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Last week I said I have a love for songs that are beautiful, especially with upbeat music, but with sad lyrics.
I thought I’d post a few if them.
LA County by Lyle Lovett:
The Lighthouse’s Tale by Nickel Creek:
Funeral by Phoebe Bridgers:
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1682388024813060102?s=19
Rock beats scissors.
Scissors beats paper.
Paper beats rock.
Kalashnikov beats hammer.
That big dude thought he was a bad ass until he realized he was about to hit the 10/10 on the FAFO scale.
From CNN:
Structural racism may contribute to mass shootings, study says
Mass shootings in major metropolitan areas in the United States disproportionately affect Black people, and structural racism may play a role, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.
Researchers at Tulane University analyzed data relating to the 51 largest metropolitan areas, including demographic and income data as well as reports of mass shootings from 2015 to 2019 compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit organization that tracks gun violence in the US.
CNN and the Gun Violence Archive define a mass shooting as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.
The study found that in areas with higher Black populations, mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher White populations. There are also more Black people injured and killed when mass shootings take place, the findings say.
The first thing to note is how they count mass shootings.
I actually agree with this definition. The problem is that the media likes to focus is only on high profile mass shootings, which skews the data.
This definition covers gang shooting, shootings at house parties (which are usually gang related), drive by shootings, and other violent incidents that aren’t what the news portrays as mass shootings.
Once this is understood, it explains exactly why JAMA came to the conclusion that it did.
They were expecting angry white men shooting up schools and churches and got gangs shooting other gangs at drug deals and house parties.
Researchers intended to find whether mass shootings are a consequence of structural racism, which they described as “the normalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color.”
Since they didn’t get the results they were looking for, they need to come up with some bullshit to explain it.
So they take black gangs shooting other black gangs and turn it into the white man’s fault through thr nebulous concept of structural racism.
They correlated the cities’ Black-White segregation index, demographic data, poverty rates, educational attainment and crime rates.
Chicago had the greatest number of mass shootings during that period with 141, which led to 97 deaths and 583 injuries. According to the study, Milwaukee had the highest segregation index, which tracks racial disparities in schools and neighborhoods, while Baltimore had the highest unemployment rate.
Cleveland had the greatest income inequality.
Researchers said the study did not find a link between income and mass shooting events, but further research may be needed to define how income equality and poverty have an influence in mass shootings.
It’s not a simple as being poor and not having a job means more mass shootings. The Left has consistently pushed the poverty causes crime idea for decades. If only some people were given more welfare, affirmative action, or some other program, there would be less violence.
A little yes, but fundamental, there is a criminal element in society that exists independently of other economic factors.
Chicago gang culture is that factor, but they can’t acknowledge that. So they have to study it some more, which means figuring out the linguistic bullshit to explain how this is still the white man’s fault.
This is amazing because we’re watching in real time people have an obvious answer from the data and trying to use it as confirmation bias to their ideology.
This is anti-gun hackery, not science by any means.
For the last few years, it seems that the Left has turned every dystopian science fiction into reality. Everywhere you look you can see aspects of 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and even Demolition Man in real life.
I never expected the terrible Starship Troopers movie to be one of those fictions made real.
I was wrong.
An 18-year-old military recruit forced to shower with biological males as part of the Biden administration’s transgender policies is complaining about being placed in an “extremely uncomfortable position.”
The report was first raised at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday. The girl is afraid to speak out of fear it will harm her career, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told Fox News Digital in an interview. Her options were slim and included resigning from her early-career position.
It was believed raising the matter in a complaint could have harmful impacts on the new recruit’s military career.
According to Rounds, the military recruit, 18, is complaining about being forced to sleep in between “two individuals who were supposedly changing from male to female.” The girl also has to shower with the individuals and reported significant distress about the matter. The individuals housed with the 18-year-old had initiated chemical interventions to change genders, but without having reassignment surgery, their genitalia were fully intact.
Who can forget this NSFW scene?
The military has coed naked showers, except that it’s much less sexy and a lot more horrifying.
Honestly, this wasn’t on my bingo card, but this is where we are.
Miguel already touched on the Left’s attempt to cancel Jason Aldean for his song.
The Left is calling it racist and all of terrible names.
Let me remind you what they have done to their cities:
NEW: The Walgreens at 16th/Geary in San Francisco has chained up the freezer section ⛓️
Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They’re usually hit 20x a day. The whole store is virtually locked up. @KPIXtv
h/t @greenbergnation pic.twitter.com/lfFWmkLWdo
— Betty Yu (@bett_yu) July 18, 2023
“It has been very, very frustrating that we as residents have to witness this chaos every single day.”
Residents & workers at Willow & Van Ness say their continued complaints about the homelessness/drug use/mayhem along Willow don’t result in any action. #SanFrancisco ?⬇️ pic.twitter.com/VA24NKQKEq
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) June 24, 2023
This is what happens if you park on the street in the San Francisco area. These tourists reportedly left their car for just 30 minutes. pic.twitter.com/cYG8jHhaEu
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/GLFOP/status/1678117408517521411?s=19
https://twitter.com/spireli/status/1680725490468790277?s=19
Homeless crowding the streets, rampant shoplifting, car burglaries, violence, public drug use, those are the things small town people don’t want in their small town that happens in big Blue Cities.
Between that and the small town, I’m taking the small town.
This makes me sad in ways it’s hard to describe.
I grew up watching him with my dad.
Part of the reason I am the gun nut I am is because of Saturday mornings watching Shooting USA.
The gun world lost a great one today.
Rest in peace, Mr. Scoutten. You influenced a generation.
Man accused of shooting 2 teens and killing one in Aurora is a U.S. Space Force sergeant
A 27-year-old Space Force sergeant remained in the Adams County Jail Tuesday on a $500,000 bond. Sgt. Orest Schur is accused of killing one teen and wounding another he believed had been trying to steal a family car.
An affidavit from the case now details some of what happened the night of July 5 at his Aurora home and a few blocks away where police say two teenagers crashed a stolen car Schur fired at as he pursued them.
The series of events began late on July 5 when there were calls from Schur’s wife saying her husband was out after car thieves. It was the third time, she told the 911 call taker, that someone had tried to steal one of their cars, which was a Hyundai Elantra. They had not succeeded in stealing the car, but made two attempts, explained the witness in the affidavit.
She reported hearing shots and a speeding car. Then there was a call from a man who said he had pursued the thieves who had tried to steal his wife’s car. He said he’d been shot at by the thieves. He said he had chased them down and he had shot at them.
They had crashed in the 19500 block of East 58th Circle. He declined to give his name when asked and said he was going back home.
A short time later on the other side of the home where the car crashed they found the fatally wounded teenager, who had been shot in the back and head. The other teen, 13 years old, later showed up at an urgent care for treatment of a gunshot wound to the back and was transferred to Children’s Hospital Colorado.
I get it, thieves had tried to steal his car twice before.
That would absolutely piss me off to the point where I’d like to kill someone.
But you can’t chase people down and shoot them in the back.
I wish you could. I sincerely wish you could use lethal force in the defense or recovery of stolen property. That would bring the current crime wave of theft to a dead stop.
But you can’t.
That is not self defense under the law.
One the thieves run away, you can’t chase them. You become the pursuer and you are the criminal now.
This sergeant fucked up and murdered someone.
My only hope is that the accomplice who took a bullet to the back is also charged with the murder under the felony homicide rule.