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[whiskybravo]

https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/horror-video-of-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutskas-slaughter-on-charlotte-train-is-met-with-deafening-silence/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
 

Even when it happens in red states democrats own this problem.  Democrat politician and media indifference.  This Ukrainian refugee should have been safe in America.  Instead she was senselessly slaughtered from behind on a train.  

13 previous arrests.  Charlotte mayor: “We can’t arrest are way out of this problem.”  
 

Happened August 22.  Im just hearing about it today.  No national media coverage. Really? A refugee flees a war zone and is randomly murdered here.

Edited September 8, 2025 by whiskybravo

[Parsad]

13 hours ago, DooDiligence said:

I know it's fake, but really, isn't it just another prediction?

 

 

 

That was awesome!  LOL!  Cheers!

[Parsad]

9 hours ago, RichardGibbons said:

 

Thinking about it, the reason it is likely different is because I have two kids who are university age, and many of my friends work at various universities. At this point, I think universities are the most reliably racist places in Canada, so that's probably why I have been seeing it so much recently.

 

It could also be that most of your friends are progressives--progressives generally believe that certain types of racism are good. So, that type of racism is likely completely invisible to them. (Though when you say your friends are diverse, I suspect you probably mean diverse politically, too, which is why I think my first hypothesis is more likely.)

 

My best friend is hard-core MAGA...my uncle is a born-again Christian, hard-core MAGA...my other uncle is a Trump supporter, but not a born-again Christian.  

 

I have a number of nieces who are all in university...they are diverse (one is half-white, half Indian), another is Hindu-Sikh but of lighter skin, another is Hindu of darker skin, the last one is half Indian, half black going to school in the U.S.  None have reported any sort of racial discrimination or bullying.

 

I'm also very well connected to Simon Fraser University where half my family are students or Alumni, where a number of friends work, and I'm well-informed of what is happening there because of my contributions to the University Endowment.  Again, no significant increase in racism or DEI activities that have deprived potential faculty or students.  If it was that prevalent, there would be lawsuits and so far, there was just one lawsuit by an employee denied tenure he says because of his views on DEI...he lost the case in court. 

 

Not saying that racism doesn't exist...even that it isn't elevated...but any suggestion that is significantly higher doesn't match what me, my family and friends see.  Cheers!

 

 

[cubsfan]

7 hours ago, whiskybravo said:

https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/horror-video-of-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutskas-slaughter-on-charlotte-train-is-met-with-deafening-silence/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
 

Even when it happens in red states democrats own this problem.  Democrat politician and media indifference.  This Ukrainian refugee should have been safe in America.  Instead she was senselessly slaughtered from behind on a train.  

13 previous arrests.  Charlotte mayor: “We can’t arrest are way out of this problem.”  
 

Happened August 22.  Im just hearing about it today.  No national media coverage. Really? A refugee flees a war zone and is randomly murdered here.

 

A black killing a white is not the proper narrative for the mainstream news.

It doesn't fit in with the oppression Olympics.

[John Hjorth]

On 9/6/2025 at 5:25 PM, Spekulatius said:

We are playing offense now:

FWIW, renaming every institution is straight from the dictators handbook.

 

@Spekulatius,

 

-And certainly not in conflict with POTUS' schmooze for a peace prize, right  

[Sweet]

9 hours ago, whiskybravo said:

https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/horror-video-of-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutskas-slaughter-on-charlotte-train-is-met-with-deafening-silence/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
 

Even when it happens in red states democrats own this problem.  Democrat politician and media indifference.  This Ukrainian refugee should have been safe in America.  Instead she was senselessly slaughtered from behind on a train.  

13 previous arrests.  Charlotte mayor: “We can’t arrest are way out of this problem.”  
 

Happened August 22.  Im just hearing about it today.  No national media coverage. Really? A refugee flees a war zone and is randomly murdered here.

Pretty wild.  Saw some of the released video.  Anyone who does that (irrespective of race - as if that needs to be said) should face capital punishment.  I don’t care if they have a mental health disorder.

