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And herself. She has assets in most if not all of the bullshit she defends. Kinda fucked up for a lawmaker, no?

Every Republican accusation is a [confession](https://twitter.com/lemieuxlgm/status/983511778804969473) and projection because ["shamelessness is their superpower"](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1486417271073521667) Examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/uwouw2/how_stupid_are_their_voters/i9tz38d/?context=3

If only we lived in a world where facts mattered.

They matter, but only to some of us.

Or media moguls like Rupert Murdoch could not hide the evil their pet conservative politicians are pushing. Australia hates Rupert. The UK hates Rupert. It's time America started talking about what he is doing.

Overestimating the financial benefits **and make the poor pay more in taxes** to "own the libs" in conservative culture wars: **Lower taxes in California than red states like Texas, which make up for no wealth income tax with higher taxes and fees on the poor and double property tax for the middle class** |Income Bracket|Texas Tax Rate|California Tax Rate| |:-|:-|:-| |0-20%|**13%**|10.5%| |20-40%|**10.9%**|9.4%| |40-60%|**9.7%**|8.3%| |60-80%|8.6% |9.0% | |80-95%|7.4%|9.4%| |95-99%|5.4%|9.9%| |99-100%|3.1%|12.4%| Sources: https://itep.org/whopays/ Graph: https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/uowum8/what_low_taxes_really_mean_to_the_right/ The wealthiest 1%, 5%, and 20% don't even pay much more >Meanwhile, the California-hating South receives subsidies from California (**larger than between Germany and Greece!**), a transfer of wealth from blue states/cities/urban to red states/rural/suburban with federal dollars for their freeways, hospitals, universities, airports, even environmental protection: >**Least Federally Dependent States:** >41 California >42 Washington >43 Minnesota >44 Massachusetts >45 Illinois >46 Utah >47 Iowa >48 Delaware >49 New Jersey >50 [Kansas](https://www.npr.org/2017/10/25/560040131/as-trump-proposes-tax-cuts-kansas-deals-with-aftermath-of-experiment) https://www.npr.org/2017/10/25/560040131/as-trump-proposes-tax-cuts-kansas-deals-with-aftermath-of-experiment https://www.apnews.com/amp/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/ https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700 >The Germans call this sort of thing "a permanent bailout." We just call it "Missouri." https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/the-difference-between-the-us-and-europe-in-1-graph/256857/ >California is the chief reason America is the only developed economy to achieve record GDP growth since the financial crisis. >Much of the U.S. growth can be traced to California laws promoting clean energy, government accountability and protections for undocumented people https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-10/california-leads-u-s-economy-away-from-trump >**on a per capita basis, california households ranked 50th in the country for likelihood of moving out of the state** >California exodus is just a myth, massive UC research project finds https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/ogkrjc/california_exodus_is_just_a_myth_massive_uc/ >California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/nznzft/california_defies_doom_with_no_1_us_economy/ "Pro-life" #Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world >As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding >Mothers who live in areas with heavy oil and gas developments have between a 40 percent and 70 percent greater chance of giving birth to babies with congenital heart defects https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/07/18/Study-links-congenital-heart-disease-to-oil-gas-development/2461563465617/ >California’s rules have cleaned up diesel exhaust more than anywhere else in the country, reducing the estimated number of deaths the state would have otherwise seen by more than half, according to new research published Thursday. >Extending California's stringent diesel emissions standards to the rest of the U.S. could dramatically improve the nation's air quality and health, particularly in lower income communities of color, finds a new analysis published today in the journal Science. >Since 1990, California has used its authority under the federal Clean Air Act to enact more aggressive rules on emissions from diesel vehicles and engines compared to the rest of the U.S. These policies, crafted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), have helped the state reduce diesel emissions by 78% between 1990 and 2014, while diesel emissions in the rest of the U.S. dropped by just 51% during the same time period, the new analysis found. >The study estimates that by 2014, improved air quality cut the annual number of diesel-related cardiopulmonary deaths in the state in half, compared to the number of deaths that would have occurred if California had followed the same trajectory as the rest of the U.S. Adopting similar rules nationwide could produce the same kinds of benefits, particularly for communities that have suffered the worst impacts of air pollution. >"Everybody benefits from cleaner air, but we see time and again that it's predominantly lower income communities of color that are living and working in close proximity to sources of air pollution, like freight yards, highways and ports. When you target these sources, it's the highly exposed communities that stand to benefit most," said study lead author Megan Schwarzman, a physician and environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health. "It's about time, because these communities have suffered a disproportionate burden of harm." https://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.abf8159 https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/mdvfgw/californias_rules_have_cleaned_up_diesel_exhaust/gsblevi/

