people are responsible for what is within their control. these politicians and administrators and teachers cannot control the shootings; they can control what they do. and what they are doing is fucking shit, and they're responsible for it, however much you or they whine
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Replying to @ThomCR @chaosprime
I think what Chaos doubts is that these are good faith or effective means to handle a school shooting, whereas they're patently traumatizing to students what I think Chaos overlooks is that staff and parents are also terrified and making irrational decisions to reclaim control
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i appreciate the observation and i've made an effort to better address ithttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1178671301906620417 …
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Chaos @chaosprimecorollary to the "something must be done; this is something; therefore this must be done" principle: when there is nothing beneficial to be done, in fact everything that can be done is harmful, the thing to be done which will emerge is the one that does the most useful harmShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
I was thinking of adding to my original observation that the American "something must be done" mentality tends to lead to horrible outcomes, usually overseas more and more of who we are is probably gonna come home to roost still don't think it's deliberate traumatization, tho
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Replying to @endlessbats @chaosprime
and yet even though I think these drills and these "schools designed to thwart shooters" are pointless and awful I also don't think they're purely cynical, I think they're expressions of absolute dread amplified by grifting "experts" who will sell "solutions" to schools
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Replying to @endlessbats
absolutely agitated people who don't know what to do will flock to Highly Paid Experts just like they'll flock to the ones who do seem to know what to do because some little bit of them can actually think one chess move ahead on a social scale
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Replying to @chaosprime
but there's something unique about American school shootings and there's something unique about American gun culture and it's not a ridiculous place to start to massively restrict access to firearms, is it? like we are the most armed and also the least revolutionary nation around
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Replying to @endlessbats
if one were to think that massively restricting access to firearms is something that will produce good outcomes, it's an extremely sensible place to do it "most armed and least revolutionary" is... disqualifying to something?
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Replying to @chaosprime
massively restricting firearm access is the only difference I know between us and other nations that don't have this problem the most armed/least revolutionary thing was a preemptive response to the leftist "we should all be armed so we can do a revolution" argument
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i bet you could find more if you wanted to yeah, i'm not big on revolution and other forms of the Trump Management Style
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