At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.
Are they gonna lower flags to half mast? Will there be a moment of silence? Are they gonna take responsibility? Will they persecute anyone who cheers on these deaths? Do pigs fly?
These were liberal left wing extremists that did this right? The blood thirsty left who want to kill everyone and regularly threaten people and groups with death, murder and mayhem?
Or am I thinking of another political extremist group?
If the US lowered flags to half mast after every mass shooting I’m pretty sure they would always be at half mast.
That’s how it should be then. If it’s down literally every day, maybe people would begin to realize how frequent they are.
Who am I kidding, they dgaf
“all flags are to be raised to DOUBLE-MAST!! THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER”
Are they gonna lower flags to half mast?
No, but I’m sure they themselves are at full mast after hearing about it.
Came here to post pretty much this. Oh, an asshole advocating violence and calling empathy harmful is murdered? National tragedy. We have to do something. 13 presumably innocent people are murdered. Crickets.
I got one more:
would I care if someone held Kilmeade responsible in an extrajudicial way?
FFS Republicans. You own this 100%
They dont ever own shit
Well, sometimes they own other people
Because they never pay. They just keep getting free passes.
They just break other people’s shit and then the Enlightened Centrists (and not a few deluded leftists) whine when the responsible adults (Democrats) don’t fix it fast enough.
The problem is that they’re happy to own it.
Can I quote myself without sounding arrogant? Brian Killmeade called for homeless to be shot, then retracted.
But he said it. The message has been delivered, and spread. Saying and apologizing is not the same as not saying it.
The redactions never travel as fast or far as the original message. They know this.
It’s along the lines of a quote by Mark Twain
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
He needs to be held accountable for this.
He won’t be. But Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air.
It’s expected of Disney, been supporting fascists since the start.
This is the worst time in human history to be able to read
Giving Helen Keller side eye
given how obsessed Walt Disney was with Germany, taking all of our folk lore / fairy tales, using german architecture as inspiration for castles and towns etc it isn’t really all that surprising to learn that he loved us a bit too much
He could be just not by our legal system, and certainly not by the corpos. But hey there’s always the possibility of a Luigi stepping up. Only way we will see justice, imo.
I thought he said they should receive lethal injections. Not that they should be shot. Or is this a different instance?
Here we are guys.
First they came for the immigrant.
Then they came for the homeless.
Youre on the list.
I mean, technically I guess they came for trans people first. That was day one.
Even if you’re “one of the good ones”
Especially if you’re “one of the good ones”
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This happened Monday, and this is the first I’ve heard of it.
But, today some cops were shot in PA, and it’s immediately all over the news. There’s a press conference going on now, and everyone is shocked and sad.
…today some cops were shot in PA…
oh, tots and pears
Y U make me hungie
because no one cares when homeless people die. And in fact the fox news guy just said the quiet part out loud of what A LOT of people think.
I do volunteer work outreach work for the homeless and it’s a weekly thing to see homeless people beaten up, attacked in their sleep, etc. This isn’t a new thing.
Women, children, differently gendered and slight of build are raped regularly, in addition to other physical abuse on the streets as well.
Some? I saw one about a guy who went into work and having seen someone there with a gun before not in uniform and said he decided he was going to shoot him. Last I knew he didn’t even ask for a lawyer, he just brought his gun in, shot him and put it back in the car after apparently then let them arrest him.
Guess I’ll have to go searching for the others
I just had this exact same experience.
Tearing each other apart while the billionaires laugh at us.
So trump supporters count as one of us? Seems to me they are an extension of the rich’s will.
Can we go ahead and label fox news as a terrorist organization? They are inciting violence against americans and their viewers are acting on it.
Clearly the administration will do something about these right wing lunatics…
How can they be a terrorist org if they’re State Media?
Oh i dunno, maybe the definition of Terrorist.
“unlawfully using violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
The unlawfully part is to be questioned since they are using hate speech and hate speech was deemed protected by the supreme court in the past. But apparently the administration doesn’t like that, so the supreme court will probably deem hate speech is not protected anymore since they are bought and paid for by the GOP.
“unlawfully using violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
The key part you are missing here is the “unlawfully” part. As the mouthpiece of the current regime they are clearly not beholden to the law (whats left of it) in the us.
It was a rhetorical question.
You know who else liked to kill homeless people the fucking nazziiiss
To more and more Republicans this becomes a compliment.
Which is why words won’t work, and only stronger measures will. If you want a Nazi free country, then ask a bartender on how they keep their bar Nazi free. Same solution; different scales.
trump is literally going off Hitlers playbook
Fuck every single American Republican.
Traitors, rapists and pedophiles all of them. After all birds of a feather, flock together.
The party of Groypers, Oligarchs, & Pedophiles.
GOP = Guardians of Pedophiles
Kilmeade should face charges. Not sure what charges. Not murder, but the equivalent of shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.
