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Huh, it's almost like there was mass chaos and confusion.
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jivjov posted:Huh, it's almost like there was mass chaos and confusion. "i was THERE and i was told one thing and then later i was told another thing! take it from me, a random anonymous person on the internet, that you shouldn't trust what you hear from the media. only trust people like me, who are anonymous and random internet people who have no reason to lie to you thanks and godb less"
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Oct 5, 2017 00:07
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I've got someone on my feed calling conspiracy because there's no glass inside the room from the broken windows. This is an encyclopedia brown level puzzle. What side of the window would the glass be?
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Oct 5, 2017 00:28
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've got someone on my feed calling conspiracy because there's no glass inside the room from the broken windows. IDK I've learned not to trust Encyclopedia Brown ever since the story/puzzle where he said that fans can't cool things down
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Oct 5, 2017 00:36
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I like the format of incredibly stupid conspiracy for loving idiots that straight up announces itself to be a ploy at derailing the discourse "Can we PLEASE stop talking about healthcare for a second and get this chemtrail stuff sorted out?!?"
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Oct 5, 2017 00:47
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Lots of the usual “I know a friend who was there who says there were DEFINITELY multiple shooters” who also say someone definitely yelled at them “you’re all going to die tonight!” And Trumpers parroting this stuff because “all the media does is lie” It never stops.
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Oct 5, 2017 01:23
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It wouldn't surprise me too much if the guy had hired a prostitute to his room beforehand and that was the person screaming warnings, but I wouldn't bet money on it. Doesn't suggest any kind of conspiracy either.
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Oct 5, 2017 01:30
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[quote="“Dr. Arbitrary”" post="“477063870”"] It wouldn’t surprise me too much if the guy had hired a prostitute to his room beforehand and that was the person screaming warnings, but I wouldn’t bet money on it. Doesn’t suggest any kind of conspiracy either. [/quote] I would kind of hope that if I were a prostitute that went to this room and saw enough stuff to convince me that this was about to go down and I should be screaming in the streets I would alert the hotel staff and maybe the police as soon as I left the room. Not just wander on down to the concert and maybe warn a couple of random people. That's just me, though.
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Oct 5, 2017 01:57
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iajanus posted:I would kind of hope that if I were a prostitute that went to this room and saw enough stuff to convince me that this was about to go down and I should be screaming in the streets I would alert the hotel staff and maybe the police as soon as I left the room. Not just wander on down to the concert and maybe warn a couple of random people. Isn't prostitution illegal in Las Vegas? She might not go to the cops in that case...
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Oct 5, 2017 02:03
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Sure, but it's gonna be super lovely if it turns out that that's exactly what she did and got dismissed as being a crazy hooker. Like I said, no reason to believe it's true, please don't take this goofball theory seriously and post it as an article on freethoughtproject.
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Oct 5, 2017 02:04
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Being an escort isn't illegal. Also if she's white the police are much more likely to overlook minor stuff for the bigger stuff.
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Oct 5, 2017 02:10
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PhazonLink posted:The worst tippers are probably fundies that have that BS fake looking 10$ or 20$ that's just some prayer garbage. Ah nothing like making GBS threads on the face of someone whose highlight of the week could be a $20 bill. (Edit: oh gently caress it phones suck) FantasticExtrusion fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Oct 5, 2017 02:15
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Dejawesp posted:
This is old I've seen it before, that's why it's got the sick burn on  care.And holy  that burn did not age well now that we've seen the Republican health care bills, and not only are they the expected evil, they're mind-bogglingly stupid. After each time they slap one together like a high-schooler who didn't do the reading writing his book report on the bus on the way to class, every single professional medical organization in the country issues a press release reading pretty much "how can anyone know this little about how healthcare works, this bill is a conflicting mess that will destroy the health care system for literally no reason, do not do this for the love of God"
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Oct 5, 2017 02:26
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Goddamn the alt-right is poo poo about that. The son of the guy my mom married just posted that it was sick that 'the far-left is glad this happened'  So far he hasn't replied to my call of bullshit. The only possible way I could see something twisted is if people said "I hope we can at least get some decent gun control laws out of this"
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Oct 5, 2017 02:32
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Goddamn the alt-right is poo poo about that. The son of the guy my mom married just posted that it was sick that 'the far-left is glad this happened'
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Oct 5, 2017 04:21
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Dienes posted:Isn't prostitution illegal in Las Vegas? She might not go to the cops in that case... No idea, but I think the cops would let it slide if you helped them avert this kind of situation. Our just tell them you happened to stop by for no particular reason.
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Oct 5, 2017 04:51
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A relative just shared something on Facebook about how the media is overhyping Vegas because there have been bigger mass shootings. Their example? Wounded Knee. "Americans are now claiming the Las Vegas shooting was the biggest in our history, what kind of citizens forget their own massacres? Wounded Knee was the largest mass shooting in U.S. history that left around 300 innocent men, women and children dead. Don't let the media trick you into forgetting about the Lakota victims of December 29, 1890." I think it'd be great to see this make lists of mass killings in the US, but the same people posting about it would be screaming about Are Troops if anyone actually did so. I posted that it's great we're including it now, and that I hope the medals issued to the soldiers that carried it out get revoked.
