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To think that it’s ironic that there isn’t one thread about the Colorado school shooting.

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Rosscameasdoody · 11/09/2025 17:41

Just that really. The press and social media have been going crazy about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and yet there are very few reports of a school shooting in Colorado at the same time, in which two students were critically injured and the gunman turned the weapon on himself.

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PennySweeet · 12/09/2025 23:40

Well the OP has shown how much a shit they give.

Such an important topic, they didn't bother to come back 🙄

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:38

This is on aibu…what has FWR got to do with it

PollyBell · 12/09/2025 23:37

Its a bit hard to keep up with all the shootings there

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 23:35

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:21

Where have i shrugged it off?

i have every sympathy with a poster who starts a thread and is querying why it doesn’t seem to be seen as important

i don’t have much truck with someone who has not started a thread complaining that no one has started a thread

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She started this thread though. Which was a perfectly fine thread to start.

Oh I forgot he was anti trans, so an ally of FWR. Never mind all the other anti women shite he peddled.

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:33

Wouldn’t argue with that toobigformyboots

TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 23:31

I think it's a legitimate question.

Unfortunately mass shootings in the USA have become so commonplace that most don't even get a thread on Mnet. It wasn't always like this.

Charlie Kirk was one man and his death has provoked numerous threads, yet not one thread about the Evergreen school shooting that happened the same day.

I suppose that's the patriarchy for you.Sad

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 23:21

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 22:54

Not this.

But then if you can't see that the shooting of someone who is quite happy to sacrifice some students so he has the right to bear arms,then there's no point on trying to debate it.

Let's just shrug it off. As it happens. Nothing to see here.

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Where have i shrugged it off?

i have every sympathy with a poster who starts a thread and is querying why it doesn’t seem to be seen as important

i don’t have much truck with someone who has not started a thread complaining that no one has started a thread

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 23:19

Idinnaenah · 12/09/2025 23:10

Mad isn’t it? Bigoted influencer gets killed, school shootings where kids get murdered? Nah, ten a penny, thoughts and prayers, the price we pay for ‘freedom’ … fucking MAD.

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It's insane, WTF has happened to MN? Are they so desperate for traffic that they are happy to host far right views?

Bigcat25 · 12/09/2025 23:16

HoskinsChoice · 11/09/2025 17:49

Where is the irony?

Obviously that someone who advocates that gun violence and death of innocent's is a price with paying so that gun nuts can have their precious guns, and he gets more sympathy than innocent children and other people who have been killed. CK didn't give a shit about strangers dying.

Where was the republican outrage when the democrat congresswomen and her husband were killed? CK wasn't even in office and he gets flags lowered.

MrsFrumble · 12/09/2025 23:10

MN is based in the UK, but it has users from all over the world. If a thread isn’t relevant to you, just don’t post on it.

Idinnaenah · 12/09/2025 23:10

EchoedSilence · 11/09/2025 18:10

So because school shootings are common place in the good old USA we should say, oh well never mind, it happens?

But when some bigot who clearly gave no fucks about students getting murdered gets shot, we should all fall over ourselves to say how terrible it is?

Mad isn’t it? Bigoted influencer gets killed, school shootings where kids get murdered? Nah, ten a penny, thoughts and prayers, the price we pay for ‘freedom’ … fucking MAD.

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 23:07

GinAndJuice99 · 12/09/2025 23:02

We don't need more threads about American stuff, we have news of our own thanks.

Those pesky forriners bringing their news over here.

TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 23:03

There's enough room for both.

GinAndJuice99 · 12/09/2025 23:02

We don't need more threads about American stuff, we have news of our own thanks.

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 22:54

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 22:45

This

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Not this.

But then if you can't see that the shooting of someone who is quite happy to sacrifice some students so he has the right to bear arms,then there's no point on trying to debate it.

Let's just shrug it off. As it happens. Nothing to see here.

MrsFrumble · 12/09/2025 22:48

Perhaps we should just stick to “shall I buy this handbag?” or “what shall I have for tea?”

To be fair, threads like that are less likely to make me weep for the future of humanity.

TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 22:46

HerewardtheSleepy · 12/09/2025 22:42

What is the point of starting a thread about it? About either of these incidents TBH?

Do you understand how discussion boards work?

RufustheFactualReindeer · 12/09/2025 22:45

PennySweeet · 11/09/2025 18:44

I wonder if the irony is the OP is moaning that there wasn't one thread, when she could've started one herself?

Other than that, I can't see a hint of irony anywhere?

This

EchoedSilence · 12/09/2025 22:42

HerewardtheSleepy · 12/09/2025 22:42

What is the point of starting a thread about it? About either of these incidents TBH?

What?

HerewardtheSleepy · 12/09/2025 22:42

What is the point of starting a thread about it? About either of these incidents TBH?

TooBigForMyBoots · 12/09/2025 22:28

In more violence, more people being killed and a radical change in the USA's democracy.

MrsFrumble · 11/09/2025 19:43

Currently looking at the state of the world with a ten thousand yard stare and a sense of helplessness like permanent heartburn.

God, 100% feel this. It’s only 3 months since Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated, and 5 months since the attempted assassination of Josh Shapiro and his family. Apparently Hortman’s assassin had a list of 70 potential targets, including many other democratic lawmakers, in his car.

Where the fuck is it going to end?

GetOffMyLan · 11/09/2025 19:35

As someone who has had a very close friend in America who died in a preventable school shooting, I couldn't give less of a crap about this pro guns profiteer dying this way.

GetOffMyLan · 11/09/2025 19:35

EchoedSilence · 11/09/2025 19:29

No me neither.

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As someone who had a very close friend in America who died in a preventable school shooting, I couldn't give less of a crap about this pro guns profiteer dying this way.

EchoedSilence · 11/09/2025 19:29

GetOffMyLan · 11/09/2025 19:11

It would appear so. Not falling over myself whatsoever over here.

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No me neither.

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