Nickel Creek - Celebrants (Official Music Video)
From the new album Celebrants, out now: https://orcd.co/celebrantsNickel Creek is Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins
Bass: Jeff PickerDirector: Josh Goleman
Producer: Robert H. Dyar Jr
PA: Darrel Green
Engineer: Tim Reitnouer
Mix: David Boucher
Location: Layman Drug Company
Prod Co: Creative Team Studios#nickelcreek #newmusic #americana #bluegrass #folk
North Dakota:
I spoke with Wyndmere fire chief a few minutes ago. He said this is an ‘evolving’ situation. He says crews are monitoring the air and all property owners around the incident have been notified, but said he couldn’t share much more than that. I’ll keep you updated.
— Bailey Hurley (@BaileyHurleyVNL) March 27, 2023
WATCH: Here is drone video shared with us by a viewer who lives near the derailment in Wyndmere. What a mess. Still no official updates from my last tweets. pic.twitter.com/X4tK9tIwjy
— Bailey Hurley (@BaileyHurleyVNL) March 27, 2023
I don’t even know what to say about another school shooting. We’re utterly helpless to do anything about America’s insane addiction to guns.
I don’t think anyone (including the founding fathers, who, may I remind you, often felt it was OK to own people) would think that consistent slaughtering of children is the hallmark of a well-regulated militia. https://t.co/fXVJQsCj0b
— Txnewsprincess (@txnewsprincess) March 27, 2023
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I don’t even know what to say about another school shooting. We’re utterly helpless to do anything about America’s insane addiction to guns.
As long as stupid people vote for Republicans, the slaughter will continue.
Without the stupid vote, the party would not have the power to inflict the damage they do.
Maybe Democrats need to start lying to idiots like Republicans do.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I don’t even know what to say about another school shooting. We’re utterly helpless to do anything about America’s insane addiction to guns.
This country is being held hostage, but the hostage takers are shooting the hostages and then saying, “Look what you made us do!”
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I don’t even know what to say about another school shooting. We’re utterly helpless to do anything about America’s insane addiction to guns.
Clearly, we need to start arming fourth graders.
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Seriously, fuck this shit. It just infuriates me how this happens over and over and over and nobody does a goddamn thing about it (and no, “Thoughts and Prayers” don’t fucking count).
Keep your ignorant ass outta my feed! https://t.co/S979AY3tgd
— 🕉🇺🇦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 (@StevieVanZandt) March 27, 2023
Two MNPD officers who entered the building and went to the sounds of gunfire engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her.
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 27, 2023
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
a 28-year-old Nashville woman
And this was a Christian school. $20 says she was raped or otherwise sexually abused there.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, at least they were braver than Uvalde police.
Republican politicians think dead children are a small price to pay for their re-election.
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) March 27, 2023
Wokeness isn’t killing kids in school.
Books aren’t killing kids in school.
Lessons about slavery & racism aren’t killing kids in school.
Learning about gay & queer people isn’t killing kids in school.
Drag Queen Story Hours aren’t killing kids in school.
Guns are!— Sari Beth Rosenberg (@saribethrose) March 27, 2023
re: #9 Nerdy Fish
And this was a Christian school. $20 says she was raped or otherwise sexually abused there.
This was my first thought when it was disclosed the shooter was female.
I wonder if Republicans are wearing their AR-15 lapel pins to work today….?
— michael (@DalesKid1967) March 27, 2023
Here’s @SherylCrow calling out NRA favorite @MarshaBlackburn — who gets millions in blood money to make sure access to and proliferation of guns is never blamed for anything no matter how many children die. #HowManyMore #BloodyHandsBlackburn 🇺🇸💔 pic.twitter.com/0pZU88q06X
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 27, 2023
re: #13 rhuarc
This was my first thought when it was disclosed the shooter was female.
I mean, I really do hate to be That Guy and bring it up this early. It’s irresponsible speculation, but the sad thing is, there is very much a non-zero likelihood that it could be true. But that’s all I’m going to say on the matter; let’s let the verified news reports tell the story for us.
WOW. A mom literally just interrupted a Fox livestream and called out Republicans directly for their failure to act on gun violence. This woman is a hero. We must call them out every day. pic.twitter.com/qVCm4whs56
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) March 27, 2023
From downstairs. (blessings on you CL)
re: #416 The Ghost of a Flea
Two minutes on that account and: this is profoundly stupid. It’s very specific kind of preening dude stupidity; the facade of knowledge, a thin candy shell of classical erudition. What forty year old teenage boys and people who got into crypto think is cool.
This is the most basic, “impress people at cocktail parties” list possible. Half those books are laughably bad—Clausewitz is a red herring, Sun Tzu basically a laundry list scraped from prior materials. Gorin no Sho is…minimally applicable advice for swordfighting that’s only revolutionary if you’re a Meiji samurai accustomed to peace and overhyped McDojo sword schools. Anyone that advocates “the Prince” but not the Discourses is a poseur, and it’s especially stupid in context that they don’t mention Machiavelli’s own military manual.
But all that’s beside the point, because what’s really being presented is resentment: we’re such clever boys, isn’t it sad that the world won’t let us be in charge and get what we want?
God I hate it when Lacan is right.
They were all interesting when I was a teen.
For swords, read George Silver instead.
For tactics, stay in the modern world and get a copy of FM 3-90 from the US Army.
All of Machiavelli is meh.
I will admit to finding Sun Tsu the most useful of the bunch but that’s not saying a whole lot. BH Liddel Hart’s take on him in “Strategy” is better still, though the guys huge ego gets in the way of the knowledge and lets not get started on his promotion of the “clean Wehrmacht” & glorification of Rommel…
re: #359 William Lewis
That would be like … 20 MILLION in the streets here? Holy catfish batman!
Bit more than that actually:
About 3% of Israel’s total populace took to the streets of Tel Aviv at the peak of the protest, with estimates suggesting over 8% nationwide.
In US terms, that’s equivalent to over 10 million protesting in a single city & over 26 million protesters nationwide.
They are PISSED. https://t.co/obEMaBy8Vl— Arch 🛰️ (@Arch_LGF) March 26, 2023
re: #13 rhuarc
This was my first thought when it was disclosed the shooter was female.
It’s not uncommon for school shooters to have been abused at school, but we usually focus the blame on the shooter.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Went to the sound of shooting.” At least they weren’t cowards.
re: #20 Crush White Nationalism
It’s not uncommon for school shooters to have been abused at school, but we usually focus the blame on the shooter.
And that would still be true here. Just saying, as motivations go, that’s the obvious one.
re: #16 Nerdy Fish
I mean, I really do hate to be That Guy and bring it up this early. It’s irresponsible speculation, but the sad thing is, there is very much a non-zero likelihood that it could be true. But that’s all I’m going to say on the matter; let’s let the verified news reports tell the story for us.
If it’s true, and I am going to be seriously cynical here, it will be used by the Right as proof that women are too emotional to hold office.
re: #17 jaunte
Good on her.
In terms of interrupting Fox News and other right-wing echo chamber outlets, such interruptions need to happen much more often until shootings stop happening so damned often.
re: #16 Nerdy Fish
I mean, I really do hate to be That Guy and bring it up this early. It’s irresponsible speculation, but the sad thing is, there is very much a non-zero likelihood that it could be true. But that’s all I’m going to say on the matter; let’s let the verified news reports tell the story for us.
Laurie Dann, the female shooter in Illinois, was mentally ill. Let’s wait to see whether they can determine the motivation of the murderer in this case.
re: #24 (((Archangel1)))
She has such clarity compared with the thoughts and prayers mushmouth brigade.
re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter
Laurie Dann, the female shooter in Illinois, was mentally ill. Let’s wait to see whether they can determine the motivation of the murderer in this case.
I agree; I’m sorry. It’s one of those times I couldn’t resist, but I really shouldn’t have put that out there on the Internet.
