At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.

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      These were liberal left wing extremists that did this right? The blood thirsty left who want to kill everyone and regularly threaten people and groups with death, murder and mayhem?

      Or am I thinking of another political extremist group?

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      If the US lowered flags to half mast after every mass shooting I’m pretty sure they would always be at half mast.

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        That’s how it should be then. If it’s down literally every day, maybe people would begin to realize how frequent they are.

        Who am I kidding, they dgaf

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      Are they gonna lower flags to half mast?

      No, but I’m sure they themselves are at full mast after hearing about it.

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      Came here to post pretty much this. Oh, an asshole advocating violence and calling empathy harmful is murdered? National tragedy. We have to do something. 13 presumably innocent people are murdered. Crickets.

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      I got one more:
      would I care if someone held Kilmeade responsible in an extrajudicial way?

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    This happened Monday, and this is the first I’ve heard of it.

    But, today some cops were shot in PA, and it’s immediately all over the news. There’s a press conference going on now, and everyone is shocked and sad.

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    Kilmeade should face charges. Not sure what charges. Not murder, but the equivalent of shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.

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    No pushback for that Fox Host that said that. Only pushback and doxing for mean comments about dead white nationalist and nazi.

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    That Fox host might lose their job, like Kimmel, because the law is equally applied. /s

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      What law? ABC is a garbage company for doing what they did and we should all boycott them but they didn’t break the law.

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        Trump’s FCC said they were looking into punishments for ABC because of Jimmy Kimmel, and many ABC associates are currently waiting for FCC approval for their mergers. That is clear regulatory pressure/corruption.

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      That’s how this is going to go.

      They will exercise every ounce of power they have to silence, suppress, defend or depose any dissenting voices.

      Now that they’re in a position where everyone is so desensitized to how fucking horrible things are, a lot of this stuff seems like small potatoes.

      Stewart gets cancelled, Colbert gets cancelled.

      Next up, papers please.

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    "That’s the way it has to be now. Or, involuntary lethal injection. Yeah. Or something. Just kill ‘em, yeah,” Kilmeade said in response to his co-host suggesting homeless people suffering from mental illness be imprisoned if they do not accept treatment.

    Can’t believe this is a real quote WTF

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    Y’know. That’s one way to end homelessness. Just kill everyone who is homeless. Voila, no homelessness.

    You become homeless? Straight to the firing line for you.

    I mean, other countries did it by lifting up their citizens with social programs and housing projects and whatnot. Admittedly, I would prefer this much more than America’s method.

    But this does seem quite America of a solution to the homeless “problem”…

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      That’s basically current day fascist America’s answer for every inconvenient group of subhumans.

      Homeless? Shoot 'em. Problem gone!

      War in Gaza has bad optics? Level it and then you ended the war. Problem gone!

      LGBTs? Mexicans??? You’re not gonna believe this…