Which begs the question, how did he get into the White House Correspondent’s Dinner? With a gun no less.
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Rebelgecko8 hr ago
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From what I've seen I don't think he got into the actual dinner or past the security checkpoint. Basically stopped him outside the bathroom by the lobby
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AllicinCarbonUV7 hr ago
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But shouldn't there be tighter security around the perimeter of the building to begin with? How come he got that close?
Edit: Typo
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Threadheads7 hr ago
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There was an Australian journalist who had been present at the dinner. He appeared on the news and said there was more security on a regular day at an Australian airport than at this event.
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El-Finkers7 hr ago
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This is my question. There's no way dude should've even been able to make it on property. Let alone inside the damn venue itself withba gun.
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Strange-Gold-37027 hr ago
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I heard he was a guest at the hotel.
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El-Finkers7 hr ago
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He was, but wasn't vetted by security teams bc of that. The other hotel guests weren't as well. Which is very clearly a huge risk and error when the president is downstairs.
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WoolooOfWallStreet7 hr ago
+1
Yeah shouldn’t the FBI looked into-… oh…
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RealisticProfile51386 hr ago
+1
There’s only so many things you can control. You have to draw a line in the sand at some point. Their line in the sand was all the entrances to the actually interior venue being heavily secured with armed secret service and police and metal detectors etc, and he could NOT get past them.
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AllicinCarbonUV7 hr ago
+1
I once heard someone on Australian TV make that comment. I haven't come across it again.
How far in advance do they plan these things? Shouldn't there be additional security checks around the date of the WHCD? I'm honestly curious. This was a big stuff-up.
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El-Finkers7 hr ago
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Yeah entertaining conspiracy theories is rough to do. And it's hard for me to go there as well, but considering who is in charge currently I wouldn't put it past him just to try and stroke his ego.
To err on the side of caution, going with incompetence is the smart choice currently. As there is no drought of that in this admin.
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AllicinCarbonUV7 hr ago
+1
You are correct. I better not go there. I'll stick with incompetence since it's the more plausible explanation.
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Rebelgecko7 hr ago
+1
It's a hotel that's open to the public. I imagine it's easier to cordon off a ballroom than to set up a perimeter around the entire property and strip search every guest.
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El-Finkers7 hr ago
+1
Hotel lobby was closed to the public 6 hours before the event started. Hence the protesters outside
Edit: adding that this is also an event the PRESIDENT is attending. Securing the hotel lobby and hotel perimeter should be minimum requirements.
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RazorRamonReigns7 hr ago
+1
Not just the president but the vice president as well. That makes it even crazier.
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HandsLikePaper7 hr ago
+1
Yeah, I feel like the standard procedure would have to be to secure the entire building and everyone going in or out would have to pass through a checkpoint regardless of whether or not they were staying at the hotel.
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Snakend8 hr ago
+29
He rushed the door...and didn't get far. Stupid plan.
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RealisticProfile51387 hr ago
+1
He didn’t get in. They stopped him that’s the whole point.
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kantzkasper8 hr ago
+1
Just happened a day after this was published https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/23/us/word-of-week-staged-butler-conspiracy-cec?
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SwarmOBeez10 hr ago
+677
Wow, what a terrible, sensationalizing headline. Clearly written to make it sound like he was full-time school teacher. Turns out he was a part-time tutor at a test prep company.
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call-lee-free7 hr ago
+1
They already saying he's a democrat and donated to Harris. Whether its true or false, have no idea.
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Thandoscovia9 hr ago
+45
Depending on your viewpoint, going part time would give him more time to learn how to be an actor or assassin
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ExZowieAgent7 hr ago
+1
But why male models?
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troyboy759 hr ago
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Oh so he was a teacher in California as the headline stated. Thanks for clarifying.
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Snakend8 hr ago
+32
Teachers require credentials. This guy did not have credentials. gtfo with that nonsense.
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ADHDavidThoreau9 hr ago
+144
Tutor does not equal teacher
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Deodorized9 hr ago
+101
Education confuses these people.
