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Still, it's good to know where words are coming from and their proper form. I also learned something new today so thank you.
In light of another tragedy, a gentle reminder that comments advocating death or violence will result in an instant ban i.e. comments like "Don't shoot X, instead we should shoot Y" or "Turn our guns away from X and towards Z".
^(Hope everyone's day is going well otherwise.) >

Am I reading this right?  Officers originally arrived and saw casings at the gas station, but no victims.  Later they discovered victims because they went to the hospital?  Was there no blood on the scene anywhere? >

The victims self-transported to local hospitals. Ambulances cost hella money. I can understand why folks would rather self-transport. >

This is a very American situation. Get shot, drive yourself to the ER because you can't afford the ambulance bill.
Then presumably don't pay those medical bills because they don't have insurance, and have shit in collections already anyway. >

Get shot, break a leg, pull up my insurance app and figure out which hospitals are covered. Now hopefully all the doctors at those hospitals are, just gotta find all their names and look them up. A+ best healthcare in the world. >

Politicians gave us reason to hurt our neighbor. >

That’s some psychological trauma >

People get caught up.. real shame. >

Couldn’t there be an organized effort from the people, the used to be middle class, why couldn’t we protest but in a big way. I feel like we’re all so beaten down anymore. But we could organize a peaceful protest. A gentleman’s agreement. A day where we just recognize we were a happy healthy middle class and we’re still here. No violence, no discussion of anything but everyone choosing just one day where we don’t clock into the jobs we don’t even like. Just for a cause. We can make a dent right? There’s more of us. >

The thing about peaceful protests is that the cops show up and start the violence. >

And all it takes is a few people who want violence for it to go bad. >

Yeah, those are generally the undercover cops. 
They throw a brick and leg it, which means the cops now get to beat the hippies down (liberal protestors cops hate, cops are buddy-buddy with conservative ones), and then arrest everyone after they get their bloodlust out. They give themselves a dozen new medals, talk about how they're all that's between society and chaos, jerk each other off a few times, and the protestors are quietly let go without charges 48 hours later -- and then quietly sue the city, which gets settled out of court, and the cops get another medal and jerk-off session and a higher budget.
If they can't get a brick-thrower in, the cops will just kettle a chunk of the protest up somewhere and demand the protestors "disperse". Of course the cops herded them somewhere where there literally is no where to go, so they don't disperse because they can't and then the cops tear gas them then beat them down. 
Same results, Medals, jerking off, quite releases and settlements, bigger cop budget.
Cops are the biggest fucking racket in America.
We pay those bastards fucking time and a half to beat the shit out us. >

Oh cops don't even bother with pretext anymore these days. They're flagrantly antagonistic. The guy in the uniform will start it. >

We may have a huge gun problem in this country, but at least we have a tremendous lack of access to health care, a substandard educational system, a feral two party system, and a monumental race relations problem. >

Don’t forget a collapsing ecology! >

I don't think we've begun to see the effects of this yet. 
Water shortages, yes, but until food becomes unobtainable, I don't think we'll notice. The mass extinctions are observable if you're looking for them, but they aren't on Facebook. >


I don't think we've begun to see the effects of this yet.

yes, we absolutely have. one of the craziest lies of climate change denial is the way it's always phrased in the abstract future tense. it blows my mind that this simple trick of phrasing is enough to get most americans to deny what they can see with their own eyes simply by looking out the window.
we are feeling the impacts of climate change already. there's drought in the west, crazy warm winters, insect and animal populations PLUNGING, fucked up crop yields, pandemics aplenty, and more. many of these things are already producing secondary effects. for example the warm winters in northern US are causing tick populations to explode, as their breeding season is much long. this is having tertiary effect of spreading diseases old and new (chronic wasting disease aka zombie deer) among deer. this is then having a quaternary effect that the DNR declares huge areas of deer unsafe to eat or come in contact with.
the effects of climate change are here, now. the complicit media is trying REAL HARD to keep you from acknowledging that. >

More like the dramatic apocalyptic effects haven't been seen in the west yet. The whole reason for the Syrian civil war was famine due to drought caused by climate change. >

100% correct but STILL not the point. the person i responded to was furthering the lie that we haven't seen any effects here YET. that it is STILL a problem for future generations. 
we are feeling the first effects of it here, NOW. 
i am not trying to discount what the syrians or anyone ellse in the global south, or other conflict zone, has to deal with. but the way to motivate humans is via self interest. so that means pointing out climate change at home. it doesn't have to be a game where we compare who is the most fucked up. >

Totally agree with you but it made me think…USians have had soooo many mass shootings and still don’t seem to see a problem. It’s scary to think that it will only matter once they’re starving themselves (or in their own mass shooting). >

Apples and oranges. But worth discussing. 
"Half" of America (the red part) simply tries to deny the problem. The other part (blue) sees the problem but has been fixated on prohibition as a solution because it's useful political rhetoric. 
Nobody stops to ask why detroit became a hellhole of drugs, gangs, and shootings. Was it because we didn't have enough cops? Or did they need more military toys? Was it because we hadn't yet blanketed our cities with cameras? Did we need to criminalize more drugs? Send more people to jail for longer? Were citizen rights too expansive? 
Or was it because we built an entire city around industry, and then allowed capitalist oligarchs to gut that industry for profit, leaving an entire population of people destitute? >

Or is it because drugs and guns were imported to cities as part of a plot to keep certain groups in poverty. Or maybe a combination? >

yeah, there's plenty of blame to throw around. >

Another day ending in Y. >

“I cAn’T wAiT tO sEe HoW tHeY tIe ThIs To NeW rEsTrIcTiOnS!” -Apparently a lot of halfwits in these threads who like to pretend that it’s just a coincidence how the US continuously has these issues. >

Just declare it as a national sport already. >

They already wipe out the competition in the olympics >

You’re the only country playing it seems. >

That’s never stopped them calling it a World Series though. >

Hey now, that's unfair. The World Series could be played in by the one Canadian team. >

At least we are free even if we can’t eat, get healthcare, have days off, and enjoy life. >

"There were 38 mass shootings in the United States in the first 21 days of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which describes a mass shooting as four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter."
More than a daily occurrence. What is stopping a resolution to this national tragedy? >


What is stopping a resolution to this national tragedy?

There's no profit in reducing gun violence, and politicians can't get votes if they advocate for sweeping gun legislation. >

doesn't CA already have very restrictive gun legislation? >

Problem is that even if you are a tough on guns state, if the states you boarder are not, then guns are easy to get. 
Case, Chicago is constantly trying to be tougher and tougher on guns…but Indiana is a quick little drive away. So it’s hard to “ban” assault rifles, when you can buy them in bulk 20 miles away in Gary Indiana. >

You cannot buy a handgun in Indiana as an Illinois resident, not without a federal transfer license or going through an FFL.
Anyone who is selling to IL residents in IN is committing a major federal crime. Similarly, any IN resident buying a handgun there and selling it in IL is committing a crime that comes with buku years in prison.
But its easier for police and the feds to go after weed users and low level dealers than state-to-state arms traffickers, so those laws aren't as zealously enforced as they ought to be. >



buku


The word you're looking for is beaucoup, french for a lot. >

From Urban Dictionary:

A Vietnamese word meaning "much" or "many of" deriving from the French word "beaucoup", picked up by the Vietnam War veterans and ...

So no, they are not looking for "beaucoup".  They used the correct (derrived/slang) word, "buku".