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      He once made a tweet that vaguely criticised a Conservative figure. wOkE aGeNdA KiLLs AgAIn

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      They’re asking if he was on anti-depressants. Everyone else is a murderer, terrorist, what have you. When it’s one of theirs? Just a misguided kid on SSRIs.

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        Contrast with keying a car and being labeled a terrorist. By scratching a cybertruck, you become an enemy of the state—something a republican school shooter could never dream of.

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    Young white men are being indoctrinated with 24/7 propaganda telling them they are the real victims

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          I’m sorry, I try to keep my media intake low, but what is being said that makes these white men feel like victims? Or, portraying them as the victim?

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            Are you really fully unaware of incels, the manosphere, and the alt-right pipeline? This shit is all over social media.

            There’s a strong encouragement for men to fall into this “redpill” philosophy that casts everyone who doesn’t look like them, especially anyone who ends up on the less-privileged end of any measure of intersectional privilege, as an aggressor attempting to steal their place in society and “replace” them.

            Have you heard anyone complaining about how you can’t make jokes anymore or can’t compliment women anymore? They’re echoing a hallucination of white male oppression by queer feminist socialists. In response they elected Trump and spend their days rumbling around in their massive coal-rolling pickup trucks that have never seen a speck of dirt or a heavier load than a few groceries or maybe a couch.

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              What’s the point of bringing this weird, condescending Reddit energy to what seems to be a genuine question?

              Not everyone lives on the internet, not everyone knows what an incel is, or who Andrew Tate is or what a manosphere is. Why not just answer the question normally? Holy fucking moly.

              In response they elected Trump

              Young incel type white guys did? I thought most of them didn’t even bother to turn up. Look fuck the extremisation of the yutes through social media, it’s genuinely awful and will likely have long lasting effects but we can’t put the blame on them for all the ails in the world without recognizing that a lot of different segments of our population are fucking up right now and are in some small part contributing to more people being alienated from the left. You have to at least admit that it’s a little ironic to say that they’re imagining everything while also seemingly putting electing Trump solely on them. It’s ultimately counter productive in the long run.

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              It’s weird… cuz, even if there is a bias against white men, its still white men that rule the most of the world and have all the money, and run the major corporations. But white men feel like they’re getting replaced?

              On the other hand, America has always been a mix, but always had a strong foundation of white men, and it does feel like that base might be changing. Something is changing

              Edit: it’s flabbergasting that a reply like this gets down votes

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                Even if you were a troll, your questions are worth asking. All the reactionary downvoting and accusations are because you made them have to think about their position so they get defensive and echo their aggregated hate. I wonder if they also espouse the lack of empathy of the other party. Imagine the hypocrisy.

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    They were saying he was an illegal all over MAGAtard social media. Until the facts came out. Then they started deleting in mass to cover up their lies.

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            No I understand what en masse means. I just don’t subscribe to your inflexible interpretation.

            Language is a tool for communication. It’s for the masses, not something to be gate kept or preserved by the priests of lingual orthodoxy. If the words you use convey the intended meaning to the listener, then the wording is adequate.

            If everyone’s use of language was as rigid as the people insisting we can only use the phrases as they existed when they were imported to an English court by a Norman conqueror a thousand years ago, then we’d all still be communicating by banging rocks together and grunting. The English language evolves every day. It’s alive.

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              Ok but the argument is that it might not “convey the intended meaning to the listener” because ‘in mass’ can mean multiple things in English, whereas in French ‘en masse’ specifically means ‘as a group’. It’s not a linguistic purity thing it’s literally just to prevent misinterpretation.

              edit: You can’t say “English is an evolving language” and then ignore the evolution in the phrase being carried over in the first place. If there was no reason for it then we’d still just be using the English term or, “banging rocks together and grunting” as you put it.

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                Nobody here misinterpreted it except the purists who did it intentionally to troll, show off and talk down to people.

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      Not gonna lie I thought your username was Copaganda at first.

      No, I do not have dyslexia lol

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    I was recently thinking it’s says a lot about a culture, where kids shoot up schools regularly, but immigrants getting a terrible treatment never seem to shoot up an ICE office or other government building.

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      People in US culture want to think this is a product of white christian men getting hurt and isolated to the point that the poor innocent souls wander into committing a school shooting.

      The negative mental health is only part of the equation and isn’t even critical to it, what IS critical is teaching christian white men that they have the inherent right given who they are to commit violence and nobody else does.

      This is why you see that “incongruity”.

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      I think both are part of the same culture to be honest, they are just in very different positions both pushed to an extreme situation (the kids shooting up schools and the government officials threating immigrants like crap). Personally I believe you get what you give and this is the result of a society that is getting what it has been giving (or not giving, really). Really sad situation where a lot of people get way less than they deserve (the parents of the killed kids, the children of the deported families etc)

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        “We need Jesus in schools!”

