Fifty Shades of Whey@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social |
a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with
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Fifty Shades of Whey@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social |
a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with
73 replies 228 reposts 1175 likes
Lolo Upstart
@foxymoxie.bsky.social
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Well, at least they're consistent with that passive voice thang.
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Taka Hanazawa
@takahanazawa.bsky.social
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Lmao Community notes remains the only good thing about Twitter
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BoulderSizedBoulder ✡️🏳️🌈🇺🇦
@rocksizedrock.bsky.social
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News "more cops died in the line of duty this year than in any previous year in the past decade" reality "cops refused to get vaccines and wear masks so a lot of them died from covid"
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Meat Sweats Enthusiast
@raulpudd.bsky.social
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“Bullet Intercepted Cop’s Body”
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Noodles
@ognoodlecup.bsky.social
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Behold. An argument against modern medicine.
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Feisty Kinglet
@handle.invalid
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Beware the use of passive voice.
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Lexi the Squirrel
@lexizone.bsky.social
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Gotta keep people fearing the growing crime rate. I mean look. Cops are getting shot.
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Sam Leibowitz
@samleibowitz.bsky.social
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An officer doubly involved shooting.
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BriteHope
@britehope.bsky.social
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According to headlines it's impossible for cops to fire guns.
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Alexander The SoSo
@theleakingpen.bsky.social
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He was so upset with that DOJ report that he just couldn't keep it in his pants long enough to find an innocent person to take it out on.
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One Who Walks Among the Dead
@anubisthejackal.bsky.social
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Bullets ... where do they even come from?!
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Rufus
@te-kanawa.bsky.social
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Dummy self-owns didn't quite make it. 🤣🤣
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡
@moxiest.art
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In the dick. He shot himself in the dick.
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WobblyCPA
@wobblycpa.bsky.social
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Cop shoots self in dick while asserting white property rights.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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officer-involved shooting
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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social
@nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social
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Cops don't kill people. Guns do.
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zaph
@actuallysrc.bsky.social
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gotta keep that propaganda flowing
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Camilla Pack-A-Bowl
@eddyedb.bsky.social
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I await the day a cops wife is charged with felony murder for his suicide when she escapes to a women's shelter
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Bsky Kreuger
@lammatic.hellthread.vet
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Wow I thought I was joking lmaoooo
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AnnieGTMD
@anniegt.bsky.social
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My favorite is when they say someone who died via homicide or suicide "passed away." Oh no they di'int. Trying to protect the tender feelings of the public from the harsh reality of the MFing times we're living in.
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Willie Jack's Favorite Uncle
@dandantransient.bsky.social
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They can never admit cops shot anyone
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King Squirtus
@droojayyy.bsky.social
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Guns don’t shoot people, people shoot people, unless the people are empowered by the state to do violence to themselves and others using guns. Then it’s definitely the guns not the people.
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John aka JGBPOV
@jgbpov.bsky.social
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Mainstream Media Propaganda 🙄
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AhOui
@mimilizetteouioui.bsky.social
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Well....Phoenix.....
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Sava
@unicorntickles.bsky.social
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The gun mysteriously came to life and shot that poor innocent cop. The gun is now on administrative leave pending investigation.
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russell frost
@russellfrost.bsky.social
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Interesting how, in some specific instances (anything involving a cop), the gun is at fault, not the operator.
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Minuit
@zoroark.ca
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They can't even be direct and honest about it when they shoot someone we don't care about.
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dangit, kyle
@dangitkyle.bsky.social
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he looked in a mirror and feared for his life
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civ - 🇵🇸 🕎 ☮️ - end the genocide now
@uncivil.bsky.social
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exonerative tense for the gun
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Bresnan - Remember Folks!: The Sun Sucks (and so do I)
@bresnanteddy.bsky.social
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The caption seemed the way to go. Accidentally discharged seems pretty accurate to me as I assume he wasn't trying to shoot himself.
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K____ B: new gender who dis
@wowcoolrobot.bsky.social
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passive tensing so hard rn
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Ariel Ruff
@arielruff.bsky.social
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Lol why do I get the feeling that if he was black it would read... "Officer sustained a gunshot wound at the hands of a black male this morning and was taken to the hospital. Shooter still free and has been involved in hundreds of arrests" 😆
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Baito
@beyondbaito.bsky.social
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That's like saying Budd Dwyer was "involved in a fatal firearms discharge event"
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Hermes Pissmegistus
@aleph.bsky.social
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the type of “officer-involved shooting” i can get behind
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Joseph O
@josepho.bsky.social
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Probably because they don’t want to be murdered by the cops.
