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261 points

the media:

we’ll stop naming school shooters due to copycat killers

also the media:

his name was thomas matthew and here’s a 90 minute special about his preferred breakfast cereal

👀 👀 👀

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108 points

If this encourages these psychos to stop shooting children and shoot politicians instead, I’ll take that trade.

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22 points

I’ll say the name of anyone that takes a shot at a fascist, for any reason. Even being the wrong kind of fascist.

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2 points

I’ve always said we need a Walter Audisio day as a national holiday.

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1 point

Like the guy who liked Hitler.

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6 points

you know what, fuck yeah. People can only afford so many bullets these days, so just like Halloween warnings avout drugs and the reality of who the fuck would waste their hard earned drug money on random kids, why should anyone waste bullet money on them either. shoot a politician, save a child.

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98 points

Did the media ever really say they’d stop naming school shooters??

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87 points

Also, I’m told this wasn’t a school shooting.

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6 points

I know of one who should have been in school

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50 points

The media is not one thing. Media is plural. Good luck getting “the media” to agree on anything.

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38 points

They sure can agree on a few things:

  • Ads make money.
  • More ads make more money.
  • Money.
  • More money.
  • 🦀 money money money 🦀
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8 points

I vaguely remember a pinky swear.

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1 point

For like 2 weeks and they went back to it

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Wish.com Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t shoot up a school though

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I guess they made the call that releasing this information is the lesser of two evils, the other one being to withhold it and to let speculation run wild in a heated political climate, in which one side is not shy about threats of violence.

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14 points

Who ever kills Trump will get an entire movie about them.

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5 points

Noticed this too. They just plaster his face and have analysis and stories all over youtube and news. I thought US are already over this yet here we are.

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Yeah, wouldn’t that be a crying shame, this time.

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