 

Capital punishment is maybe one of the few beliefs I have changed my view on slightly over time.  Used to be dead against it.  However where there is 100% proof - as in this case with video footage - just get rid of him.  Sorry.

[Gregmal]

Nah man, as long as the murders and violence are within the acceptable quotas they all good with it....

 

Should have a new slogan...Black Lives Matter*

 

 

 

*after accounting for the 55-60 weekend shootings deemed "reasonable" by location and ignoring any related collateral damage

[Sweet]

19 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Nah man, as long as the murders and violence are within the acceptable quotas they all good with it....

 

Should have a new slogan...Black Lives Matter*

 

 

 

*after accounting for the 55-60 weekend shootings deemed "reasonable" by location and ignoring any related collateral damage

Yep.  Fascism is not being tough on bad behaviour.

[DooDiligence]

1 hour ago, John Hjorth said:

 

@Spekulatius,

 

-And certainly not in conflict with POTUS' schmooze for a peace prize, right  

 

He's already gotten his creepy piece of underage ass prize(s)   

[Gamecock-YT]

14 hours ago, whiskybravo said:

https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/horror-video-of-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutskas-slaughter-on-charlotte-train-is-met-with-deafening-silence/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
 

Even when it happens in red states democrats own this problem.  Democrat politician and media indifference.  This Ukrainian refugee should have been safe in America.  Instead she was senselessly slaughtered from behind on a train.  

13 previous arrests.  Charlotte mayor: “We can’t arrest are way out of this problem.”  
 

Happened August 22.  Im just hearing about it today.  No national media coverage. Really? A refugee flees a war zone and is randomly murdered here.

 

because this is just a random murder and no one would care if the victim wasn't attractive and is just now getting picked up by the right wing blogs? I lived within walking distance of this station, could see it from my window, and took that train twice a day for years and I never felt unsafe once during that period. The pearl clutching going on now is reprehensible yet is par for the course. 

[changegonnacome]

I hope the MAGA folks are as supportive of AOC sending in the national guard to various states in the future.......my guess.....they'll cry blue murder about States rights and Federal overreach.

[Sweet]

7 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

I hope the MAGA folks are as supportive of AOC sending in the national guard to various states in the future.......my guess.....they'll cry blue murder about States rights and Federal overreach.

She’ll be sending them to Dem areas, for the most part, so I don’t think they’ll mind too much.

[Sweet]

14 minutes ago, Gamecock-YT said:

just a random murder and no one would care if

You’re highlighting a serious problem, but not the problem you think you’re highlighting.

[Gregmal]

4 minutes ago, Sweet said:

You’re highlighting a serious problem, but not the problem you think you’re highlighting.

Weird, I thought he was just making the point that since he rode the same train a long time ago that the crime doesnt count. 

[Gamecock-YT]

7 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Weird, I thought he was just making the point that since he rode the same train a long time ago that the crime doesnt count. 

 

It just so happens I'm in town right now. Do you want me to send you a photo from the train?

 

But since you are making that argument I guess we can disqualify whatever you say about your time in New York since you don't live there anymore. 

[Gregmal]

2 minutes ago, Gamecock-YT said:

 

It just so happens I'm in town right now. Do you want me to send you a photo from the train?

 

But since you are making that argument I guess we can disqualify whatever you say about your time in New York since you don't live there anymore. 

Yea that shithole ain’t my problem anymore. Prefer not to frequent places where vagrants with more arrests than one can count on one or two hands roam free in the name of……whatever it is they’re claiming to stand for

[Gamecock-YT]

24 minutes ago, Sweet said:

You’re highlighting a serious problem, but not the problem you think you’re highlighting.

 

It is also telling where you cut off my sentence at. 

[Sweet]

13 minutes ago, Gamecock-YT said:

 

It is also telling where you cut off my sentence at. 

No it’s not.  It tells you nothing.  You wrote the first sentence like - ‘oh just another random murder, nobody cares, yada yada… right wingers’.  Come on.