UPDATE: The shooter was a 28-year-old woman with a possible connection to Covenant School. https://t.co/sKD0lIdxkf
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 27, 2023
Just to give an update on my dental issues: I’ve got the pain under control with Tylenol and ibuprofen. I have an appointment Wednesday morning to hopefully get the final root out. In the meantime, I am off work this week and will be spending time over at my mother’s so my brother can get things done around the house.
As a Nashvillian (and as, hopefully, a fairly decent person), today’s shooting at Covenant School (which, even though I’m off today, is maybe a couple of miles away from my office as the crow flies) makes me fucking ill.
At this point, I can’t and really don’t want to armchair quarterback what’s happened, I just can’t.
I’m using this tweet to show you how powerful confirmation bias is. The fact that all the evidence Brad requests is well established in the public record is why I argue we don’t need mere messaging, we need to figure out how to break mass psychosis. https://t.co/YQkeR9aJQl
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) March 27, 2023
Dunno if this got posted or not. Robert Downen was one of the reporters at the Houston Chronicle who exposed how the SBC basically kept predatory pastors around, even if they’d been convicted of abuse. Downen has since moved on to the Texas Tribune, where he is on the extremism beat, but he has this blockbuster story about Paul Pressler, one of the architects of the Southern Baptist conservative resurgence in the 1980s.
Under oath last month, Woodfill said he was told in 2004 that Pressler sexually abused a minor - claims that were made during mediation of an assault lawsuit against Pressler that Woodfill quietly settled for $450,000.https://t.co/YYTvtLASqm
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) March 27, 2023
The story is here: texastribune.org
Yeah, so a GOP operative knew that Pressler was likely assaulting kids and adults, yeah, that’s a thing. We’re talking the GOP. But the blockbuster part to me is the email the First Baptist Church of Houston sent to Pressler in 2004. Apparently Pressler pressured a young man (adult) and member of FBC to go skinny dipping with him and the young man complained. Here’s a link to the PDF:
Pressler was mentioned in the SBC report that came out last May (although it had to be ascertained, his name was not mentioned). But this is the deal—these men KNEW that Pressler was doing this shiz, and they gave him a slap on the wrist. Sorry, this is complete and utter bullshit, especially when these are the same people losing their shiz over drag queen story hour. It’s completely fucked up. /sorry not sorry to rant.
The Edith Kanakaʻole American Women Quarter is now available to purchase!
Edith Kanakaʻole was a prominent leader in the revitalization of Hawaiian language and culture—notably as a renowned kumu hula. That’s why I urged @usmint to honor her with this special recognition. pic.twitter.com/rlgGBIsZa1— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) March 27, 2023
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
She’s not wrong. Yes, people like Brad are dumb, and wrong. But they’re WILLFULLY dumb, and wrong, because they WANT to believe the cult leader. Showing them the facts isn’t going to change their minds, it’s just going to break their brain and make them invent ever crazier conspiracy theories to explain why their version of reality doesn’t line up with ours. The ONLY way to end this cycle is to un-program them, so that they’re inclined to re-evaluate these beliefs that they came to only by virtue of being indoctrinated in the cult.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
The only difference in this one: a woman is the shooter. That’s more unusual given that most mass shootings are carried out by white guys.
#UPDATE A 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville before being shot dead by police, in the latest outburst of gun violence to shock the United States.https://t.co/QXGBruuBJO pic.twitter.com/e1Q93ygEYL
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 27, 2023
This mass shooting will be out of the news once the next one hits, which statistically speaking means about 48 hours, give or take 12 hours.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I don’t even know what to say about another school shooting. We’re utterly helpless to do anything about America’s insane addiction to guns.
This time it was their children who were slaughtered (private Christian academy) and they still won’t do Jack shit to stop it, I guarantee it.
This fascist bag of hair profits off of the blood of innocent children. pic.twitter.com/GfITyvrJbF
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) March 27, 2023
re: #30 TedStriker
As a Nashvillian (and as, hopefully, a fairly decent person), today’s shooting at Covenant School (which, even though I’m off today, is maybe a couple of miles away from my office as the crow flies) makes me fucking ill.
As this point, I can’t and don’t want to armchair quarterback what’s happened, I just can’t.
Speculation about specifics in the latest case is always too soon. Talking about the topic more generally is always too late, because another one has happened.
The only way to political power is to organize. I just gave my email address to this group. I can’t do money at this point, but I am proceeding with the signup to be one of them. Make it us.
re: #38 Charles Johnson
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Give the people a witch to hunt, and they will fall for it every time.
re: #36 No Malarkey!
This time it was their children who were slaughtered (private Christian academy) and they still won’t do Jack shit to stop it, I guarantee it.
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Gun nut Republicans are the reason that Americans keep being slaughtered in their schools. Kick every Republican out of office if you value your children.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
re: #18 William Lewis
I’m…fascinated…by Niccolo Macchiavelli. Firenze is this petri dish of political experimentation—gangster monarchy, Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities, and the failed republic all happen in generation, a microcosm of European ferment—and that he’s a philosopher that both advocates for a republic to the point he gets tortured by the Medicis, and writes a manual for princes (a standardized text you made for a patron) that actually addresses the reality of absolute control just makes me wonder about the dude.
re: #39 No Malarkey!
Give the people a witch to hunt, and they will fall for it every time.
“We’ve found a witch! May we burn her?”
“Sure.”
“YAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” *happy crowd goes off to burn a witch*
— SIX MONTHS LATER —
“We’re bored! We’re hungry! We’re tired! Why won’t you do anything about this?!?”
“Hey, look, a witch! It’s all her fault!”
*REPEAT AD INFINITUM*
re: #42 Nerdy Fish
“We’ve found a witch! May we burn her?”
“Sure.”
“YAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” *happy crowd goes off to burn a witch*
— SIX MONTHS LATER —
“We’re bored! We’re hungry! We’re tired! Why won’t you do anything about this?!?”
“Hey, look, a witch! It’s all her fault!”
*REPEAT AD INFINITUM*
The monsters arrived on Maple Street… and held a political rally.
— Ron Powell (@diogeron) March 27, 2023
Same in Australia, done by a conservative government https://t.co/kV9DxKntIa
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 27, 2023
re: #44 Crush White Nationalism
Gun nuts: “It’s a parental problem. Parents don’t parent anymore.”
Parents: “I blame violence in video games.”
Games: “Personal responsibility?”
Personal responsibility: *AFK*
re: #45 jaunte
And one that was a staunch ally of the Bush administration.
Texas lege springs into action.
.@reptinderholt asks Oliverson if he considered a bounty (like the abortion bill) for transgender youth. #txlege pic.twitter.com/WrQnITUAK8
— Michelle (@LivingBlueTX) March 27, 2023
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’ve been saying it for years. Treatment for Fascist Brain Worms will be extensive and expensive.
Why is it so hard for you to understand that a criminal President attempted a coup when we rejected him?
Keeping your head in the sand so you can support traitors while pretending to be a good person looks like a lot of work.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
re: #44 Crush White Nationalism
Well, let’s see: mass shooting at a private “Christian” school, so they can’t rely on the old “secularism in schools” wheeze (this time), but I’m sure some of the classic excuse-mongering will be showing up on the “Net before too long (if it hasn’t already): probably all headed by that all-time favorite golden-oldie: “Gun-grabbers are politicizing a tragedy!!!”.
re: #51 Jay C
@0liviajulianna
“…When tragedy is caused by political negligence and a hunger for power— it is inherently political. “
Mental health palate cleanse
Good boy gets kicked out of jiu jitsu tournament for protecting owner during match pic.twitter.com/8FzYM9dprO
— B&S (@_B___S) March 26, 2023
re: #40 Crush White Nationalism
I was thinking that in Ireland the death of Savita Halappanavar, one single person, was enough to give them the backbone to change a cruel and unjust law. I wondered if we would have the equivalent of Ms Halappanavar here in the US and maybe use that person as a rallying point to roll back some craziness. Then reality smacked me in the face again today and I realized that if we don’t care about scores of kids getting shot in schools, people gunned down in malls, concerts and theaters, that we as a country don’t care about any individual life that is not our own.
