Doesn’t look good!!

Edit: Saw a closeup, he’s 💯 dead. Jugular shot and it gushes like the Cool-Aid man shattered.

Edit 2: Fox is apparently reporting that he’s admitted to the hospital, maybe he’s a snowball that survived hell?

Edit 3: Mixed reporting on if the shooter has been arrested or not. A video showed an old bald white dude in custody.

Edit 4: Trump just had to be the one to announce it… He’s dead. Apparently the old white dude was not the shooter. You can see from the distant video that people did not react to a close shooter, it was at distance.

  • hotspur [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Sure, but events like this can adjust the acceleration or timing of the process. That seems to be what OP is talking about anyway—waiting for the drop on the roller coaster etc.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      i disagree. the acceleration happens when fascists decide it happens. if an organic event doesn’t do it, they produce one. there can be 50 events like this or 0. it wouldnt change their plans either way

      • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        So what you’re saying is that when the cops descend on this school in a few days and then many other schools, they would have already been doing exactly that on the same timeline in a world where this didn’t happen?

          • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Aside from the fact that this is almost certainly not a false flag, by your logic there should never be a reason to have a false flag or some other trigger. Why do they go through with something that is objectively somewhat risky if it just doesn’t do anything? Were WMDs and the Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident just fabricated for a jape? Did the actual Reichstag fire precede those “emergency powers” by coincidence? Were the false flags in Gladio just sort of a hobby? There are more examples but you get the idea, along with real incidents like this one or – and this is much more extreme, I wouldn’t say they are remotely comparable in scale – 9/11, which was instrumental in manufacturing consent for the Patriot Act and the War on Terror. Again, you get the idea and I’m already sort of bloviating, so sorry about that.

            My point is that this sort of “nuanced” take is reductionist to the point of fantasy and idealism. Obviously the Patriot Act wasn’t spawned directly from 9/11, there was more going on that was effectively in preparation for it, but for the actual passage of something as extreme as the Patriot Act on the truncated time frame that we saw, you need something like that to stoke public fear.

            • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              17 hours ago

              I couldn’t have made the case better for my point of view than what you just wrote, it’s just really funny that you don’t see it. At all. lol

              • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                1·
                14 hours ago

                I love it when people don’t explain anything and just laugh and posture. Who cares about the truth or understanding? It’s all just an incredibly lame pissing contest.