A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said
:agony: :agony:
The shooting happened just days after a Black teenager in Kansas City was shot twice by a White homeowner after going to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. No words were exchanged before Andrew Lester opened fire on 16-year-old Ralph Yarl as the teen stood at Lester’s front door, according to a probable cause document obtained by CNN. Lester, who told police he thought the teen was trying to break in, faces two felony charges in the case, which has reignited the debate over so-called “stand your ground” laws.
Truly wack-ass, goddamn awful country where "shoot first, ask questions later" is taken as ethos
We are entering an era of American ultra-violence. Just a massive psychosis of every NIMBY whack job, where they have finally reached peak derangement and paranoia. I swear you can feel it walking down the street. Everyone driving home in their Dodge pickup truck is one spilled 24oz gas station soda away from a murder-suicide.
My life-a-movie but it's a Paul Verhoeven film :stalin-stressed:
Billions must die :grillman:
I went to the dispensary yesterday to pick up some flower. They were having a huge sale and the parking lot of 10ish spaces was completely full. I sorta just waited (blocking a few cars) while someone exited their space, thinking that once they get out I can take the space and be done blocking peoples' cars.
The person exiting managed to wiggle their civic out from the normal-sized space that was being infringed on by a massive fucking truck whose tires spilled over both lines on both sides of the space, so I quickly discovered that I (being slightly wider than a civic in a camry) couldn't quite fit there. Rather than try, I resolve to sit and wait a few more seconds because another car has pulled out of a slightly more convenient spot. As I'm waiting (it's now probably been 2 minutes total since I arrived in the parking lot), a lady gets out of a car whose exit I'm unavoidably blocking because my choices are (a) wait for the new space to open up or (b) exit the parking lot that I just arrived in. She approaches my window and knocks hard a few times before asking "what the fuck are you doing". I say as calmly as possible, "I'm waiting for a space and I'll move as soon as I can", gesturing at the car currently backing out in front of us. She makes a frustrated noise and says fuck a few more times before hitting my rear window and getting back in her car.
By this point, the person who was exiting their space has been spooked by the commotion and decided to pull back into the space. Rather than cause a confrontation, I drove a mile around the block and parked in front of some residences near the dispensary and just walked.
I hope that lady had a better afternoon than her morning :deeper-sadness:
This is exactly what I mean! Everyone seems to be ready to confront each other with anger. I think it might be a psychological symptom of worsening material conditions.
That and reduced prefrontal-cortical capacity from covid imo
Literally the rage virus from 28 days later but people freaking the fuck out at each other at the grocery store.
This is exactly what I was talking about a couple days ago when I posted about feeling bad vibes in the US
So many :grillman: and :frothingfash: want so very badly to live out their le epic zombie apocalypse power fantasies. The real "horror" in that genre is that side of the fandom. :scared-fash: