14 students killed, 1 teacher dead in elementary school shooting, Texas governor says: LIVE
abc13.com
The suspect was identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School.
  • American_Badass [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • OperationOgre [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      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

      • American_Badass [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.