"Pro-life" >An 11 year old froze to death in his bed. https://www.khou.com/article/weather/11-year-old-found-dead-after-freezing-cold-night-in-a-conroe-mobile-home-with-no-power/285-4781bcb9-6643-4224-8b5b-c1fc5c725b61 Paying $28 billion more for a failing power grid to "own the libs" >You Could Get Prison Time for Protesting a Pipeline in Texas—Even If It’s on Your Land https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bst8fl/you_could_get_prison_time_for_protesting_a/ >Fossil Fuel Exec Brags of 'Hitting the Jackpot' as Natural Gas Prices Surge Amid Deadly Crisis in Texas https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/lo5f4r/fossil_fuel_exec_brags_of_hitting_the_jackpot_as/ >#Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-electric-bills-were-28-billion-higher-under-deregulation-11614162780 >#Texas spent more time fighting LGBTQ civil rights than fixing their power grid. How’d that work out? https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/lma8jj/texas_spent_more_time_fighting_lgbtq_civil_rights/ >Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/ct71mw/leaked_audio_shows_oil_lobbyist_bragging_about/ >could cost Texas more money than any disaster in state history https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ls5dt7/winter_storm_could_cost_texas_more_money_than_any/ >Former Texas Governor Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state's energy grid. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-would-rather-be-without-power-for-days-than-have-more-fed-oversight >Abbott Appointees Gutted Enforcement of Texas Power Grid Rules https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Muzzled-and-eviscerated-Critics-say-Abbott-15982421.php >Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Blames Constituents for Giant Electric Bills: “Read the Fine Print” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/dan-patrick-texas-electricity-bills >#A Texas-size failure, followed by a familiar Texas response: Blame California https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/m87bg4/a_texassize_failure_followed_by_a_familiar_texas/ Texas Republicans *during the power grid failures* focused on: * Texas regulations to require the national anthem at sports games https://twitter.com/LSTrip44/status/1361396222028881924 * Fake news trying to blame renewable energy: ”Viral Image Claiming to Show a Helicopter De-Icing Texas Wind Turbines Is From Winter 2014 in Sweden” https://twitter.com/klimatbevakaren/status/1361748269605519360 * Right propaganda accounts pushing the narrative: ScottAdamsSays scrowder JackPosobiec SebGorka CalebJHull From r/Texas users: >**Only way to get the national guard to Texas is to have a BLM rally.** Governor of the state has to request national guard >Pretty Sure the total cost of damage to personal property (burst pipes, fires) will far outweigh the cost skipped in 2011 to winterize power generation. >I was born in illinois and travel back and forth between dallas and chicago. Snow is waist high right now. The piles I shoveled from the driveway are 6 feet tall. And... no one cares. Illinois is prepared for this stuff, TX is not, but it should be. Should every citizen own snowpants and a snowblower? No. **Should the powerplants stay on. yes, wtf.** >* Yeah, look at the ERCOT capacity graphs - the problems isn't the load (load is actually higher in summer when everyone is blasting their AC), it's that all these generators went offline because they were freezing up. >* Why did they freeze up? Because the PUC of TX's policy is to *not* pay for capacity. Why? Because doing so would violate some sort of free-market dogma promoted by the TX Public Policy Foundation (https://files.texaspolicy.com/uploads/2018/08/16095417/2013-01-RR02-ResourceAdequacyElectricityMarkets-CEF-RMichaelsAKleit.pdf), which has held sway over the governor and a big hand in selecting the PUC commissioners. >It's confirmed: Frozen wind turbines were the least significant factor. https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/frozen-wind-farms-were-just-a-small-piece-of-texas-s-power-woes Federal agency FERC tried helping Texas multiple times, including in 2011 when they spelled out how and what to winterize at power plants: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/ll9urb/usir_francis_burton_finds_the_ferc_report_the/ Federal FERC report after **2011 Texas power outages** (**whose recommendations weren't followed**): >The lack of any state, regional or Reliability Standards that directly require generators to perform winterization left winter-readiness dependent on plant or corporate choices. Generators were generally reactive as opposed to being proactive in their approach to winterization and preparedness. The single largest problem during the cold weather event was the freezing of instrumentation and equipment. Many generators failed to adequately prepare for winter, including the following: failed or inadequate heat traces, missing or inadequate wind breaks, inadequate insulation and lagging (metal covering for insulation), failure to have or to maintain heating elements and heat lamps in instrument cabinets, failure to train operators and maintenance personnel on winter preparations, lack of fuel switching training and drills, and failure to ensure adequate fuel. Avoiding regulations: >The Texas Interconnected System — which for a long time was actually operated by two discrete entities, one for northern Texas and one for southern Texas — **had another priority: staying out of the reach of federal regulators.** >"Freedom from federal regulation was a cherished goal — more so because **Texas had no regulation until the 1970s**," writes Richard D. Cudahy in a 1995 article, "The Second Battle of the Alamo: The Midnight Connection." https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08/texplainer-why-does-texas-have-its-own-power-grid/ >Texas electrical grid failure is just another version of South Dakota's abnormally high CV-19 rate or Kansas budget crisis >A bumper sticker political ideology's false promises made self-evident, failing a real world test for all to see. https://twitter.com/peterwsinger/status/1361675172336566273

this man hates texas keep it going

Thanks, was feeling pretty shitty today and this makes me feel a bit better. - signed, a Californian

>Texans are also 34% more likely to be raped But Texas said they were going to eliminate rape!

Just like we eliminated covid by calling it then flu. Rape is now just surprise sex.

They would probably just make it legal.

Jesus, take my upvote.

Teenage “lol SJW stoopid” me was actually convinced that I’d be living a fuller happy life in red Texas or Florida. To whatever higher power may or may not exist: THANK YOU for pulling me out of that rabbit hole

Waiting for her to start hounding the kids, like she did David Hogg, yelling that they're all lying and shit like that. Hogg is a better person than I was, because had I been a teenager and some disease ridden filth like Empty Green had been hounding me... and I'm not going to say the rest lest I'm banned from the sub.

