Real Years Of Lead hours in the empire in decline.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    say-the-line-bart-1

    say-the-line-bart-2 "No way to stop this, says only country where this regularly happens."

        • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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          9 days ago

          So far in September, I think we're up to something like one every 14 hours.

          Soon enough, it'll be like Pacific Rim and we'll have a double event at the same location

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            9 days ago

            Showing up to prom in the same dress as someone else, but its you and another student independently showing up with a rifle.

            • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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              9 days ago

              Honestly I'm shocked we haven't had a coincidental double mass shooting, but I'm also always surprised we don't have more assassinations? Or at least attempts. If you're gonna do it anyway, a senator is way cooler than just shooting up a mall or something

              • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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                8 days ago

                I'm the opposite of an expert, but I believe from what I've read is that a lot of mass shooters tend to have more concrete "plans" about specific attacks, but something (panic, timing, etc.) has a way of convincing them to go with the simple plan of "pick crowded area and shoot people" instead of targeted attacks.

            • LeZero [he/him]
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              8 days ago

              Just like that scene in It's Always Sunny where Mac and Charlie look at each other in the restaurant, but it's both the school shooters opening their sports bag at the prom ball

          • Chronicon [they/them]
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            9 days ago

            the only way to stop a mass shooter is with a second mass shooter in the same location

            • Ildsaye [they/them]
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              8 days ago

              They shoot all of each other's bullets midflight, then, with only one round left each, they shoot the guns out of each other's hands, saving the day. The NRA hails them both as heroes

            • Stache_@lemmy.ml
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              9 days ago

              something something …sucks up all the oxygen to extinguish the fire… something something

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    9 days ago

    amerikkka has so much gun violence that years of lead shit hardly rises above the background noise

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    9 days ago

    Useless piece of shit country won’t even focus the violence towards companies and government organizations.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      8 days ago

      Amerikkkans really are just the absolute worst. Shooting innocent people just going about their business when there are many many others who are truly deserving

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 days ago

    The acceptance of gun violence in Imperial America reminds me of how mob violence became normalized in the Russian Federation. That sort of activity would have been inconceivable in the Soviet Union, but then the counterrevolutionaries laid waste to the Eastern Bloc and organized crime suddenly looked like reasonable means of survival.

    Once, in the middle of a phone conversation, I heard some muffled bangs, and the phone went quiet. When I asked him what the noise was, he replied, “Oh, it was just the Russian mob firing their guns in the street.” I thought he was joking — he wasn’t.

    I was too little to understand the controversy surrounding the Columbine High massacre, but I later did some research on it and it was almost astounding how everybody went apeshit finding somebody to blame, to the point where the capitalist media got in touch with Marilyn Manson and Doom nerds to confirm that they have no itch to either commit or endorse atrocities. Now? It’s hard to imagine the Columbine High massacre making anywhere near the same impact that it made decades ago.

  • bigboopballs [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    The London Police Department has identified 32-year-old Joseph A. Couch as a person of interest who is considered “armed and dangerous.” He is described as a White man, roughly 5 foot, 10 inches, weighing about 154 pounds, police said.

    The hot-couch guys have taken to violence.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      9 days ago

      White man

      I am completely shocked by this. Totally inconceivable. Would descendants of slave owning settlers that killed millions of indigenous people really do that? Just go around killing random people?

    • buh [she/her]
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      9 days ago

      He’s angry because JD Vance fucked his mom doin-your-mom

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    9 days ago

    fuck.

    so based on my read here somebody decided to take shots at passing motorists from the side of the interstate?

    my partner drives for a living and knows where this is

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      9 days ago

      so based on my read here somebody decided to take shots at passing motorists from the side of the interstate?

      So far that's what it sounds like, like it was mentioned itt DC Sniper vibes.

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    When this happened in Phoenix a decade ago people drew targets on their windows. Deeply normal behavior.

      • dannoffs [he/him]
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        9 days ago

        Basically the same thing happened in 2015 in Phoenix where someone was taking pot shots at cars for like two weeks on the I-10. While it was going on gun chuds drew targets and phrases daring the shooter to hit them on their car windows.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          9 days ago

          Aah. Eh, if you have no choice, a bit of dark humor can't harm I guess