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Even if it wasn't meant as a way of trying to change the racial impression of the shooter just the fact that they felt that reporting on the incident allows them artistic license to choose what the perpetrator looks like is very worrying. Thing is most people will only glance at headlines and images and if they match up to their own internal narrative then they regard it as truth.
I went out for a drink with a young feminist a few months back (didn't know how feminist until the drink) and we were talking about the Cologne mass sexual assault that occurred New Years 2015 (oh I know how to woo the ladies..). She was under the belief that after further investigation on the event that the perpetrators were all native Germans and the number of assaults exaggerated, a complete fabrication but understandable when her favoured media resources played down or didn't report on it because it didn't fit the 'refugees are all amazing' narrative.
The truly terrifying thing is individuals even further down this similar ideologue echo chamber are in positions of power in media, academia, politics and even corporate HR.
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@tim said in Guns?.........or is that the least of the problems?:
given how she's slung that rifle, i reckon i can lift her skirt before she can shoot me. Also her sign says i can
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10 killed in Santa Fe shooting
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@donsteppa said in Guns?.........or is that the least of the problems?:
“Thoughts and prayers and platitudes...”
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@mariner4life said in Guns?.........or is that the least of the problems?:
@tim said in Guns?.........or is that the least of the problems?:
given how she's slung that rifle, i reckon i can lift her skirt before she can shoot me. Also her sign says i can
Didn't know the great Billy T had opened a university stateside
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Fascinating long read. Here’s the headline, intro & link:
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
Or, “Who Needs an AR-15 Anyway?”As gun policy discussions unfold in the wake of mass shooter incidents, they routinely end in three buckets. There’s the “tyranny can never happen here” bucket, which the left has mostly abdicated in the wake of Trump winning after they called (and still call) him a tyrant. There’s the “you can’t fight the army with small arms” bucket, which is increasingly unsound given our ongoing decade-and-a-half war with Afghani tribal goat herders. And there’s the “what the hell do you need an AR-15 for anyway?” bucket, which, by its very language, eschews a fundamental lack of understanding of what those people are thinking. I am not a prepper. But I know a few. Some of the ones I do know are smart. They may not be doing as deep an analysis as I present here, on a mathematical level, but the smart ones are definitely doing it at a subconscious level. If you want to understand the perspectives of others, as everyone in my opinion should strive to do, then you would do well to read to the end of this article. To get where we’re going, we will need to discuss the general framework of disaster mathematics. [...]
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