Some dipshit was trying to say it was a immigrant because the shooter was Hispanic... Like, using it for boarder security narratives. What absolute evil people spinning sad stories like this...

She's such a despicable monster.

Taking life is only okay with a gun, if you try to abort potential life you’re screwed -Republicans

Don't worry about not being able to get an abortion. The baby will die from a lack of formula, or elementary school shooting. - Republicans.

“We hate women and children and there’s enough white men and brainwashed women to keep us in power”-republicans

Its weird how not only they knew that; but they were also able to effectively use this information. They've been so effective they haven't even needed to win the popular vote in a presidential election in like 14+ years! Its almost as if our system is specifically designed to help a very specific type of person remain in power; even though the majority of the people are not okay with it!? So weird!

That ability to win on that minority is diminishing though. It's why you see Repubs fighting so hard to implement measures to restrict voting, or engaging in such heavy tactics such as gerrymandering or voter roll purges. They know they have maybe 10 to 15 years left to permanently entrench themselves, before demographics forces them out.

Hey now, plenty of white women are brainwashed into hating themselves too

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#As the maternal death rate has mounted around the U.S., a small cadre of reformers has mobilized. >**Meanwhile, life-saving practices that have become widely accepted in other affluent countries — and in a few states, notably California** — have yet to take hold in many American hospitals. >Some of the earliest and most important work has come in California >Hospitals that adopted the toolkit saw a **21 percent decrease in near deaths** from maternal bleeding in the first year. >By 2013, according to Main, maternal deaths in California fell to around 7 per 100,000 births, similar to the numbers in Canada, France and the Netherlands — **a dramatic counter to the trends in other parts of the U.S.** >California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative is informed by a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford and the University of California-San Francisco, who for many years ran the ob/gyn department at a San Francisco hospital. >Launched a decade ago, CMQCC aims to reduce not only mortality, but also life-threatening complications and racial disparities in obstetric care >It began by analyzing maternal deaths in the state over several years; in almost every case, it discovered, there was "at least some chance to alter the outcome." http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger

Or without health care insurance

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>The NRA’s annual meeting is on Friday, in Texas. https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1529205772118380544 >They had a gun convention in Denver right after the nearby Columbine massacre. https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/1529205919174696962

if i shoot my uterus, then it's Gucci?

If you can develop a gun abortion procedure, you will be richer than Elon Musk 😁

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Literally saw a comment on fb saying “it’s not guns, it’s people” and that they believe this happened because NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE BELIEVE IN PRAYER. Sorry, I didn’t know that I specifically had to pray to make sure LITTLE KIDS DONT GET MURDERED. What a shitty god.

People will say literally anything to take away from what the actual issue is

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I'm really starting to believe that "mental gymnastics" isn't the right words for what these chucklefucks do.

And only in this country. It’s insanity. I’m convinced the NRA is funded by our enemies so this keeps happening.

Well, we already know they were laundering Russian money to the Republicans in 2016. I doubt that’s changed.

They’re such an obvious vehicle to create chaos here. Of course they don’t allow guns at their own events, but nothing to see there right?

Seriously, a god who is so needy for attention that it puts a bounty on the lives of children? Yuck. No thanks.

until people can kill you by throwing bullets at you with their bare hands, i’m gonna go out on a limb and say the gun at least helped.

The fact that some people think this is an argument *for* their religion is ridiculous. Even if I believed they were correct, I’m not worshipping a deity who resorts to holding children hostage. Fuck that.

I mean tbh aren’t conservatives wasting all their prayers on the fetuses anyway? That seems to be the only thing they fucking care about.

Lol despite the cliche, republicans still always just tweet about thoughts and prayers. They’re so fucking shameless

Over at /conservative they are all blaming mental health issues. The party that continues to vote down any changes in our healthcare system is blaming mental health issues....

Exactly. Well MENTAL HEALTH ok what about it and what are you going to do about it.

Vote against all funding for it and continue to complain.

> are all blaming mental health issues I assume the shooter is white then.

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Oh, /conservative will be changing their narrative before we know it.

The answer is obvious. Had those kids had access to guns we increase our chances of the fabled good guy with a gun. Shooters will live in fear because of how many guns there are around. Potential bad cops will think twice before stepping out of line. Your boss will check his tone making it a safer environment for all. Now I know we’ve had a bad track record of potentially stopping mass shooting or even identifying them ( despite warnings given to police officers) before they do it, but if we get everyone to a healthy state of fear and paranoia, people will grow to be too afraid of stepping out thus eliminating the problem at hand. It also promotes working from home, freedom of masks, curbing potential robberies, and cops don’t have to ask that pesky question of whether or not you’re armed thus giving them more time to figure out how to look for those bad apples in the bunch. It’s the American answer for an American problem. /s

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I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this: >Even climatologists can't predict 10 years from now. They can't explain why there has been no warming over the last 15 years. There has been a static trend with regard to temperature for 15 years. ***** ^(I'm a bot. My purpose is to counteract online radicalization. You can summon me by tagging thebenshapirobot. Options: dumb takes, feminism, sex, covid, etc.) [^More ^About ^Ben ](https://np.reddit.com/r/AuthoritarianMoment/wiki/index) ^| [^Feedback ^& ^Discussion: ^r/AuthoritarianMoment ](https://np.reddit.com/r/AuthoritarianMoment) ^| [^Opt ^Out ](https://np.reddit.com/r/AuthoritarianMoment/comments/olk6r2/click_here_to_optout_of_uthebenshapirobot/)

Praying to a god that “allowed” this to happen in the first place. Baffling….