We would rather have our ego extenders than save lives. Not all of us don’t care, but enough don’t care, and that stops all attempts to fix ourselves.
Btw I own fire arms and do enjoy shooting. However my weapons have been in storage for a while because I just don’t want to be associated with that crowd anymore.
re: #50 Crush White Nationalism
There have been convictions for seditious conspiracy. I remember the day the first person was convicted of that charge, because we all went, “Yup, it’s officially an insurrection now.”
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, they learned something from Uvalde?
re: #44 Crush White Nationalism
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Jane of the North is incorrect, there were 14 students killed in the Ecole Polytechnique shooting.
re: #55 Markm1960
I was thinking that in Ireland the death of Savita Halappanavar, one single person, was enough to give them the backbone to change a cruel and unjust law. I wondered if we would have the equivalent of Ms Halappanavar here in the US and maybe use that person as a rallying point to roll back some craziness. Then reality smacked me in the face again today and I realized that if we don’t care about scores of kids getting shot in schools, people gunned down in malls, concerts and theaters, that we as a country don’t care about any individual life that is not our own.
We would rather have our ego extenders than save lives. Not all of us don’t care, but enough don’t care, and that stops all attempts to fix ourselves.
Btw I own fire arms and do enjoy shooting. However my weapons have been in storage for a while because I just don’t want to be associated with that crowd anymore.
I doubt that there is a single (or maybe even series of) event(s) that would cause a sea change in the gun craziness.
a. Mass shootings of school children. (repeatedly at this point)
b. GOP congressmen shot on a baseball field.*
c. C&W concert shot up.
d. Capitol insurrection where congress critters were pretty close to directly threatened.
I expect the excuse making, conspiracy theories, false flag claims, etc. would still just be there even if there was something like the violent explicit takeover of a conservative state’s legislative session by a bunch of gun nuts.
* - This one, if any, sort of surprised me by not generating more of a reaction since it was some of the oligarchy itself getting shot up rather than followers or others they considered expendable.
The gun cannot fail. It can only be failed.
re: #52 Crush White Nationalism
“Perpetual motion machine” - when charged via USB.
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Reminded me of Joseph Newman’s “revolutionary energy machine”. Newman was literally barnstorming farm towns in Iowa and Minnesota and other midwest states extolling his invention and begging for money to overcome the evil government and corporations that wanted to silence him.
To my educational shame, one of my college physics professors at NDSU, Roger Hastings, was his technical expert:
Newman and physicist Hastings disputed the National Bureau of Standards methodology for testing the machine. In the testing process, the Bureau grounded the energy machine, which dispersed much of its generated energy before it could be measured, Newman said. In his own tests of the machine, Hastings said that he never has had less than 100 percent results.
Actually ended up meeting up with Roger Hastings later in life when I was working at a major medical device manufacturer in the Twin Cities of MN. Upper management had brought him in as a consultant and was perplexed to say the least when I discussed my previous encounters with Roger. Definitely a brilliant guy, but one of those with huge blind spots that dismiss reality as merely unimaginative thinking.
re: #39 No Malarkey!
Give the people a witch to hunt, and they will fall for it every time.
Humans love to hate.
re: #34 Nerdy Fish
She’s not wrong. Yes, people like Brad are dumb, and wrong. But they’re WILLFULLY dumb, and wrong, because they WANT to believe the cult leader. Showing them the facts isn’t going to change their minds, it’s just going to break their brain and make them invent ever crazier conspiracy theories to explain why their version of reality doesn’t line up with ours. The ONLY way to end this cycle is to un-program them, so that they’re inclined to re-evaluate these beliefs that they came to only by virtue of being indoctrinated in the cult.
But it’s not indoctrination that they’ve been forced to take on; these are voluntary participants in their own radicalization, and that is happening because they enjoy the license they are granted by their positions.
You can’t convince them with facts because facts are not how they ascertain truth: truth is what feels gratifying, what tells them they are virtuous and special. Reality is a consumer product: they purchase the version they like. Donald Trump is their leader because he appeases them, gives them what they want, not because he has any particular persuasive magic that fools them or bends their reasons. They love him because he promises them the cruelty and revenge they feel they are owed; Trump imitators fail by comparison because they emphasize procedural paper cuts at the same targets. Trump is fully engaged in the kind of total, self-involved power fantasy of absolute pettiness as the whole of the law.
What they want is to punish people until the world recognizes that they are right and good, and it is good that they enjoy cruelty because they have perfect discernment of who deserves harm…and their utopia is just that the punishment will continue forever.
You can’t deprogram them because there’s no program, no Svengali making them do this. Fascism is a rational position if your base assumption is that you are a better kind of person, and all inferior kinds of people should be treated less well: it’s stupid and it will fail because those assumptions are horseshit, but merely adopting the idea isn’t a matter of being tricked or deluded…the fascist vision of self interest requires the use of all forms of coercion to sort people into castes and keep them in place.
They’re doing it because they like it: this is winning, this is self-actualization; the goal is cleansing violence followed by the new apartheid inside the country and the new empire outside. They’re close to the Children of God—where at some point the point of being there was to be part of the abuse—than to The People’s Temple.
Today is the 85th day of the year and this is the 128th mass shooting nationwide,
We’re Number one! We’re Number ONE!
With a bullet.
re: #59 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I doubt that there is a single (or maybe even series of) event(s) that would cause a sea change in the gun craziness.
a. Mass shootings of school children. (repeatedly at this point)
b. GOP congressmen shot on a baseball field.*
c. C&W concert shot up.
d. Capitol insurrection where congress critters were pretty close to directly threatened.I expect the excuse making, conspiracy theories, false flag claims, etc. would still just be there even if there was something like the violent explicit takeover of a conservative state’s legislative session by a bunch of gun nuts.
* - This one, if any, sort of surprised me by not generating more of a reaction since it was some of the oligarchy itself getting shot up rather than followers or others they considered expendable.
The gun cannot fail. It can only be failed.
Armed Black Panthers peacefully open carrying is the only thing that’s been known to work, but honestly it’s disgraceful to ask black people to fix this white people problem at their own risk.
Also, regarding the GOP member of Congress that got shot, he’s a minion of the oligarchy, not an oligarch himself. That’s true of nearly all GOP members of Congress.
re: #57 Romantic Heretic
So, they learned something from Uvalde?
Metro, like any major city police force, has their issues for sure, but they tend to do their duty when they need to.
The fridge is cleaned for #Pesach pic.twitter.com/wgEQ22GN7y
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) March 27, 2023
re: #41 The Ghost of a Flea
I’m…fascinated…by Niccolo Macchiavelli. Firenze is this petri dish of political experimentation—gangster monarchy, Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities, and the failed republic all happen in generation, a microcosm of European ferment—and that he’s a philosopher that both advocates for a republic to the point he gets tortured by the Medicis, and writes a manual for princes (a standardized text you made for a patron) that actually addresses the reality of absolute control just makes me wonder about the dude.
Plus Machiavelli got to hang out with Leonardo da Vinci.
WOW. A mom literally just interrupted a Fox livestream and called out Republicans directly for their failure to act on gun violence. This woman is a hero. We must call them out every day. pic.twitter.com/qVCm4whs56
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) March 27, 2023
re: #62 Romantic Heretic
Humans love to hate.
I’m not sure it’s as much as hate it is wanting to have someone / something else to blame all your problems on.
That way you can convince yourself that YOU didn’t do anything wrong. It’s some other person or group or religion that’s screwing you and causing all the consequences happening from YOUR bad choices.
re: #65 EPR-radar
Armed Black Panthers peacefully open carrying is the only thing that’s been known to work, but honestly it’s disgraceful to ask black people to fix this white people problem at their own risk.
