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  • FearsomeJoeandmac [any]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah a lot of these chuds are suburban white boy dorks, probably lived fairly comfortable middle class lives l. Also Probably why a lot of these people are gamers, I'd say 70 percent of them are obsessed with video games and are the first to talk about their steam library.

    Just putting a thought out there.

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      i think it's a mistake to downplay the psychological damage that suburbia and american culture does to people.

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Stephen Paddock is basically suburban psychosis at its most extreme

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Pretty much all the school shooters were middle-upper middle class suburbanites who were “bullied” in school at some point. But they can’t even deal with the rugged individualist ideology they love so much otherwise they’ll shut up and deal with it like the rest of us instead of shooting up their school

      • FearsomeJoeandmac [any]
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        2 years ago

        This is true. I think most of us who weren't at the absolute top of the popularity pyramid were bullied in school difference is most of us didn't decide to hurt people over itm

        • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, the "they were bullied" narrative for school shooters is bs. Normal people respond to that situation with wanting to kill themselves not kill others.

          • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I remember when the school shooting stuff first started happening there was a lot of rhetoric about like "sit with the weird kid at school, be nice to them" and this one girl I knew would brag about doing so lmao.

            • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Oh it's still a thing as of less than a decade ago and it's still fucking bullshit. When people you never talked to before start being all friendly "hey, how you doing, how's everything been going for you" to you in the week after a school shooting was in the news and only the week after, that doesn't help a depressed fuckup teenager. I speak from experience. The idea that everyone sees you as a potential threat and danger is damaging to the mental state or at least sure doesn't help.

              • FearsomeJoeandmac [any]
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                2 years ago

                I feel like that kind of fake patronizing niceness only reinforced the fact that people think your some kind of weirdo or freak. People need to genuinely give people a chance, not just fake niceness

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  I agree. :reddit-logo: culture even has a version of it where they post links to suicide prevention hotlines or say in smug passive aggressive ways shit like "do you need help? Who hurt you? :) :) :) :) :)" :so-true: