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True Dough

(25,878 posts) Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:14 PM Dec 16

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Did you see this comment on ReThugs and mass shootings?

If not, you are now. If so, it's worth another read because it's damn true!

Gramps
@GrandpaHarris65

Monday: Mass Shooting.
Tuesday: Mass Shooting.
Wednesday: Mass Shooting.
Thursday: Mass Shooting.
Friday: Mass Shooting.
Saturday: Mass Shooting.
Sunday: Mass Shooting.

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Did you see this comment on ReThugs and mass shootings? (Original Post) True Dough Dec 16 OP

yup Skittles Dec 16 #1

Simple solution. Executive Order #9828374 - IT IS ILLEGAL TO REPORT MASS SHOOTINGS erronis Dec 16 #2

Just like Russia denies there are murders there Figarosmom Dec 16 #3

Same thing with the Ukraine War Rhiannon12866 Dec 16 #4

Did you ever see the movie Citizen X? Sector 001 Dec 16 #5

Child 44 Figarosmom Dec 16 #7

I've never seen the movie Child 44 Sector 001 Dec 17 #8

I kinda figured that... Figarosmom Dec 17 #10

Citizen X is available on HBO/MAX. Ilsa Dec 17 #11

Citizen X is such an excellent film! JoseBalow Dec 17 #15

Which sick leader said there were "no gays" in his country? louis-t Dec 17 #19

Ahmadamnnutjob with Iran. Callie1979 Dec 17 #21

The guy from Chechnya Figarosmom Dec 17 #22

"You will be SHOT." n/t lastlib Dec 17 #12

Makes me think of the law(?) that taking ones own life (suicide) is a crime. erronis Dec 17 #13

Kick! red dog 1 Dec 16 #6

Mass shootings. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 17 #9

Kick liberalla Dec 17 #14

I wish we could get something like this distributed far and wide dickthegrouch Dec 17 #16

Also Republicans GopherGal Dec 17 #17

Also Fox News: Initech Dec 17 #18

You mean True Dough Dec 17 #20

Using Twitter Supports Elon Musk BoycottTwitter Dec 17 #23

Skittles

(169,667 posts)

1. yup

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:27 PM

Dec 16

they know what works with their sick base

erronis

(22,699 posts)

2. Simple solution. Executive Order #9828374 - IT IS ILLEGAL TO REPORT MASS SHOOTINGS

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:47 PM

Dec 16

UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH!

Figarosmom

(9,802 posts)

3. Just like Russia denies there are murders there

Reply to erronis (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:13 PM

Dec 16

None reported means it doesn't happen.

Rhiannon12866

(250,487 posts)

4. Same thing with the Ukraine War

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:48 PM

Dec 16

At the outset, protesters showed up, but they were all immediately sent to jail. Same thing happened on Russian State TV, the one young woman who snuck in a sign about the war and she was also jailed and eventually managed to leave the country.

Sector 001

(178 posts)

5. Did you ever see the movie Citizen X?

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:03 PM

Dec 16

Citizen X

The movie was about a real serial killer In Russia.

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

Figarosmom

(9,802 posts)

7. Child 44

Reply to Sector 001 (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:42 PM

Dec 16

Last edited Wed Dec 17, 2025, 02:36 AM - Edit history (1)

Read Tom Rob Smith's Child 44. Never quite made it through the movie though. It's a story about a MKB agent investigating a child serial killer. Whe the doctrine was there was no such thing as murder. So it was hard for him to investigate while risking himself losing everything for going against doctrine. Real page turner.

Sector 001

(178 posts)

8. I've never seen the movie Child 44

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:07 AM

Dec 17

But I read the movie is based on the same serial killer as in Citizen X.

Figarosmom

(9,802 posts)

10. I kinda figured that...

Reply to Sector 001 (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 02:35 AM

Dec 17

The book was really good. Got me hooked on the author.

Ilsa

(63,859 posts)

11. Citizen X is available on HBO/MAX.

Reply to Sector 001 (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:42 AM

Dec 17

Rated R, from 1995, 1hr 44m. Stars Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow.

JoseBalow

(9,183 posts)

15. Citizen X is such an excellent film!

Reply to Sector 001 (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:25 PM

Dec 17

Donald Sutherland is the Soviet bureaucrat that tries to help the investigator Stephen Rea. At one point he says:

To ask for more men or computers, for that matter, is to admit to our superiors in Moscow that we're overwhelmed. Which they'll never do. To ask the FBI for help is to admit to the West that we are behind them in both forensic technique and in managing information. Which they would never do. And to publicize the case is to admit that such crimes exist in the Soviet Union. Which is one thing they would rather die than do, to publicly admit that anything is wrong.

And Max von Sydow, as always, is absolutely superb in it.

One of the few hard-to-find movies I still own on DVD, I highly recommend it. You can watch the entire move here or on YouTube for free...

(1:39:10)

louis-t

(24,575 posts)

19. Which sick leader said there were "no gays" in his country?

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:01 PM

Dec 17

Can't remember.

Callie1979

(1,155 posts)

21. Ahmadamnnutjob with Iran.

Reply to louis-t (Reply #19)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 06:51 PM

Dec 17

Figarosmom

(9,802 posts)

22. The guy from Chechnya

Reply to louis-t (Reply #19)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 07:07 PM

Dec 17

And the President of Iran. Both have said it.

lastlib

(27,582 posts)

12. "You will be SHOT." n/t

Reply to erronis (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:09 PM

Dec 17

erronis

(22,699 posts)

13. Makes me think of the law(?) that taking ones own life (suicide) is a crime.

Reply to lastlib (Reply #12)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:13 PM

Dec 17

Last edited Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:02 PM - Edit history (1)

A world designed by dada.

red dog 1

(32,527 posts)

6. Kick!

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:05 PM

Dec 16

#BanAssaultWeapons #TaxTheNRA #GOPGunsOverPeople

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,462 posts)

9. Mass shootings.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:16 AM

Dec 17

Mass shootings. Nothing new here.

liberalla

(10,826 posts)

14. Kick

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:19 PM

Dec 17

dickthegrouch

(4,307 posts)

16. I wish we could get something like this distributed far and wide

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:38 PM

Dec 17

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217891484

I wrote that after another mass shooting, where a friend of mine was hurt.

GopherGal

(2,797 posts)

17. Also Republicans

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:18 PM

Dec 17

"We gotta put the Ten Commandments in every classroom"

Unless they're on a bullet-proof shield that will protect the students, I don't think that'll do the trick.

Initech

(107,492 posts)

18. Also Fox News:

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:19 PM

Dec 17

"Here's a guy who hits a ball with a crooked stick into a tiny hole for a living to tell you why Congress shouldn't do anything serious about America's increasing gun problem!".

True Dough

(25,878 posts)

20. You mean

Reply to Initech (Reply #18)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 06:30 PM

Dec 17

the "shut up and dribble" crowd? And the "Don't take a knee" crowd?

Fuck them!

BoycottTwitter

(101 posts)

23. Using Twitter Supports Elon Musk

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:08 PM

Dec 17

I totally agree with the tweet but it's better to avoid linking or embedding Twitter whenever possible because it helps support's Elon Musk's Nazi Bar.

You can use a Tweet viewer like nitter.net, xcancel.com or nitter.poast.org.

https://nitter.net/GrandpaHarris65/status/2000617135064990123

Also I could have swore I saw something similar on Bluesky. Embedding or linking to Bluesky is even better than linking to Twitter through a tweet viewer.

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