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How does the meme, or pretending it's unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
Cos it is always happening in USA and the response is always T&P
So saying it not a problem because you show some events across multiple centuries on one Wikipedia page for one continent doesn’t change the issue that the USA is facing on a daily basis. The meme is just a daily reminder. -
How does the meme, or pretending it's unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
It is unique to the US. Other places have 2 or more orders of magnitude fewer shootings.
And knowing this does help you figure out how to solve the problem.
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When I saw this, I though: what an old joke.
But no. It's not.
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The scale and frequency is unique to the US.
And it's wild because the proof is in the wiki article you linked. Since 2000 there have been a total of 85 school shootings in all of Europe. The US (A single country) has had 630.
The problem is obviously significantly worse in the US.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'll add to this that Europe has about 1.6 times the population of the US. This means that Europe has roughly one school shooting for every 12 incidents in the US when corrected for population.
If Europe had school shootings at a rate similar to the US, there would have been on average 40 incidents per year. That is: about one school shooting every week of school since year 2000. I can't even imagine going to school knowing that and wondering if my school is the one that's going to be shot up this week.
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Cos it is always happening in USA and the response is always T&P
So saying it not a problem because you show some events across multiple centuries on one Wikipedia page for one continent doesn’t change the issue that the USA is facing on a daily basis. The meme is just a daily reminder.Hi, what is "T&P"?
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I want to sarcastically comment "where were the armed drones to protect the children??!?" after that article yesterday, but I worry people will ignore the sarcasm and think it's a good idea...
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Replace NRA with GOP.
The NRA is pretty weak at the moment. It seems that being infiltrated by a Russian honeypot is bad for business.
https://thereload.com/nra-financial-spiral-slows-as-reformers-cement-control/
wrote last edited by [email protected]It seems that being infiltrated by a Russian honeypot is bad for business.
Seems to be working out fine so far for the GOP
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How does the meme, or pretending it's unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
Anywhere else in the world has an incident where children get murdered in school and they do something. Largely, what they do serves to make children safer.
In America you do literally nothing
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When I saw this, I though: what an old joke.
But no. It's not.
Unlike some of the school children, that joke will get old eventually.
Gallows humor is all I have left....
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How does the meme, or pretending it's unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
wrote last edited by [email protected]How does pretending this epidemic ISN'T unique to the US solve the problem?
Name any other country that has anywhere near the amount of shootings we have in a year. Fuck, name one that has a quarter or a tenth of what we have year after year.
Don't let your misplaced pride in the US blind you to a very unique problem that we have.
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Hi, what is "T&P"?
Thoughts and prayers
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Hi, what is "T&P"?
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Oh, of course. Thanks.
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Thoughts and prayers
Ah, yes.
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Brutal
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How does the meme, or pretending it's unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
It's unique to the US because we aren't trying to mitigate.
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Its because of violent video games.
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Its because of violent video games.
Dance dance revolution was the slippery slope
https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/10/17101232/a-brief-history-of-video-game-violence-blame/
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I want to sarcastically comment "where were the armed drones to protect the children??!?" after that article yesterday, but I worry people will ignore the sarcasm and think it's a good idea...
wrote last edited by [email protected]I wanted to make a dark comment about how the school says "gate to heaven" on it and yeah, I think we're in similar boats.
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I wanted to make a dark comment about how the school says "gate to heaven" on it and yeah, I think we're in similar boats.
See, I didn't even notice that. Now it's way too late to make a joke about guns and flavoraid.