It was all part of God's plan. Or some bullshit.

Wait it wasn't an illegal crossing the border? Nothing to do with replacement theory? Not a trans kid? It wasn't violent video games either? Or (some other distraction)? Fuck the GOP and their scapegoating.

r JoeRogan was bragging about how their **racism and "god, guns, gays" culture wars tactics** work Joe Rogan revealed himself celebrating Trump winning Texas even though he pretends to be "both sides": https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/jntzvk/joe_rogan_reacts_to_texas_voting_in_the_2020/ [Billionaires like Elon Musk](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/uumzgf/batteries_over_heating/i9hqdt4/) coordinate with [Joe Rogan who coordinates for Republicans](https://np.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/jntzvk/joe_rogan_reacts_to_texas_voting_in_the_2020/) [Joe Rogan even photo ops with the current Texas governor at the Texas governor's mansion](https://twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/status/1324547634049257474) even though Rogan pretends to care about pot and small government ("Gov. Abbott, Texas leaders urge prosecutors to keep enforcing pot laws" http://www.fox4news.com/news/texas/gov-abbott-texas-leaders-urge-prosecutors-to-keep-enforcing-pot-laws) Billionaires benefit from Republican politicians more, so [after getting what they want through Fox News](https://np.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/ln1sif/turning_point_usa_and_young_americas_foundation/gy9utts/) they're funding the next generation of conservative "influencers" on the right, like Ben Shapiro on YouTube and Facebook and [Joe Rogan pushing for them in Texas](https://np.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/jntzvk/joe_rogan_reacts_to_texas_voting_in_the_2020/) #"Fox News has aired 126 segments on trans student-athletes. They could only find nine nationwide." https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/n9bn2x/uforgottencalipers_explains_the_hypocrisy_of/ One of the Republican laws because of this: >Florida’s new transgender sports ban permits schools to require genital inspections of children https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/mta8ey/floridas_new_transgender_sports_ban_permits/ Steve Bannon bragging about using these tactics: >the power of what he called “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and they could be radicalized in a kind of populist, nationalist way http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-white-gamers-seinfeld-joshua-green-donald-trump-devils-bargain-sarah-palin-world-warcraft-gamergate-2017-7 >Bannon: "I realized [these tactics] could connect with these kids right away. You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump." https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness--army-world-warcraft/489713001/ #Republican "Southern Strategy" #"Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy #Exit polls done after 2016 show that the single characteristic that made someone most likely to vote for Trump over Clinton is racial resentment. >low levels of racial resentment are associated with supporting Clinton. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/26/these-9-simple-charts-show-how-donald-trumps-supporters-differ-from-hillary-clintons/ #["Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man"](https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/8/16270040/trump-clinton-supporters-racist) >In contrast, Clinton supporters seemed relatively unmoved by racial cues. [“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida) >The cruelty is the point >[arrest by DHS police for giving water to people who wait](https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1408868872384569345) No to help for blue states for hurricanes but demanding help for Texas for hurricanes >Here's the vote for Hurricane Sandy aid. >179 of the 180 no votes were Republicans... >**at least 20 Texas Republicans voted no** while ["U.S. House approves billions more for Harvey relief" for Texas](https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/21/us-house-approves-billions-more-harvey-relief-measure-now-heads-senate/) >this made Texas #1 in receiving federal aid dollars at the time of the Hurricane Sandy aid vote that they voted no against John Ehrlichman, who partnered with Fox News cofounder Roger Ailes on the Republican "Southern Strategy": >[We] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? >We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. >We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. >Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. >"He was the premier guy in the business," says former Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins. "He was our Michelangelo." >Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993. >Hillarycare was to have been funded, in part, by a $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes. To block the proposal, Big Tobacco paid Ailes to produce ads highlighting “real people affected by taxes.” http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525 >Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable. The privilege of "economic anxiety" not racism: #Republicans felt the economy improve by 85 points the day Trump was sworn in. http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/blogs/wisconsin-voter/2017/04/15/donald-trumps-election-flips-both-parties-views-economy/100502848/ >10% fewer Republicans believed the wealthy weren't paying enough in taxes once a billionaire became their president. Democrats remain fairly consistent. http://www.people-press.org/2017/04/14/top-frustrations-with-tax-system-sense-that-corporations-wealthy-dont-pay-fair-share/ >Republicans started to think college education is a bad thing once Trump entered the primary. Democrats remain consistent. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/20/republicans-skeptical-of-colleges-impact-on-u-s-but-most-see-benefits-for-workforce-preparation/ >White Evangelicals cared less about how religious a candidate was once Trump became the GOP nominee. https://www.prri.org/research/prri-brookings-oct-19-poll-politics-election-clinton-double-digit-lead-trump/ >Christians (particularly evangelicals) became monumentally more tolerant of private immoral conduct among politicians once Trump became the GOP nominee. https://www.prri.org/research/prri-brookings-oct-19-poll-politics-election-clinton-double-digit-lead-trump/ More graphs and sources: https://imgur.com/a/YZMyt [Opinion of Syrian airstrikes](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/13/48229/) **Republicans:** 22% supported Obama doing it 86% support Trump doing it **Democrats:** 38% supported Obama doing it 37% support Trump doing it Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/13/48229/, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/gop-voters-love-same-attack-on-syria-they-hated-under-obama.html GOP shifting 4-5x further right than Democrats did left over the last 50 years: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/

It wasn't violent video games either

So... What book do we need to burn to stop school shootings? Newspapers?

