I made a comment on a compilation video with pranks at hair salons.
One of the pranks was a man dressed in stereotypical middle eastern clothes and him throwing a bag into the middle of the room - aka a terrorist attack "prank".
And another one of the pranks was a girl kissing a guy who is blindfolded (it's never explained if she's his girlfriend or even knows him) but then the blindfold comes off and they make him believe a dude kissed him. He was NOT laughing.
I then had the AUDACITY to say that terrorist and SA jokes aren't funny. As you can see, that rubbed some people the wrong way 🤣🤣🤣
Multiple people told me the old classic of "You must be fun at parties" too. I just prefer my humor without war crimes and sexual assault. Personal preference, I guess!
as the news rolls out about the new lynn mall terror attack in auckland, i just want to say that we can and should keep the victims in our thoughts + support our migrant, muslim and communities of colour who may face prejudice and racism in the backlash. condemn individual actions, protect innocent and vulnerable people, and show love and solidarity in the wake of a tragedy.
Im watching the cbc nighly news coverage of the ‘freedom convoy’ and just…. Im not terrified but im so off put by what is happening in my country/city and I just… i just feel so uncomfortable. I lived through the Parliament Hill shooting back in 2014, I had nightmares of the shooting taking my loved one(s) away. In 2020 I woke up and found out that 22 people were killed in the province I call home (I live in Ottawa but my family is from NS) by somone who masquerading as a cop. And that was scary because they both happened completely out of the blue. But this feels so much worse because I can see it happening before my eyes. I can see people gathering kilometres away form my house, meters away from the work places of people who I love, meters away from where I went to high school, and im scarred. Because many of these people dont see me as equal, because I am queer, because I am a woman, because I am pro vaccine, because I stand against racism. Im so devastated for my city and my country.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a moving video on Sunday recounting his childhood in Austria while denouncing the riot last week in Washington that left five people dead.
In the nearly eight-minute clip, the actor turned politician directly invoked Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi attack against Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues that was a prelude to the Holocaust — and addressed his own father’s Nazi past.
President Trump “sought a coup by misleading people with lies. My father and our neighbors were misled also with lies,” the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger said, adding that Kristallnacht was conducted “by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys,” one of the right-wing groups that assembled in support of Trump's false claims about the election. Egged on by Trump, the rioters stormed the Capitol Building and temporarily halted Congress’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Congress reconvened and certified Biden’s win later that night.
“Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass right here in the United States; the broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol,” Schwarzenegger said in the video. “But the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol; they shattered the ideals we took for granted. They did not just break down the doors of the building that housed the American democracy; they trampled the very principles upon which our country was founded.”
He went on to discuss a “painful memory” from growing up in Austria in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
“I was surrounded by broken men drinking away the guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history,” he said.
“My father would come home drunk once or twice a week, and he would scream and hit us,” he continued. “I did not hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family, and so was the next neighbor over.”
Schwarzenegger, California’s last Republican governor and a frequent critic of Trump, did not hold back in his latest attacks against the outgoing president.
“President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election ... by misleading people with lies. ... And I know where such lies lead. President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever. The good thing is he will soon be as irrelevant as an old tweet,” he said.
The former bodybuilder and “Terminator” star went on to dramatically end the video by holding up a sword and comparing it to the strength of American democracy.
“This is Conan’s sword,” said Schwarzenegger, who also starred in “Conan the Barbarian.”
“Our democracy is like the steel of this sword. The more it is tempered, the stronger it becomes.”
wow i am so scared the news stations just said there might be a terror attack here i have no idea how to stay safe i'm scared of dying i don't want to die why is this happening
On June 12, 2016, a mass shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, United States, inside a LGBTQIA+ nightclub named Pulse. Omar Mateen (29) was responsible for shooting and killing 49 individuals and injuring 53 others.
Victims killed during the attack:
Stanley Almodovar III (23)
Amanda Alvear (25)
Oscar A. Aracena-Montero (26)
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala (33)
Alejandro Barrios Martinez (21)
Martin Benitez Torres (33)
Antonio D. Brown (30)
Darryl R. Burt II (29)
Jonathan A. Camuy Vega (24)
Angel L. Candelario-Padro (28)
Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez (31)
Juan Chevez-Martinez (25)
Luis D. Conde (39)
Cory J. Connell (21)
Tevin E. Crosby (25)
Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez (50)
Deonka D. Drayton (32)
Mercedez M. Flores (26)
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz (22)
Juan R. Guerrero (22)
Paul T. Henry (41)
Frank Hernandez (27)
Miguel A. Honorato (30)
Javier Jorge-Reyes (40)
Jason B. Josaphat (19)
Eddie J. Justice (30)
Anthony L. Laureano Disla (25)
Christopher A. Leinonen (32)
Brenda L. Marquez McCool (49)
Jean C. Mendez Perez (35)
Akyra Monet Murray (18)
Kimberly Morris (37)
Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez (27)
Luis O. Ocasio-Capo (20)
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez (25)
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera (36)
Joel Rayon Paniagua (32)
Enrique L. Rios Jr. (25)
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez (37)
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan (24)
Christopher J. Sanfeliz (24)
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado (35)
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez (25)
Edward Sotomayor Jr. (34)
Shane E. Tomlinson (33)
Leroy Valentin Fernandez (25)
Luis S. Vielma (22)
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon (37)
Jerald A. Wright (31)
Articles about the victims:
They ranged in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers and students, a singer and a bouncer, an accountant and an aspiring firefighter — mother
The victims of the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando had diverse backgrounds and interests
Articles about the attack:
The City of Orlando is working to respond to the hundreds of Public Records Act requests which were made following the Pulse tragedy.
Orlando nightclub shooting - Wikipedia
Thanks to police and FBI records and witness accounts, it's becoming clearer — if still impossible to comprehend — what transpired in Orland
