Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

no

Beto not dancing around the question of Trump’s complicity.

well it's not like he has much to lose, is it?

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Lt Gov to Gov is a step down in Texas. Lt. Gov has more power. I've had little but contempt for Dan Patrick in my years living in TX. Sports radio personality to would be Limbaugh to state senator to the Lt. Gov. There are some parallels with Pence's trajectory. Fuck em all.

Abbott is too busy trying to get women to bury their fetal remains to do anything worthy for people who are actually alive..

yes

xp interested in your posts Sanpaku

Still, Patrick would have to take the demotion if Abbott took a drive down Elm Street.

Not intended to be a tree joke, btw.

yes a drive down Elm Street

sorry to lose track of this thread

I roll my eyes at this guy a lot, but not with this take:

President Trump's racism does not just offend our sensibilities; it fundamentally changes the character of this country. And it leads to violence. pic.twitter.com/SbuxGneFnh

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 4, 2019

nah im cool with shitting on tx politicos, it's cathartic if futile

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I liked the compassion of beto's response

Another shooting in Dayton, I'm hearing as many as 10 or more dead.

White gun owners claim to arm themselves against the tyranny of the state. Yet most of them fetishize cops and the military (if they don't belong to either already). So for whom are their weapons really intended? I think the answer's pretty clear. pic.twitter.com/iexhTn1Ldb

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) August 4, 2019

9 confirmed dead in the Ohio massacre

Christ, I’m ready to move back to New Zealand

What the fuuuuuck

4 of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in American history have happened since Trump got elected in 2016.

Could it be that he's presiding over a crime infested hellhole?

the term is shithole

Just stating the facts.

Good article on how these could keep escalating:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-paso-shooting-and-the-gamification-of-terror/

Solid analysis, thanks for the link.

Dayton...are you fucking kidding me

One of these days people are going to successfully flee one mass shooting only to wind up in the middle of a different one a block away.

stories of people who have survived multiple mass shootings feels pretty routine now... was just reading one the other day about a group of las vegas survivors who had gathered at the garlic festival the day of that shooting, including one woman who said it was the first time she had gone to a big crowded outdoor event since vegas

It has already happened, sort of:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18935385

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2019

Imagine reading through the never-ending 'Description' column and concluding that nothing ought to be done.

motherfucker die

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Asked-about-El-Paso-shooter-Lt-Gov-Dan-Patrick-14279387.php

when you survive a second terrorist attack in a completely different state, I honestly don’t know how you’re even able to leave your house again. I can’t imagine how severe the ptsd must be.

Dayton shooter appears to have killed his sister and her boyfriend prior to this attack.

he really showed 'em

really? everything says right now that they were all in the same area.

Very scary right now. I think about this fairly often, more than anyone should, when I'm in movie theaters. That's been there to varying degrees since Aurora, but now you've got the copycat effect or whatever, one has to imagine the Dayton shooter felt scooped by El Paso or something- not that he wasn't prepared, but fuck me, are we going to go a week without another one?

Video games are to blame

At least Mitchy fractured his shoulder today. Some good news

Maybe he broke it while shrugging at another mass shooting. https://t.co/KaOZwiVrUq

— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) August 4, 2019

smashmouth otm

https://66.media.tumblr.com/214f488112523af6e49d35ffdda44514/5a262c4af85bc3d9-47/s1280x1920/51ec4ebad787cf91df82af2be6b5fb686a74b4f3.jpg

It's also important to remember that in any average 48-hour period we generally lose at least two days. This is important data which is totally on par with random acts of mass homicide.

hate this but smug fuck so much

In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.

On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…

500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun

Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 4, 2019

probably should just recognize that the flu is going to kill us all, why take vaccines

I never paid him much attention, has he always been such a turd?

FUCK OFF!!!! There's your data!!!!

— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) August 4, 2019

Sorry, should have read further up the thread.

Wow smashmouth otm

I don't know whether anyone's made this point but the "it's video games' fault!" argument is especially disingenuous because both the fox news types making it and the channers it is supposedly in reference to know that neither has any serious beef with the other. if this wasn't clear before it became crystal clear when jack thompson decided to support g*mergate

that's why I'm not overwhelmed with that 'gamification of mass murder' article posted upthread. sure some random channers made bodycount 'high score' comments. of course they did (and the first one in the article is so vague it looks like it's open to other interpretations). ironic gaming references are part of the entire culture and partic that part of our culture.

re Tyson, basically anybody pushed on the USA by PBS sucks shit

even big bird!?