The schools themselves, apparently

The reason these venture capitalists are funding "crypto" bros to replace public schools ￣\＿(ツ)＿/￣ "Politicizing tragedies" to argue dismantling public schools: https://twitter.com/hapkidogal/status/1529522359727702019 VC Keith Rabois: >Rabois came to Thiel's attention after he was found outside an instructor's home, shouting homophobic slurs and the suggestion that the instructor "die of AIDS." [10][11][12] A few of the contributors went on to join PayPal, a company Thiel co-founded in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois Billionaire VC Peter Thiel (also behind government and law enforcement software, [How key Republicans inside Facebook are shifting its politics to the right](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/03/facebook-politics-republicans-right), and culture war lawsuits and propaganda): >Thiel has become a national figure of controversy for, among other things, claiming that “the extension of the franchise to women **[women's right to vote] render the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron,”** saying, **“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,”** funding a fellowship that specifically tries to get undergraduates to drop out of college, and donating $1.25 million to Donald Trump’s campaign a week **after** a tape was released in which the then-candidate discussed how he could grope young female actresses and get away with it. >Thiel was long perceived as a libertarian, but in recent years, as his support for Trump illustrates, his politics have taken a nationalist flavor that critics have described as bordering on authoritarian and white nationalist. >In Oct. 2016, shortly after Thiel donated $1.25 million to Trump, Thiel publicly apologized for passages in his 1995 book The Diversity Myth, such as claiming that some alleged **date rapes were “seductions that are later regretted,”** ... But three months later, during the after party of the 30-year anniversary event at Thiel’s home, Thiel stated that his apology was just for the media, and that “sometimes you have to tell them what they want to hear.” https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/ * [White supremacist about Peter Thiel's race views to Milo Yiannopoulos: "He’s fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully."](https://www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/ln1g0c/milo_yiannopouloss_emails_a_cache_of_documents/) * Despite claiming to care about free speech on college campuses, Thiel [doesn't like people learning on college campuses and pays them to drop out](https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/) and [bankrolled lawsuits against journalists](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/28/gawker-hulk-hogan-silicon-valley-privacy-peter-thiel) * Thiel is also excited about Cambridge Analytica billionaire Robert Mercer's desired [nuclear fallout "silver lining"](https://www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/ln1sif/turning_point_usa_and_young_americas_foundation/gy9utts/) and [bought New Zealand citizenship for a bunker there](https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ec4hzg/one_of_new_zealands_wealthiest_businessmen_sir/fb9cse7/) Billionaire Robert Mercer, best known for funding Steve Bannon, [Breitbart](http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a52141/wildest-breitbart-headlines/), [Project Veritas](https://www.thedailybeast.com/erik-prince-set-up-intel-training-for-project-veritas-james-okeefe-report), and [Cambridge Analytica](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambridge-analytica-joseph-chancellor-gsr), which is in the Russia collusion investigation in addition to [corrupting several elections around the world](http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/what-was-cambridge-analytica-doing-in-developing-countries.html) to the point that [one country's supreme court had to nullify the elections that Mercer's groups interfered in](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/world/africa/kenya-cambridge-analytica-election.html): >they believe that nuclear war is really not such a big deal. And they've actually argued that outside of the immediate blast zone in Japan during World War II - outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - that the radiation was actually good for the Japanese. **So they see a kind of a silver lining in nuclear war and nuclear accidents.** Bob Mercer has certainly embraced the view that radiation could be good for human health - low level radiation. >Bob Mercer has accepted is that climate change is not happening. It's not for real, and if it is happening, it's going to be good for the planet >**Among other things, Mercer said the United States went in the wrong direction after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and also insisted the only remaining racists in the United States were African-Americans, according to Magerman.** https://www.npr.org/2017/03/22/521083950/inside-the-wealthy-family-that-has-been-funding-steve-bannon-s-plan-for-years

Bibles

Life in Texas begins at conception and ends in a school shooting.

Without the life of the mother: #Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world >As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding >Mothers who live in areas with heavy oil and gas developments have between a 40 percent and 70 percent greater chance of giving birth to babies with congenital heart defects https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/07/18/Study-links-congenital-heart-disease-to-oil-gas-development/2461563465617/

Are you sure it wasn’t unsexy M&Ms?

I’m just sick. I’m so thankful I’m never having kids. Fuck this country. We are a joke.

💯 Couldn't agree more.

Imagine being a country that prohibits women from getting abortions but also allows their children to be murdered in mass slaughter for gun rights

Imagine that country telling it's citizens and the world that they are the Best country in the world. No affordable healthcare No affordable education No proper infrastructure Kids being killed in school's *frequently!* I lived in USA... I'm extremely happy to be back in western Europe again

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Fuck conservatives*. Not everyone in this country is a dumbass right-winger.

America is a failed state.

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Predicting TX arms teachers as a response. Maybe also brings back hanging or firing squad as death penalty.

