I knew this year was gonna suck
CT didn’t blow up, someone lit it on fire
There are more sane comments here than on the “serious” news Lemmy.
Did they prove that yet? Seems like it would be on video and I haven’t seen any.
Better hide in the subway, I’m sure it’s fine.
Okay I’m here but they’re saying if I don’t buy a sandwich I have to go. (We don’t have public transportation here.)
“Get off my train!”
series name is Community btw. great series i watched when it was just out
12am Happy new year! 1am Friend an hour back: Now it’s new years Me: well, I’ve been in 2025 an hour and it seems uneventful, probably a good sign
I’m sorry for jinxing it, everyone
Don’t catch you slippin’ now
Oh boy! 2 days in and 3 things happened already!
Wow. Stuff happens in places and when you consider all places, a lot of stuff will happen. Let’s look at all bad stuff from everywhere, even if we dont live there, and then overreact to them and act as if stuff didn’t previously happen and as if this is somehow shocking, new, or personally affecting thosenof us who don’t live remotely close to these events.
Well, they clearly are not important enough because they are not American 🇺🇸 🦅 🔫
There is actually more stuff than mentioned here.
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A vehicle rammed a crowd, killing ten and injuring thirty.
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A state judge shot himself in the face at the office on Monday.
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FBI found a record number of homemade pipe bombs in Virginia.
- pretty sure you are talking about the terrorist attack in New Orleans? 15 dead now
- that was 2024
- damn
You call those bullet points? Ha! Bullet bricks, more like.
I have to think a bullet brick would be much more painful than a bullet point. I’m also curious if it would be more of a cannon than a gun, and thus safer to have in the hands of ‘the people’ because it wouldn’t really be a thing you could carry around on a whim. Would people put it in those little red wagons and walk it like a dog in a movie montage?
Alright, but the antipersonnel Bricks can’t be solid material due to the Geneva Convention, so we’re going to need Full Metal Brick Jackets.
damn
That one was also 2024.
This attack in New Orleans feels really bad for me as a French person because it reminds me of that attack we had in 2016 where a truck killed 86 people on our national day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack
I can’t help to think your terrorist attack was somehow inspired from that 2016 terrible terrorist attack.
I think this specific one was inspired by the one in Germany in December. But that one was probably inspired by Nice.
Why, that’s not nice at all! That’s terrible!
spoiler
(Yes, I know it’s the city name.)
- Thats in the meme
- 2024
- 2024
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None of which happened in most people’s local areas. Stop reading national news on a regular basis. Focus on your small little life, your family, your neighborhood, your little area.
Of course when you cast a wide net nationally or globally, there will always be negative things happening, and then if you mainly focus on those events, you’ll act as if negative things are the only things.
tbh i have been doing this since the election was done with in november ‘24 & i haven’t felt better! my feed is just tech & other interests w no national/global news & keyword filters for the bs the news pushes pretty heavy: trump, musk, bezos, israel, etc. it’s definitely helped me regain some of my sanity.
I learn most major news nowadays BECAUSE it’s a meme in an unrelated forum. There’s no point worrying about mega and sometimes global news events that you could literally do nothing about and often might not even affect you.
Just enjoy your life best you can and minimize that stress.
Good for you.
It didn’t happen to me personally, so it’s fine! Stop paying attention!!
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He’s not wrong: if the topic isn’t within your circle of control, then worrying over it is just mentally masturbating to disaster porn.
The key is that the advice to ignore such things isn’t about advocating for blissful ignorance like you think it is. It’s that shrinking your circle of concern frees up your focus to grow your circle of control.
Thank you for contributing better than I could. You said it very well.
I think he is wrong because being informed and aware of what has happened in the world does not equate to “mentally masturbating to disaster porn”. We do have a real problem with sensationalized media, but the solution is not to just be uninformed…
I sometimes hear similar logic as an argument against things like funding science research: “Why spend money and time on a deep space observatory? We can never get to those places in space anyway”
Therefore I must pay attention to everything? People were not designed to be globally concerned constantly.
Stop getting scared by terrorism, a few dozen people is nothing compared to even mundane things like traffic deaths.
By this logic, every war is safer today than in all of human history, so who fucking cares.
/s
I mean, I get it, but this is the same logic that is sometimes used for school shootings. It’s abhorrent to ignore a large increase compared to other places just because it is still a small chance, and therefore do nothing.
I like making these less likely, but I know my government’s just gonna pump more money into cops and surveillance rather than do anything effective like making people less disenfranchised and desperate.
We’re always up to something.
See what has happened is that the right didn’t have any faith in the government, and now the left doesn’t either.