Also, regarding the GOP member of Congress that got shot, he’s a minion of the oligarchy, not an oligarch himself. That’s true of nearly all GOP members of Congress.
With the militarization of the police that has gotten on I expect anything like the armed Black Panthers on any sort of scale to end in a lot of blood. And probably in more laws or better enforcement of laws, but not along the lines of gun control as compared to ones okaying police violence and violation of due process and civil rights whenever the police “feeling threatened”.
re: #55 Markm1960
I was thinking that in Ireland the death of Savita Halappanavar, one single person, was enough to give them the backbone to change a cruel and unjust law. I wondered if we would have the equivalent of Ms Halappanavar here in the US and maybe use that person as a rallying point to roll back some craziness. Then reality smacked me in the face again today and I realized that if we don’t care about scores of kids getting shot in schools, people gunned down in malls, concerts and theaters, that we as a country don’t care about any individual life that is not our own.
We would rather have our ego extenders than save lives. Not all of us don’t care, but enough don’t care, and that stops all attempts to fix ourselves.
Btw I own fire arms and do enjoy shooting. However my weapons have been in storage for a while because I just don’t want to be associated with that crowd anymore.
The Irish were horrified enough about the death of one relatively recent immigrant to their nation to change their constitution. However many American kids, whether they be the children of recent immigrants to 12th generation Americans is _never_ enough to change the minds of the NRA types.
It is my understanding from talking to Irish citizens (and people married to Irish citizens) that it triggered yet another backlash against the Catholic Church’s remaining malignant theocratic influence over a rapidly secularizing Ireland. And the rapid secularization was because of the Catholic Church’s actions (including priestly abuse).
No actual story at link. Just a paragraph repeating the headline.
Liv Tyler Joins ‘Captain America: New World Order,’ Reprising Role From 2008’s ‘The Incredible Hulk’ (Variety)
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
I think of hate in terms of addiction.
The triad of negative emotions; fear, anger, and hatred; trigger the ‘flight-or-flight’ reflex that floods the body with the same chemicals as crack cocaine. It’s a real fucking high.
A lot of people end up addicted, and some people make a living peddling this drug to the masses. (cough)Fox News.(cough)
re: #63 The Ghost of a Flea
This line of thinking has extremely depressing conclusions. Basically, a civilized society needs to censor the expression of fascist ideas to try to stop it from flourishing. The alternative, which we seem to be headed toward, is that the fascists feel frisky enough to try to take over by force, at which point they win or lose, and if they lose their extermination would be justified.
Indiana:
Speaker Huston stops the proceedings temporarily as someone in the gallery calls lawmakers “pieces of s***” following the vote.
— Kaitlin Lange (@kaitlin_lange) March 27, 2023
“But critics of the legislation…said it would siphon dollars from public schools and minority communities would be disproportionately affected.”
“The legislation removes income-eligibility requirements that are part of current voucher programs.”https://t.co/QLGYKtuGvD— Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) March 27, 2023
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
So they’ll take the income eligibility requirements off of school vouchers, but if you want to feed poor people with government money, there has to be a work requirement. Got it.
That person is correct. It’s time to run the scumbag Republicans out of our government. They’re incapable of leadership, and just exist to hurt Americans.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
Governor of Tennessee would rather focus his attention on banning public drag performances—in which no children have ever been harmed—but I’ll bet you every dollar in your pocket not a damn thing will happen after three kids have been brutally murdered by firearms in his state.
— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) March 27, 2023
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (The Onion, two hours ago)
NASHVILLE, TN—In the hours following a violent rampage in Tennessee in which a lone attacker killed at least six individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Tennessee resident Laura Campbell, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
re: #80 DodgerFan1988
I’m sure they can quickly come up with a law banning women from being allowed to carry firearms. After all, they weren’t historically part of the militia whose arming the 2nd Amendment says cannot be interfered with.
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re: #61 Crush White Nationalism
CNN initially botched the story. What’s a teenage woman? An 18 or 19-year old?
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I think it was because one (?/some?) of the initial eyewitness reports said the shooter “looked like a teenager”, so CNN obviously just ran with it (shooter was 28, fwiw).
Aside: trying out a new coffee from the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica, I will let you know how it goes.
amazon.com
another derailment today:
KELSO: #SBCoFD enroute to RAILCAR INCIDENT near KelbakerRd and KelsoCimaRd. Reported multi-car derailment, all cargo, NO passengers. Engine and HazMat companies responding. ^eas
— San Bernardino County Fire (@SBCOUNTYFIRE) March 27, 2023
Kelso(Update/Final): Total of 55 cars derailed including two locomotives. Minor fuel leak from one locomotive being addressed by HazMat personnel. No current threat to public or environment. @UnionPacific is lead agency and point of contact for media. pic.twitter.com/6BFgIsTe40
— San Bernardino County Fire (@SBCOUNTYFIRE) March 27, 2023
re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
#BREAKING Runaway train from Baker heading towards Barstow 80mph with no one on it 180 cars.
Train has derailed 3 miles west of Kelso. Heard the crew jumped off and it was run away for over an hour.— FirePhotoGirl (@FirePhotoGirl) March 27, 2023
Yeah, if anything will stop a mass shooter who plans to go out in a blaze of glory while killing as many people as possible, it will be the threat of the Death Penalty afterwards.
Fucking moron. https://t.co/EoHIfPNkaj— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2023
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
How many school shooters have been arrested to date? Not many. If the police didn’t kill them, they killed themselves, for the most part. The death penalty isn’t going to change that, Lord Voldemort.
“It’s heartbreaking, a family’s worst nightmare.”
President Joe Biden called on Congress again to pass his assault weapons ban after a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday. Three students and three adults were killed. https://t.co/AEH5h6wMBU pic.twitter.com/5kcGMqXmBd— The Associated Press (@AP) March 27, 2023
re: #298 Belafon
This explains why we survived hitting an elk at sixty miles per hour (1:11)
Harry Otter and Ron Weasel… pic.twitter.com/UlMBOYygfe
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) March 27, 2023
In an act of defiance, a 20-year-old Russian man took to a local park in support of #Ukraine with a sign that read ‘Hug if you’re against the #War’. (Now This) pic.twitter.com/AKhduh7hmx
— James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer (@jamesvgingerich) March 27, 2023
Permitless open carry is legal in Tennessee. That’s the opposite of “enough laws to regulate guns.” https://t.co/UuNTpcziOa
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 27, 2023
re: #88 Nerdy Fish
How many school shooters have been arrested to date? Not many. If the police didn’t kill them, they killed themselves, for the most part. The death penalty isn’t going to change that, Lord Voldemort.
Wouldn’t have made any difference in todays events.
AMERICAN DEPRAVITY: A child weeps while on a school bus leaving the Covenant School to go to a reunification center after a mass shooting. Three students and three adults were killed by a shooter who was killed by police.
📸 by Nicole Hester, @Tennessean https://t.co/zO001H4g5r pic.twitter.com/6sWnTj2LI7— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 27, 2023
re: #84 Thanos
Aside: trying out a new coffee from the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica, I will let you know how it goes.
amazon.com
i’m now starting a subscription service (atlas, I think) where they monthly send me coffee from around the world. We’ll see how this goes. I have to wonder if by the time I’ve put cream in it I’d really be able to appreciate the difference between my just-ground online subscription coffee and the Ingles just-ground Colombian coffee that I can get for a third of the price.
Well, well, well.
He shoulda done his homework before visiting another sovereign nation. pic.twitter.com/OxYbDSptKt— Viking Irish Goddess (@irishgirl1155) March 27, 2023
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chris Christie tells Fox there are already enough laws to regulate guns, and says the focus should be on school security and mental health
Every time I see Christie and think about how people here fell all over themselves to fucking elect him twice, I realize how stupid the electorate can get.
re: #97 steve_davis
i’m now starting a subscription service (atlas, I think) where they monthly send me coffee from around the world. We’ll see how this goes. I have to wonder if by the time I’ve put cream in it I’d really be able to appreciate the difference between my just-ground online subscription coffee and the Ingles just-ground Colombian coffee that I can get for a third of the price.