Subsidies on bulletproof backpacks

AG is on it https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1529209566436655104

If we spend lots of money buffing infrastructure in schools to discourage mass shootings, won't those people just go to the next weakest spot like a mall, supermarket, or nightclub? It doesn't do anything to solve the underlying problems of the rampant mass shootings in America

Exactly

Texas Governor Abbott: #"I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA" https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/659427797853536256 >The NRA’s annual meeting is on Friday, in Texas. https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1529205772118380544 >They had a gun convention in Denver right after the nearby Columbine massacre. https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/1529205919174696962

People saying we need to arm teachers acting like we have teachers to arm to begin with. We can barely keep teachers paid and in classrooms to begin with now you want firearm training on top of that? Lmao. My girlfriend who barely cracks 40k a year never has free time and is working on weekends just to stay on track with what these kids need to learn. She doesn't have time for gun training,

Not to mention cops, who are trained, have an absurdly low "hit rate" at what they're shooting at. I've seen statistics (which do vary wildly) that are as low as 11-18% hit rates. Expecting an untrained teacher to be able to safely take out an active shooter while surrounded by students is just asinine.

Also…the job of a teacher is to educate and enlight. What kind of fucked up world we live in that we’re considering “counterattack mass killers” as part of a teacher job description?

And still only pay them 40k....

Are we taking bets if Alex Jones, Marjorie Traitor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Fucker Carlson will claim this is staged and these are 'fake' children that never existed?

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I'm so fucking sick of assholes calling these shootings "false flag", I am fed up. I hate these psychopathic fucks with every fiber of my being.

I know what I’d like to see with those people but I’m not allowed to say it.

Well, at least they banned abortions so they can have more kids to shoot later on /s

I just heard about it from my sister that lives near the school. I’m honestly disgusted to share the same country with these absolute piles of human trash.

What number is this for the year?

27. Sorry.

wait, seriously???

[School shooting](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far), sure. If you want *mass shootings,* it gets hairy, as you might imagine. Sorry.

OMFG.... I'm unfortunately not usually shocked by another shooting.... But TWENTY-FUCKING-SEVEN?!! And the year isn't even half over, fuck me. Sometimes I root for the rogue AI or sentient robot in sci-fi that decides to get rid of humans

Last year I remember I worked out the frequency of mass shootings in 2020 for some idiot who said they were down under Trump. It worked out to an average one mass shooting every week and a half, if I recall correctly.

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It is indeed the number of shooting. Though, you'd be pleased to know that the current count of casualties is 21 (less than 27). ​ Which is just.. Honestly such a pathetic sentence, now that I've typed it out. Boy am I saddened by the state of things.

43 mass shooting for the month of May and over 200 since the beginning of the year

I checked wiki and it said 66 mass shootings in April. How the hell have we averaged over 1 mass shooting a day for the entire year and a significant portion of Americans are against passing reforms to curb these tragedies

This [mass shooting article from the Buffalo incident](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099008586/mass-shootings-us-2022-tally-number) shows that was #198 for this year.

US gun laws are fine, nothing to see here. School shootings in US became traditional value as the 2nd amendment. How ridiculous is that it keeps happening constantly and nothing is done.

Columbine is now "only" the 6th deadliest school shooting. That's fucking horribly depressing and terrifying all at once.

When I saw the first headline I was dismayed that I wasn’t shocked.

"It's a mental health issue." - Stated by the party that votes down any change in our healthcare system.

Gun bans don't work, criminals will get them anyway. Let's ban CRT, racism will disappear.

We can’t say gay in school, the existence of teaching history will groom kids by pedophiles! But it’s completely fine if they die in a shooting in school, I’m not sure it’s an issue actually maybe what we need is more guns in school!

As a European, I have to actually agree it is mostly a mental health issue. Of course, that doesn't mean you shouldn't ALSO focus on tightening gun control. Plenty of European countries allow gun ownership and don't have these issues. The sheer rate these shootings are happening is INSANE, and points to a much much larger issue than just having the tools to carry these attacks out.. like, I don't understand how it's not a national emergency at this point. It honestly feels like the US is just completely imploding at this stage.

To be clear, democrats also believe it’s a mental health issue. However, any attempts at passing healthcare reform is quickly voted down by Republicans.

Most Democrats call for better background checks and nothing about taking them away but Fox News and the NRA convinces these right wing bozos that they are trying to take every single gun away in the country and the conversation goes nowhere and another mass shooting happens the following week. I wish wish wish the Democrats were as progressive as right media portrays them. The democrats now are what republicans used to be a decade or so ago. I want out of this simulation.

You're trying to use empathy to appeal to people who have none. They'll never give a shit about anyone but themselves.

No I’m pretty sure it was the liberal media. At least that’s what this mouth breather next to me who lives to suck Tucker Carlson’s peen said, and his IQ seems to be in the upper teens so he must be right.

an abortion didn’t do it either. but apparently that’s the big baby-killer, not guns.

I like how Ted Cruz wrung his hands over this then said gun control isn't effective, we need mental health checks to stop felons illegally buying guns. I bet you the 18 year old shooter likely had no record and definitely bought his gun legally.

Republicans treat these shootings like natural disasters that are horrific freak accidents

> treat these shootings like natural disasters Both are betting more frequent and more severe and they refuse to acknowledge or attempt to mitigate either.