So, violent extremism is now the standard. Might Makes Right is the new system for these idiots. The Chinese propaganda is winning, we’re killing our own.
The reason we don’t have any faith in government is because big corpo bought it because Reagan sold in and convinced both parties to keep it sold ever since.
Since the beginning of civilization, to know who’s to blame, you need only look at the richest fucks profiting most from it. The well bribed, revolving door middle managers in DC ain’t it.
Tolerance of greed, private shareholders demanding a firesale to good the next quarter, growth/metastasis at all costs instead of equilibrium, the capital markets are what have destroyed us.
Just elect 60 DNC senators and things will get fixed up so fast. Historians would call it a miracle.
Every stance you extremists claim to care about is on the DNC platform.
Yeah, the ACA, a heritage foundation conceived health care bandaid that further enshrined for profit health insurance vultures into American Healthcare was the best thing the DNC could do last time they had a supermajority.
The DNC and the RNC take the same orders from the same bribers, defend their grift economy from us. Both parties work against the people.
The current form of the ACA exists because ALL 58 DNC voted for single payer but NONE of the 38 GOP and not even 2 Independents voted yes.
Always an excuse, by design.
Third world country things
So… Just another day in America?
Wait what’s happened in New York?
10 shot outside of a club in queens, ages 16-20
This sounds more like gang shit
A group of four men fired at least 30 gunshots into a crowd that gathered near the Amazura nightclub
'Merica!
We’ve normalized mass shootings.
It doesnt matter the reason, its still a mass shooting.
It’s important in the sense that if it’s “just gang shit” then people think it’s less random, and so they have some agency to avoid it, which makes it less scary. They’re also not in social groups even close to gangs, so it’s not something that would ever happen to them.
I guess, the term mass shooting just makes me think of one dude going off the rails.
The fact that we need subgenres for this shit is disgusting either way.
I still think your distinction is important. They are both tragedies of course, but it’s important to know and understand the cause.
I would just refer to people who “go postal” as rampage killers. Spree killer and mass shooter already have their own definitions after all.
The majority accepted is 4 or more injured or killed, not including the shooter (gun violence archive).
The DOJ version is 4 or more killed, which is just the mass murder definition with a shooter, leaving out a lot of incidents.
In either case though, the motive is irrelevant because its not going to be known at the time.
Interestingly, the DOJ version also causes mass killings that made minimal firearm involvement to be on the list.
It’s why the 7th deadliest “school shooting” was in the mid-18th century, and only one person was actually shot, with the rest killed by melee weapons.
Mass shooting? Sounds like a normal Wednesday.
Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it would be categorised or described differently. A mass shooting is a mass shooting, no matter how often it happens.
NYC has the lowest crime rate of any US major city by a lot.
That may be true based on stats which can always be manipulated. But it sure doesn’t feel safer. There was a time when you had no fear riding the subway. Now you are taking your life in your hands just standing on the platform
Was that before or after Bernie Goetz decided to murder people and then he got away with it? Because I’m not sure everyone felt safer after that.
NYC used to be much more dangerous. Really goes to show how mislead we can be by emotions that you feel it’s only dangeeous now
You are not old enough to remember how peaceful and clean the city was during the 16 years of Guiliani and Bloomberg
Hey cocksucker the crime rate now is lower than Jules ever got to in his drug addled terms. It’s lower than it was in 2010. It’s higher than De Blasio sure but Covid fucked up the status quo ante.
Facts don’t care about your fucking feelings. Get the boot outta your mouth
downvotes verify that many are too young to remember
Oh, yes. The “stop and frisk” era.
“stop and frisk” was horrible. Just the thought of them removing all those illegal guns from the street. And then actually jailing those carrying those illegal guns. It was a horrible time in NYC
You know when you ignore things in life too long and they just start becoming chaos?
America!
I’m just happy they’re finally acknowledging that domestic terrorism is a thing, even if its just to avoid looking hypocritical because of Luigi Mangione
Finally? Didn’t Homeland Security or the FBI come out in the mid 2000s to warn that the most serious terror threat would be the domestic one?
yeah, because Timothy McVeigh.
And that they would be mostly right-wing folks, which has generally been true, in part because the bush administration deprioritized going after them.
There’s a scene in Justified and similar in some other shows in the years after 9/11. Marshalls are looking for help on some homegrown organized crime types and the FBI tell them “sorry boys if it ain’t about turbans or bombs in the sand we don’t have the money or time.”
We just sorta never stopped that after 20 years occupying and bombing the wrong country and now we have a goddamn nazi infestation again
