Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Alfred, oh my god.

After Sandy Hook, I read about how the group of parents waiting in a firehouse had dwindled until finally they were told that if they were still there, their children were dead. The reporters wrote that the screaming could be heard from the street.

I will never forget that.

— Maggie Astor (@MaggieAstor) May 24, 2022

maybe schools can start teaching classes past the security gates at the airport

xpost honestly the firehouse story was the first thing I thought of when I heard about today's shooting. there's no good way to break the news to anybody, but learning in that fashion has to be heartwrenching

I hope these parents don’t also have to face years of stalking by Alex Jones sickos

here's a thought i've been having post-Roe v. Wade and now this:

the other side got mad enough to storm the fucking capitol building

at what point does our side consider the same?

i don't mean that to be, like, threatening or a mic drop moment or something.

i seriously wonder about that. do we ever get to that point?

we had to endure that here in Orlando after Pulse. I lost my shit at one of the trolls and I didn't even know any of the victims (though my brother worked with one). can't even imagine how someone who did would - it's something that literally nobody had to deal with pre-internet/oversaturated 24-hour online news era.

xpost - I think a general strike would be more productive myself.

here's a thought i've been having post-Roe v. Wade and now this:

the other side got mad enough to storm the fucking capitol building

at what point does our side consider the same?

Except "our side's" elected officials would crumple and denounce us fucking immediately in the name of decorum.

Back to thinking how many kids were safer in 'lockdown'

^^ who knew being in school during a pandemic was the comparatively safer route?

xxxxxxpost violent revolution is necessary in certain circumstances. i don't know that our side would have the stomach for it though.

I remember reading a few people saying "if Trump does manage to steal this election, we will take to the streets and PEACEFULLY protest" and I was like, cool, the illegitimate President in power will say "we'll take your concerns under advisement". like had he been successful, 'peaceful' protests would have essentially been like handing the office to them without resistance. I hate violence but had the unthinkable happened, no peaceful protest would have made waves.

Republicans will show up at the steps of the Capitol if the price of a Whopper goes up 20 cents. Democrats will show up with shittily made signs and singing shitty songs when the streets are on fire.

Yeah, well such is the price of following the actual teachings of Jesus.

I had jury duty earlier this month, and had to go through a full security shakedown and a metal detector.. not even a swiss army knife allowed

Maybe that's what it's coming to everywhere

yeah, it's hard to imagine what could cause an insurrection from the left. how much worse can it get than restricting women's personal health care decisions and killing our children...

yeah, it's hard to imagine what could cause an insurrection from the left

Having a president that would actively encourage one?

Columbine survivor here. My oldest son just finished his first year of college. This is America. There is no end in sight for the steady cadence of mass gun violence we seem unwilling to ever address. A reality my peers could not have imagined on our worst day in April 1999.

— Craig Nason (@nasoncraig) May 24, 2022

Manchin just last week expressed his opinion that even after the Buffalo shooting, movement on gun reform did not look likely.

“Are we going to another vote for the sake of taking a vote? Let’s do some mental illness reform,” Manchin said.

Yeah, let's reform mental illness man

People on the left definitely need to own more guns. Specifically, sniper's rifles.

America's gun culture - in seven charts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41488081

Lol mind ay how thrilled ppl were by the georgia runoff giving the democrats a senate majority

I remember that sense of optimism.

americans bought 40 million guns in the calendar year 2020

40 million

actually that doesn't include guns bought in states without a background check, or guns bought illegally

when you google stuff like that pretty much every result is a pro-gun SEO farm

Republicans are afraid of their base and give them what they want. When are we going to make Democrats afraid of their base?


Even darker thought: the right wing is deliberately murdering us. We need to fight back with their tactics.

I think a big part of the problem is that the actual "left" in the U.S. is small, prone to infighting, disorganized and demoralized, and is certainly not represented by the Democrats in the way that the right wing is represented by the Republicans.

i'll spare the newsmax video, but Texas AG Ken Paxton, asked in a newsmax "interview" what kinds of things should be done, said something about the buildings being built in a way so there is only one point of entry before switching to his thought that the teachers should have had guns

His repeated appearances on The Circus somehow almost managed to make me relieved it was Abbott in charge instead of him. (Emphasis on almost obv.)

now 18 children, 3 adults. fuck

how have mass-shootings not occurred at these nra conventions/meetings yet? or have they?

I am so fucking tired of the “just vote, we all have to vote, voting is all we can do to change this” Twitter brigade. Bullshit, I’ve been voting for gun control and politicians in favor of gun control for two fucking decades now and absolutely fuck all has been done. It’s clear that isn’t enough and it isn’t working.

even the politicians have stopped pretending that voting does anything

I’ve had it with this crap.

people (reportedly 4channers) have apparently just been grabbing random photos of trans women they think look remotely like the photos of the shooter they've apparently been able to find (or think they've found, who knows), and using them to claim the shooter was trans.

— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) May 25, 2022

Really weird thing to say after this tragedy.

For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 24, 2022

Not a weird thing when you've transitioned into being a full-time troll whose media career subsists primarily on hate clicks.

Looks like the cops were useless.

Oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/ybWMsZWbyP

— Jordan (@SLCLunk) May 25, 2022

What they don’t tell you is teachers are told in training that they have to lock out any of their students who are out of the classroom, *out of the classroom*. Even if they beg and bang on the door. Because there could be a shooter using them to access your classroom.

— Erin Hahn is writing another romance (@erinhahn_author) May 24, 2022

can’t wait for dem leadership to celebrate the bravery of the crybabies in blue for keeping the death toll just under two dozen

"Voting, on its own, will not be enough to change that. We have to decide: what will be?"

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-is-what-happens-when-you-live?s=r

lol

I’ve often urged others to be more mindful and considered in what they say on here, and often acknowledged that I don’t always live up to that standard — my widely criticized remarks yesterday evening were an example of that and I’m sorry.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 25, 2022

"Voting, on its own, will not be enough to change that. We have to decide: what will be?"

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-is-what-happens-when-you-live?s=r🕸

A tiny minority is about to impose its will on abortion on a vast majority. What will it take for the majority to assert itself?

And the Democratic Party as currently constituted wont do anything. They exist to thwart the will of the majority too.

If anything, the second amendment is how you should overthrow these motherfuckers.

What is tyranny if not keeping an entire nation hostage to the NRA and people like Ken Paxton?

you and all of your families would suffer and likely perish in a civil war