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Pixeloid's avatar

“They’re going to have to live the rest of their lives with this. “

I really don’t think they will ever feel remorse. These bullies will grow up to be sadistic, psychopathic, Christo-fascist bigots just like their MAGA parents. Conservatives don’t have things like empathy, compassion, or humanity like normal people.

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The_Mad_Catter_'s avatar

This may not be a popular thing to say but I would exchange bullies and racists 10 to 1 for hardworking immigrants illegal or not. I have had racists in my family and have had close friendships/relationships with people who were not legal in their countries. And guess what? The undocumented immigrants were a BETTER QUALITY of people ACROSS THE BOARD.

The people hating on immigrants are doing so from ignorance. Much of the poverty and mayhem going on in the countries these people are fleeing from has direct relations to OUR, the US policies and lifestyle. If there weren't so many GD American drug addicts (creating a demand for the drugs created in their land) - and the US didn't have a terrible history of supporting dictators and wars that impoverish their nations - these nations would be better off.

If the whining racists paid ANY attention at all to labor stats - there has been a surplus of entry level jobs. And many of the jobs immigrants take - are jobs Americans will NOT do for almost any money. So we will need to start paying to pick our own fruit. Where I live, housecleaners get $40+ an hour, because the average American won't do that job for less. Finding a good handyman or carpenter or contractor to work on one's house is damn near impossible.

Those that don't have jobs are NOT looking or trying hard enough. And that means being willing to move to find a job if necessary. Many of the poor Americans - are poor because they stay in the SAME DAMN place where the economy has been bad for generations - and keep whining that it doesn't get better. No shit Sherlock! No one is chaining your feet to the floor! Learn something from people who have enough ambition, resilience, dedication and innovation to leave their own country on foot and risk their lives to get a better life. You don't see them whining.

I say DUMP all these soft, whining, American racists onto a barge next to the interOceanic plastic heap and have them sort plastics in the sun for a lifetime. I want ambitious people who will be thankful for living in a country where they won't be murdered for not joining a drug gang.

Besides - aren't we below replacement level in population? Oh right, the racist just want more poor white racists - who are too lame to do anything but complain and vote for Billionaires to steal their money, just like the Preachers they love.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

It's Texas. What do you expect??

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Megan Macomber's avatar

The inevitable result of all those lies about immigrants eating pets and killing young white women at such dizzying rates that "national emergency" must be declared, all the lies told just to get elected and scam us for money and power.

Who pays for that? This little girl. That's who pays for it. Not that you monsters care. You will go on trading in the self-serving lies that got her bullied to death.

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kmblue187's avatar

Like Mom and Dad, like daughter and son.

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JCfromNC's avatar

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In fact, the kids who were not prevented from taunting her in this way or who thought it was okay to do that just because the president and his acolytes do — they’re victims as well. They’re going to have to live the rest of their lives with this.

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I hope they do, at least in the sense you mean, and don't for example turn into a group of psychos who think back with a bit of a thrill that they once had the power to make someone kill themselves.

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The_Mad_Catter_'s avatar

I really don't think these kids would care. They obviously wanted her to suffer. And the school should have suspended them for such racist attacks. But OH NO - racism is cool these days - at least that is what one of Elon's Punks think.

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Teddy Barnes's avatar

Those kids are the same ones who pull the wings off butterfly's and drown kittens.......

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Anna Miller's avatar

No words… I am praying for all the families affected by this horrific tragedy 🙏🏽

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Dave Stewart's avatar

This breaks my heart. Hoping punishment fits the crime of these bullies & their parents.

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BrianW's avatar

"our schools have several policies in place to combat bullying and resolve conflicts,"

Apparently they forgot to put the asterisk and disclaimer: "Some restrictions apply. Offer not extended to anyone darker than a glass of milk."

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The_Mad_Catter_'s avatar

When someone defends themselves when they are obviously at fault - that just underlines it was intentional. At SOME point they made a choice NOT to do better and they didn't.

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BrianW's avatar

I expect people/organizations to defend themselves, even if they are at fault. But when your defense goes like this:

"We have policies in place to prevent this sort of thing."

"Well either they didn't work, or they were ignored in this case."

"We can't discuss this specific case, but we HAVE policies in place to prevent this."

then you need some better scriptwriters, at the absolute minimum.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

These days, every time I open my mouth I risk running afoul of our very guidelines that I often help to enforce.

I just can not with this. Fuck.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

And so does the definition of "Winning" become sadder and stranger and crueler, less humane, more feral, and completely meaningless.

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The_Mad_Catter_'s avatar

Because Trump's version of Winning always meant Cheating and taking unfair advantage in as brutal a way as possible. He is a psychopath - the GOP's Junkyard Dog ... although that is an insult to dogs - but you get what I mean. Demon hiding in a dog's form.

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chev_chelios's avatar

the bullies that taunted Jocelynn, did so because that's what their parents raised them to be....hateful and bigoted toward anyone like her that were not like them....and guess what, I believe most of these kids and their parents not to be victims, most could probably care less and are giggling and smirking over this.....and it's not the first time I've heard a school administration do a tap dance and not take any responsibility of a kid being harmed from bullying....makes me not just sad but more angry because this fu*ked up president and his legion of criminal misfits are the ones with blood on their hands

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Anaid's avatar

Horrific 😔

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EyeQueue's avatar

How cute. They had a "zero tolerance" bullying policy, which in my experience only benefits the bullies.

Normalize punching back, so to speak. *shrug*

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

A lot of people have been saying that their raw feelings would be banhammered if they wrote them.

Others were broken.

I think it's beyond broken for me.

What broke me was the story about the two kids from Uvalde. They were actually babysat as infants in the same house but had been separated until elementary school.

They became girlfriend and boyfriend and were inseparable. They texted each other to say goodnight every night. She had a trinket he'd given her that she attached to her bookbag.

And they were buried side by side.

I couldn't be more broken ever than I was by that story.

Now these things just make me rage. Pure, unadulterated, unfiltered fucking rage.

And I don't want to feel this way.

I was thinking this morning: I could live in a nation with 50 percent being just utter uninformed morons with no interest in learning anything, ever. That's doable, and since I've become a hermit more or less its easy to avoid the goddamn idiots for the most part.

But they're cruel and hateful and enjoy making others suffer. That's a totally different ballgame.

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Mister Bubbles's avatar

It's the pointless sadism that really gets me. The abject cruelty, the lack of empathy, the pure evil meanness. I try to avoid adjectives like "evil", because of the religious connotations. But I'm running out of ways to say how much i hate these fascist motherfuckers.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

𝐴 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑟𝑎𝑤 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚.

And there we go. I just said exactly that, 10 seconds before seeing this.

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