• homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    Only thing I’m against is the bystander who had to see that. But they got away fine and that’s somethings out of the shooters control. Break a few eggs, hope they get good therapy watching someone die and also a book deal for being next to a celebrity.

    • NPa [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I would go home, turn on the news, see that the guy shot in front of me was a CEO and then the trauma would simply evaporate out of my brain.

      Soldiers fighting in just wars have markedly lower rates of PTSD, if I remember correctly.

  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    if you still have xitter, quote retweet it with the exact same statement but with a “sick!” instead of a “sick.”

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    Aww, that’s cute, he thinks it’s still 2002 and ”killing terrorists” is a thought terminating debate move instead of the empty rhetoric used to justify anything that everyone’s been seeing through for 20 years.

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      About two years ago I was sat in the audience for a talk by a very earnest, experienced speaker addressing the challenges of aid work in various places across the globe and they (briefly) mentioned terrorism as one aspect of a compilation alongside war. And I swear my mind basically just skipped over it for a second as if rolling it’s eyes. It took a minute for me to conciously remind myself that in this instance it was being used correctly and earnestly. After an adult lifetime of it being a facile buzzword through The Troubles, followed by the West’s global profit-backed religious crusades, the word terrorism reflexively indicated that this wasn’t going to be a serious point by a serious person and I could skip the next part.

      I wonder for how many more, especially of the late Gen X to millennial to now generations, hear it the same way? Not as a thought terminating cliché, but an instant indicator that you’re desperately scaremongering and totally full of shit.

  • I’ll even give him the obviously-untrue benefit of the doubt and assume for the sake of argument that by “terrorists” he means ISIS and not the heroes fighting against Nazi invasion. We’ll start there, because I assume Dean Philips and I can both agree that ISIS is bad.

    I still support the death of a CEO in midtown more than killing members of ISIS. To be quite honest, ISIS doesn’t have that much impact on my life. This motherfucker is quite literally personally responsible for me not getting my anti-depression treatment.

    I was supposed to do TMS last year but United threw a fit about covering it. I was also supposed to do a genetic screen to assess if certain medications would even work, and United wouldn’t cover that either.

    Fuck that guy, he’s done far more evil than any member of ISIS, I hope hell is real so he’s burning there.

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    “Killing terrorists” cool phrasing you’ve got there buddy. Does that include the children in the pediatric hospital?

    And yeah, conducting an indiscriminate bombing campaign, mass starvation, systemic sexual abuse and any other crime from list of inhuman barbarity against the entire civilian population of a region is totally the same as killing this one CEO who has blood on his hands with zero collateral.