Police officer dead after ‘antivax’ shooter targets CDC headquarters

It was Biden, wasn't it? No? Obama, then? No? Hillary? Bill? Pelosi? Who was it? Anti-Vaxxer?

Nah, didn't happen, fake news. If it happened, why isn't it on the news? I didn't see it on the news.

You are commenting on a news article about it.
- I didn't see it. Doesn't exist. Fake news. LIBERAL!

Aren't the anti-vaxxers in charge?

Y'all I think these anti-science terrorists might not be as smart as they look. And that's saying something.

"The Lunatic Left strikes again!"

I can't believe the amount of propaganda that floods USA society. Right-wingers genuinely don't believe their side is violent and dangerous because of shitbags like Trump and Musk.

It's not that they don't believe their side is violent.
They believe their violence is justified. It's everyone else that is wrong.
It's a subtle but important distinction because they will gladly accept violence for their ends. They already have during January 6th.
- To a fascist, hypocrisy is a virtue.
- My trump supporting father says that any violence committed on Jan 6 was secretly conducted by ANTIFA or the feds to make trump look bad.
  That said though they do like violence from their side just look at how they react to protestors being run over but that's OK because they were committing the horrific crime of blocking the road
- You're right. I should revise my statement to say that they don't consider themselves violent compared to "the Left" (by which they mean libs, who they think are socialist communists because they're completely brainwashed). They don't have a coherent understanding of modern politics beyond picking a side and shouting loudest.
Citizens United spelled the final nail in the coffin.
It should come as no surprise that with the
Decentralization of media,
The massive rise in wealth inequality and number of billionaires,
Deregulation of money as speech,
And foreign interference from Russia, Israel, China, etc. muddying the waters...
... And finally, combined with
Eroding education standards
Distancing of parents from their children
Widespread mental disorders and substance addiction and sometimes literal brain damage (lead poisoning, head trauma from football, etc.)
... That intellectualism is losing the race. These people live in completely alternate realities. Principals of religious faith have now fully been incorporated into political ideology. Once untethered from reason, it's all about what you want to believe.
- Nah, Alito wrote that there is no evidence that large cash campaign donations leads to corruption.
As soon as I saw "CDC" in the first headline I saw, I knew what kind of person did this, and what their political ideology was.
So fucking predictable.

Amazing wanting to kill people for wanting people to not die of disease.

No no, they're saving lives by killing the scary scientists that are secretly injecting nanobots into our children that brainwash them into being woke!

Obligatory…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

When will Democrats tone down the rhetoric? /s

Sickness is health… War is peace… Ignorance is strength…

Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence.
A key element of stochastic terrorism is the use of media for propagation, where the person carrying out the violence may not have direct connection to any other users of violent rhetoric.

That's why I don't talk to antovaxxers. They are crazy

I have an antivax coworker who is also virulently anti-immigrant. Her main reason for being anti-immigrant is that she thinks immigrants are unvaccinated and bring diseases into this country. When she told me this I was too busy looking for my jaw on the ground to try and argue with her. She is exactly as unpleasant and ugly as you would imagine.
- I used to work with an sntivaxxer nurse. She uses "religion exempt" to exempt all she and her kids from vaccines and she is a nurse!
That's smart.The probability any given antivaxxer might end up shooting you is still low, but I'd wager it's several orders of magnitude higher than if you disagreed with any other type of person on a similar subject.
I try to get in real good with the antivaxxers in my life, just in case. Like the people who thank AI.
- it’s much less lower than the odds of getting murdered by a cop because you spoke to them.

Was the shooter white or other? I just want to know how much effort will put into the consequences.

According to a local news station in Atlanta, they identified the shooter as a white male.
So, minimal effort. There will be some mild condemnation from local officials because he killed a cop (a black cop, though), but I'm sure he'll be remembered as an honorable but misguided patriot, particularly now that he's dead. This will also probably be used as a way to start cutting back at the CDC even more, as it has now become a topic of greater public concern.
- they identified the shooter as a white male.
Is the shooter still alive? Then definately white.

Trump still alive? Ah nuts

Shit! They are shooting their own now?

Now?
Cop was black, tho
- Cop was black, married father of two with another on the way and had been on the force less than a year.
  Imma ask the ACAB gods for a qualified exemption in this case. That’s tragic.

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All of you guys are covid vaxxed?

1 good + 1 bad = meh.

neat. and what else happened in the news today?

edit to be clear for the bootlickers downvoting: nothing of value was lost.

The Epstein files still weren't released.
I'm curious, in your worldview, should the shooter be left alone, talked down by de-escalation experts, or stopped by "good" cops flown in from a socialist country?
Or maybe we first eliminate guns from our culture and properly vet and train police officers, then we see if the active shooter is still going.
- what does socialism have to do with this? yes, a cop is still an armed wing of an authoritarian gov, and they can also stop an unhinged shooter. two things can be true or happen at the same time.
  i own plenty of guns. i am not anti gun. i am anti authoritarian.
- Fascist in power.
  And the left still want to give up their arms.
  The fuck is wrong with you all.