 

 

Edited September 8, 2025 by Sweet

[Gamecock-YT]

2 minutes ago, Sweet said:

No it’s not.  It tells you nothing.  You wrote the first sentence like - ‘oh just another random murder, nobody cares, yada yada… right wingers’.  Come on.

 

 

 

It tells me everything I need to know. No different than why some kidnapping stories get picked up by the national media and some don't. Sorry if that somehow offends or triggers you. 

[whiskybravo]

59 minutes ago, Gamecock-YT said:

 

because this is just a random murder and no one would care if the victim wasn't attractive and is just now getting picked up by the right wing blogs? I lived within walking distance of this station, could see it from my window, and took that train twice a day for years and I never felt unsafe once during that period. The pearl clutching going on now is reprehensible yet is par for the course. 

You’re misunderstanding the core of my point. This isn’t about “pearl clutching” or right-wing blogs; it’s about a refugee who fled war and was brutally killed in a supposedly safe U.S. city, with no meaningful national coverage, no outrage from media or political leaders, and a known repeat offender left free despite 13 prior arrests.

 

It shouldn’t matter whether the victim was attractive or not. That take is cynical and diminishes the value of a human life. The outrage is not performative.  It’s about the failure of a justice system that let a violent person roam free, and a media environment that seems to filter stories based on narrative fit rather than human cost.

 

If someone you knew had taken that same train every day and ended up dead at the hands of a repeat offender, would your tone be the same?

[Gamecock-YT]

Just now, whiskybravo said:

You’re misunderstanding the core of my point. This isn’t about “pearl clutching” or right-wing blogs

 

By sourcing a NY Post article, no less. If only Greg hadn't moved from New York we might have been able to ask him what political leaning that newspaper has.....

[Gamecock-YT]

3 minutes ago, whiskybravo said:

 it’s about a refugee who fled war and was brutally killed in a supposedly safe U.S. city, with no meaningful national coverage, no outrage from media or political leaders, and a known repeat offender left free despite 13 prior arrests.

 

It shouldn’t matter whether the victim was attractive or not. That take is cynical and diminishes the value of a human life. The outrage is not performative.  It’s about the failure of a justice system that let a violent person roam free, and a media environment that seems to filter stories based on narrative fit rather than human cost.

 

If someone you knew had taken that same train every day and ended up dead at the hands of a repeat offender, would your tone be the same?

 

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, whiskybravo said:

This isn’t about “pearl clutching”

 

[Gregmal]

A long time ago at a Country Club Donald Trump apparently boasted about owning the Libs and being capable of making them do anything. After some pushback, he stated "dont believe me? I can get them to do anything, you get three wishes".....

 

The first respondent said "fine, have them claim there are more than two genders after lecturing us about following the science". The second said "then, have them tell us Joe Biden is the sharpest president we've ever had"...and then third goes "after all that, make them defend violent crime"....

 

The stuff of legends indeed.....continues. 

[Sweet]

57 minutes ago, Gamecock-YT said:

 

It tells me everything I need to know. No different than why some kidnapping stories get picked up by the national media and some don't. Sorry if that somehow offends or triggers you. 

I’m not triggered, you’re just oblivious to the complete garbage you’re typing.

 

Jordan Neely died after being restrained on the NY subway by a white guy.  It was national news, there were protests and mainstream coverage of the trial.

Maybe you should reflect on why one gets MSM coverage and protests and the other… nothing… and also reflect on how you can be so wrong.

 

…”but it’s the right wingers”.

 

Edited September 8, 2025 by Sweet

[Gregmal]

Theres definitely some secret Lib formula hidden in some liberal arts college library book or something containing the conversion tables for these things. Black life taken by white person = 1000 lives. Black life taken by black 1/10 of a life. White life taken by white = 1/2 life, white life taken by black 1/1000 of a life. All colors in between dont count or probably got a TBD next to em. Also dont forget that "all lives" need the "reasonably acceptable killing figure adjustment" of 55.....truly crazy stuff.