I drink mine black so the amount of acid makes a difference, it’s why I go light roast. (that & the more caffeine thing…)
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Wouldn’t have made any difference in todays events.
Yea, executing the dead shooter will do the trick. Anything except regulating guns.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) March 27, 2023
UPDATE: Gun fetishist Rep. @AndyOgles has issued a statement on the school shooting in his district. pic.twitter.com/3XcwmYR84T
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 27, 2023
re: #100 Mattand
Every time I see Christie and think about how people here fell all over themselves to fucking elect him twice, I realize how stupid the electorate can get.
And it’s not like New Jersey is a red state hellhole.
Americans are so goddamn broken. There are already tons of people saying it’s “suspicious” that the survivor of the Highland Park, IL parade shooting happened to be a couple of blocks away from Covenant today (she’s the one who took the mic from Fox).
re: #101 Thanos
I drink mine black so the amount of acid makes a difference, it’s why I go light roast. (that & the more caffeine thing…)
I love Costa Rican coffee, but it’s been hard to find these last few years where I live. Maybe I’ll use your link.
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Wouldn’t have made any difference in todays events.
If she’d been noticed by the cops a block before she got to the school, with a weapon in each hand and another in a holster or slung across her back… they couldn’t have done anything about it. Because she hadn’t broken any laws yet. It wasn’t until she actually pulled a trigger that she did something illegal.
re: #106 Barefoot Grin
I love Costa Rican coffee, but it’s been hard to find these last few years where I live. Maybe I’ll use your link.
Yes, Tarrazu is equivalent in my book to Jamaican blue mountain, right elevation, perfect volcanic soil.
re: #105 Barefoot Grin
Americans are so goddamn broken. There are already tons of people saying it’s “suspicious” that the survivor of the Highland Park, IL parade shooting happened to be a couple of blocks away from Covenant today (she’s the one who took the mic from Fox).
These idiots are almost certainly Republicans or new voters for Trump in 2020.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s always the same hollow bullshit with these people. Oh, and they always got to throw in the fawning “thank you” to the police and First Responders.
But fuck all those terrified parents and kids, apparently.
re: #105 Barefoot Grin
Americans are so goddamn broken. There are already tons of people saying it’s “suspicious” that the survivor of the Highland Park, IL parade shooting happened to be a couple of blocks away from Covenant today (she’s the one who took the mic from Fox).
already seeing this bullshit:
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re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also:
But thank god you kept them safe from the books. pic.twitter.com/M3ql5S6bUh
— Zina Spezakis, CFA 🌎 (@ZSpezakis) March 27, 2023
Tennessee Republicans will blame the mental health crisis, but then won’t actually do anything to provide access to mental health treatment. It’s just a thing to say until people move on to the next mass shooting.
These members of congress are harassing the ATF for doing their f****** job.
Federal inspections are unnounced and you ain’t nobody just cuz you are in Congress doesn’t mean shit. https://t.co/1nGwIeWXL8— WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@PrincessBravato) March 27, 2023
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s always the same hollow bullshit with these people. Oh, and they always got to throw in the fawning “thank you” to the police and First Responders.
But fuck all those terrified parents and kids, apparently.
I know it’s impossible to get honest work out of a Republican official, but I’d sure like to see the worst of these gun humpers tasked with responding to an active shooter situation and cleaning up the carnage afterward.
re: #59 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I doubt that there is a single (or maybe even series of) event(s) that would cause a sea change in the gun craziness.
a. Mass shootings of school children. (repeatedly at this point)
b. GOP congressmen shot on a baseball field.*
c. C&W concert shot up.
d. Capitol insurrection where congress critters were pretty close to directly threatened.I expect the excuse making, conspiracy theories, false flag claims, etc. would still just be there even if there was something like the violent explicit takeover of a conservative state’s legislative session by a bunch of gun nuts.
* - This one, if any, sort of surprised me by not generating more of a reaction since it was some of the oligarchy itself getting shot up rather than followers or others they considered expendable.
The gun cannot fail. It can only be failed.
He survived; the only death was the shooter. They are fine with shooting deaths of anyone who is not a Trump loyalist; they literally don’t care. The government murdered Michael Reinoehl in Oregon — and they were fine with that; OTOH Ashli Babbitt, an insurrectionist in the middle of committing a crime, is a cause celebre. There is nothing that will cause Republicans to change their minds EXCEPT losing elections.
re: #104 EPR-radar
And it’s not like New Jersey is a red state hellhole.
Yeah, we’ve got this quasi-purple thing going where every so often a Republican sneaks into the guy’s chair. I’ve mentioned this before, but I had a neighbor up the street who was a teacher and all-in on Christie.
The same Christie who literally wanted to make this guy’s life miserable by destroying any and all teachers’ unions.
It was a real “Cows demanding people eat more steak” situation. The neighbor didn’t like the unions, which, okay, fine. I don’t think he ever thought through the notion that without the union, he’d be making probably 40% less and have few, if any, benefits.
And, IIRC, the Newark Star-Ledger ran an op-ed that said “We hate Christie, but we are endorsing him anyway.” The Dem challenger wasn’t exactly setting the state on fire, so the paper went with the guy who they detested because… reasons? Whatever.
So we got that going for us. Yay, NJ.
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
We need the scumbag Republicans who enable this to leave politics. Ya’ll have done too much damage already thanks to the malfunction that makes it impossible for Republicans to address the actual problem.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
re: #115 EPR-radar
I know it’s impossible to get honest work out of a Republican official, but I’d sure like to see the worst of these gun humpers tasked with responding to an active shooter situation and cleaning up the carnage afterward.
Why? All they would be likely to do is slack off on the actual job, and then take to social media to bitch and gripe about “Big Government overreach”, and try diligently and/or viciously to shift the blame onto Anybody Else ( preferably whoever the RW boogeyman-of-the-week is at the time).
re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter
He survived; the only death was the shooter. They are fine with shooting deaths of anyone who is not a Trump loyalist; they literally don’t care. The government murdered Michael Reinoehl in Oregon — and they were fine with that; OTOH Ashli Babbitt, an insurrectionist in the middle of committing a crime, is a cause celebre. There is nothing that will cause Republicans to change their minds EXCEPT losing elections.
Exactly right. Republicans cannot be shamed or reasoned with. The only way we get any positive shit done is by voting Democrats into power. Period.
re: #119 William Lewis
And in the “You really stepped on your d*ck: category…
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I saw his lawyer claims the woman has already recanted her story in writing.
re: #120 Jay C
Why? All they would be likely to do is slack off on the actual job, and then take to social media to bitch and gripe about “Big Government overreach”, and try diligently and/or viciously to shift the blame onto Anybody Else ( preferably whoever the RW boogeyman-of-the-week is at the time).
That’s the part about it being impossible to get honest work out of them. But “tasked” was a poor choice of word on my part — “forced at gunpoint” is much more what I was thinking.
re: #123 EPR-radar
That’s the part about it being impossible to get honest work out of them. But “tasked” was a poor choice of word on my part — “forced at gunpoint” is much more what I was thinking.
Like Nazis after WWII
re: #121 No Malarkey!
Exactly right. Republicans cannot be shamed or reasoned with. The only way we get any positive shit done is by voting Democrats into power. Period.
Case in point: Michigan voted Democrats into power, and shit is getting done.
What can be done? In Michigan, new laws have just been passed requiring background checks & registration for every gun owner. they also passed a bill requiring safe storage of firearms in homes where a minor is present.
