I Don't Care For Her But This Was Stupid
An Iowa teacher made some comment about finding his 'sniper rifle'.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teacher-on-leave-for-sniper-rifle-comment-about-greta-thunberg/ar-AAImzJO?li=BBnbfcL
What in the hell was this dork thinking?
Fucking psycho triggered by the fact that a teenage girl has gained more attention than he will during the rest of his natural life.
shareBingo. That's what all these hateful reactions are about, insecure middle aged morons seeing her and going, "Holy shit! She's 16 and has the attention of these world leaders and the UN. I'm 40. What have I done with my life?" When you reach a certain age and it pains you to see someone more than half your age accomplishing great things, that should be inspiration to reevaluate your life, not to lash out like a jealous bitch.
shareinsecure middle aged morons seeing her and going, "Holy shit! She's 16 and has the attention of these world leaders and the UN. I'm 40. What have I done with my life?"
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A crude joke that wasn't funny yet people treat it like an actual assassination threat.... Seriously.
shareOnly psychos joke about killing or hurting people, especially teenagers, and especially after so many children and teens have been under attack by nutjobs both in the US (Sandy Hook, Columbine) and abroad:
https://www.infoplease.com/history/world/timeline-of-worldwide-school-and-mass-shootings.
Good on the school for putting him on leave. He should also be made to undergo a psych evaluation.
Exactly. Try joking about a bomb in your luggage while standing in line at the airport, see where that gets you. No one with an ounce of common sense kids around in public about shooting people. With all the Ń•hit that's happened we have no choice but to take these kinds of comments at face value, until proven otherwise.
shareI had a disturbing incident this week that made this incident hit home.
I had a driver this week that was taking me and someone else to a doctor's appointment. It was around 2PM, so kids were being released from school all over NYC. Every so often, he'd come across teens at various intersections as they were going home, and he'd keep "cracking jokes" about how one day he was going to "get" them (as in hit them with his car), because of how obnoxious they were. And the more he cracked jokes, the angrier he got to where he wasn't joking anymore. He was saying stuff like, "I'm serious now. One night I'm gonna get them."
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that there are certain types of "jokes" that can only from a really dark place. Let a person like that "joke" long enough and you'll see that they weren't really "joking." I absolutely hate Donald Trump (to the point where I can't even listen to his voice) but I could never, ever make a "sniper" or a "grenade" or a "bomb" joke as in, "Haha, he's having a rally; too bad I ran out of grenades this week," or something to that effect. I just don't come from that type of place. But a person joking about bringing a rifle to any person's appearance does.
I would never say ...
>says it
Please it was an obvious joke - sure distasteful, but it's completely different than being at an actual airport with a real bag claiming there is a bomb in it.
A bit like holding the severed head of Donald Trump up on live television.
He may have intended it that way. But how many active shooters talked about it beforehand, and after the shooting every dingbat who knew them said "I thought they were joking!". For liability reasons alone the school needs to determine whether it was an attempt at humor, or more of a ha-ha, only kidding (not really) sort of thing.
shareWhat active shooters have made an open, public declaration before doing it? Maybe they mentioned it to a couple people, but I can't think of any who put it all out there beforehand.
shareSome just with friends, but a surprising number in recent years have left some pretty blatant comments on social media.
shareNo-one jokes about shooting people? lol ok. How many people have joked about shooting Trump without having to face any kind of consequences?
shareA crude joke that wasn't funny yet people treat it like an actual assassination threat
We live in a world where right wingers have been radicalized by ditto radio and empowered to violence by the president and frequently go on shooting rampages, we have to take these wackos seriously.
shareMass shootings in the history if the US are confined to the most recent Presidents term only are they?
shareThe right wing teacher might have been the latest but hopefully he's getting deprogrammed. The irony is republicans are sabotaging teachers and public schools across the nation to push their private school scams. This guy like all dittos was working against his own best interest, environmentally and professionally. Is there never a point where you think that maybe you've gone too far? Or are most dittos too far gone?
shareYour post literally makes no sense. Absolute ramble.
shareWhite males are being vilified, demonized, abused and discriminated. Some of them become completely broken and react violently.
You wanna blame? Blame the ones that vilify, demonize, abuse and discriminate them.
Did the news lie about all of those shootings under Obama, or are you just so bitter at the bad orange man that it has affected your memory?
sharePretty funny, actually. He obviously was not seriously stating that he would shoot her.
"Deniers" (also known as the more scientifically educated) are not "in a state" over this sad, mentally ill child. They are amazed that leftists regard her as The Messiah. They find her hilarious. And they think it's despicable that she's being manipulated to push the political agenda of a hoard of lunatics.