I'm not surprised that these people exist, but I am surprised they could swing Highland Park.

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I don't think $150k household income is that extreme. His mother seems like a nut that's tolerated because she's attractive.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Highland Park Police DID notify Illinois State Police. ISP chose to ignore the warning.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

I wonder if chas has any "we should do what Nazi Germany would have done" ideas for that one.

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I recently saw a story about a 12-year-old Colorado middle schooler who didn't get any yearbook signatures. He asked a lot of people and they all refused. His mom posted about the ordeal on her Facebook and then Paul Rudd came to the rescue -- Facetimed him and sent a nice note and some Ant Man memorabilia.

I immediately thought two things. That's the kind of kid who may come back and shoot up the school or the high school that he'll eventually go to. And also, why didn't anyone sign his yearbook? Are kids this evil? I remember when someone I didn't really hang around or talk much with, who I knew was a bit of an outcast, would come up to me and ask for a yearbook signature -- did I think it was a little weird, sure. But, I'd take the 5 seconds to write HAGS and sign my name.

I've said this many times here, but it is worth restating: Many school or workplace shooters are severely bullied/ostracized prior to becoming violent. Mark Ames details this phenomenon in his very interesting book, Going Postal. He also links the rise of Reagan/neoliberalism with a sharp increase in mass shootings. The book is definitely worth checking out.

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In 18 years I have never once had a kid get zero signatures on a yearbook that was asking people to sign.

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Since when do 7th graders have yearbooks? The only yearbook worth buying when I was in school
was your Senior year yearbook. We didn't even have yearbooks prior to high school. fucking weirdos in Colorado.
No wonder their kids shoot up the place on the regular.

Blood on Brick’s hands

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It's the price of neoliberalism and we should be happy to pay it.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It seems like workplace shootings are going down while school shootings are going way up. We don't even get to have Dwight Schrutes anymore because they either already do it in high school or never become employable in the first place.

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With most workplaces being either completely or mostly remote, you'd have to Gabe Wortman it
and drive house to house shooting mofos to properly shoot up a workplace nowadays.

Hmmm. Feels like there’s something missing from this video.

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DIY gallows?

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Herrick gave us yearbooks. Belle Aire even did it for 6th grade. My middle school in AZ did it too. All free.

No sorry. I was looking for “what is a dead white woman?” I would have also accepted “DRUMPH!”

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Over the past 4 decades, revolutions in Iran, Chile, Poland, Thailand, the Philippines, Egypt, Kenya, Panama, East Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc were largely or entirely nonviolent.

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Hang Sri Lankan Mike Pence!! Or Sri Lankan Mike’s pants!

I’m not picky, just hang something.

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Its been roundly dismissed b/c of statements like this:

“Rage as we know it today did not exist when Ronald Reagan took power in 1981.”

make sense

yeah...1966 texas sniper, 1927 a school in michigan is blown up...crazies through the ages. it appears as though the psychiatry and pharmaceutical industries have framed the narrative: you will likely get condemned for 'giving up' on some one who is a loose canon: if you try and get them committed. they will tell you this isn't 1505 and today we have sophisticated psychiatry and powerful pharmaceuticals to treat mental illness - irrespective of type of illness and degree of illness.

i do see the reagan connection as reagan cut funding for mental institutions - when he repealed carter's mental health systems act of 1980. when i was a kid no one wanted to end up at the funny farm.

He's pointing out that mass shooting as a form of rage wasn't a common phenomenon prior to the neoliberal era.

Try harder, coward.

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I assume Battle Ask is Field Turf

Something something causality correlation.

Neoliberalism also brought us the iPhone and avocado toast. There is always tradeoffs.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Have you read the book?

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Hell I have them going all the way back to 1st grade.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Do Arkansas schools even have grades higher than 1st?

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They have now gotten to the point of having all 12 years, lots of progress made.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

I just read that Arkansas students are far ahead of their New York counterparts due to the lockdowns. It should be interesting in a few years when the barefoot children of Hillbilly Pete are shoving the children of the East Coast grandees out of the way.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I doubt anyone will be moving to Arkansas or Mississippi in search of a quality education any time soon. I'm sure both states have a few quality schools, but their overall system sucks.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!