 2.0
He has a perpetual case of whiskey dick, it really takes something special to get him going nowadays.
All that spicy chili ruined his ability to connect his brain to his dick
You forgot #ThoughtsAndPrayers for a day or two and then go back to collectively plan how to shoot an abortion clinic.
"The Buffalo and California shootings were two of 312 incidents of gun violence in the U.S. this weekend. Nearly 130 were killed."
I'm sorry, THREE FUCKING HUNDRED SHOOTINGS???? JUST THIS WEEKEND?????
I think that includes all shootings, not just like, mass shootings
There are 326 cities in the US with populations over 100,000. so that's roughly one gun-related incident per each.
My kid is disabled. What the fuck are they meant to do when they literally can’t run for their lives?
This is hitting me like a fucking freight train, especially the knowledge that this is only going to get worse while folks shrug their shoulders and continue to normalize it, just like Covid and climate change.
Truly a fucking cursed time.
I asked my kids if they do shooter drills, one said "we are told to stay under our desks but that's dumb, that won't do anything"
He's 8
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Absolutely ridiculous. If my time ever comes you best believe im climbing out that window and running for the hills
We were told not to run, just hide in the classrooms with the lights off and doors locked and hope the shooter isn't targeting someone specifically
Flimsy door lock that can be picked with a toothpick vs. shotgun, who would win?
