[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Okay, I'm going to let you into a little secret... Sometimes I look but just for my own amusement. Like, I saw the posts where you claimed can't skip through or bypass a video but have to watch it in its entirety. You're hilarious, although it's unintentional.

Didn’t say that at all. Maybe your reading skills are as bad as your bed side manner.

Maybe go back and have a read again.

[Beso]

Charlie Veitch makes an emotional tribute.

https://youtu.be/_VuMsn42JP0?si=BQqQzSWDeC7zDFhG

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

the republicans were celebrating when Nancy Pelosi's husband got a hammer on the head, so this isn't a one sided phenomena

I don't think that many people liked Nancy Pelosi on the progressive side either ,... but you're not wrong or anything.


Many democrats have toned down on average imo, but the party is definitely split with certain politicians carefully selecting their language (ie Gavin Newsom) to take advantage of increasing rhetoric, but still have an out.

I suspect it's many more of those in the party itself though that are starting to see it's not helping them at all electorally in the polls to fashion themselves around these figures. So there's a slow change in temperature there as more people seem to accept that there's no road for this to continue if there is any hope for progressive views to remain mainstream politically...

That shouldn't be the primary motivator for determining the strength of rhetoric coming from any party, but that's been the trend. The Democrats have always been generations ahead of Republicans when it came to being communicators, especially the utilization of social media. They've always been better masters at managing their own messaging. But now right-leaning folk and Republicans have learned from and dissected these tactics and so seem to have mastered countering them. So imo, we've been looking at two parties that were working against themselves trying to avoid a complete reform from the public.. the Republican party managed to tackle this sooner out of existential necessity. Democrats I think are struggling with remaking themselves within the new status quo as they're forced to own tendencies within their own party that are really damaging to them politically...

[Glenn.]

Yes. On X, if multiple people share the same video and you scroll past different posts containing it, the video reloads in each post.

If the posts use the same embed of the video (same tweet ID), X sometimes keeps the playback position across appearances in your feed.
• If the video was natively uploaded once and people are retweeting or quoting that original post, it will usually resume where you left off.

For rustigal and Livia. I hope this clears it up for you. Seemed to be having a hard time understanding.

[Crimson Dynamo]

This was broadcast

https://x.com/senatorbabet/status/19...Ns3Rm9-hg&s=19

[Beso]

I don't have X, don't like the idea of my money going to Elon.

Its like dancing with the devil

[Maru]

'Rapid developments' in manhunt for Charlie Kirk assassin after photos of 'person of interest' were released: Live updates
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ampus-1-1.html

Most of it is just the same details, but looks like something is happening...

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by Beso

I don't have X, don't like the idea of my money going to Elon.

Its like dancing with the devil

You don’t need to pay for X. I don’t but I do see a lot of the blue ticks there that pay. I heard you can get money by paying too

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I may not agree with everything he said, but I would never celebrate someone dying. It's evil.

Yeah I didn’t agree with him but I wouldn’t celebrate his death, he had kids, they must be going through hell

[Vanessa]

If you look on Twitter, they have a picture of the possible suspect and it seems to match!
Really hope they catch him.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Beso

I don't have X, don't like the idea of my money going to Elon.

Its like dancing with the devil

X is free, you don't pay for it.

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

If you look on Twitter, they have a picture of the possible suspect and it seems to match!
Really hope they catch him.

Seems to match what?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Barry.

Yeah I didn’t agree with him but I wouldn’t celebrate his death, he had kids, they must be going through hell

Well said

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

X is free, you don't pay for it.

We're the product if the social media platform is free. They take the data and every little interaction, build an algorithm on top of it and then sell off or utilize the data for both business and political purposes... Elon is making money from currying influence and having that much access to our private data and controls over both algorithms and the way things are measured (metrics).. it gives him a lot of clout when making deals outside of the network and that is putting his thumb on the scale...

Edit: All forms of display on a website/computer are manipulated by nature so the data collected is easier to interpret. Sometimes they're manipulated in very subtle ways and that can play a big influence over how we both interpret and internalize what we read/see... it's called "dark patterns" in UI/UX.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

This was broadcast

https://x.com/senatorbabet/status/19...Ns3Rm9-hg&s=19

Do they think they are funny this is just bizarre

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Maru

We're the product if the social media platform is free. They take the data and every little interaction, build an algorithm on top of it and then sell off or utilize the data for both business and political purposes... Elon is making money from currying influence and having that much access to our private data and controls over both algorithms and the way things are measured (metrics).. it gives him a lot of clout when making deals outside of the network and that is putting his thumb on the scale...

