there is no hope for change in this country and it should just be accepted that we are going to let people getting killed for no real good reason
According to Bolden, by 2045 NASA plans to begin sending residents to inhabit pressurized lunar housing pods on the Mare Tranquillitatis and the Ptolemaeus crater. By 2047, Bolden said, the colony’s paranoid and unhinged members should begin stewing over their perceived persecution, authoring barely comprehensible manifestos, and amassing massive stockpiles of ammunition.
NASA officials also laid out long-term plans to grow their initial settlement by constructing universities, office buildings, places of worship, and shopping centers across the lunar surface, any one of which, they noted, could serve as both the blood-spattered, body-strewn location of the moon’s first grisly shooting rampage as well as the eventual memorial site for those lost.
i really can't bring myself to be surprised by gun deaths anymore
this country is weird when it comes to it
i mean, if sandy hook killings can't get anything done to change our problem with ease of access to weapons and health issues that sometimes goes along with this tragedy
there is no hope for change in this country and it should just be accepted that we are going to let people getting killed for no real good reason
I don't know how you manage to get out of bed in the morning.
In her book Between Men, Eve Sedgwick dissects this kind of thinking: Men typically route their feelings toward and competition with one another through women, she says. Women become tools through which men show their power and worth to other men. Success with women is also an important part of men’s self-image—that’s a big part of what it means to “be a man.” This seems to be the kind of thinking at work when Rodger says he feels like women are "treat[ing] me like scum" when they have boyfriends who aren't him. To him, women aren't people; they're markers of who is and who is not a man. If a woman chooses someone else, the thinking goes, that means Rodger and others like him are not men.
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Misogyny shaped Rodger's view of women. But it also shaped his self-loathing view of himself and his masculinity, or lack thereof. The stigma against male virgins is something that men like Rodger—and men like me—internalize, and is, in itself, a form of misogyny. As Julia Serano writes in her book, Whipping Girl, that misogyny is directed not only against women, but against femininity—against anyone who fails to be that ideal, powerful, alpha superman. As long as masculinity is based in hatred of and fear of femininity, it will be expressed in violence—against men, against gay people, and against the marginalized. And most of all, it will continue to motivate violence against women.
i really can't bring myself to be surprised by gun deaths anymore
this country is weird when it comes to it
i mean, if sandy hook killings can't get anything done to change our problem with ease of access to weapons and health issues that sometimes goes along with this tragedy
there is no hope for change in this country and it should just be accepted that we are going to let people getting killed for no real good reason
He stabbed 3 people too. What should be done about the ease of access to knives pandemic?
He stabbed 3 people too. What should be done about the ease of access to knives pandemic?
He stabbed 3 people too. What should be done about the ease of access to knives pandemic?
Cali is considered the tightest state when it comes to gun access as well.
ah, yes. the knife retort
brilliant
So maybe we table the access issue—since arguing it seems to drive sides further from consensus—and discuss the broader, systemic cultural issues that not just permit the actions but foster the mindsets of people like Elliot Rodger?
I don't know what issues can really be discussed. This is the stuff people have been battling since the beginning of time.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
So maybe we table the access issue—since arguing it seems to drive sides further from consensus—and discuss the broader, systemic cultural issues that not just permit the actions but foster the mindsets of people like Elliot Rodger?
So maybe we table the access issue—since arguing it seems to drive sides further from consensus—and discuss the broader, systemic cultural issues that not just permit the actions but foster the mindsets of people like Elliot Rodger?
It's not a retort, it happened.
i am not saying some people didn't die from a knife in this situation
what i am "laughing" at is trying to compare a knife to a gun etc
Guess I just get irritated when people use tragedies like this to voice their own delusional agendas.
Like the father of one of the victims has blamed politicians and the NRA. Blame them all you want but the fact is that this was the perfect storm for a tragedy..
Guess I just get irritated when people use tragedies like this to voice their own delusional agendas.
Like the father of one of the victims has blamed politicians and the NRA. Blame them all you want but the fact is that this was the perfect storm for a tragedy. The kid was a sociopath, seemed like he had Asperger's syndrome, got zero female attention and lost all his friends. He was very intelligent and if he couldn't get access to a gun, he probably would have just built a bomb. In his manifesto he talked about driving an SUV through this huge block party and just running everyone over that he could. The weapon didn't matter here.
There are so many layers to this story but the only thing people like you can think about are guns because you already have an anti gun agenda. 3 were killed by knives, 4 were killed by guns. Yet only guns are bad because you enjoy using knives to prepare your gluten free tofu and kale summer salads.