Time for a new "Yet Another Mass Shooting Thread"

Infecting the deer they hunt with the plague?

 

Well it ain't my problem, suckers

REPORTER: "What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?"

BURCHETT: "Well, we homeschool her." @brenonade pic.twitter.com/RChX6qz62X

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) March 28, 2023

 

This little exchange has already made it onto his wikipedia page.

If he is in Congress, how is he homeschooling his daughter?
He does "we're homeschooling her."
So that would be Mrs. Burchett? Of course, that is the second Mrs. Burchett, party of family values and all that.

 

There were black victims of the Nashville shootings.

 

I wouldn’t be so glib. Remember January 6.

Bow and arrow? Slingshot?

horseshoe theory in action here

 

First one.

 

Good bowhunting in your area.

 

So you are a 2nd amendment enthusiast now?

As fvcked up as republicans are, this could give them an idea on what type of background checks they would support.

 

Lots of people were placed on the list just because they shared a name with someone in a secret wanted list.

Lots of innocent people lost their right to fly and had to go thru a lot of trouble to clear their names so they could be allowed to fly again.

Taking away a constitutional right just because your parents named you Osama would be fvcked up.

Perhaps for the wrong reasons, but those reps were right on that one.

 

Don't confuse your ignorance of the history of deadly violence against the LGBT+ community with a lack of deadly violence against the LGBT+ community. I've had a white friend murdered because he was gay. I've had a white lesbian friend beaten until legally blind while the police watched. I've had bottles thrown from passing cars at me while walking with a date along a boardwalk. My friend's white mom couldn't figure out why all of a sudden she was having things thrown at her from cars while bike riding. My friend realized that her mom had put a pink triangle sticker on her bike helmet (her mom had no idea what it stood for). Once she removed the sticker, the projectiles immediately stopped.

 

Quite frankly it wouldn't matter what the terms were. They could call themselves the New Incredibly Caring Elite Transpeople (aka NICE Transpeople) and they would get attacked just as much, with overkill being an all-too-often component.

 

And when the American soldiers liberated the concentration camp survivors, they released those with the Star of David on them but those with triangles on them were sent to jail, for they were criminals. (As reported in a chapter of Gay Life and Culture: A World History).

 

Well, that's true, but it would take more effort to attack.

See the post immediately after yours. Twitter has overreacted to the use of the word "Vengeance" by banning the poster itself.

 

I'm shocked to find out that in this case it was not a lone wolf...

 

They didn't overreact to the word "Vengeance". They responded to MTG's unending stupidity, which does not include concern about this flyer. The most popular definition, according to Google Dictionary, is "punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.

Punishment. Before I just blithely go about my day, I'd like to know how they plan to decide who deserves their vengeance and who gets to live.

Britannica Dictionary definition of VENGEANCE. [noncount] : the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt you or someone else.

Words mean things. If they didn't intend to wreak havoc on a bunch of people, they should have used a different term.

I have no respect for and do not value MTG's existence any more than you do (probably less, because unlike you, I'm actually in a victim demographic), but I was concerned as soon as I read that flyer.

I mean, if they wanna play the "I'm hurt, so if you somehow accidentally get hit by the bullets I aim at the real target of my angst, too bad, because I'm hurt. My hurt supercedes any and all concerns you may have for your own safety" game, we should probably all be concerned. I'm not interested in becoming a martyr for anybody lighter than a brown paper bag.

 

Did you bother to read the NBCNews article before you decided to attack my comment?

Twitter removed 5,000 tweets that contained the poster.

As for the word "vengeance," I already defined the term and, as I explained, I know the context of the use of the term.

From the article:

Ella Irwin, Twitter's vice president of product overseeing trust and safety, said the company had conducted a "sweep" to remove more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of the graphic, including Greene's.

"We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them," Irwin tweeted. "'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok."

According to Irwin, Twitter decided to restrict the graphic from being shared but with “no impact to users for having tweeted it” unless it was “reposted after removal or was posted with additional calls for violence/ wishes of harm.”

Greene’s office shared a copy of the deleted post and Twitter’s communication with her but did not respond to a request for additional comment. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening."

 

Your comment was not "attacked". I'm sorry you feel that way.

 

Okay, but did you bother to read the article, or the excerpt I posted?

 

I have now read it.

It's pretty much what I expected it to be, which is, Twitter banned MTG for reposting the flyer. She should have been banned long ago for numerous things, and I don't agree with her banning here... but I'll take it.

If a Black group had advertised a day of vengeance, there would be no Black Americans outside a jail cell that day

 

Wait. . . there's still penalties on Twitter?

 

No, they banned the flyer, 5,000 examples of it, including her.