In the news

Club in Florida attacked, shooting in the club, reports of hostages and home made bomb. :(
nothing very clear yet though

Amaze & 'Murica :)

Awful

50 people confirmed dead. Unreal.

This is utterly depressing.

Yes, it is - I'll try to donate some blood today if I am allowed (being a Forrin here).

Lt Governer of Texas has tweeted that it's the dead people's own fault for being gay and/or immigrants.

https://twitter.com/search?q=govenor%20of%20texas&src=typd

Graun reporting some guy's been arrested on his way to LA's Pride parade with a bunch of guns and explosives.

Fucking hell.

Reading the first newsreports oh him and I'm already doing quite well on my white terrorist bingo.

Owen Jones had enough https://youtu.be/9ITdjAb3VcE

jesus the state of that fucking presenter and that hartley brewer arsehole. have a word with yourselves, yeah?

I'm surprised Owen Jones lasted as long as he did.

they're the same privileged shitheads that would go out of their way to helpfully explain why #BlackLivesMatter should be #AllLivesMatter - completely missing the point by an order of magnitude due to their own myopic experience and limited capacity for empathy.

awful, awful people.

Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't say fuck this about 5 minutes earlier. Depressing that we now have the "here's two pundits" format from 'Murica. Shout some buzzwords over each other and not actually have anything meaningful to say. At all.
Whenever Owen tried to go against that and interject with some reasoned interpretation of reality, they just talked over him.

Time for a self-imposed media/twitter blackout.

And remember kids, never read the comments.

Plot twist:

http://gawker.com/orlando-shooter-was-reportedly-a-regular-at-pulse-and-h-1781920316?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_facebook

Had a feeling that might be the case...

David Copeland all over.

I'm gleefully waiting for the moment ISIS will awkwardly try to retract their earlier claim of being behind the attack.

Their earlier statement:
"We begin from America, where Allah has enabled brother Omar Mateen, one of the soldiers of the Caliphate ... blah blah blah .... . All praise to Allah."

Sounds like his dad might not have been the supportive type...

Dari, Mateen’s father says: “I don’t know what made him [do this], I have no idea, I had no idea that he felt resentful in his heart and had gone to the gay [he uses the derogatory word hamjensbazi] club and killed men and women there.
“On the topic of being hamjensbazi, punishment and the things that they do, God will give the punishment.

So, umm, Owen Jones was actually a bit wrong? It wasn't a homophobic attack it was an autophobic attack.

A lot of homophobes turn out to be homosexual.

True, I was being flippant for comic effect, it was definitely a homophobic attack.