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👑 Tal👀la Sw👀n Batson™️ 🦋🤘🏻
@talulapi.bsky.social
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OMG!! OMG!!!! OMG!!! Hi Fifty!! I am so happy to see you 😆💙👊🏻
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Password123
@defaultvalue.bsky.social
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in a conflict between a cop and his own gun, the gun receives the benefit of cop tense.
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Blue Meme
@bluememe.bsky.social
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“Officer-involved shooting”
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Scotch Tape Gaming
@therealscotchtape.bsky.social
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I live in Phx metro, this is par for the course. All Phx PD are dishonest thugs who have zero accountability or training.
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@pouncingbullfrog.bsky.social
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They're covering up the cop shortage. Most cities are working cops to death and they don't want you to realize that they have low morale and may well crack under pressure
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Ali Fleih
@alifleih.bsky.social
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The last thing that would be on my mind after reading such a headline is that they accidentally shot themselves.
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Pablo
@scottsd.bsky.social
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Next level cop tense.
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Planet Sandwich
@planetsandwich.bsky.social
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Blame Tag 🏷️
@blametag.bsky.social
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Passive voice or GTFO!
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jeek
@jeek.bsky.social
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An officer-involved shooting where nobody was involved other than the officer.
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Wulfspyder
@wulfspyder.bsky.social
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Technically not wrong, but certainly not right.
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King-free America
@belladonna406.bsky.social
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They left out some info.
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love & barley 🦉
@loveandbarley.bsky.social
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Gun shoots cop that cop is holding
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@relaxedninja.bsky.social
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cop tents
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Socyclist 🚴
@socyclist.bsky.social
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There are people who read this, and immediately envisioned a black or brown person shooting a cop.
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Aji LaStrange
@ajilastrange.bsky.social
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🤡🤡🤡
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Boli
@shiftbreak.bsky.social
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was there no good-guy-with-a-gun nearby that could have prevented this tragedy?
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PolyChrome
@jenstone.bsky.social
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Another masterpiece of passive voice 😶
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Stationkeeper
@signalthirteen.bsky.social
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The death penalty is deserved by the passive voice for its crimes.
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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If reporters don't report exactly what the police want them to report then the police won't talk to reporters about stories then what are reporters supposed to do? Find out what happened by asking others and looking around and doing reporter stuff like it's a job or something??!
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BeefReeferLives
@beefreeferlives.bsky.social
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Hey, as long as a cop got shot, it's all good. Just remember folks, guns don't shoot people, cops shoot people.
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thief | guy 🇳🇿
@thief-gold.bsky.social
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Actual bullet? Not an acorn this time? They are dangerous, you know.
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Роберт
@mrhyperpcs.bsky.social
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Self inflicted was too many characters maybe???🤔
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That Harp Guy
@thatharpguy.bsky.social
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Everything sounds "less dumb" in the passive voice, right? RIGHT?!? </sarcasm>
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MV
@suzerain.bsky.social
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The power of the passive voice.
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@roudy1.bsky.social
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i think they are waiting for the official version instead of saying possible a cop shot himself we are waiting verification
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Doug Moffett
@liberallibra.bsky.social
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How about: IDIOT COP BLOWS BRAINS OUT WHILE PLAYING WITH HIMSELF?
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Chris Doyon
@nilbog3000.bsky.social
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Important reminder that in order to passively sustain a gunshot wound with your own gun you need to be actively doing two very, very stupid things at the same time: having the safety off and having your finger on the trigger
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Chris Doyon
@nilbog3000.bsky.social
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Reading how a cop oopsie shot his “lower torso region” off gives me tingles in my “lower torso region”
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brad
@bradiscranky.bsky.social
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the recursive passive tense
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Local Oaf
@snackalgorithm.bsky.social
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Arizona first responders love shooting themselves.
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/phoenix...
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Pez
@pezt.bsky.social
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find you someone who loves you as much as the press loves using passive voice about police officers shooting people
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@ddhneipa.bsky.social
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Cops always get the passive voice from the news media.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Ahhhh youre here finally!!
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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😂
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max
@itsmaxinee.bsky.social
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"I just fucking SHOT myself"
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Pine Affinity
@breed.bsky.social
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sustained
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Dusty fur collector
@dustyfur.bsky.social
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Wait. Is this another shooting or is this just more coverage of the stupid new cup a couple weeks ago(?) who dropped his gun when he was trying to put it away and it went off and shot him?
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