I don't know, is he German?

Germans start with the thumb. Maybe Steph Curry made one from downtown?

He did do this tonight:
https://streamable.com/d8neq

Yeah, you're probably right. It's been a while since I've seen Inglorious Basterds.

Florida, of course:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...llegiance.html

I guess the semi-twist is that the teacher trying to enforce the stand for the pledge policy seems to be a Cuban immigrant herself.

there was just a mass shooting 2 days ago in Illinois, it was by a black guy and it got 1/1000 of the media coverage as the smiling MAGA kid.

The media looks for stories that fit their narrative, and if it doesn't they just move on to the next story.

I have no idea what this means. Are you saying non-white shooters don't get the media coverage? Like... except Islamic ones, right? So the media's agenda is what... trying to demonise white people and Muslims? But not blacks. Thinking emoji.

In reality it didn't become a big story because he didn't kill that many people by modern standards and because people care a lot less about workplace shootings than they care about random killings on the street, or kids dying, or whatever. The MAGA kid story would have been a blip on the radar as well if it hadn't been disputed.

Mass shootings happen every other day. Well, more than that. There have been 42 this year.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/r...hooting?page=1

And the news I saw ran the Illinois shooting all day long. I don't watch a lot of tv news, but didn't see anything about the MAGA kid. There was a lot here (online generally I assume) though.

You are over-exaggerating things to fit your narrative.

I worked in the news media industry for ten years and I can guarantee you that media runs stories for the most part that they think their readers/viewers are most interested in and will receive the greatest readership/viewers. Be it print, television, or online.

This should be a surprise to nobody.

the shooting in Illinois was not a big story because there was no way to connect it back to Trump. The media knows that anything related to trump is going to get a ton of clicks right now so anything they can connect to trump they are going to turn into a huge story - even if it's a hoax like the Covington high school kid.

It's the same way that they ended up reporting on hoax videos about Muslims celebrating 9/11 because after 9/11 happened the media was looking for any anti-Muslim stories they could find and whether they were true or not wasn't really that important.

I got a notification from the NYT app as soon as this story started being reported (in contrast with many mass shootings that don't get any attention at all) but, uh, sure, yeah, the lamestream media is obviously trying to stuff anything outside "whites = bad" under the rug, great theory

How would you say the Ilhan Omar controversy 'connects back to Trump'? Because that was pretty big news, right? Even before Trump commented. You should note that "Well it's political, of course it connects to Trump" is not going to cut it.

its weird how the media has run with this illinois shooting in the way they have. they keep reporting that he killed "coworkers" and "colleagues" but the ****ing fact is that the guy was called into a termination meeting (with his BOSSES and SUPERVISORS) and started blasting the people in the room when they fired him. they don't bring your ****ing coworkers in to witness you getting fired, that room is 100% filled with managers and superiors.

my guess is that the media is intentionally framing it this way because if they reported that he went in and pumped 5 of his bosses full of lead, every mediocre MAGAchud stuck in a deadend 9-5 might get emboldened to carry out their pathetic dreams in the same way that this guy did, or at least start a gofundme for his legal expenses.

also, i've had some pretty awful bosses in my life- i would never shoot them up but if one of my coworkers did, i can think of a few who i would shed exactly zero tears for.

just a weird situation all around where the media is actively distorting the facts to prevent this guy from seeming more sympathetic than he really is, but like, these things are a dime a dozen and somehow this one is plastered across every news page and tv channel in the country.

oh and this shooter is black.

oh just for reference, they said one of the victims "loved god, family, and mississippi state (university)"

pretty sure that dude is a legit terrible person/boss based on that alone, and i'd bet a substantial amount that the shooter experienced some degree of racism from these uneducated yokels

That story was everywhere, acting like it wasn’t is nonsense. Also “the liberal media doesn’t cover mass shootings enough” is certainly a new one. Seems like rtd33 thinks the fact the shooter was black is really important and being overlooked? Idk my dude why don’t you just continue your line of thought and see where it takes you, sounds like a fun experiment.

i'm guessing this is a goof? are you parodying someone who has sociopathic tendencies?

what's the joking/satiric angle I'm missing here? I must be missing something cuz on the surface you're implying that one of the victims deserved it?

I'll gladly accept the razzing for having missed what the REAL point of these posts is. little help?

rep has issues.

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I mean, I'm not a sociopath, but it's not too farfetched of a concept that there are some people in one's life that if you were to hear of their untimely death, you'd think "oh wow that's really ****ed up and I feel bad for their immediate family" but not really be sad in any way whatsoever. And possibly think that on balance, the world is a very very slightly better place now than it was before their death.

since you're still going to be confused and spend the afternoon bloviating like a simpleton, i'll just cut to the chase. my point, obviously, is that there are elements to this story that the media is distorting or glossing over, which would make the perpetrator seem sympathetic to some degree to certain members of the populace. it's fairly problematic imo and i think they know it's fairly problematic but for some reason anyway they have chosen to focus on this one mass shooting more than any of the countless others, potentially because this is a rare event where the shooter is black.

^^

only somebody with poor critical thinking skills, a penchant for histrionics, and/or a personal grudge would think i'm in here cheerleading the loss of life

so we've gone from "Would you kill baby hitler?" to "Would you kill baby Lumberg from office space?"

what in the actual ****

I was going to make a snide remark about how many hundreds of posts the MAGA kid smiling at a protester generated vs how many the guy who faked a hate crime got, but when I went to go pull numbers, it seems that whole Nathan Phillips ordeal was removed from the forum.

Thwarted by the mods again.

I like this new guy who is going with the theory that the current narrative was concocted by Trump and Jussie Smollett is being unfairly thrown under the bus. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter, turtletom.

I knew that guy was funning us when he said Ellen Page was next

Ellen Page's super-powered siblings would protect her.

Is it shocking to you that events generating disagreement have more posts about them than events everyone has a consensus on? Were you expecting a large "Jussie Smollett did nothing wrong" contingent ITF?