• Denjin@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      He once made a tweet that vaguely criticised a Conservative figure. wOkE aGeNdA KiLLs AgAIn

    • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      They’re asking if he was on anti-depressants. Everyone else is a murderer, terrorist, what have you. When it’s one of theirs? Just a misguided kid on SSRIs.

      • mke@programming.devEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        Contrast with keying a car and being labeled a terrorist. By scratching a cybertruck, you become an enemy of the state—something a republican school shooter could never dream of.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Is this where we say: “this wouldn’t have happened if Florida controlled guns like a blue state!” And then offer thoughts and prayers? Seems like how it goes with the shoe on the other foot.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      I’m not aware of any blue state with an effective gun control system. And I’m not saying that to dunk on Dems but as a general observation of the US as a whole.

      And aren’t “thoughts and prayers” a conservative thing to do? I’m a bit confused by your comment, it’s giving mixed messages.

      • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        yeah our gun control laws suck. even if you are on the side of control, if you look at what we do, how, and why, you will have to admit our gun regulations are dumb.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Young white men are being indoctrinated with 24/7 propaganda telling them they are the real victims

        • Letsdothisagain@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          I’m sorry, I try to keep my media intake low, but what is being said that makes these white men feel like victims? Or, portraying them as the victim?

              • multifariace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                40 minutes ago

                Even if you were a troll, your questions are worth asking. All the reactionary downvoting and accusations are because you made them have to think about their position so they get defensive and echo their aggregated hate. I wonder if they also espouse the lack of empathy of the other party. Imagine the hypocrisy.

          • millie@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            15 hours ago

            Are you really fully unaware of incels, the manosphere, and the alt-right pipeline? This shit is all over social media.

            There’s a strong encouragement for men to fall into this “redpill” philosophy that casts everyone who doesn’t look like them, especially anyone who ends up on the less-privileged end of any measure of intersectional privilege, as an aggressor attempting to steal their place in society and “replace” them.

            Have you heard anyone complaining about how you can’t make jokes anymore or can’t compliment women anymore? They’re echoing a hallucination of white male oppression by queer feminist socialists. In response they elected Trump and spend their days rumbling around in their massive coal-rolling pickup trucks that have never seen a speck of dirt or a heavier load than a few groceries or maybe a couch.

            • TootTootComingThru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              25 minutes ago

              What’s the point of bringing this weird, condescending Reddit energy to what seems to be a genuine question?

              Not everyone lives on the internet, not everyone knows what an incel is, or who Andrew Tate is or what a manosphere is. Why not just answer the question normally? Holy fucking moly.

              In response they elected Trump

              Young incel type white guys did? I thought most of them didn’t even bother to turn up. Look fuck the extremisation of the yutes through social media, it’s genuinely awful and will likely have long lasting effects but we can’t put the blame on them for all the ails in the world without recognizing that a lot of different segments of our population are fucking up right now and are in some small part contributing to more people being alienated from the left. You have to at least admit that it’s a little ironic to say that they’re imagining everything while also seemingly putting electing Trump solely on them. It’s ultimately counter productive in the long run.

            • Letsdothisagain@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 hours ago

              It’s weird… cuz, even if there is a bias against white men, its still white men that rule the most of the world and have all the money, and run the major corporations. But white men feel like they’re getting replaced?

              On the other hand, America has always been a mix, but always had a strong foundation of white men, and it does feel like that base might be changing. Something is changing

  • Cocopanda@futurology.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    They were saying he was an illegal all over MAGAtard social media. Until the facts came out. Then they started deleting in mass to cover up their lies.

          • StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            1 hour ago

            No I understand what en masse means. I just don’t subscribe to your inflexible interpretation.

            Language is a tool for communication. It’s for the masses, not something to be gate kept or preserved by the priests lingual orthodoxy. If the words you use convey the intended meaning to the listener, then the wording is adequate.

            If everyone’s use of language was as rigid as the people insisting we can only use the phrases as they existed when they were imported to an English court by a Norman conqueror a thousand years ago, then we’d all still be communicating by banging rocks together and grunting. The English language evolves every day. It’s alive.

            • meowMix2525@lemm.eeEnglish
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              52 minutes ago

              Ok but the argument is that it might not “convey the intended meaning to the listener” because ‘in mass’ can mean multiple things in English, whereas in French ‘en masse’ specifically means ‘as a group’. It’s not a linguistic purity thing it’s literally just to prevent misinterpretation.

              edit: You can’t say “English is an evolving language” and then ignore the evolution in the phrase being carried over in the first place. If there was no reason for it then we’d just be using the English term.

    • TheOakTree@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Not gonna lie I thought your username was Copaganda at first.

      No, I do not have dyslexia lol

  • Camelbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I was recently thinking it’s says a lot about a culture, where kids shoot up schools regularly, but immigrants getting a terrible treatment never seem to shoot up an ICE office or other government building.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      People in US culture want to think this is a product of white christian men getting hurt and isolated to the point that the poor innocent souls wander into committing a school shooting.

      The negative mental health is only part of the equation and isn’t even critical to it, what IS critical is teaching christian white men that they have the inherent right given who they are to commit violence and nobody else does.

      This is why you see that “incongruity”.

    • huppakee@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I think both are part of the same culture to be honest, they are just in very different positions both pushed to an extreme situation (the kids shooting up schools and the government officials threating immigrants like crap). Personally I believe you get what you give and this is the result of a society that is getting what it has been giving (or not giving, really). Really sad situation where a lot of people get way less than they deserve (the parents of the killed kids, the children of the deported families etc)

    • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Careful… You’ll enrage the gun lovers who will tell you how important having a gun right now is while also not using the guns right now for the intended purpose of feeding the liberty tree. There is no difference between a coward and a coward with a gun.

      • BreadOven@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        Haha. That’s fair. I’m also not American, so gun control is slightly different where I am.