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On August 27 2015 01:00 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 00:58 whatisthisasheep wrote:On August 27 2015 00:56 Plansix wrote: I reported it to the moderators. Please do not be a disrespectful asshole and post stuff like that. No one gives a shit how edgy you are trying to be. I took it down and left a link to the story. Is that kosher? I really shouldn't have to explain to you that the comment afterwords is pretty shit. But you seem to be set on being a nihilistic. If you take life really seriously, it ceases to be funny. Enforcing silence is never a good thing. Making a joke to lighten the situation is.
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Shooter has killed himself.
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That saved some time, I guess. At least no one else was hurt. And now the report of him being a quite loner that kept to himself in the next couple of days.
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Supposedly the shooter was from the same station, and some people are saying it's a relationship motive - the reporter and cameraman were in a relationship together.
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On August 27 2015 01:06 RCMDVA wrote: Shooter has killed himself.
Still has a pulse..
Dude couldn't even kill himself.
On August 27 2015 01:09 JinDesu wrote: Supposedly the shooter was from the same station, and some people are saying it's a relationship motive - the reporter and cameraman were in a relationship together.
And no they weren't. She was dating some other worker in the workplace.
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On August 27 2015 01:06 whatisthisasheep wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 01:00 Plansix wrote:On August 27 2015 00:58 whatisthisasheep wrote:On August 27 2015 00:56 Plansix wrote: I reported it to the moderators. Please do not be a disrespectful asshole and post stuff like that. No one gives a shit how edgy you are trying to be. I took it down and left a link to the story. Is that kosher? I really shouldn't have to explain to you that the comment afterwords is pretty shit. But you seem to be set on being a nihilistic. If you take life really seriously, it ceases to be funny. Enforcing silence is never a good thing. Making a joke to lighten the situation is.
Not everything in life needs to be funny. There is a time and a place. There are enough funny things in life that we don't need to lighten up someone being shot to death.
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A posted that article to highlight the dark side of PC culture people choose to champion. If anybody says something that can be construed as racist, they can be marked for death.
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On August 27 2015 01:12 Grettin wrote:Still has a pulse.. Dude couldn't even kill himself. Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 01:09 JinDesu wrote: Supposedly the shooter was from the same station, and some people are saying it's a relationship motive - the reporter and cameraman were in a relationship together. And no they weren't. She was dating some other worked in the workplace.
Gotcha, thanks for the correction.
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On August 27 2015 01:14 whatisthisasheep wrote: A posted that article to highlight the dark side of PC culture people choose to champion. If anybody says something that can be construed as racist, they can be marked for death. As normal, I have no idea what you are talking about and you seem to be rambling about the horrors of being there being consequences to not respecting other people.
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On August 27 2015 01:14 whatisthisasheep wrote: A posted that article to highlight the dark side of PC culture people choose to champion. If anybody says something that can be construed as racist, they can be marked for death. you seriously lack empathy and intelligence if you think pc culture is responsible for a mentally unstable man who thinks shooting people for racist comments is ok
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On August 27 2015 01:21 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 01:14 whatisthisasheep wrote: A posted that article to highlight the dark side of PC culture people choose to champion. If anybody says something that can be construed as racist, they can be marked for death. As normal, I have no idea what you are talking about and you seem to be rambling about the horrors of being there being consequences to not respecting other people.
Williams tweeted after alleging Parker had made "racist comments" about him. The shooter used that as a justification for killing two people in cold blood. That is not ok.
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this runs much deeper than pc culture... pc culture is more of a lighter symptom of the same underlying tension, but it itself is definitely not the cause
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On August 27 2015 01:25 whatisthisasheep wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 01:21 Plansix wrote:On August 27 2015 01:14 whatisthisasheep wrote: A posted that article to highlight the dark side of PC culture people choose to champion. If anybody says something that can be construed as racist, they can be marked for death. As normal, I have no idea what you are talking about and you seem to be rambling about the horrors of being there being consequences to not respecting other people. Show nested quote +Williams tweeted after alleging Parker had made "racist comments" about him. The shooter used that as a justification for killing two people in cold blood. That is not ok. I am unsure if you are trolling or delusional. We don't know why he did it, only what he said.
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I'm trying to figure out exactly when we stopped judging people to simply be crazy when they do heinous things, and when we started bending over backwards to suss out some kind of justification or rationale for the heinous acts.
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On August 27 2015 01:32 xDaunt wrote: I'm trying to figure out exactly when we stopped judging people to simply be crazy when they do heinous things, and when we started bending over backwards to suss out some kind of justification or rationale for the heinous acts. justifications and rationales can be crazy, but sometimes they can be telling of something regardless
unfortunately, i'd say most people glean the wrong messages from attempting to analyze such things... mostly people just uphold their own biases
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My main question is what this has to do with US Politics, rather than just "fucked up things that happen to have happened in the US". People get murdered all the time, for the most inane reasons. This one happened to be captured on TV, other than that, it is no more or less fucked up than other murders. I don't think it was a political statement. It was just some lunatic with a gun. Now you can maybe restart the endless discussion over gun control laws, but other than that, let the justice system deal with it and lets move on?
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On August 27 2015 01:32 xDaunt wrote: I'm trying to figure out exactly when we stopped judging people to simply be crazy when they do heinous things, and when we started bending over backwards to suss out some kind of justification or rationale for the heinous acts. When the number rose to such heights that people started looking for an underlying cause.
"There is nothing we could have done" says the only nation where it happens on a regular basis.
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i suspect the main reason it's being discussed here is nobody made a thread for it, but people wanted to post about it anyway.
yeah it's not a very good topic for this thread, probably.
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Also just calling them "crazy" is an easy out. They could be completely lucid in their desire to kill others. We label folks like this as crazy because its easier to assume they are broken and that is was caused the violence. It also makes it easier to to convince ourselves that we couldn't have done anything and it was beyond our control. Trying to figure out if we could have stopped it is harder and might expose how we failed. Not to say every violent act like this could be prevented, but we seem accept that we couldn't much earlier.
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On August 27 2015 01:28 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 01:25 whatisthisasheep wrote:On August 27 2015 01:21 Plansix wrote:On August 27 2015 01:14 whatisthisasheep wrote: A posted that article to highlight the dark side of PC culture people choose to champion. If anybody says something that can be construed as racist, they can be marked for death. As normal, I have no idea what you are talking about and you seem to be rambling about the horrors of being there being consequences to not respecting other people. Williams tweeted after alleging Parker had made "racist comments" about him. The shooter used that as a justification for killing two people in cold blood. That is not ok. I am unsure if you are trolling or delusional. We don't know why he did it, only what he said. So the shooter included that they made racist statements for no reason? That was his motive. The PC movement contributed to this motive, thus the PC culture has blood on its hands. Someone offending you dose not give you the right to kill them.
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