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Eleanors38

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17. With crime rates down -- again -- what logic to you propose?
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:47 PM
Oct 2015

We live in a celebrity culture, and it looks like this PUNK got his measure of it, far more then either you or I will achieve. You probably don't care for celebrity, and neither do I, but this and other incidents, should disabuse anyone of the notion that there is a "good" or "bad" or merely "tasteless" form of celebrity in the U.S. It all spends, and a fast and rather easy way of getting it is enabled as much by a MSM (as it deepens its transition from "news" to celebroshock) as by the method (usually a gun).

As a measure of how MSM treats celebrity murder (and the reaction to it by the public and DU), note that last August eight (8) souls were mass-murdered in Houston (by use of a gun, so there should be no quibbling over it). Yet GD was wide open to yet another rolling exception to its no-gunz-discussion policy over a half-assed try at a theater spectacular!

What rated this as an exception? The theater? The empathy with victims in a safe, dark environment?

Why didn't the Houston mass-murder rate even a MENTION? Maybe the victims didn't fit the Celebrokiller model near and dear to MSM's heart.



Maybe they didn't fit the Goddam complexion!

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Multiple Mass Shootings Just This Year fredamae Oct 2015 #1
Maybe we should ALL approach problems differently, lest we get more of the same. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #19
Gross misuse of my rights. ileus Oct 2015 #2
We feel for you Starboard Tack Oct 2015 #16
A tragedy, to be sure. Hardly unavoidable but certainly illuminating. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #3
Logical outcome of SheilaT Oct 2015 #4
Perhaps it's a culture that glamorizes mass shootings. They crave notoriety and they get it. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #13
With crime rates down -- again -- what logic to you propose? Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #17
I really think our competitive based economy has a lot to do with this. Gregorian Oct 2015 #5
Why is it almost always stupid loser punk kids??? ileus Oct 2015 #6
Probably something to do with people calling them "Stupid loser punk kids." n/t Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #7
So stop being a stupid loser...life is easy to learn. ileus Oct 2015 #9
You're right. Now he's famous and set for life for housing, food, health care and entertainment. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #10
You are aware that the the shooter ManiacJoe Oct 2015 #11
I wasn't aware of that until one of the recent updates. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #12
No he's still a loser... ileus Oct 2015 #15
someone needs your correction... ileus Oct 2015 #14
Gosh, I wonder. Brickbat Oct 2015 #8
One looks at the profile in organized terrorist groups: Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #18
Totally agree. If people are really interested in solving these issues, it will require a Brickbat Oct 2015 #20
I'm split on the personal characterization thing. I can see how... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #21
so you're willing to look comprehensively at the problem CreekDog Oct 2015 #23
Sure shadowrider Oct 2015 #24
Whereas you're unwilling to look comprehensively at the problem ... Straw Man Oct 2015 #25
That's a great reply. You should make an OP of it. NaturalHigh Oct 2015 #29
I am willing to look comprehensively at the problem. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #26
Newsflash. beevul Oct 2015 #27
I commend you for posting this OP in a manner which generated useful responses. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #22
My take on it, FWIW. NaturalHigh Oct 2015 #28
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