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Maybe suicide should be encouraged for certain individuals. "Have you considered fucking off a tad and slitting your own throat and not involving innocent people into your confusion?" It would be a tricky public messaging campaign. "Maybe just kindly fuck off and stab yourself?" It would take awhile to get the wording right.

I feel bad for wishing that guy would have shot him in the foot or the thigh. A little frustrating that the stabber was coherent enough to comply with the threat of a gun being pointed at him. So not a full on blackout rampage of psychotic spiral. What's the line between mental health issues and just being a deranged, vainglorious shithead who deserves a mob beating? 

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Dude in purple couldn't be bothered to put down his cigar and kept approaching the line of fire. 

I'm glad they stopped this guy, truly, but nuance matters. Maybe your cigar should be prioritized behind the ability to use your other hand when approaching at guy with a knife. It's one thing to bring a knife to a gun fight, its another to get in the middle of one... with a cigar. 

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"Amber Paull, another shopper, described the assailant as a foreign man who “just lost it” and began randomly attacking people in the produce and grocery section. "


^^From the news site that had the video and initial story.  I'd link to it but it's about the shittiest news site you can have with regards to pop up ads. Links in the tweet.

 

Follow up tweet with suspect name and picture 

 


Not seeing how this dude looks foreign. Not really trying to start a debate on it, just thought it was interesting. I read her comment and was like uh he didn't look middle eastern in the video and had to think about my own biases in thinking that.

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5 hours ago, Chooky said:

Maybe suicide should be encouraged for certain individuals. "Have you considered fucking off a tad and slitting your own throat and not involving innocent people into your confusion?" It would be a tricky public messaging campaign. "Maybe just kindly fuck off and stab yourself?" It would take awhile to get the wording right.

I feel bad for wishing that guy would have shot him in the foot or the thigh. A little frustrating that the stabber was coherent enough to comply with the threat of a gun being pointed at him. So not a full on blackout rampage of psychotic spiral. What's the line between mental health issues and just being a deranged, vainglorious shithead who deserves a mob beating? 

White Americans statistically commit suicide at higher rates than other races of Americans. These leaders want white people to have more kids, not off themselves in greater numbers. 

Would be a good underground psy ops social media campaign.

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5 hours ago, Macanudo said:

Along with bro holding his gun wrong.   

Who was also WAY too close to that guy.

Just grab the crowbar from the back of your pickup and beat him until he drops the knife.  Let's not overthink this.

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2 hours ago, Covri said:

"Amber Paull, another shopper, described the assailant as a foreign man who “just lost it” and began randomly attacking people in the produce and grocery section. "


^^From the news site that had the video and initial story.  I'd link to it but it's about the shittiest news site you can have with regards to pop up ads. Links in the tweet.

 

Follow up tweet with suspect name and picture 

 


Not seeing how this dude looks foreign. Not really trying to start a debate on it, just thought it was interesting. I read her comment and was like uh he didn't look middle eastern in the video and had to think about my own biases in thinking that.

Maybe she mistook him for a Klingon?

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It's a weird one. Traverse City is an outlier in Northern Michigan. It's a resort town, probably one of the most picture-esque and desirable places to be in summertime in the State. The town and the immediate surrounding areas are progressive. Mayor Pete lives there. It is surrounded by poverty, hillbilly country with, um, polar opposite demographics and politics. Actually Walmart is kind of out of place for TC. Hope this dude just lost his mind and this wasn't ideological based. 

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26 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

racist comedy central GIF

 

 

 

My buddy lives in Michigan.  He said it's more racist than the south.

I meant, in this timeline Burr killed Hamilton. Your memories might be coming from a different timeline where Sinbad played a genie in the movie Shazam which doesn't exist in our timeline.

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13 hours ago, Da Fino said:

He should have just shot him. The bad guy fucked up so many lives today. 

And get sued by the perps family in a civil trial, no thanks.  Guy did good, albeit he was too close and holding the gun a little weird.  Easy to armchair critique, but I bet his adrenaline was through the roof and he held it together.  

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21 hours ago, Parliament said:

Who was also WAY too close to that guy.

Just grab the crowbar from the back of your pickup and beat him until he drops the knife.  Let's not overthink this.

I should get a crowbar.....

 

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On 7/27/2025 at 11:10 AM, Chooky said:

Maybe suicide should be encouraged for certain individuals. "Have you considered fucking off a tad and slitting your own throat and not involving innocent people into your confusion?" It would be a tricky public messaging campaign. "Maybe just kindly fuck off and stab yourself?" It would take awhile to get the wording right.

