McDonald's 🦈🐬🐟🐧@lemmus.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoU.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidentswww.forbes.comexternal-linkmessage-square191fedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down128
arrow-up1513arrow-down1external-linkU.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidentswww.forbes.comMcDonald's 🦈🐬🐟🐧@lemmus.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square191fedilink
minus-squareBuelldozer@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down8·edit-210 months ago They’re happening so often you don’t even notice them most of the time. We don’t notice them most of the time because they are street crimes happening a thousand miles away that have no impact on our daily lives. A bunch of thugs shooting each other outside of a club in Houston have no impact on someone living in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
minus-squarezbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agoAmazes me how many Americans justify systemic bullshit by writing people off as “thugs”.
minus-squareBuelldozer@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·10 months agoYawn, got anything better than middle school ad hominem?
minus-squarezbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoMore observation than ad hominem, unless of course you identify with what is observed.
We don’t notice them most of the time because they are street crimes happening a thousand miles away that have no impact on our daily lives.
A bunch of thugs shooting each other outside of a club in Houston have no impact on someone living in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Amazes me how many Americans justify systemic bullshit by writing people off as “thugs”.
Yawn, got anything better than middle school ad hominem?
More observation than ad hominem, unless of course you identify with what is observed.