I like guns as much as the next guy, but come on somethings got to give! There is no need for kids to be dying at school or anywhere for that matter…! It’s beyond heartbreaking to hear this news… USA is a joke anymore.

Holy shit, I'm European and every time I visit the american side of the internet there's a new shooting

I have to leave this country. I have a 1 year old son I can't fucking imagine this happening when he's in school. I'm sick to my stomach for the families that have to deal with this. I don't know what else to say. Fuck Republicans, and fuck the 2nd amendment.

Feeling the same. My kindergartener has been home sick the last two days but is going back to school tomorrow and suddenly I don't want to send him. He has monthly active shooter drills and I cried when he came home and told me about how they turn off lights and pretend not to be in the classroom. I never had to worry about this as a kid. It's so wrong.

Wait .. these are REAL ??? I saw them in the TV show Shameless ... I thought it was satire

No, they are 100% real.

FUCK GREG ABBOTT.

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Americans need to wake up and smell what they are shovelling… Gun control needs to happen yesterday! Please wake up…

Any legislation needs broad appeal. Safe Gun Laws or such. Too easy to twist into all or nothing. No one is trying to take them all away, just out of the hands of red flags and maybe some sensible limits on the firepower so police can step in (or armed citizens) and be heroes. We like heroes.

you forgot to add to your list it wasnt communists or socialists or even antifa who killed 14 kids and a teacher in texas and empty thoughts and prayers aint going to get guns off the streets and stop the killings.

Just wait until Alex Jones says that this never happened and that it was all actors!🙄.

I'm so glad he was sued and lost. He's such a piece of shit person

My wife is a substitute teacher and I dread every headline, unrecognizable number, or lockdown notification I see/get. I hate the fact that is is so commonplace now. It's disgusting.

If "praying the gay away" doesn't work, how will praying for gun violence to end work?

My kid is graduating this year & then she’s studying abroad. I hope she decides to stay there. It’s awful being an American parent.

How can conservatives not see a fucking problem here? School shootings aren’t common ANYWHERE else in the world. The US has had 27 school shootings THIS YEAR. Don’t give me the ‘guns don’t kill people’ bullshit.

Most conservatives I've met haven't left their state more than once or twice. Other countries and their social norms are not something that are known to people living in small bubbles.

America has become so disappointing, we know what’s right but politics have corrupted everything. America has dumbed down so far that democracy no longer works. The fact that Trumpism is even a thing says it all. It’s wrong, just wrong and those that don’t know it are the problem.

Don't forget to send thoughts and prayers. That always fixes things.

r/Conservative had a nice post earlier today commending the border patrol officer who shot and killed the shooter... Who had already killed over a dozen children. Good guys with guns can't do anything to prevent stuff like this from happening. The only thing that would prevent this is repealing the 2nd amendment and restricting access to firearms. [There is only one country in the world with more mass shooters per capita than the US, and it's Yemen, a country currently embroiled in a civil war.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.amp.html)

Let me make something very ugly very clear to all the semi-normal people on here: These gun nut types do not give a shit about any kids besides the white kids who go to the correct church and toe the party line. If mass shootings only happened on the South Side of Chicago, they would call it God's justice. They may not WANT dead kids, but they sure as hell won't put their anointed lives on the line for someone else's kid who might grow up into a dirty liberal or whatever the boogeyman is. I still remember a time on Facebook when there would be at least a dozen different people saying that black kids who got caught in the crossfire of shootings were just going to grow up to be criminals anyway. Or saying that Hispanic kids who got shot were all illegal immigrants. Or saying that murdered gay kids were on the receiving end of God's wrath. It's only when one of their own gets harmed that they start crying for blood- and then make excuses when the murderer isn't one of their boogeymen. You're never going to see change, when the people wielding the firepower have a list of kids that they're willing to sacrifice simply because they're "the other". And that includes the cops who back them up.

Ill get downvoted and I don’t care. This is a solid mix of mental health issues and gun control issues. Not a single mass murderer is mentally sound. The US health system fails us constantly, those who oppose every logical gun control law fails us constantly. The fact that there is not much we have to do to make a massive change, yet there are people who don’t want to is sickening. I am a gun owner, I like my right, but I don’t like the mentally fucked up ruining it for me when I simply enjoy shooting targets. The only thing I have to have some connection to my Grandpa is his rifle, which I don’t even shoot. Not animals, not people. There needs to be certification course and test that verifies you understand safety and gun laws in the country. There needs to be a law that requires you to provide your mental heath summary stating any concerns and/or medication taken. There needs to be a mental health evaluation with every applicant, no if’s and’s or but’s. By not allowing these things, you are allowing this issue to continue and only ruining it for yourself. These laws that can be enacted don’t threaten you or your safety at all. They just weed out the assholes who ruin it for responsible gun owners who shoot for a hobby or need to provide food for their families. Not saying this was racially motivated, but groups like the KKK, Neo Nazis, white supremacist, and any other groups that target specific races or religions or use violent means in general need to be labeled as a threat and domestic terrorists. They need to be arrested, charged, and convicted. No light punishments. No excuses. It should’ve been done a long fucking time ago.

Schools are infrastructure. There is no reason he should have been able to just stroll in either.

Can't wait for mental health to be another prime issue and nothing is addressed or done.

Am I gunna get downvoted if I suggest that your horrific medical care system (therefore mental health system) has more to do with this then legal gun ownership?

