Trump

[AndyWolves]

The murder of Iryna Zarutska was being plastered all over SM yesterday and it’s appalling to watch, the fear and realisation in her face is heartbreaking. Just imagine being her parents and seeing that.
The fact she gets zero help is also shocking.
It’ll be weaponised unfortunately by the far right and also seen people on the far left try and look for mitigation.
It’s a heinous crime on one human being from another horrible regardless of who’s involved.
The felon should labelled for what they’re and victim remembered for who they were.

It already has been from what I've seen on SM

 

[jd1981]

It already has been from what I've seen on SM

The anger and blame should be aimed at who allowed him to free on the streets 14 crimes in 14 years. That includes armed robbery and a crime in January.
His own family were concerned about how dangerous he could be to.

 

[Alan]

Charlotte failed them both. Under any other regime I would welcome the spotlight; this city is obsessed with bandaids and half-measures, and something needs to drastically change.

At the same time, Charlotte has literally never been safer in terms of the rate of violent crime. Zarutska should be the push for positive change here, but instead she will be used to twist Charlotte into a grotesque caricature of itself, painting my home as infested with crime, death, and, worst of all, people with dark skin (who are intrinsically evil dontchaknow).

I'm not sure what to do when the Guard rolls in.

 

[Alan]

Kirk's podcast is currently at #1 on Apple Podcasts.

 

[visage]

There's no simple solutions. America is broken. And no proposed solution can happen in a nation where 50% oppose the other 50%.

You almost need the non batshit centrist majority to say 'Well give you the house and the senate and the presidency. Fuck up and we'll vote as a bloc for the other guys'. End the tribalism.

 

[Jack Regan]

Whatever your particular take on his assassination, its only gonna further the right wing agenda in the short term.

 

[Keef]

The shooter managed to get in, shoot him in the neck from 200 yds away, escape off campus, and then leave his gun, and rounds with trans slogans on them in a place where he knew they’d be found, but the FBI are saying they’ve no clues to who did it yet.
On the plus side, it may put a bit of doubt into the big empty space that is Magas heads, that after seeing the damage a round to the head can do maybe trump wasn’t shot in the ear after all

 

[Alan]

I'm sure I read that they have the shooter in custody?

 

[Carsy]

Whatever your particular take on his assassination, its only gonna further the right wing agenda in the short term.

It’s just a sad world where people with different opinions spread to violence like this.

I’m hardly an expert on politics, especially the American landscape, and I didn’t know a lot about Charlie Kirk except some of the videos of him ‘debating’ on campus, and I thought some of it was quite interesting. Agree with parts, disagree with others.

Ultimately freedom of speech doesn’t come with freedom of consequence. Although I’m not sure assassinating someone like this is correct.

If it turns out to be politic (which it seems to be) then it’s abit of a an own goal as can’t imagine it will increase support for the democrats

 

[Wolf Hunting]

There's no simple solutions. America is broken. And no proposed solution can happen in a nation where 50% oppose the other 50%.

Anyone see the video of a Ukraine refugee sitting on a train in North Carolina on her own, minding her own business when the black lad behind her, just rears up and stabs her?
7 or 8 people sitting around her sat there doing nothing as she sat, stunned, then after a couple of minutes, she slumped over and bled out. Died right there.
Her killer who had some mental issues had been released completely without restraints to wander around in public, and as he stood there waiting several minutes for the train to come into the next station, not one fucker moved, until he got off.
Then a couple of them ran to her. Too late, she died. No one did anything.
Including the fucking judge who let him go after several previous offenses.

 

[Alan]

They were scared. The bystanders are way down the list of blame here.

I ride the Blue Line all the time. To say that a crime of that sort was coming is understating things. The degree to which even the most basic security measures were/are lacking would be laughable in any other circumstance.

I love this city, but it does so much in dangerous half-measures that, not unlike Kirk, something like this was inevitable.