Stochastic terrorism. I’m not a lawyer, so… grain of salt
Inciting violence?
call to murder. why sugarcoat it? He said kill em, proud MAGA fanbois did so. Literally contract killing
No it’s not literally. Use words correctly or fuxks sake
I feel like it should be similar to the whole yelling fake fire in a crowded theater thing. Don’t people get in serious trouble for that.
I mean what he’s doing is much worse. And yes, he is inciting violence
Also sued in civil court.
He should be shot!
Wait nvm
No pushback for that Fox Host that said that. Only pushback and doxing for mean comments about dead white nationalist and nazi.
Or merely mentioning that some democrats were also assassinated this year…
And this is how stochastic terrorism works 👿
That Fox host might lose their job, like Kimmel, because the law is equally applied. /s
What law? ABC is a garbage company for doing what they did and we should all boycott them but they didn’t break the law.
I already wrote to them, and told them that after decades of being my first choice for news, I would be shifting my news viewing to NBC.
I further told them that I would be cancelling Hulu/ Disney+, and would pirate their content from now on, without commercials.
And I will.
roflmfao
And Jimmy Kimmel is the one cancelled
That’s how this is going to go.
They will exercise every ounce of power they have to silence, suppress, defend or depose any dissenting voices.
Now that they’re in a position where everyone is so desensitized to how fucking horrible things are, a lot of this stuff seems like small potatoes.
Stewart gets cancelled, Colbert gets cancelled.
Next up, papers please.
Y’know. That’s one way to end homelessness. Just kill everyone who is homeless. Voila, no homelessness.
You become homeless? Straight to the firing line for you.
I mean, other countries did it by lifting up their citizens with social programs and housing projects and whatnot. Admittedly, I would prefer this much more than America’s method.
But this does seem quite America of a solution to the homeless “problem”…
No homeless in Gilead.
There are no homeless in ba sing se
That’s basically current day fascist America’s answer for every inconvenient group of subhumans.
Homeless? Shoot 'em. Problem gone!
War in Gaza has bad optics? Level it and then you ended the war. Problem gone!
LGBTs? Mexicans??? You’re not gonna believe this…
That’s just fascists in general. Sadly, there seems to be a lot of them in the USA.
it is also a way to end conservatism… just sayin…
Global thermonuclear war.
Arm the homeless
House the homeless!
But I’m a gunsmith, not a carpenter. You don’t want me building houses. However, if you need some tips on making firearms out of things easily lifted from home depo, I’m your man.
“Alright, so get your power drill, and carefully duct tape it to the gun. That way, when you pull the trigger, you got a revolver.”
I’m not sure giving people on the streets weapons wholesale is the answer when many are there due to illnesses that manifest in violence.
Just so you know, you’re getting downvoted because what you’re saying is wrong and actually contributes to the problem.
Mental Illness and Violence Among People Experiencing Homelessness: An Evidence-Based Review
Please read the full study and it’s sources. It’s so important and negates a large portion of misinformation you’re going to hear. I’ll highlight some points in case some people don’t want to.
The US media is saturated with coverage of perceived threats to public safety by people experiencing homelessness (PEH) with purported “mental illness.” … a content analysis of 6,400 tweets regarding PEH collected over three months showed widespread generalizations that PEH posed a high risk of violence and that homelessness was caused by untreated mental illness.3
About 30% of PEH have a mental health condition.73 The framing of these narratives have been identified as further entrenching the dehumanization of PEH, contributing to oversimplified understandings of PEH and mental illness, and motivating policy interventions that are not evidence-based.4 Physicians’ lack of specific training in working with PEH can create additional barriers to accessing care,5 especially since PEH may perceive negative attitudes in their physicians,6 exacerbating feelings of alienation.7 Stigma is pervasive,8 and that experience is often compounded by PEH’s past negative experiences with medical care and ongoing structural barriers to engagement
There’s many more passages that are relevant and have way too much info for me to copy/paste here, like:
- Mental Illness and Addiction Can Be One of Many Precipitants of Homelessness and Should Not Be Seen as the Underlying Cause
- Homelessness and Mental Illness Are Not Driving Surges in Violent Crime
- Permanent Supportive Housing is Cost-Effective and Associated with Better Outcomes for PEH
- Putting People Away Without Essential Care and Basic Needs
- Learning “From the Misses” Does Not Breed Compassion
Again, you’re going to be reading, watching, and discussing homelessness in media for the rest of your life. It’s only going to take you 20 minutes to get real facts about the debates and form an evidence based opinion on the matter. Or just disregard and continue watching/reading misinformation to form your thoughts for you.
I’m aware not all are. It’s funny though that suddenly people who are against reasonable bg checks suddenly aren’t.
I wouldn’t take a few hyperbolic statements made on Lemmy as an opportunity to perpetuate common misunderstandings though. I assure you anyone wanting to focus on arming instead of housing any homeless are just accelerationists and not wanting an actual solution.
