Highland Park parade shooting was planned for weeks; gunman dressed like a woman during the rampage, police say
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The sniper squeezed off more than 70 rounds from his rooftop perch, randomly picking off victims below at the July Fourth celebration in the affluent Chicago suburb, police said.

I'm sure this won't be used as fuel to ramp up the war on trans people :doomjak: beyond terrified for my trans siblings and basically any gender non-conforming folks.

  • sofia_commie [she/her,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I already got an unsolicited notification from the New York Post saying "Highland Park Shooter dressed as a woman" making it sound like he was a crossdresser in his personal time.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I wouldn't be surprised if he put on women's clothes because of the fake news the channers tried to push that the Uvalde guy was a trans woman. Like people were saying yesterday, this guy was cooked up in a lab to gin up the fash.

      • PasswordRememberer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Idk how serious vs ironic people were being when the "American gladio" hypothesis was first trotted out but it's looking more correct with each passing day. Only difference compared to gladio part 1 is that the American left of the 10s and 20s is way less organized than the post war left was in Italy

        Death to America

        • Commander_Data [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          I saw the PSL out in Chicago on Sunday. 16 communists in a park shouting into a megaphone and holding signs was enough to elicit 4 Chicago police and the paddy wagon driving in circles around the park. The intent is very much to suppress any kind of leftist organization. I think the increasing anti-trans rhetoric is part of the suppression because every left organization I've been in has had several trans members.

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

          At this point I 95% believe it. Like it basically feels like Occam’s razor at this point; If there is an American gladio, this is exactly what it would look like, and if there isn’t how the fuck would this happen? This situation is way more explainable if there is.

      • thirstywizard [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I see this becoming a trend and I don't like the places this is going to go.