        No joke, I’ve heard people say that exact thing in response. That taking God out of schools is what started all this, so if there was more prayer in school, we wouldn’t have shootings.

        Yeah, because nobody does mass shootings in religious places.

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      It wasn’t as bad as some (2 dead, 6 injured).

      He originally started with a shotgun but it jammed without firing a shot. He grabbed a pistol from his vehicle and fired into the bystanders.

      Police were on scene quickly (FSU is always crawling with plain clothes officers and unmarked cars) and shot and wounded the shooter.

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        Oh, what a fucked up world we live in that we see a school shooting as “not so bad, all things considered”…

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            There is a really fucked up silver lining to this which is every nation not the USA can point to the USA whenever someone wants to loosen gun regulations. In a twisted way the US might be helping other nations by being such a “good” (bad) example.

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            Politicians around the word: we need to ban guns and assault rifles.

            US policy makers: we need to tell the good guys they need to buy carry a gun.

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              Plenty of countries have lots of guns. Virtually none of them have any significant number of mass terror shootings, even the ones with otherwise high rates of gun violence.

              America is built different.

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                The rethoric of the people in power seems different, but I don"t know enough of other countries with lots of guns.

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        If that happened in my country it would be huge news and all anyone in the country would talk about for weeks.

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          It would appear that we have standardized school shootings here in the States.

          This one wasn’t that bad. Remember that other one?

          You going to catch The Game later?

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        Local law enforcement was having a training session very close by. That and the fact the shooter was the son of a Sherrif deputy are the reasons you could hear them blowing themselves over their fast response the whole time. Not that the fucker was putting up all the red flags for fucking years while being heavily involved in local law enforcement and constantly around guns.

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          Not that the fucker was putting up all the red flags for fucking years while being heavily involved in local law enforcement and constantly around guns.

          There is a reason DeSantis & the fascists in the Florida legislature are about to get rid of the red flag laws.

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        FSU is always crawling with plain clothes officers and unmarked cars

        Wait what the fuck?

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          I’ve seen a full on homeless man, with dreadlocks and scruffy blanket (urban Ghillie suit) sitting outside of a Waffle House. The local clubs were letting out and there were gunshots in the parking lot.

          Dude stood up and radioed in shots fired and pulled an AR from the bag he was sitting on.

          Tons of unmarked cars around campus with lights mounted in the grill and illegally tinted windows.

          It’s a heavy security presence that you wouldn’t notice unless you were around it a lot.

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    And his mom is a police officer.

    And he used one of her unsecured guns.

    In a system where we want to discourage this we need to hold the parents accountable.

    I think a life sentence for each life her son took is fair, for her and her son.

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      irresponsible gun owning parents, who literally put firearms into the hands of their homicidal children, need to be held accountable for these tragedies.

      dozens of mass shootings in recent years, especially school shootings, were absolutely preventable. if only these fucking lazy stupid ass adults would stop fetishizing guns for 2 seconds, long enough to store their weapons securely like a sane responsible person. or they could, idk, maybe steer their mentally disturbed crotch goblin towards a more pro-social, harmless activity?

      firearm ownership is a responsibility too few take seriously.

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      Why not life sentences for grand parents too? Uncles and aunts? Doctors, teachers…

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        If a gun owner’s gun is used in a murder, the owner should be charged with second-degree murder, full stop. When you own a gun, it is your responsibility to keep and secure it properly. I don’t care if it’s stolen or whatever, that gun is ultimately the responsibility of the owner. That’s the social contract when acquiring a device whose sole purpose is to kill.

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    Curious that this is still happening even though Musk has killed the woke mind virus and these guys have won forever.

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      I want to stress that it has absolutely nothing, I repeat, nothing at all to do with gun “culture” and easy access to guns.

      Nothing at all. Promise!

      /s

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        Unfortunately I think it runs deeper than guns being around. As people point out, nearly every house in Switzerland has a gun, but they have little gun violence.

        Though you’re right that America’s loose gun culture makes the underlying problem ten times worse.

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          Yes culture is a big part I think too, and the availability, can you just go up to a stand at a gun expo and buy a gun in Switzerland? I don’t think so right?

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            No. That gun is government issued, and you are responsible for its secure storage. It it not for playing around, and you don’t get any ammo with it. The ammo will be distributed in case the country needs to be defended.

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              That makes the whole idea that “there are lots of guns in Switzerland, but no shootings” worthless if you can’t buy bullets.

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          nearly every house in Switzerland has a gun, but they have little gun violence.

          Totally different situation because most of these guns are from reservists in the army which are stored without ammo. So they are literally unusable unless you happen to get ammo for it.

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            And they are held responsible for the weapon. And they leave it in a secure storage until they need it for training or to defend the country.

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        The Onion should copy the White House and just start scribbling through the mass shooting article headline they repost each time with red crayon.