The majority of Americans want common sense gun safety👇🏼 https://t.co/0HFZVSEYih— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 27, 2023
re: #118 Crush White Nationalism
We need the scumbag Republicans who enable this to leave politics. Ya’ll have done too much damage already thanks to the malfunction that makes it impossible for Republicans to address the actual problem.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
rick:
your solution is to kill school shooters after they’ve shot up a school?
that’s the extent of your thinking?
not prevent it from happening?
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn I wish they’d arrest her for interfering with an investigation.
re: #4 Crush White Nationalism
As long as stupid people vote for Republicans, the slaughter will continue.
Without the stupid vote, the party would not have the power to inflict the damage they do.Maybe Democrats need to start lying to idiots like Republicans do.
Conservatism kills.
I’m always on the lookout for some great star-gazing opportunities…and Tuesday might be a night to grab the binoculars and catch a glimpse of a pretty rare five-planet alignment of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars. Here’s hoping the skies will remain clear!
— Dr. Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) March 27, 2023
re: #128 jaunte
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Nice watercolor there (Sargent did have the talent): though it looks more like those gondoliers are shooting the rapids on the Colorado (while making sure the ladies get thoroughly doused)…. 😸
re: #131 Jay C
Pretty great impression of sun on stone; he may have gotten to the right hand corner and decided he needed more action in the composition!
The reflection of the water on the shiny side of the gondola is amazing, too.
dems in a nutshell
not him. but we got no idea who instead.
A new Monmouth poll finds 44% of Democrats do not want President Biden to seek re-election, even though 74% have a favorable opinion of him.
Also interesting: 51% of the Democratic electorate cannot offer a name when asked who they would like to see as the party’s nominee if Biden does not run.
Among those who do have a preferred alternative, Vice President Kamala Harris (13%) is the only potential contender who registers above single digits.
doesnt mean they wont support him…
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Conservatism kills.
I am sure Nashville Christians and Republicans are super thankful today that the Tennessee GOP has been so laser focused on protecting children from drag queens, social media, and the evils of vaccines.
Whew.
What would the NRA do without them?— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) March 27, 2023
re: #132 jaunte
A bit of artistic license in action, here (I think). From my sole visit to Venice (1974, so “yesterday” by Venetian standards) ISTR the Bridge of Sighs spans a side canal overshadowed by tall buildings, so Sargent’s sun-splashed depiction seems a bit - ummm, optimistic. Still a nice pic, tho
The worst people are identifying two different transwomen as the shooter. They’re being as horrible as you would think.
re: #135 Dangerman
dems in a nutshell
not him. but we got no idea who instead.
doesnt mean they wont support him…
Well, to be honest, I did actually believe the talk that he was only running to be a placeholder for 4 years before stepping aside for somebody younger and more progressive. Yeah, I didn’t quite believe at the time that Trump would be so deranged that he’d stage an unsuccessful coup or that the GQP would continue to support him even after he did, and I’m rather satisfied with the way Joe has been running things since. But…well…I’d still rather like him to step aside and let somebody else run.
re: #136 Dangerman
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I was wondering, if every mass school shooting was at a private Christian academy where good Republicans send their kids, how many would it take before they would finally vote for sensible gun laws. I believe the answer is that it wouldn’t make any difference. They love their guns even more than their own children.
re: #142 No Malarkey!
It would have to be mass shootings at Republican events, whIch they are EXTREMELY careful to protect.
re: #125 No Malarkey!
Case in point: Michigan voted Democrats into power, and shit is getting done.
“they also passed a bill requiring safe storage of firearms in homes where a minor is present.”
Here in NYC, I can’t even have open windows in an apartment where a minor is present. They require child-guard bars on every window in the place. (only required if there’s kids under 10, but also recommended for cat owners. Because there’s a sunny ledge right by the window.)
It’s Waco TX and guns aren’t allowed?
I thought guns made us all safer?
I thought EVERYONE in Texas carried a gun?
What’s up with that?
So what other laws in Texas are forbidden at a trump rally?
Can women have abortions at trump rallies? pic.twitter.com/MGfukTwVcO— Leon Skum (@r_rigatony) March 25, 2023
re: #142 No Malarkey!
I was wondering, if every mass school shooting was at a private Christian academy where good Republicans send their kids, how many would it take before they would finally vote for sensible gun laws. I believe the answer is that it wouldn’t make any difference. They love their guns even more than their own children.
They wouldn’t vote for stronger gun laws…they’d vote billions for themselves to turn those schools in armed forts with enough firepower to halt the Wehrmacht, then crow about how “safe” it is that their kids effectively go to maximum security prisons.
re: #142 No Malarkey!
I was wondering, if every mass school shooting was at a private Christian academy where good Republicans send their kids, how many would it take before they would finally vote for sensible gun laws. I believe the answer is that it wouldn’t make any difference. They love their guns even more than their own children.
there’s a lot of grift to be made on the backs of dead children, even more grift when it’s their own children
Hmmm did someone hit the crack pipe again?
Mike Lindell took a break from hunting snow geese to go on Steve Bannon’s War Room to attack Ron DeSantis:
“I bash Ron DeSantis, called him the Trojan horse again, and I stand by what I say.” pic.twitter.com/8k9AEWN5Lw— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 27, 2023
re: #145 jaunte
Welcome to our rally celebrating FREEDOM!
…Now, here’s all the stuff you can’t bring in.
There is always an excuse for why giving access to deadly weapons to those who turn them on children should continue. Always. pic.twitter.com/79bGWcDV9s
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) March 27, 2023
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
yes, that’s a real mtg tweet
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
Absolutely nobody could have seen this kind of thing coming.
Users subscribed to Twitter Blue are spreading conspiracy theories about the identity of the Nashville shooter. Twitter boosts replies from users subscribed to Twitter Blue. Twitter is profiting by prioritizing misinformation. pic.twitter.com/kQyZHEHipH
— Mia Gingerich (@MiaGingerich) March 27, 2023
re: #148 Joe Bacon
Hmmm did someone hit the crack pipe again?
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Yeah, this is insanity that is not magically going to go away even if Trump drops dead tomorrow. These people genuinely would vote for his dead corpse and argue that every expulsion of putrid gases was the greatest speech of their lifetimes.
re: #145 jaunte
Appliances? WTF who is attending these things (rhetorical - I know the answer)
Republicans lie about everything, and lied their way into a coup attempt. Sit down, and shut up, traitor.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
re: #153 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Absolutely nobody could have seen this kind of thing coming.
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They took a meme and made it into a trans person:
https://t.co/hDaFs8SnCP pic.twitter.com/viwiuwGChp
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) March 27, 2023
If you hear any variation on the name Sam Hyde, laugh.
re: #153 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Absolutely nobody could have seen this kind of thing coming.
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Twitter was bought by a very stupid man who retweets conspiracy nonsense. It should not be considered a source of reliable information. It’s gone.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
Ah, it wouldn’t be a mass shooting without the MAGAts rushing to find a “liberal” they can blame it on.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
yes, that’s a real mtg tweet
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The logical conclusion is that MTG only likes guns because she’s abusing testosterone.
The news cycle is somehow about to get even worse https://t.co/ntEfDWFq1P
— Dad 2.0 - hanging on, mostly (@DadaBaseThought) March 27, 2023
re: #75 EPR-radar
This line of thinking has extremely depressing conclusions. Basically, a civilized society needs to censor the expression of fascist ideas to try to stop it from flourishing. The alternative, which we seem to be headed toward, is that the fascists feel frisky enough to try to take over by force, at which point they win or lose, and if they lose their extermination would be justified.
You can’t censor fascism out of existence at all because fascism is a product of the conceits of our “civilization” and arises organically because the conclusions are always there to be reached every time there’s a crisis. Modern worldwide fascism does have cross-talk and draws from the same stagnant pool of imagery, but ultimately it’s happening everywhere because of the same thing: the political and economic system clearly does nothing but concentrate power, will not solve glaring threats to the general wellbeing, and will not cede that their inaction is self-serving.