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Snakend8 hr ago
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Doesn't matter what he claims to be on linked in. He does not have teaching credentials in California.
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sargentcole8 hr ago
-26
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tutor
> Tutor: a *teacher* who teaches a student outside school, especially in order to give them extra help with a subject they find difficult
Seems he fits the definition. Unless you're arguing California accreditation is the be all and end all criteria for what constitutes a teacher
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Dry_Werewolf_15977 hr ago
+1
The headline states California teacher. This implies a specific professional and legal designation. California actually licenses and credentials its teachers through the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. When you say someone “worked as a California teacher,” you’re invoking that specific institutional identity, not the broad dictionary sense of “one who teaches.”
By your logic, someone who gives their friend driving tips “worked as a California driving instructor.” The dictionary supports it, but that’s not how language actually functions in the real world..
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sharkbait-oo-haha7 hr ago
+1
By this dumbasses definition every California YouTube who has every stated a educational fact is a "Californian teacher"
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Portland-7 hr ago
+9
Going around calling yourself a teacher when you're a tutor is some Peggy Hill embellishment and you know it
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sargentcole7 hr ago
-15
Idk the definition seems pretty cut and dry to me. A tutor is a type of teacher.
Go petition the dictionary to change the definition if you don't like it
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ripyourlungsdave8 hr ago
+6
And I'm a nuclear physicist.
Are you convinced?..
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troyboy759 hr ago
-131
Literally teaching children. You’re pushing goal posts to defend this deranged freak.
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3MinuteHero9 hr ago
+58
Nobody calls tutors teachers.
When most people hear teacher, they think at person standing in front of a classroom full of children, designing lessons, and more of less shepherding them through age appropriate education for about 9 months or so.
They don't think about your neighbor's high school senior who you give $50 bucks to so they can teach your kid algebra. You f****** tool.
It's a defense of the truth and honesty, not of this criminal. Crazy you're getting that mixed up.
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O_PLUTO_O8 hr ago
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Why is your profile pic so apt to how dumb you are?
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3MinuteHero8 hr ago
+12
It's giving "sandwich artist"
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Snakend8 hr ago
+8
Yup, standard embellishment on linkedin.
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IvetRockbottom9 hr ago
+82
Tutor does not equal teacher. You were handed tests face down in school a lot, weren't you?
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bb0yer9 hr ago
+35
Damn lmao
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DookieShoez9 hr ago
+32
I taught a 5 year old how to put a quarter into a gumball machine, would you call me a teacher?
They’re obviously talking about professional titles. A tutor is not a teacher.
Next time you see a school bus just hop on lol.
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DookieShoez8 hr ago
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If he’s a teacher he’s a teacher. I didn’t say he was or wasn’t, I said a tutor is not the same thing as a teacher.
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grey_hat_uk9 hr ago
+18
Defend? If anything they are throwing in insults.
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CheckIf_ItsPluggedIn8 hr ago
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Clarification of profession is not a defense. Also remember the Trumpstien-files and a particular child rapist orange piece of shit?
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kraftdinnerwithsalsa8 hr ago
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Spamming this isn’t helping like at all
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SwarmOBeez9 hr ago
+58
He was not. To be a public school teacher in California you obtaina credential from the state. You can be a tutor without that. They are not the same thing.
The headline was clearly written to evoke an image of someone spending their days standing in front of a classroom of students in a school. A tutor at a exam prep company is not the same thing at all.
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O_PLUTO_O8 hr ago
+20
Troll/bot account
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LeastHornySatyr8 hr ago
+25
Bro's spammed the same quote from the article 5 times now as if it's a massive W. Either a bot or too stupid to be allowed to speak
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Gostaverling10 hr ago
+195
So guy has a Mechanical Engineering degree from California Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Computer Programming, but works as a test tutor? Perhaps he went back to get his masters and to make his video game and needed some extra money that wasn’t tied to a 9-5?
