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[โ€“] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

second white person shot by police in two weeks in the US

[โ€“] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] discocactus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Because other races of people have been getting shot constantly and it's only now that (white) people seem to be outraged. (Not me I've been outraged for years).

This is such a weird sentence to say out loud.

[โ€“] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You got that from "the recent shooting"? What about recent shootings in other countries?

[โ€“] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 23 hours ago

i have media literacy and am aware the internet is made by burgerland

[โ€“] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] saimen@feddit.org 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

We have to teach the USA folks that not everything revolves around them. They will have to get used to it anyway.