Sean Mooney

Either way- this was a level-headed take in this thread

Credit where credit is due- this is the most level-headed I've seen you be here ever and is far more measured than some other takes from people you would normally align with here.

Yeah as I said initially- this is bad for America and both sides need to ratchet down the rhetoric. It's idiotic at this point and it leads to something like this that is bad, but could've been way worse.

So this person was exactly what Republicans say isn't a problem. He honestly was probably some unhinged weirdo who felt Trump was too establishment for the Republicans.

Jose M will just pretend that isn't real.

1.) I didn't defend the shooter. 2.) You never gave receipts 3.) I see it's your vacation time.

Show us your punch card- get that free one.

It's been said here that presidents should not be blamed when people put their own spin on something that was said. Does Biden explicitly say "Go shoot Donald Trump"? If not, sorry- by prior precedent set here you can't hold Biden responsible.

You are lost. You know no one asks where you are when you take your self imposed vacations. You are out to lunch and dinner on this.

So the media is right about this but wrong about him being a registered Republican. I've got the receipts "FULL TILT! DER!!!" Voter registration records at the Pennsylvania Department of State indicate that Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park – born in September 2003 – was registered as a Republican.

Is that a no?

Whatever rock you crawled out from under- go back. I'm just offering what the AP says

Which number conspiracy theory is this? Have you hit enough on your punch card to get a free one yet?

So the shooter is a bit all over the place:

Remember Jose is the same guy who declares himself a life winner here but has to create multiple user names to keep posting here. Of course someone who has achieved the success of leaving their basement would be a hero to him.

utilt99 in January 2021: "We can't blame the President for saying something and people doing what they think is meant off of that" utilit99 in July 2024: "We need to blame the President for saying something and people doing what they think is meant off of that."

Obviously just completely unacceptable and it's a good thing the dude was immediately put down. Of course there are idiots out there who want to make this some cause for division in the country and post a bunch of insane rhetoric that just continues to fan the flames. It should never come to this and both sides need to stop elevating the discourse to these levels. There are too many people here already far gone but change can come from the top down

A guy is questioning why an old person wants to stay relevant in the public eye while posting the topic at 4am on a Saturday. Every politician craves the power. The sooner you all stop thinking one side good, one side evil and instead see they are all bad the better off you will be

Good- sue them. If there is a case there prove it and win

Who wished rape on your kids? Also- I've said numerous times in any number of ways that kids should be out of bounds for stuff on here. So you can STFU

Your kids are always your kids.

Wait- your argument is that a kid wouldn't talk to their parent about political things?

Curious people's thoughts on this (even though I'm sure I know how it will break) This is happening in a pretty affluent school district in Pennsylvania in a suburb of Philadelphia. Here is the link to the New York Times story: https://archive.ph/vOKdW For those that don't want to read here is the gist: Students at a middle school in the district have created fake TikTok accounts for teachers in the school that according to the article are: "rife with pedophilia innuendo, racist memes, homophobia and made-up sexual hookups among teachers." in total there have been 22 fake teacher accounts created- about a quarter of the faculty. A Spanish teacher in the school had a fake account set up where they took a picture of her from her real social media account (she does not use TikTok) and said she likes to touch kids. Also, "Students took images from the school’s website, copied family photos that teachers had posted in their classrooms and found others online. They made memes by cropping, cutting and pasting photos, then superimposing text. Some of the jokes were harmless in nature but others- like one where it took the heads of two male teachers and superimposed them onto a couple in bed together- were not. The student council advisor at the school had a picture of his wedding on his social media that students took, cropped the wife out and then implied that he married a student at the school. One teacher had death threats posted against her. Two students posted an apology video online (13 and 14 years old) and had this to say: " “We never meant for it to get this far, obviously,” one of the students said in the video. “I never wanted to get suspended.” “Move on. Learn to joke,” the other student said about a teacher. “I am 13 years old,” she added, using an expletive for emphasis, “and you’re like 40 going on 50.” Teachers have said it has made discipline hard because if a kid gets pissed and is going to try to ruin you online is it worth it to yell at them for not being prepared for class. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Obviously the school has struggled how to deal with this because you can't control what students are doing during off school hours and it gets to be sticky in free speech things as judges and courts have kind of set precedents that schools have no real recourse and can not go after students in these scenarios. I also think this is what happens when people spend years chipping away at the institution of school. And I blame a lot of people for that- there are people on the right (and left honestly) who have made teachers the enemy and turned the parent/student/teacher triangle into an antagonistic scenario and sewing that distrust so strongly is eventually going to cause ripples. Secondly- the idiotic teachers who decide to go on social media and talk about "how they have to talk about their sexual orientations with kids" make it real easy for people to wiggle into those antagonistic scenarios. Lastly- I think every person here encountered teachers they liked and disliked in school. Usually the ones we hated stick with us longer- but I can't imagine the amount of disrespect involved in going after a teacher like this. There is a certain line you cross when you are trying to ruin someone's personal life for laughs or because they gave you a detention for cutting class and the like.

I didn't assign primary blame to anyone....maybe you should check your own definitions. Also- everyone was having a fine conversation here in this thread- you have to derail it.

I said the right AND the left....AND I blamed teachers as well in the sentence right after you chose not to bold. You might be the focking tard