It’s a tactic that allows those with power to explain their failures; it’s adopted by the disenfranchised because it’s magical thinking, a rejection of the possibility that ongoing status quo can produce the bad outcomes that it produced. Fascism is the ultimate centrist proposal:
We will find axiomatically foreign source of the problem and kill it, take back what was stolen, and the world get better without any kind of change that disrupts the status quo. Thereafter the system will work smoothly because it is truly meritocratic.
You know the “leopards ate MY face” meme? Well, in real life there’s always people that will choose to believe that the face-eating could only happen because some kind of intervention happened…precisely because their base assumption is that their fucking around cannot produce finding out.
It’s not even coherent: it’s mostly self-involved emotionality combined with a sense of entitlement, and different rhetoricians heap upon that a slight different mash bill of fixed identities, the boxes that you tick to belong and thus be owed better. It’s an ideology for mopes and goons, the kind of people that like bullying but are afraid of being bullied back and thus work in packs, invent little rituals to help them feel strong and special, who escalate conflict if they think they’re winning. Bigotry and shiny uniforms are the ultimate participation trophy.
Italians are meant to be Roman imperials; Germans are the destined volk; America is exceptional. You are all special boys, and the real crime is all the people that won’t give you…everything.
Deference, sex, money, supplication, attention, love, liebensraum, pardons, indulgences, drilling rights.
This is how late-20th century cultures and institutions that view(ed) themselves as actively antifascist end up adopting fascist rhetoric and tactics: nationalism has all the ingredients. We in the US currently have fascism at the scale we do because people don’t want to consider that capitalism and nationalism…and all that stuff we were told postwar would save the world and make us happy…produced the current outcomes. We could admit all the stuff that didn’t work, all the people we gave power to who let us down or outright cheated us..or we could avoid the existential crisis and claim that a conspiracy of perverts and foreigners robbed us our patrimony and the correct response is to hurt them, steal, all their shit, and double down on all that stuff that didn’t work.
Yeah…it’s going to be a fight, because the cynics leading this will do anything to stay powerful, and the sincere believers are having a great time; it will also be a tragedy because both of those assholes are going to drag in people that just are confused and cleaving to the familiar. Hopefully that fight will be in ballot boxes and in the streets, but (1) the people already invested in fascist won’t stop unless cowed, (2) if things don’t change on a structural level all their bullshit will still be available and this will just recur. You stop this by making a different world, which is not a function of ending fascism but ending the status quo.
And let’s not forget that Bimborella is leading the charge to abolish the ATF.
On June 22nd, 2021, then-freshman United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) filed House Resolution 3960 to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, alleging that the agency was in cahoots with President Joe Biden to strip American citizens of their right to bear arms.
“The ATF’s ongoing, unconstutional [sic] attacks on the Second Amendment must end,” Greene’s office stated of the Brian A. Terry Memorial Eliminate the ATF Act, which went nowhere because Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress. The typo still appears on Greene’s website.
Like most right-wing lawmakers, Greene is steadfastly opposed to any form of sensible gun control, even as thousands of Americans are killed by bullets every year. But Monday’s mass shooting at the private Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee that claimed the lives of at least six people marked an escalation in Greene’s rhetoric and actions aimed at thwarting efforts to save lives.
At around the same time that Greene baselessly blamed Biden for the slaughter, Greene and other members of their state’s Capitol Hill delegation were obstructing a routine ATF inspection of a weapons retailer in Smyrna, Georgia.
re: #161 wrenchwench
The logical conclusion is that she only likes guns because she’s abusing testosterone.
because trans women are famous for abusing testosterone…
*THUD*
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #161 wrenchwench
The logical conclusion is that she only likes guns because she’s abusing testosterone.
because trans women are famous for abusing testosterone…
*THUD*
Just waiting for them to start posting pictures of female bodybuilders as examples of abusing testosterone and other steroids…
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
because trans women are famous for abusing testosterone…
*THUD*
You got the pre-edited version, but yeah. Let’s blame chemicals not the guns that were made to kill people.
JUST IN: Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the suspect identified as transgender but didn’t immediately provide more details. https://t.co/xOY7Ezn9AF pic.twitter.com/YLFpyzmEms
— ABC News (@ABC) March 27, 2023
re: #167 wrenchwench
You got the pre-edited version, but yeah. Let’s blame chemicals not the guns that were made to kill people.
When someone is too crazy or corrupt to face the real problem, They’re going to come up with a lot of stupid ways to deflect.
re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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OFFS, straight white males have been shooting up schools for literal decades, but yet we’re about to get bombarded with pseudo-psychological bullshit about how transgenderism leads to mental issues and that’s why we need to do everything we can to discourage and (eventually) ban it.
I appreciate all the support I’ve received after sharing my story. I don’t talk about it much, but I think about what happened on February 5, 2010 often. I just want people to know they aren’t alone.
I also want to discuss solutions. As a mom, I am worried for the future https://t.co/Fbd0fEpZyt— Joylyn Bukovac (@joylynrbukovac) March 27, 2023
re: #170 Targetpractice
OFFS, straight white males have been shooting up schools for literal decades, but yet we’re about to get bombarded with pseudo-psychological bullshit about how transgenderism leads to mental issues and that’s why we need to do everything we can to discourage and (eventually) ban it.
Those who identify as male should not be allowed to have guns.
To be more serious, though, our rule stays the same: it should be harder for people to get guns to reduce the chances of this happening.
Gun violence is political in America because gun makers pay our politicians for their inaction. And here they go again… https://t.co/z6uh9nU5r6
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 27, 2023
🚨#BREAKING McCarthy’s GOP has *postponed* their hearing to help mass shooters. Postponed *NOT* cancelled. Which means they fear the optics not the policy. That is consciousness of guilt. https://t.co/P9wWijhQDI
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) March 27, 2023
re: #170 Targetpractice
OFFS, straight white males have been shooting up schools for literal decades, but yet we’re about to get bombarded with pseudo-psychological bullshit about how transgenderism leads to mental issues and that’s why we need to do everything we can to discourage and (eventually) ban it.
Whiteness and maleness were never intended to be good-faith categories by the people that developed them; they’re a scam, a rhetorical dodge. Neither has any fixed qualia beyond “is entitled to power.” Every other internal criterion is flexible: whiteness and maleness are protected from critique by simply ejecting any individual or group, “discovering” their occulted not-maleness and not-whiteness as needed.
You’re male until you make other men with more power uncomfortable, then you’re some kind of womanish thing: gay, weak, a pansy, a pussy, a nerd.
You’re white until people with power need you to be not-white: you’re white trash, you’re part of that Appalachian Scotch-Irish type that can’t hack it because their culture is flawed, you’re secretly a Jew.
It is contrary to their function to applied consistently.
🚨#BREAKING: NBC News is reporting and identifying the 28-year-old Nashville shooter as “Audrey Hale”, a biological female that identifies as “He/Him” on their LinkedIn
Authorities believe the transgender shooter previously attended the Christian school with reports that all of… pic.twitter.com/VRmAj1vyFl— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 27, 2023
Schools apparently has taken down all its social media, and I’m hearing as of this juncture unconfirmed chatter that some Church members have records of Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Child abuse and Sexual Abuse.
Invoking 24h rule.
The Covenant school must have educated Nashville’s elite.
UPDATE: Never imagined people would reply to me with anything other than horror at what has happened to children. Bring your garbage here & I will block your ass. My timeline, my rules.
— Anna Caudill (@AnnaCaudill4) March 27, 2023
And then this:
God, I am going to miss you, friend. I love you. 💔 https://t.co/d15GyxlP6D
— Anna Caudill (@AnnaCaudill4) March 27, 2023
Katherine Koonce was the head of Covenant School. She was shot to death.
The wingnuts are already spinning up their conspiracy theories. A woman who survived the Highland Park mass-murder was in Nashville on vacation.