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Oct 5, 2017 04:54
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If we had Fox News in 1890 they'd be reporting that the Lakota were plotting a WMD they call "G.H.O.S.T. D.A.N.C.E." which is rumored to resurrect native ghosts through infernal magic and commit mass genocide against the White race.
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Oct 5, 2017 05:30
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DeadlyMuffin posted:A relative just shared something on Facebook about how the media is overhyping Vegas because there have been bigger mass shootings. Their example? Wounded Knee. you know, i forgot all about the genocidal plains wars against native americans since they tore down all the statues commemorating our massacres of native americans
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Oct 5, 2017 05:40
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Every news outlet always puts "in modern history" after that specifically because people like to deflect with historical genocides after every mass shooting. Another one of those "I only bring up issue X when I need to distract from issue Y", they don't actually care about Wounded Knee and of course we all think it was awful.
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Oct 5, 2017 06:43
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If you include African Americans / slaves then yeah there's a lot more mass murders too, specifically the bombing of black wall Street in the early 1900s: http://www.theroot.com/this-is-only-the-deadliest-shooting-in-u-s-history-bec-1819112938
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Oct 5, 2017 06:52
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Goddamn the alt-right is poo poo about that. The son of the guy my mom married just posted that it was sick that 'the far-left is glad this happened' Ok, apparently its some dumb infowars article about one guy who tweeted that he hoped it was trump supporters who died. ONE GUY, and they are conflating "Glad they are dead" with "Hope its this group hit (and implicitly not this other one)"
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Oct 5, 2017 07:49
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Goddamn the alt-right is poo poo about that. The son of the guy my mom married just posted that it was sick that 'the far-left is glad this happened' The head of legal at CBS wrote on her Facebook: "If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.” She was immediately fired.
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Oct 5, 2017 11:17
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Poor ol' Stephen Paddock.... thought of elevators and died.
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Oct 5, 2017 12:11
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Duke Igthorn posted:
Yeah, that was a pretty dumb thing to write. She probably could have gotten away with just the first part.
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Oct 5, 2017 15:47
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iajanus posted:No idea, but I think the cops would let it slide if you helped them avert this kind of situation. Our just tell them you happened to stop by for no particular reason. I really wish I shared your optimism.
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Oct 5, 2017 17:48
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Yeah, the second half is hosed up, unfair, and a bad move. Somebody put me on the news so I as a filthy leftist can publicly condemn this sentiment, provided I can then explain that one reason it's unfair is because we know the majority of GOP voters agree with greater gun legislation of some kind and the only question is what form it should take.
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[quote="“Dienes”" post="“477082186”"] I really wish I shared your optimism. [/quote] There's no evidence of money changing hands, she can just say she went back to his room.
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My dad's a conservative in sort of an unthinking way - he voted for Trump just because he was the Republican, but it's starting to dawn on him that maybe that wasn't the best idea. The only thing he does seem to have strong opinions on is gun control. He hasn't been having a very happy week. This is the first time in a while that he hasn't been able to use his go-to rebuttal, "a good guy with a gun could have stopped this". With every other massacre, he relied on imagining A Hero showing up and popping the gunman in the head as soon as he reveals his evil intention. But this couldn't have even hypothetically happened in this case. It seems to have broken his brain a little bit; now that the Jack Bauer Defense is out, he's been alternating sharing articles blaming Democrats for politicizing the shooting, and conspiracy-friendly articles that are Just Asking Questions. Normally he isn't the type of person to post political things on Facebook, so this struck me as odd. But then I remember he's a card-carrying member of the NRA and then I get sad. Dr. Arbitrary posted:If we had Fox News in 1890 they'd be reporting that the Lakota were plotting a WMD they call "G.H.O.S.T. D.A.N.C.E." which is rumored to resurrect native ghosts through infernal magic and commit mass genocide against the White race. This is pretty much canon in Shadowrun.
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I still don't see how advocating for gun control is "politicizing" a tragedy which was perpetrated using guns. Like you're doing a loving root cause analysis and guns happened to be one of them.
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I mean, you're advocating for a political response to a tragic event, so you are forcing that event to exist within a political framework. The bigger issue is that people are primed to believe that political things are inherently distasteful, rather than a core function of democratic government.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:48
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also by reducing gun control to a political issue, you don't have to talk about the real cost in terms of dead people. you can just abstractly wave away the price of freedom with thoughts and prayers. this is why they talk about abortion in terms of dead babies
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Oct 5, 2017 18:50
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Oct 5, 2017 18:54
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I mean if you really want to think about it, these people were killed at a country music concert, so instead of infringing upon law abiding citizen's Second Amendment rights, we could instead ban Country Music. Checkmate Liberals 
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Oct 5, 2017 18:58
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Oct 5, 2017 20:49
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seiferguy posted:
Maybe because it's rather difficult to murder crowds of people by stuffing prescription pills down their throats until they overdose.
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Oct 5, 2017 22:08
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I also haven't seen anything about Paddock being on meds or any kind of diagnosed mental illness. So someone is just tacking on another mass shooter to their generic image because they're a massive piece of poo poo.
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Oct 5, 2017 22:14
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seiferguy posted:
I can't believe Kermit drank mind-altering tea and then killed all those people
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Oct 5, 2017 22:14
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Goon Danton posted:I can't believe Kermit drank mind-altering tea and then killed all those people 
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