Now hold on, the United Kingdom’s Labour government in all their infinite wisdom and omnipotent godlike knowledge just concluded that there is no genocide there, so who do I believe?!
Honestly, there’s too many school shootings to keep track of over there, it’s basically just routine now. Awful as it sounds, reporting on them seems as pointless as reporting on motorway crashes - they keep happening regardless and are horrible preventable tragedies, but are limited in scope of their effect on a national or international scale.
High profile political activist assassinations are far less frequent though, and far more impactful on that country and potentially on an international scale depending on how the country adjusts it’s policies or social norms (it’s not a good thing I know, but they have become jaded to shootings in their schools and barely bat an eye when it happens on a national scale any more, so it doesn’t really affect anything worth reporting on over here).
So, I can understand why one would get more attention than another, even if it’s not remotely just or fair.
But yes, I can’t imagine why our government would offer condolences or anything positive towards that fascist’s memory or family. We’re not afraid of calling a spade a spade over here, but our government isn’t exactly stellar, alas.
I have long hoped that they would sort out their school slaughter problem, it’s ridiculous that they’ve built and maintain a society that not only allows it to happen in any but the rarest most extreme of circumstances, but that they aren’t interested in fixing the issue enough to actually make meaningful change.
Heck, I see them installing special equipment to slow down gunmen, I see them trying to arm their teachers (insanity), and give kids bullet proof backpacks and such. It all sounds ridiculous looking in from the outside so I don’t know how much of that is even true, but it seems they’re trying to treat the symptoms not the cause :-(
Anyway yeah, our current government sucks, I certainly didn’t vote for them. Their stances on a great many things don’t represent my views.
Now hold on, the United Kingdom’s Labour government in all their infinite wisdom and omnipotent godlike knowledge just concluded that there is no genocide there, so who do I believe?!
They expressed sympathy and anger for a white supremacist being killed, but not a school shooting that same day. Fuck 'em
Honestly, there’s too many school shootings to keep track of over there, it’s basically just routine now. Awful as it sounds, reporting on them seems as pointless as reporting on motorway crashes - they keep happening regardless and are horrible preventable tragedies, but are limited in scope of their effect on a national or international scale.
High profile political activist assassinations are far less frequent though, and far more impactful on that country and potentially on an international scale depending on how the country adjusts it’s policies or social norms (it’s not a good thing I know, but they have become jaded to shootings in their schools and barely bat an eye when it happens on a national scale any more, so it doesn’t really affect anything worth reporting on over here).
So, I can understand why one would get more attention than another, even if it’s not remotely just or fair.
But yes, I can’t imagine why our government would offer condolences or anything positive towards that fascist’s memory or family. We’re not afraid of calling a spade a spade over here, but our government isn’t exactly stellar, alas.
I have long hoped that they would sort out their school slaughter problem, it’s ridiculous that they’ve built and maintain a society that not only allows it to happen in any but the rarest most extreme of circumstances, but that they aren’t interested in fixing the issue enough to actually make meaningful change.
Heck, I see them installing special equipment to slow down gunmen, I see them trying to arm their teachers (insanity), and give kids bullet proof backpacks and such. It all sounds ridiculous looking in from the outside so I don’t know how much of that is even true, but it seems they’re trying to treat the symptoms not the cause :-(
Anyway yeah, our current government sucks, I certainly didn’t vote for them. Their stances on a great many things don’t represent my views.