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?

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Move past pointing out hypocrisy. They don’t care. We all know and on the scale of shit they’re guilty of; it seems petty. The institutions are not going to do shit.

Consider what you will be doing about this.

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Pointing out hypocrisy is not usually for the benefit of the hypocrite, it’s for the benefit of everyone else.

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But we know and it just seems like an excuse to not talk about solutions at this point.

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Just the opposite. Continue to point it out at every opportunity. They hate being called out. It doesn’t matter if they care about what they practice, they hate hearing it.

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So far, it only seems to be ratcheting up persecution.

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I’m pretty sure at this point if you’re not doing anything else you’re just emphasizing impunity and lack of consequences.

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If Republicans didn’t have mirrors they wouldn’t know their own reflection

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So, what, some sort if orbital magnifying glass to burn them with? Wouldn’t the atmosphere make that really hard?

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5 points

Not only do they not care, they get off on people getting upset over the hypocrisy. It’s a power move.

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1 point

I know. Did none of these people ever have a bully?

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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?

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If the US lowered flags to half mast after every mass shooting I’m pretty sure they would always be at half mast.

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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

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Are they gonna lower flags to half mast?

No, but I’m sure they themselves are at full mast after hearing about it.

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“all flags are to be raised to DOUBLE-MAST!! THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER”

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it’s just homeless people. There’ll be plenty more soon /s

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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.

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I got one more:
would I care if someone held Kilmeade responsible in an extrajudicial way?

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FFS Republicans. You own this 100%

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They dont ever own shit

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Well, sometimes they own other people

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Because they never pay. They just keep getting free passes.

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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.

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39 points

The problem is that they’re happy to own it.

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So how do we stop them? Law’s not gonna do shit, but fox news did incite multiple mass murders here. What kind of consequences can be applied?

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13 points

[ Removed by Reddit ] is the only idea that comes to mind, alas.

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8 points

If you were to hack Grindr…

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5 points

The only downside to a strike is not enough people striking.

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Members of the fascist party could not be reached for comment, but their neighbors did report noise complaints, from the volume of masturbation.

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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.

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The redactions never travel as fast or far as the original message. They know this.

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28 points

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.”

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51 points

He needs to be held accountable for this.

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55 points

He won’t be. But Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air.

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30 points

It’s expected of Disney, been supporting fascists since the start.

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3 points

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.

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30 points

Saying and apologizing is not the same as not saying it

I love this. Well said.

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Thank you. I had a colleague that could tell you to fuck off and later apologize, but it didn’t feel right anyway. And especially in this case, with graver consequences.

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I thought he said they should receive lethal injections. Not that they should be shot. Or is this a different instance?

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142 points

Here we are guys.

First they came for the immigrant.

Then they came for the homeless.

Youre on the list.

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I mean, technically I guess they came for trans people first. That was day one.

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Even if you’re “one of the good ones”

Especially if you’re “one of the good ones”

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What kind of a bot response is this? You’re not disabled or living, you’re a bot. Either stop pretending you’re a person or if you are a person make a separate non-bot flagged account.

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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…

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How can they be a terrorist org if they’re State Media?

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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.

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“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.

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It was a rhetorical question.

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