The most surprising thing is it wasn't United Airlines itself beating up the passenger.
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They’re testing their new program where the outsource the beatings for liability reasons.
Everett Chad Nelson?
As in, Everett like Everett True, the guy from those early 1900's comics who always beats people up?
Chad, like Chad as in... an "alpha" or otherwise hyper-masculine male?
Nelson, as in the bully from the Simpsons?
Nominative determinism strikes again. (Maybe I'm in that community and just didn't look idk)
A day or so after I first read about this, I saw The Independent's coverage of the same story. They dug into the assailant's background and he turns out to be the leader of an Ayahuasca (plant-based shamanic psychedelic) 'church' in Florida.
They also gave further confirmation that the attack appeared to be completely unprovoked, and that there was no known relationship between the attacker and victim, nor did they even seem to know each other.
Also the victim appears to be a person who is deaf and does not speak, if I remember the article correctly.
Sounds like the attacker was tripping balls and went full-ass crazy.
What is wrong with America?
It's a culture of repressed violence. Once you see it, it's bursting out of every seam that holds this country together.
Our healthcare system doesn't take mental health seriously so only rich people can afford therapy and even then, only a relative handful of people actually seek it out.
Drugs, in this case.
how long you got?
It's easier to list what's right with America. Although all I can think of is Cajun food.
I worry about the eventual trip to Louisiana and the food that will make me abandon my flight home to live amongst the free-rangers for my own Seven Years in Thibodaux . I still have some vestigial college-level French, and I hope that won't be an impediment.
there's a lot of good food it's why we're so fat
So, great food, great country?
Then why does Trump wanna make it great, again?
great [tasting] food, great [sized] country, yes. fucking bastard of a language english is.
I have tried the standard of (If an area's regional food is tasty, the people are probably pretty good folk) fairly extensively and found few exceptions. Only been tried for witchcraft and run out of town once.
A rampant culture of Indignant Self-righteousness mixed with a shockingly high level of undiagnosed and/or untreated mental illness. All this leads to a sizeable population of people who wholeheartedly believe that consequences don't apply to them, and the actions that follow them.
Don't forget our bedrock of garden variety racism
He fought back by blocking the fists with his face, who is the bigger chad?
The outburst of Everett Chad
The first time I read the headline, I thought it meant that the United staff were attacking the passenger. Thankfully I guess they weren't a doctor.
Same! “THAT…is why I always fly Delta.”