• Erasmus@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Waiting to see when this will make the news that one is posted in a US school building.

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      15 hours ago

      Image of a “good guy with a gun” trying to stop an active shooter; asking everyone running past him if they have change for a dollar as with increasing urgency, he keeps trying to smooth out and feed a crinkled dollar bill into the machine that keeps spitting out.

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      15 hours ago

      It won’t. Many Americans drift through life in ignorance and even if confronted with something they don’t know, won’t incorporate or react to those things unless they are told how to react. You see it all the time with Trump. When he does something that has been happening since Clinton it’s suddenly a big deal and outrageous, when Obama did something that was perfectly normal since Reagan, it was suddenly beyond the pale and evidence of a commie plot.

      When an ammo vending machine was installed in my high school 25 years ago no one noticed or cared, but if I went and took a picture of it today and posted it on twitter with some provoative text like “I can’t even…” there would immediately be some kind of outrage about it for some reason.