Meanwhile, Texas cops say no evidence of a hate crime.
As if the whole country isn’t tacitly approving of this by embracing hate and apathy.
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There on fucking statement makes it clear it was a hate crime [ Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation," SAPD said on X.] If he had his house burn down and murder because he was gay THAT IS A FUCKING HATE CRIME!!! Fuck that police department ACAB.
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The only good Republican is a dead Republican.
This is fucking crazy… How’s this NOT a hate crime? Did the fucking perp say “it’s not a hate crime cuz i loved doing it” and they said “fair enough?” Wtaf
Ohhhh…this provides much needed context & clarity that I didn’t have before. When I hear there’s been a ‘shooting’ in America, while this is technically correct, I don’t think it’s one person shooting another. I hear ‘shooting’, and I think one or more shooters/multiple targets/largely indiscriminate just one group vs another.
By all accounts, this is very discriminatory & targeted. Obviously. I would word it as “Jonathan Joss murdered”, then explain he was gunned down by a deranged homophobe.
Until just now, I genuinely assumed Mr. Joss got caught up in a mall or gang shooting. This is especially tragic & inexcusable, such targeted hatred.
Tbh, most “shootings” in America aren’t active shooter events in the way you expect. Most are targeted and related to other crime (be it robbery, revenge, domestic assault, etc), some fit the definition of mass shooting (4 or more shot incl shooter) but it’s gang/crime/drug related and often in those cases a bystander or two, more fall in that category than random mass shooter events by an order of magnitude.
The mass/school shootings you imagine are actually incredibly rare statistically, something like 0.00094% last time I checked. In fact even most “school shootings” are the same, with one or no people injured, and targeted. Or even accidental discharge with no injury by the school cop or a suicide in a recently shut down forever school at 3am in a car in the parking lot (real events counted in everytown’s school shootings numbers a few years ago).
Hate crimes are for sure more common, actually.
God fucking damn it. I am so sick of this shit.
Texas, the Islamic State of America
The entire US of A was founded on slavery and indigenous genocide. Not just the hillbilly bumpkin parts, not just the ones that vote for the party you don’t like. And Muslims carry none of the blame for that, neither do the indigenous people (like the victim here) or other POC that live in the red states yet get cast out to die whenever smarmy liberals decide to score some points by dunking on their fellow settlers.
Ah yes christian terrorism, very islamic.
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I mean whats a little islamophobia if we’re insulting the bad people
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American Taliban
“Y’all-Qaeda” was never a joke, but a very fitting name for these religious lunatics.
They should just keep to polishing their suvs vigorously when they get “impure” thoughts.
What are we a bunch of muslims???
Can’t use that as a slur anymore.
The US proxy is whitewashed, just as the Taliban was when they could use them.
Jonathan Joss 15m
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss
My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.
Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.
When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.
While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.
Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.
Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.
He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.
To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.
My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.
If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.
Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.
Tristan Kern de Gonzales
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They are watching you.
This is PROOF that Cops PROTECT people and that GAYS are the Problem and NOT the people who LITERALLY MURDERED SOMEONE FOR BEING GAY AFTER THE COPS KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN BUT CHOSE TO IGNORE IT!
This is fucking horrible.
i am hot with rage actually
Whataboutism
Ah yes, your instance pioneered that. very cool
Oh yeah, like when all we voted for a genocide because “whatabout orange guy”
Lol, keep trying
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What’s the point of this non sequitur
What’s the point of your instance? Defed post haste
Buddy, you’re on lemm.ee. The entire point of your instance is to be federated with everyone else. If you don’t like that there’s communists on the social app built by communists, why don’t you just use any other instance? Or just go back to reddit?
I ain’t your buddy.
i just dislike authoritarians: basically your entire instance; you included.
Any other commie, idk, i’d even say i like some of them. Anarcho commies are dope. Commies that bring the tanks out, not so much.
also, why don’t YOU go back to your hexbear sanctioned community instead of telling me what the fuck to do?
note: i’m done. this derailed completely off topic
yeah, you are done. your posts were so low in quality that your instance is shutting down.
you did this.
i just dislike authoritarians
Yeah I love political ideologies, I just hate the ones that do anything (very serious)
Commies that bring the tanks out, not so much
That’s true af dude, we would definitely live in a better world right now if the USSR had just allowed Hitler to march through all of Europe and kill everyone. And we would live in an even better world if after pushing out the Japanese imperialists and the nationalists, Mao had just said “uhh the state is an oppressive institution so I think now we’ll just dismantle everything and y’all can just organize horizontally or whatever.”
also, why don’t YOU go back to your hexbear sanctioned community instead of telling me what the fuck to do?
You’re the one who’s jumping on us Hexbear users just for participating here and telling us to defed…
There it is. The post that ended an entire instance.
I’ve learned more about homophobia in Russia and China from hexbear posts because they actually have solid sources and not just Wikipedia links posted with no context, and from what I’ve seen it’s a rare hexbear that would deny there is a problem with homophobia in Russia.
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I’m sure Jonathan would have been thrilled to know his death was somehow nicer, more civilised as compared to that of queer folks in Russia
that’s not what this is about and you know it. Defed post haste
Why bother when in a month your instance is going to defed itself from existence
What the fuck
i actively avoid texas whenever i have to drive cross country. i’ve gone as much as 4 hours out of my way. every time they threaten to secede i hope TO GOD they go through with it.
So many of our current problems could have been solved by expelling Texas fifty years ago
Have the assailants been arrested or revenged? Some good guy with a gun gonna kill these criminals?
If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.
I don’t even want to know what this part is in response to.
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I’m sorry you’ve had to experience that.
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Sounds like they were gangstalked.