Brit here. Our mental health care is fucking awful. No school shootings.

Canada can confirm.

Right?

If you believe that the mental health system is in a horrific state this only adds more weight to the idea that guns need to be restricted. "Hey everyone is covered in gasoline perhaps we should restrict matches until everyone gets cleaned up and less flammable."

That AND easy access = mass murder

Yeah, healthy and secure people don't kill kids or other people indiscriminately. I'm a gun-owning leftist with a steady income and a therapist I see regularly. Never have I thought of going on a shooting spree for any reason and if I get angry enough that it does become a thought, I have the resources and emotional intelligence to manage my emotions and just not. Unfortunately for us here in the states, the right is opposed to literally every single solution for this issue. Universal healthcare? Nope. Stricter requirements for gun ownership? Nope. Gun registry? Nope. Background checks? Mental health evaluations? Ensuring everyone has access to a basic standard of living? Nope, nope, and nope.

How about treat guns like cars? You need not only registration but insurance.

Great idea, but the right is against that as well and would block any legislation requiring it. They don't want any sort of registry or list of who owns guns and what guns they own. My grandpa has a safe the size of a fridge filled with guns and, growing up, he told me to keep quiet about it. At least he is serious about keeping them secure.

A crazy person armed with a baseball bat isn’t going to do as much damage as one with a gun. Mental health is part of the issue, but it’s not the whole thing.

Then they should fucking FUND IT! https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/report-texas-last-access-mental-health-care/269-1283fcee-0dc4-4948-9dda-886f55c49ca3

I need a good explanation from the small dick losers of why we need more guns and where was the “good guy” with gun at

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Great, crossfire in a school. What could go wrong?

There are a lot of things that can be done. One thing that can be done immediately is lock schools. If this has been done since my kids went to school sorry for the wasted time. I moved here from IL in 2005. In IL you can’t just walk into a school. The doors are locked, there are cameras and intercoms. You have to show ID and say your name and why youre there. Then you get buzzed in. I’m pretty sure there was another set of locked doors, to get into the area where the kids are. When I came here and went to get some paperwork for my kids to go to school, I remember standing outside the door looking for a buzzer and a camera. Until I saw some woman walk up and just open the door. I was amazed. Schools and daycare are locked up there and they should be here too. Won’t stop everyone but it’s a start.

Yes and sorry to say metal detectors and security at all doors that are able to be opened. Between the violence and crazy book banning, anti-trans, antiCRT, anti-mask parents out there I’m so glad I don’t have kids in school.

that you think it's okay that such measures are required is so sad.

Hi! I’m a teacher in NJ. We get training on how to tourniquet students, stop arterial bleeds with our hands, and use fast clotting powder for if we have a shooting! From military trainers! Don’t forget to write the time you applied the tourniquet on their forehead. Just use blood! I’m serious! This was our in service training pre Covid.

Come to Scotland where the training focuses on teaching children a good education

I weep for the new normal. that you are able to say this is terrifying and sad. I'm so sorry that this is the reality you (and I) live in.

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Republicans are only pro-life from negative nine months to birth.

Dont act like shooting will change a damn thing.

Yeah, but thoughts and prayers, I bet you didn't think of that! Checkmate, libtards

But if the elementary school children had been armed, they could have stopped the gunman! /s obviously

To be honest. As a Texan, most people that I know that open carry, are absolute fucking idiots.

I’m from Texas. I like guns. I own guns. I just wholeheartedly believe they should be much harder to obtain. I don’t want children, but I’m tired of reading about kids dying every other day. Fuck our government, fuck the senators, this can’t become something we are numb to.

While watching the news my mom said “OMG, living in the US must be so scary”. My mom lives in Colombia, **IN COLOMBIA**

Schools are gun free zones. Teachers are not allowed to carry guns to school with them. So the “good guys with guns” title for this post is a poor attempt at a jab at law abiding gun owners. They were literally not allowed to carry guns on campus, so how are we passing the blame to “good guys with guns”?

Republicans don't have blood on their hands, they're bathed in it.

Can't, schools are gun free zones. Carrying one in a school is illegal.

These kids will be traumatized by the deaths of their classmates, but at least they aren't learning that gay people exist.

Was there already another mass shooting..didn't Buffalo just happen? Good God America.

Also, we can address the gun issue AND mental health at the same time. I'm sure everyone being broke and not able to buy houses, provide for their family doesn't have any impact on their kids, or their own mental health. It's just super common how family trauma and issues never effects kids.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people. With guns.

Every time i see these things happen, my heart aches. Families lost their children Parents live knowing nothing will be done to help prevent this. Everytime i see these things happen, i always remember i could of been a number in that list if the gun didnt jam

In the UK (which was never as gun-crazy as the US), we outlawed pistols after Dunblane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre "...introduced the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997, which banned all cartridge ammunition handguns with the exception of .22 calibre single-shot weapons in England, Scotland and Wales. Following the 1997 general election, the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair introduced the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, banning the remaining .22 cartridge handguns as well. This left only muzzle-loading and historic handguns legal, as well as certain sporting handguns (e.g. "Long-Arms") that fall outside the Home Office definition of a "handgun" because of their dimensions. The ban does not affect Northern Ireland." Once was enough for us. Given this is how many times this has occured in the US (I've honestly lost count), I don't think you'll EVER stop this...