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Bulldozers kill man in tent in Atlanta clearing homeless camp near MLK’s church
(www.theguardian.com)
Republicans want this
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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my thoughts and prayers to the family of the deceased
So you're saying nothing really to cover your ass against the impending lawsuit
Yeah, I get it. Tents are really hard to get rid of. You have to use a bulldozer.
Fuck this. If anyone deserves to die in the souless arseholes in charge who let this happen.
Great passive voice: "Bulldozer did a bad thing". Someone should hold that Bulldozer accountable.
I get what you're saying but this is just the way to write it, everyone understands that's the bulldozer itself is an innocent victim too
It was just following orders.
They should've used the Yoda voice. "Bad thing, bulldozers did." Rookies smh
Did the Atlanta city workers get training from the IDF?
What better way to honor the reverend's legacy than by bulldozing some poors.
Really thought this was going to be a dark onion piece
There are no more dark onions. It's now real life. 🙃
Is this a new way of dying that's only possible in the USA?
Achievement get! New death unlocked.
It does give off a "regional exclusive" energy.
Nah, death by bulldozer shows up in any modern industrialized country that really wants some people out of the way. For instance.
She wasn't in a homeless tent, and saying that people also get bulldozed in warzones isn't really the same thing.
The US routinely kill the unprofitable.
Or you could be like the IDF and just run the bulldozers over already dead bodies so that they're unrecognizable to their relatives.
Edit: live bodies too... I wasn't sure and didn't want to make the claim. I should have known. When it comes to the IDF, the cruelty knows no bounds.
IDF bulldozer operators talk about killing innocent people too, not just the dead. One of them killed himself over it, which is the most justice any of them will ever see for mass murder.
The article is gruesome, as a heads up.
Of course nobody has been arrested or charged. Manslaughter? Murder? Come on, at least reckless endangerment? Not if the victim is homeless and the perp is the state, fuck no.
Seems like America has given up on any illusions of upholding human rights.
It wouldn't be American if it low key didn't. They're reaching for the high keys, though.
The GOP are sending those back to the individual states so they can decide.
No they're not. Don't buy that bullshit. There may be a couple (relatively unimportant) issues that they leave to the states, like cannabis legalization, so it looks like they're doing this. But in reality, they will use the federal government as a cudgel against states that do things they don't like.
They're already talking about making aid to CA wildfires conditional. These people have no ethics, no scruples, and lack basic empathy.
As John McCain said of them: "they know no depths".
While you are right, I think the person you're responding to was being sarcastic.
Hard to tell since that's literally what people are saying unironically.
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