I feel bad for wishing that guy would have shot him in the foot or the thigh. A little frustrating that the stabber was coherent enough to comply with the threat of a gun being pointed at him. So not a full on blackout rampage of psychotic spiral. What's the line between mental health issues and just being a deranged, vainglorious shithead who deserves a mob beating? 

 

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The guy had an extensive criminal background including mutilation of corpses.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/traverse-city-stabbing-suspect-had-decades-long-mental-health-struggles-criminal-history
 

Recidivism is one of those things that is absolutely radicalizing.  A small amount of people account for an insane amount of overall crime.  For example, in NYC just over 300 people accounted for 1/3 of shoplifting arrests (over 6000) in 2023. 
 

“Three strikes laws” have gotten a fairly bad rap but we could implement like an 8 strike law and achieve a similar effect of a drop in crime. I would absolutely vote for a ballot initiative to incarcerate each of those 300 people for life if I was a New Yorker. We should focus on rehab and release only for people with 1-2 offenses. Different prisons, different interventions, everything. Over five should mean you’re gone forever. 

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On 7/27/2025 at 12:10 PM, Chooky said:

Maybe suicide should be encouraged for certain individuals. "Have you considered fucking off a tad and slitting your own throat and not involving innocent people into your confusion?" It would be a tricky public messaging campaign. "Maybe just kindly fuck off and stab yourself?" It would take awhile to get the wording right.

I feel bad for wishing that guy would have shot him in the foot or the thigh. A little frustrating that the stabber was coherent enough to comply with the threat of a gun being pointed at him. So not a full on blackout rampage of psychotic spiral. What's the line between mental health issues and just being a deranged, vainglorious shithead who deserves a mob beating? 

I live in a large city and take public transport most days, and it is one that has its fair share of “mental health” problems on the streets.  One thing that is striking is how rarely the people suffering from mental health issues choose to harass healthy adult men. 

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6 hours ago, Hard Times said:

I've been to Traverse City. If I had to live there I might go insane too.

Genuinely curious where this is coming from. I think it's a pretty great little gem. I'm not sure I could live there, either. 

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7 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

And get sued by the perps family in a civil trial, no thanks.  Guy did good, albeit he was too close and holding the gun a little weird.  Easy to armchair critique, but I bet his adrenaline was through the roof and he held it together.  

How about a compromise of shooting him in the nuts and simultaneously disarming him and removing him from the gene pool?

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On 7/27/2025 at 10:44 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

racist comedy central GIF

 

 

 

My buddy lives in Michigan.  He said it's more racist than the south.

My kid is doing an internship at UM this summer. He said the number of Confederate flags he’s seen up there is shocking. 

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9 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

My kid is doing an internship at UM this summer. He said the number of Confederate flags he’s seen up there is shocking. 

I didn't say that the first time, but eyeroll at both of these posts. I live in Ann Arbor and haven't seen a confederate flag in years, except for a couple times when some yahoo with a lifted truck tries to make a point. And my ex-wife is black/kids mixed, it's something she/they or I would have noticed and talked about. Not but 3(?) in the 6 years I've lived here, and all of us are out and about quite a bit.

Now, downriver, the Howell area, and West Michigan can be racist AF. Most of the state outside of that is pretty rural and "everyone leave me alone and stay away," which includes minorities, people from downstate, people from out of state, gubmint people, etc. I wouldn't categorize that as racist, just misanthropic. To label it as racist or the area as racist is just ignorant armchair quarterbacking (or basing on small sample size anecdote) from distance.

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11 minutes ago, choripan said:

I didn't say that the first time, but eyeroll at both of these posts. I live in Ann Arbor and haven't seen a confederate flag in years, except for a couple times when some yahoo with a lifted truck tries to make a point. And my ex-wife is black/kids mixed, it's something she/they or I would have noticed and talked about. Not but 3(?) in the 6 years I've lived here, and all of us are out and about quite a bit.

Now, downriver, the Howell area, and West Michigan can be racist AF. Most of the state outside of that is pretty rural and "everyone leave me alone and stay away," which includes minorities, people from downstate, people from out of state, gubmint people, etc. I wouldn't categorize that as racist, just misanthropic. To label it as racist or the area as racist is just ignorant armchair quarterbacking (or basing on small sample size anecdote) from distance.

Ann arbor is the Austin of Michigan. My friend lived in Plymouth and Ypsilanti, parents lived there.   

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9 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

Genuinely curious where this is coming from. I think it's a pretty great little gem. I'm not sure I could live there, either. 

Well, it reminded me of Cleveland, only worse.

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