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DawnSennin8 hr ago
+61
> but works as a test tutor?
Don't underestimate this economy.
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zack770708 hr ago
+37
CS degree in 2025, my first thought was yeah he's probably unemployed right now lol
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Ok-Progress-74477 hr ago
+1
Lol a computer science degree isn’t worth wasting the ink from the toner cartridge to print nowadays.
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SnooDogs134010 hr ago
+127
I'm extremely skeptical because this person sounds like a mad lib of what you would ask for woke assassin. But some people are crazy
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txkwatch8 hr ago
+5
He probably wanted to escape the student loans
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txkwatch9 hr ago
+58
Dudes game looks pretty lame but he had the most concurrent players today (22) so I guess that's one way to get people interested?
Like f****** clock work. FOMO as folks rush to make the same jokes everyone has already thought of.
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GrandfatherBreath9 hr ago
+89
Honestly the amount of dumb shit coming out of the States has desensitized me to the attempt, and the identity of the "shooter". I don't care if he was a furry trans left or some low IQ inbred MAGA on the right, who f****** cares. Country is fucked either way.
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IsThisKismet9 hr ago
+57
Unlikely a furry trans left as it’s Anime Weekend Atlanta.
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Haluux8 hr ago
+2
Its always Atlanta. Thats one freaky ass city.
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xxdropdeadlexi7 hr ago
+1
woah woah woah, the furry convention is *always* in Pittsburgh
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AllicinCarbonUV7 hr ago
+1
Thank God I'm not the only one who has been desensitised by all the dumb sh\*t coming out of the US.
I felt nothing after I heard about this incident. All I could think about is President Dr Jesus milking this.
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BoosterRead787 hr ago
+1
Miller hid behind his pregnant wife while leaving and Usha was basically leaving on her own.
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Ok-Progress-74477 hr ago
+1
Serious question: Is anyone buying this shit? I would think security would be tighter given the multiple previous assassination attempts. Also, a room full of journalists AND NOT ONE OF THEM HAS THE SCOOP ON THIS SHIT?
Can we just turn this f****** country into a Spirit Halloween already?
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June_Fatality10 hr ago
+68
A lot of aspiring actors do come from California. And this is all bullshit.
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billybud778 hr ago
+4
An actor you say? One of those “ paid actors” I believe.
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KulaanDoDinok9 hr ago
+25
Hidden post and comment history, troll PFP. Go home Russian bot.
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axxl759 hr ago
+32
It’s either staged or it’s massive incompetence by the security team. Neither are good looks.
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Irish6189 hr ago
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>or it’s massive incompetence by the security team.
The security team that stopped him within like 20 feet of the entrance?
Dude ran from a publicly accessible area, past the metal detectors, and was immediately stopped. Not sure how much better they physically could have done in this situation.
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axxl759 hr ago
+5
The publicly accessible area that was closed to the public 6 hours before the event you mean?
The guy got through because he was staying at the hotel and they didn't think it necessary to vet any of these people or prevent their access. He ran through after they started dismantling the checkpoint despite the event still going on.
Ultimately yeah nothing bad happened but it shouldn't even have been that close. They didn't seem to think a hotel guest who they hadn't checked out may be a security risk?
It's also obviously hard to believe anything the administration says at this point. The first assassination attempt where trumps ear magically grew back and his security team ushered photographers over to a lowering flag while the team on stage let him stay for a photo op kinda disillusioned people to the whole thing.
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Irish6189 hr ago
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>The publicly accessible area that was closed to the public 6 hours before the event you mean?
No, the publicly accessible area that remained publicly accessible. The area that was closed to the public was the area *past* the security checkpoint.
>He ran through after they started dismantling the checkpoint despite the event still going on.
Not sure where you got this, theres been no talk of it and the video clearly shows an intact security checkpoint.
>Ultimately yeah nothing bad happened but it shouldn't even have been that close.
It wasn't all that close.
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axxl758 hr ago
+2
The hotel lobby was closed to the public. Thats why protesters had to stay outside in the rain.
