There’s nothing awful about it. People are allowed to care whether they know what to say or not.

Really? For some people it’s the only way they can show their solidarity... Yeah, sometimes it feels like people are jumping on the bandwagon of whatever event, but if the bandwagon is to express sympathy and well wishes I really don’t see what’s so awful about that

Thanks. I kind of feel bad for going off on that dude/dudette but I was so angry at being condescended to about feeling grief for these 80 dead humans. Thanks for the kindness.

“It could be worse” is not an appropriate response in moments like these. You are allowed to grieve.

Hillary gets an automatic pass because if she doesn’t spout off every empty jingoistic/religious platitude, the right will somehow twist it into proof that she has lesbian sex with Satan or whatever.

This is in part thanks to the internet, where news is instantaneous skewed towards bads news getting the most attention.

Not everyone knows what to say. It won’t harm anyone to give the inarticulate a break.

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I just can’t. Between this, some asshole distributing KKK flyers in my neighborhood and scaring the shit out of people, and arguing with #AllLivesMatter idiot family members on Facebook, I am fucking out. The world seems beyond fixing tonight.

To be fair, Europe back in the 70s and 80s was not exactly a cakewalk either.

I’m pretty sure it is actually getting worse. I don’t know what to compare 2016 to, but it seems the world is in the worst shape it has been in in my lifetime.

I’ve been reading a lot of places that people think 2016 is already worse than 2015, but it wasn’t until today that I decided to hop on the bandwagon.

I’m overwhelmed. There has been no time in between to grieve.

Yup, it was a typo from a prior draft. Already been corrected — I have no idea why it showed up. Thanks for letting me know, though!

[Insert “old man yells at Kinja” GIF here.]

Goddam you guys. We had a friend over there with a bunch of her students. They were at the event, but they are okay. Scared the crap out of me while I sat and waited for a response.

And my heart breaks again at the violence we inflict upon each other.

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Cadaverchu I choose you