CNN fawns over a woman who was “on vacation” in Nashville from Highland Park, IL (where there was a shooting in on July 4, 2022) & drove over to Covenant School to make unsubstantiated claims about the shooting that’s left 6 victims dead.
CNN touts her as a 2x survivor. 👖 on 🔥 pic.twitter.com/IeKreVF67P— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 27, 2023
re: #171 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
So what’s the over/under on this reporter’s station getting hit with a targeted campaign of harassment to fire her because of “bias” or “political agenda” or “woke-ism”, or whatever bullshit the wingers feel like peddling….?
Exactly🎯 — We have shooters of all types in this country. Acting like this is somehow more troubling because of this is absurd, and revealing.
Nobody needs these weapons. Guns are what set us apart. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/ywg70hcbr5— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 27, 2023
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not sure it’s as much as hate it is wanting to have someone / something else to blame all your problems on.
That way you can convince yourself that YOU didn’t do anything wrong. It’s some other person or group or religion that’s screwing you and causing all the consequences happening from YOUR bad choices.
That describes “conservatives,” not “humans.”
I didn’t do anything wrong. It is a group (conservatives) and a religion (Christianity) which promotes violence, rape, slavery, oppression, &c. I don’t vote for these people.
The witness at today’s NY Grand Jury hearing was David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media and publisher of the National Enquirer. This is his second appearance before this grand jury.
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 27, 2023
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There have no been so many mass shootings that survivors are ending up where other mass shootings occur.
This is on you, Curtis, and all the people who refuse to do anything.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 27, 2023
We’ve had so many mass shootings that you’re going to end up with people who have been in more than one.
It’s like the fact that it only takes 23 people to habe a 50-50 chance that two of them have the same birthday.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 27, 2023
re: #183 Belafon
It’s not strange. It’s a wingnut paranoia thing. When responding to a crank like Curtis, you can expect wingnut paranoia.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
“I noticed that a lot of Black history books are getting pulled,” says one #Florida 4th grader. #NotAHoax #BannedBooks #BlackHistory pic.twitter.com/Zg4R0C5PYM
— PEN America (@PENamerica) March 27, 2023
re: #75 EPR-radar
This line of thinking has extremely depressing conclusions. Basically, a civilized society needs to censor the expression of fascist ideas to try to stop it from flourishing. The alternative, which we seem to be headed toward, is that the fascists feel frisky enough to try to take over by force, at which point they win or lose, and if they lose their extermination would be justified.
Karl Popper enters the chat.
re: #183 Belafon
As Former Dirt Dart posted above, there was also a reporter there who survived a school shooting in middle school in 2010. Maybe they were in on “it” together. (Whatever “it” is supposed to be—I assume an arranged hit on children and educators to further their nefarious anti-gun agenda.)
Here are the six victims from today’s school shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, per police - Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.
LATEST: https://t.co/DJkq1bC2hv— Ethan Illers (@EthanIllers_TV) March 27, 2023
Head of School Dr. Katherine Koonce , 61, was one of the six victims of today’s school shooting at Covenant School in Green Hills.
(Photo Courtesy: The Covenant School)https://t.co/DJkq1bC2hv pic.twitter.com/0pqYH47Wfg— Ethan Illers (@EthanIllers_TV) March 27, 2023
The other two adults in today’s shooting at Covenant School have been identified as 61-year-old Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher, and 61-year-old Mike Hill, the school’s custodian.https://t.co/DJkq1bBurX pic.twitter.com/iatRSUcILc
— Ethan Illers (@EthanIllers_TV) March 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee’s ghost writer, John Perry, was a founder and officer at Covenant Presbyterian in Nashville (where the school shooting occurred), until 2012.
In 2007, Perry sexually abused a girl for three years, from age 11-14, and the church covered it up.
🎩 @superlorna69 https://t.co/ZHHYVotOgq— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) March 27, 2023
There’s that ‘stay out of jail’ statue Republicans rely on so much.
“…a police investigation launched in 2012 found the allegations against Perry “were sustained,” according to a police department spokesperson, but that statute of limitations had passed.
“The alleged sexual battery was reported to have occurred when the victim was between the ages of 11 and 14,” said Nashville police department spokesperson Don Aaron in a statement to BuzzFeed News.”
buzzfeednews.com
re: #189 jaunte
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There’s that ‘stay out of jail’ statue Republicans rely on so much.
Statutes of limitation can be changed. Girls grow up and do stuff like that. That’s why the wingers are fighting so hard as to back a maniac like Trump; they have a lot to fear.
I see what Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing regarding Nashville. Ignore her. She wants to make liberals mad, and to get social media clout from her insipid tweets getting passed around to be mocked and jeered at. She’s the least important part of what happened today.
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) March 27, 2023
re: #79 Crush White Nationalism
The battle against conservative and Christian hate continues here.
The attacks on transgender youth must stop. #DontLegislateHate https://t.co/SRsoxGLx2O
— Senator Machaela Cavanaugh (@senatormachaela) March 27, 2023
re: #189 jaunte
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There’s that ‘stay out of jail’ statue Republicans rely on so much.
Add coverup up for a child molester to HUCK SINN’s releasing Wayne Dimond and Maurice Clemmons out to kill again.
Now we know why “the five families” and “omertà” are now key features of the GOP.
Drake: We know that entry was gained by shooting through one of the doors pic.twitter.com/dDlluyvcyu
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 27, 2023
oh
I agree with her, and were going to have to massively push back on the “crazy trans person” attack:
at this point it doesn’t even matter if the shooter actually was trans. they’re going to run with it and perpetuate further unspeakable villainization of us while 3 kids are dead at the hands of the state’s decades-long inaction on gun control. i feel sick
— 𝘦𝘮 🧍🏻♀️ (@cooIboobs) March 27, 2023
But go check out her bio.
LOL yes, this is the headline every news should run today:
“Trump Worried About Pecker Leaking”
RT @WilliamMcilwra9
Not breaking news https://t.co/J8yeXrGjEQ pic.twitter.com/Z9UJML7sYK— Tomi T Ahonen Insists Is Not A Pecker (@tomiahonen) March 27, 2023
— carol hicks ☮️ (@my2twh) March 27, 2023
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
Canada should Drop the fucking gun into a metal shredder right in front of him.
You know how many school children were murdered by this song today? None. It’s a sad commentary on America that we let the @GOP keep songs and books out of schools rather than guns. Pro-life my ass! https://t.co/wwFME2c3C7
— Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) (@ColMorrisDavis) March 27, 2023
re: #51 Jay C
Well, let’s see: mass shooting at a private “Christian” school, so they can’t rely on the old “secularism in schools” wheeze (this time), but I’m sure some of the classic excuse-mongering will be showing up on the “Net before too long (if it hasn’t already): probably all headed by that all-time favorite golden-oldie: “Gun-grabbers are politicizing a tragedy!!!”.
Wingnuts are already trying to say the murder is a transwoman (circulating some photograph which probably isn’t her).
re: #183 Belafon
One of the survivors of the Las Vegas country concert shooting died in a shooting at a Thousand Oaks country bar a year later. Several other Vegas survivors were also at that bar, but survived.
re: #51 Jay C
Well, let’s see: mass shooting at a private “Christian” school, so they can’t rely on the old “secularism in schools” wheeze (this time), but I’m sure some of the classic excuse-mongering will be showing up on the “Net before too long (if it hasn’t already): probably all headed by that all-time favorite golden-oldie: “Gun-grabbers are politicizing a tragedy!!!”.
My sister is rightfully pissed off to say the least. Plus the stupid c*nt can’t even identify the right hormone. The shooter was FEMALE so testosterone would NOT have been a factor in any event.
Are you F***king serious!?! Not one damn news report stated the shooter was transgender. How dare you. You want to blame the trans community and take the blame away from the guns? Unbelievable. https://t.co/3RjQkWj3zy
— Robin Alura 🏳️⚧️ (@RobinAlura) March 27, 2023
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