The lobby was still accessible to hotel guests. But why was that contingency not thought about?
[Washington Post reported about the security checkpoint](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-security/f17d5afc-412d-11f1-bb46-ed564688d953_story.html) and also multiple sources cite that he made it past multiple checkpoints.
I didn’t say he got close, I said he got closer than he should’ve. With unvetted guests staying at the hotel, it’s wild that the teams weren’t constantly aware of the possibility someone could go charging through. Yeah in this case it wasn’t a huge deal. What if the guy had a bomb though? It was an incomprehensible security breach that ended up fine.
They would’ve certainly checked the hotel guest list and found people on there that weren’t guests of the dinner. In any normal situation you vet those unknowns. Usually security teams sweep any rooms for explosives etc. in an instance where VVIPs like that are present. If there was some legal reason why they couldn’t access this guys room (which I doubt overrides “national security”) then they go into the night knowing there’s a guest who has access to the lobby (and other dinner guests as they come in) who they haven’t vetted. You go into that situation with a contingency plan for just that scenario. And it still happened.
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TheOverBoss9 hr ago
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imo, the secret service are probably just exhausted by Trump and might just be apathetic to danger because being around him is so depressing.
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allnadream9 hr ago
+9
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but Trump dying is objectively bad for Democrats. If something happened to Trump, the Republican party gets a sympathy boost in the midterms and the party falls in line behind Vance (who otherwise is not very popular).
The Democratic party is much better off, if Trump lives to finish his term and we get 100 more videos of him falling asleep during press releases.
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Fuzzylumpkins12348 hr ago
+15
False flag straight from the Russian playbook. Orban tried it right before his failed election.
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Mean-Quail-62198 hr ago
+14
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro did too.
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LeastHornySatyr8 hr ago
+10
Well yeah. The last time someone "tried" it was an obvious false flag - Even MAGA agrees on that point now. Shitler had to try again so he could drum up support from the fascist fanbase that's starting to turn on him.
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Extreme-Direction-7810 hr ago
+23
Imagine having to protect and put your life on the line for a traitor criminal rapist who in return hates you! This county is cooked
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mikejones847 hr ago
+9
Seriously, how many times does the orange one think we are going to fall for this?
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zwaaa8 hr ago
+4
As a teacher of 32 years experience. This person was not a teacher.
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Dwayla10 hr ago
+12
I wonder if anybody, even MAGA are buying this..
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allaboutthatbass8510 hr ago
+37
They are. People in a cult believe everything their leader say.
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Peakomegaflare7 hr ago
+1
There's a troll in here reposting the same paragraph and another dude claiming he was a full-fledged teacher. This was definitely yet another "attack" that is timed perfectly within the bounds of trying to distract from Epstein and the new war.
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mitchthaman8 hr ago
+3
Anything to attack unions
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fairportmtg17 hr ago
+1
Whitehouse corespondents dinner hoax
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333H_E7 hr ago
+1
A minute ago I saw he was an engineer.
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Rule12-b-610 hr ago
-68
You conspiracy theorists are no better than election deniers.
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ScrewAttackThis10 hr ago
+51
Shit, are they invading the capitol looking to kill the VP?
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froman-dizze10 hr ago
+22
If a vocal majority of us are just so defeated by this administration that we can’t even believe the f***** was in actual danger I think that says more about the lies they try to sell us than our state of mind. I think the sooner y’all realize that the sooner y’all get stop performing like you have a high horse to ride around on.
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dooglegood7 hr ago
-1
For me personally I just don’t care
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jaspersgroove7 hr ago
+1
If these weren’t planned stunts he’d be dead by now.
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sunken_pantry10 hr ago
-42
Wild how every time something like this happens we learn the person worked in schools or law enforcement. Maybe it’s time “ongoing mental health screening” meant more than a checkbox on HR forms.
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Tholaran978 hr ago
+6
Good luck getting this government to start taking mental health seriously.
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