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sabotabbySome fuckhead plowed a van into pedestrians a few hours ago. The current toll is 9 dead, 16 injured. On about 25% of Mondays, I'm at more or less the location where it happened. I wasn't today, obviously, or this might be a very different entry.
As is always the case in these sorts of incidents, the usual suspects are losing their shit. The National Terrorism Threat Level hasn't changed and they took the guy alive even though he was pointing what looks like a gun (it was reportedly a cell phone, but it's unclear in the video) so it's probably a white dude. Other, more well-meaning people, have issued derivative hashtags and offerings of thoughts and prayers.
Meanwhile almost 100 homeless people died in this city last year, but a) it wasn't all at once, and b) homeless people are considered disposable, so that's not going to really make anyone scared.
If I sound flippant, I'm not—it's really quite a lot closer to home than I'm accustomed to. I just tend to find the way most people react to these things unhelpful.
Update: Looks like the fuckhead was an incel. Quelle surprise. Even when it's ISIS, it's always whatever the ISIS equivalent of an incel is.
As is always the case in these sorts of incidents, the usual suspects are losing their shit. The National Terrorism Threat Level hasn't changed and they took the guy alive even though he was pointing what looks like a gun (it was reportedly a cell phone, but it's unclear in the video) so it's probably a white dude. Other, more well-meaning people, have issued derivative hashtags and offerings of thoughts and prayers.
Meanwhile almost 100 homeless people died in this city last year, but a) it wasn't all at once, and b) homeless people are considered disposable, so that's not going to really make anyone scared.
If I sound flippant, I'm not—it's really quite a lot closer to home than I'm accustomed to. I just tend to find the way most people react to these things unhelpful.
Update: Looks like the fuckhead was an incel. Quelle surprise. Even when it's ISIS, it's always whatever the ISIS equivalent of an incel is.
