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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
Relatable.
My logic is impeccable.
Think about this: he never killed anyone else. You think a murderer would be able to just one-and-done like that after getting away with it?
Clearly he was innocent all along.
The shelters aren’t near where people work. They’re also often more dangerous than the street.
Sure, but it will make a private security contractor and private prison company have great returns for investors!
Rata Blanca is p good tho 🔥
Well remember, this was the 90s. Today we’re all disembodied digital nomads so it doesn’t matter what is near or far, but back then there was still a sense of place that meant having a bunch of military-industrial institutions nearby would effect the local culture.
And maybe that’s why shootings get worse every year. The physical location doesn’t matter anymore.
Yeah yeah I’ve already seen your cynical video. America rules the world and as a result America’s evil is just so much bigger. No one else can compare to the scope and scale of the largest military, biggest weapons manufacturer, largest arms dealer, most aggressive foreign policy, etc. This creates a sick society because Americans (falsely) believe America represents them, so when it does evil it does it in their names.
As for What Is To Be Done, no one is going to save us. We have to do it ourselves.
The scale of America’s evil is just so much greater than every other country, so the scale of its own social sickness is similarly greater.
From an interview Michael Moore gave to DemocracyNow he explains the connection pretty well, I think. America is a violent country and it makes violent people.
the Columbine shootings occurred on the same day as the heaviest United States bombing of the Kosovo war,
the number one private employer in Littleton is Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest weapons maker
Rocky Flats, the largest plutonium-making place in the world, is just down the road
NORAD is just up the road.
But you don’t think children with a childhood steeped in violence and families steeped in violence are going to grow up thinking about this? All of this militarization and violence are a cultural miasma and children absorb the lessons taught to them by America.
Kill your enemies, make them fear you, rule the world, Be a Man!
The thing that stuck with me about Bowling for Columbine is that the school was in the same zip code as a DoJ establishment manufacturing rocket technology for war, in the most violent country in modern history. Drawing that connection between the violence done by the State and the violence done by citizens was very eye opening for me. The problem isn’t just the guns, or the NRA, or lobbying - the problem is that the United States is an evil country and we are all complicit in its evil. This is normal. ‘Dad goes off to the factory every day, he builds missiles of mass destruction.’ What’s the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?
lol no one is becoming a fascist because we ask them to say mail carrier instead of mailman 🙄
And you know what makes women feel alienated? Being called men. Do we matter?
Shooter, crack shot, sharpshooter, etc.
The US Air Force doesn’t get to decide what is and isn’t gendered language.
I don’t think I care what the US Air Force calls people. The meaning of words is socially constructed, just like gender, and our society constructs “-man” as a gendered suffix. Male-as-default should be fought wherever it arises, even when the official government policy says otherwise.
Maybe especially when the government says otherwise, and Bushnell being trans (the evidence is certainly compelling) just makes this more important.
She can also be an excellent sword fighter.
I’m not the one that started this cringe reddit-style correction thread, as far as I’m concerned all soldiers are the same, but I’m sure as fuck not going to let shit like “airman is already the gender neutral term” go unchallenged because it very obviously isn’t.
This is a comments section. None of this matters. This is exactly the time and place to talk about this. 🙄