There is a connection between the two boys that has led them to a place where this seems to be acceptable behavior. It’s something they share but is also fairly unique since most families aren’t producing multiple potential or actual school shooters.
I am interested to see what underlying causes are identified, if any.
It’s almost always bullying or abuse at home, but no one ever admits it. These people were mentally and/or physically tortured by other people. They want revenge or to inflict a fate worse than they were given. But we keep acting like bullying still isn’t an issue and that these people were just messed up naturally.
My bet is on dysfunctional family - maybe child sa, maybe mental illness or other trauma/combination of traumas. Our society is unstable (Ie: pandemic) and they feel out of control, maybe abandoned, and this is the only way they feel powerful.
To be clear, it wasn’t just an idle threat. His mother overheard him trying to acquire a rifle illegally, and turned him in.
It was Cruz’s mother who called the police and reported threats that her son had made, Officer Nick Soliz of the San Antonio Police Department tells NPR.
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The mother “overheard a phone conversation the suspect made this morning in which the suspect attempted to acquire an AR-15 through an illegal private sale” according to the arrest warrant. When confronted by police, Cruz denied making any threats, the warrant states.
How is it that the people being harassed still vote for the people harassing them? It’s bizarre. Friend of mine’s grandmother was deported and he still votes R.
I honestly didn’t realize it was the same person. Also, you’re acting like having different opinions is a bad thing, and it isn’t. And to be clear to the audience, “racism” does not refer to discrimation based on race. It just means I disagree with gulible.
It’s pretty fucking racist to call a land with millions of indigenous people on it that white people stole from them “undeveloped land.” And that was the meme you put up.
I love how none of you actually answered thevquestion, and still acted like im evil for not liking illegals. Remember when Europe colonized America and genocided the locals, lets not have that happen again.
I left Florida in '93, and there were times I regretted it. There were a lot of good things about Florida, and it was always interesting. And once you adapt to the weather, it's nice (if a bit dull).
Now though? Holy fuck I'm glad I'm not there. I don't even understand what's going on there - it's like some sort of mass psychosis. It's gone way beyond a political shift - it's more as if someone decided that the thing to do was to establish some sort of right-wing version of the Khmer Rouge and a bunch of Floridians said, "Yeah! That'd be great!"
At the rate they're going, it's only a matter if time before they start systematically killing "undesirables".
I lived there from 2010-2012 and it was more than enough to realize I would never do that again, esp with a funny foreign name, brown skin, and mixed race daughters. It’s sad too, thinking about e.g. Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey, or time I’ve spent camping in the keys or swimming in fresh water springs in Central Florida. There’s clearly some real majestic environmental beauty and culture there but jesus christ has the states human culture gone absolutely to shit.
I read somewhere that Republicans spent $20 million to pass this thing, and it’s going to fail miserably. Just icing on the cake as far as I’m concerned! That $20 million could’ve went to paying Trump’s lawyers!
Not surprising, but I’m pretty sure that it cost the state somewhere around $20m just to have this bull crap special election in the first place. Party of fiscal responsibility. Hah!
I dunno about you guys, but Canadians get HUGE tax write-offs for political donations, so maybe the benefits outweigh the loss here.
And the GOP just learned an important lesson ... never let the people decide 'cause they are often smarter than the manipulative politicians (Brexit aside ofc).
Or any other policy that isn’t supported by the political duopoly. Stuff like higher minimum wages, expanding Medicare and allowing felons to vote got passed in otherwise Republican states this way, which is why they wanted to require a supermajority.
This got tied to abortion because “wow isn’t that convenient timing” but was so much bigger. Republicans are watching other midwest states push through progressive policies using boots on the ground signature collection and it scares the shit out of them.
That classics standardized test to me is a bit to consider. If I were a classics professor I would be sounding the alarm about being dragged over to the conservative side. If nothing else to stop my field from being guilty by association.
Aristotle is not on the GOP side. He was on his side. Stop reframing him. Stop claiming him. If you want to know what he said than read it.
Classics has been a bastion of white conservatism my entire life. I think the number of people in that field who disagree with DeSantis on much of anything is quite small.
Right wing killing America. Education needs to be affordable if the country is to survive. Everything changes when we can’t compete with other nations because we have to import all the talent. We’re already kind of there.
But of course, the right wing needs to kill education. They have to maintain their voter base.
That was when they were just psychopathically neoliberal and “small government” was code for “we want gut regulations so corporations can put formaldehyde in milk again”.
Which they’ll still do of course, it just won’t win them elections these days. So they pander to bigots to make up the numbers.
Always remember that Ohio has been gerrymandered to shit. Republicans got so mad that the big-C cities voted Obama in twice that they decided to do everything they could to erode the rights and power of those city voters.
But you can't dilute the cities in a statewide vote. Look at the voting map on this issue: all major cities and college towns voted against
District 1 is a fucking joke, I hate living in it. How is downtown Cincinnati connected to Warren county in any way? The seat used to be competitive, but It hasn’t swung democrat since the change in 2011.
As a fellow OH-1 resident, you are aware we voted in Greg Landsman (D) as our representative this past election cycle, right? It was good to see Chabot go.
Prior to this, I was equally annoyed about our lack of representation and am still peeved about the state of Ohio districts in general.
Iirc, in the last (illegal) redistricting, the Rs kinda gave Cincinnati our representative back, but created at least one other district that would go hard R.
It is really nice to have Landsman in there, though. He actually fights to get us funding for things, as opposed to Chabot’s preferred stance of steering funding literally anywhere else.
Good point, I overlooked that. Guess I’m still salty from the previous decade lol. Was extremely happy to see Chabot go, and have been happy with Landsman in general so far. We have a ways to go but I’m trying to be optimistic!
It got more people to vote BECAUSE trump won. If everyone votes, the right has no chance. Even jim jordan with his bs gerrymandered to hell district would lose.
Yay! Proud to say I was a part of this as were my wife and daughter! We all voted early on Saturday. Huge kudos to the MASSIVE turnout to shoot this down, sometimes you can be alright fellow ohioans.
It’s at 58% reporting. I’m not relaxing until it’s at 80%+.
I voted three weeks ago, but this whole time I’ve been wondering if I can stay in this state if this managed to pass. My hope is that the No vote comes to 60%; the irony would be delicious.
Edit: Okay, it’s 91% reporting at 56.6% No. I feel good about this one. Good work folks!
It's at 70% reporting now. The AP called it saying it was impossible to switch to a yes given the districts reporting. The "no" still has a healthy lead at 57%. Pretty sure Ohio kicked the GOP right in the proverbial balls. Also, (at the moment) 2.3 MILLION voters turned out for an August special election with this being the only issue?!
EDIT: Just hit 80% reporting and still at a 57% no. Fuck yeah fellow ohioans!
EDIT 2: Just crossed 90% reporting and still at a 57% no. Democracy wins!
If you're American, you definitely do. Republicans have tried this same strategy before and will try again. Like notorious conservative apologist, David Frum, said, "If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy."
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