Edit: All forms of display on a website/computer are manipulated by nature so the data collected is easier to interpret. Sometimes they're manipulated in very subtle ways and that can play a big influence over how we both interpret and internalize what we read/see... it's called "dark patterns" in UI/UX.

I stay off it because of its graphic content. Thats why I use Youtube. I once saw a beheading video, pressed play all by myself. Sat there on my computer, big screen. It effected me for months.

But funny thing is, YouTube is where I saw the whole Iryna Zarutska video. I thought it would have been paused just before the strike. 8 know that's going to effect me for a few weeks. Her tiny frame, her shock, and disbelief and almost acceptance of her fate is something that is going to be hard to shift.



Your post though, very insightful. I regularly delete my viewing and search history just so I can start at tje begining againil if I'm going to far down a rabbit hole.

[Beso]

When you think of it, to every sane person that argues the toss about stuff on socials and forums, his death should really make us all stop and think that we are all equally responsible in a way.

Stoking fires, never backing down, refusing to accept another angle. We've probably all been guilty off some of those things.

Really though, it should make us all take a step backwards in the disagreement side of things and we should all really, as sane people be looking for bridges of peace.


Can we all try being a bit more that way for a week or two, see how things go?

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Beso

I stay off it because of its graphic content. Thats why I use Youtube. I once saw a beheading video, pressed play all by myself. Sat there on my computer, big screen. It effected me for months.

But funny thing is, YouTube is where I saw the whole Iryna Zarutska video. I thought it would have been paused just before the strike. 8 know that's going to effect me for a few weeks. Her tiny frame, her shock, and disbelief and almost acceptance of her fate is something that is going to be hard to shift.



Your post though, very insightful. I regularly delete my viewing and search history just so I can start at tje begining againil if I'm going to far down a rabbit hole.

That's pretty much all I use is YT. I need FB for work/crafting and other personal resources. X I login to occasionally, but as a search engine and not in the way that they expect me to use it...

I did not watch those videos intentionally though I'd seen them served around me, I had the option not to play/auto-play. Husband explained them to me what he saw as he and other law enforcement had a hard look at them, so I got the professionalized version and not the play-by-play explanation...

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Do they think they are funny this is just bizarre

And they want everyone here to disarm. Everyone's so smart.

[Glenn.]

Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.



We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirk’s legacy…

“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”

“For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: ‘bitch,’ ‘*****,’ ‘n****r.’ They threatened all manner of violence,” she continued.

“They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired,” Patton wrote. “The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.”

“And I am not unique,” she added.

“Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse,” Patton wrote.

“Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!” she continued.

“That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies,” she wrote.

“And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,” Patton continued. “But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!”

“And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.”

“But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups,” she continued. “Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.”

“It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,” she concluded.

This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.

[Maru]

Shots have been fired at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, sparking a massive police response on Thursday afternoon.

Dozens of students and staff were seen fleeing for their lives after gunshots rang out at the school's campus in Dorchester, the Boston Police Department told WCVB.

Gunfire was reported at 3:45pm near Morrissey Boulevard, the outlet reported.

Several UMass Boston alerts warned students that the incident is a 'public safety threat' and is in or near a residence hall in the school's East Building.

SWAT teams rushed to the dorm building, as people were urged to avoid the area.

Sky5 footage showed students and staff evacuating a campus building with their hands raised, as officers armed with rifles swarmed the area.

The urgent alert comes at a fraught time for America - as multiple colleges across the country were put on lockdown today over a series of bomb and terror threats.

UMass's shooting also comes just one day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was fatally shot at Utah Valley University.

Massachusetts State Police said in a statement: 'Troopers have responded to UMass Boston to an unconfirmed report of a shooting on campus.

[emseateng2014]

i wonder what will happen if we find out that he is from the right

then what will people say

[emseateng2014]

what is this america in the 1960s

or should i say did we like time travel back to america in the 1960s where there was political attacks and assasinations

Originally Posted by Maru

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by emseateng2014

i wonder what will happen if we find out that he is from the right

then what will people say

They will blame the left somehow

[emseateng2014]

exactly just like jan 6

Originally Posted by Glenn.

They will blame the left somehow