This happens in a smaller way with access to prenatal testing and abortions. Parents with access to those things are at least able to detect and avoid the more debilitating birth defect, while parents without access are more likely to have a child with a severe birth defect. If they’re already struggling materially, that can sometimes guarantee that both the parents and child will have no upward mobility.
The country has tens of millions of idiots, yes, but please acknowledge that Republicans have only won elections by cheating, for decades.
Also not the person you replied to, but your comment is exactly the language they’re cautioning against. If I saw your comment attributed to a far-right nationalist, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Personally I think using dehumanizing language to describe fascists is letting them off the hook. I might want to believe we don’t share any DNA, but they’re humans who arrived at a certain worldview the same way I did. It’s just that their worldview is violent and disgusting.
I don’t know the reasons for denying his release, but there’s a great HBO documentary about the parole system called Nature of the Crime. Even though parole hearings are ostensibly based on a prisoner’s behavior, attitude, rehabilitation, improvement, etc. they often get denied simply because the crime was a brutal one. Unfortunately they can never go back and change the nature of the crime, so they’re at the whim of the parole board.
Ah, it’s been at the top of my list forever and I keep forgetting. Thanks for another reminder. I will watch soon!
The boy’s mother, who attended the court hearing, suggested in an interview afterward that the social media posts were an attempt to “be cool” among peers, KOMO-TV reported.
Obviously this is mom’s attempt to undersell her child’s plans, but I fully believe this has become a legit motive for young shooters. It’s hard to fully articulate my theory, but it’s something like: the more they rely on social media for self-esteem and validation, the less connected they feel to real-life people and events. They scroll through an endless stream of videos of humiliation, war crimes, pranks, and memes while having fewer of these experiences in real life. For some young people, their greatest achievement is to post a “deviant lick” that goes viral - a shocking inside joke that will label them a “fucking legend.” Add in a heavy dose of climate doom and cynical comments like, “Younger generations are totally fucked.” If someone feels like they have no future, at least they can grab a gun and blast their anger and despair at some NPCs while livestreaming for one last chance for some online attention.
Yes, it would help if guns are less accessible, but we NEED to be working on the epidemic of social isolation.
This is actually very cohesive. Well done.
I’m dying. So fucking funny.
Is that what you would say to the 8- and 10-year-old who were killed on a Wednesday morning? You’d point out how they’ve been completely fucked by policies and culture they have no control over?
I’m not angry about anyone saying they’re desensitized - we all are. But to read that little children were killed and take the time to write, “I don’t care anymore,” is mean and contributes nothing.
What a shitty, heartless comment. I live in Minneapolis. Before today I might have read your comment and thought, “Well that’s callous,” but reading it today I feel angry. Keep that shit to yourself.
I really don’t want Minneapolis to be the epicenter of another culture war. We still haven’t recovered from the last one.
The limited distribution makes people think it’s a mind-blowing beer. It’s pretty good.
Also from Minnesota here. For stereotypes, do you love the state fair? Are you friendly to strangers but don’t exchange contact info? Do you still have friends from elementary school?
I agree with another comment about separating Anglo authors from others. My favorite Anglo author is Cormac McCarthy. I feel self-conscious as he’s a white man who writes manly stories about white men, but his style is hypnotic to read. He uses obscure words that I’ve never heard before, but somehow I know what they mean because it flows so well.
Who’s the broken clock?
What are you talking about?
The videos were sometimes watched from home and hotels, often late at night or early in the morning, it said.
I won’t claim to be an expert, but based on this I’d say this guy is an absolute fucking loser.
Ah, that is sensible. Thanks for clarifying, and I agree. Homelessness is a failure of a community. If the climate is already hostile to people who have shelter, we better make damn sure unhoused people are protected too.
I would love to know how many people actually refused to vote for Kamala for the reasons you stated. Obviously it’s not zero, but I have seen some variation of the “are you happy now?” comment hundreds of times, and I’ve never spoken to such a protest voter in real life. Or maybe they’re everywhere and they’re too embarrassed to admit it.
Instead of pointing to gerrymandering, voter suppression and potential massive election fraud, the mass of comments like yours is starting to feel like straw manning.