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April 19 is a red day in U.S. history across multiple generations...
Posted on 4/19/26 at 6:43 am
Posted on 4/19/26 at 6:43 am
April 19, 1775 - The beginning of the American Revolution saw first blood between the colonists and British at Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1861 - Saw first blood in the American Civil War between Union soldiers and pro-Confederate rioters during the Baltimore Riots.
April 19, 1993 - Saw the end of the Waco siege between the ATF/FBI and the Branch Davidians. Men, women, and children were killed en masse that day.
April 19, 1995 - Saw Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in American history.
April 19, 1861 - Saw first blood in the American Civil War between Union soldiers and pro-Confederate rioters during the Baltimore Riots.
April 19, 1993 - Saw the end of the Waco siege between the ATF/FBI and the Branch Davidians. Men, women, and children were killed en masse that day.
April 19, 1995 - Saw Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in American history.
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Posted on 4/19/26 at 6:47 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 4/19/26 at 6:56 am to RollTide1987
The 20th isn't much better.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 7:00 am to BunkieWrench
I was talking with a 27 year old guy a while back and I had to explain what happened at Columbine. He had never heard the name Columbine in his life.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 7:35 am to sledgehammer
I have relatives that fought in the first two 
This post was edited on 4/19/26 at 7:36 am
Posted on 4/19/26 at 8:00 am to RollTide1987
Well, the last one was not a coincidence; McVeigh intentionally did the bombing on the anniversary of the Waco/Branch Davidian event.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 8:04 am to sledgehammer
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I was talking with a 27 year old guy a while back and I had to explain what happened at Columbine. He had never heard the name Columbine in his life.
Probably for the best.
For some damn reason, too many kids read about Columbine and decide to imitate the nihilistic murderous vengeful rampage of those two idiot disaffected shite stains.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 8:07 am to RollTide1987
Across Five Aprils is a great book about the Civil War. All I got.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 8:53 am to BunkieWrench
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The 20th isn't much better.
Columbine and deep water horizon
Posted on 4/19/26 at 8:56 am to Jimbeaux
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For some damn reason, too many kids read about Columbine and decide to imitate the nihilistic murderous vengeful rampage of those two idiot disaffected shite stains.
It's really rather odd how prior to Columbine, with waaaaaay more lax gun laws, these types of things were unheard of.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 8:59 am to BunkieWrench
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The 20th isn't much better.
Lots of baking and Taco Bell
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:05 am to RollTide1987
Spring thaw. People sit around all winter pounding booze and stewing on whatever they're pissed about, then let it fly as soon as the sun comes out. 
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:16 am to UnitedFruitCompany
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Across Five Aprils is a great book about the Civil War. All I got.
Never read this. Will check out. Thanks for the rec
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:17 am to Centinel
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It's really rather odd how prior to Columbine, with waaaaaay more lax gun laws, these types of things were unheard of.
There have been many theories postulated as to why this is the case but I have yet to hear one that’s very compelling.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:19 am to UnitedFruitCompany
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Across Five Aprils is a great book
Great book
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:56 am to RollTide1987
quote:The act of carrying out a school shooting became a meme in the original sense of the word: an idea that is culturally transmitted, or a unit of imitation and replication.
There have been many theories postulated as to why this is the case but I have yet to hear one that’s very compelling.
It was always possible to carry out school shootings before Columbine. In that sense, everyone who says "Back in my day, we used to drive to school with rifles in the gun racks of our trucks and nobody cared" is correct. It was possible, and a few attacks on schools had already happened, but the mental concept of a school shooting as a grandiose way to kill yourself while taking revenge on specific people and/or society in general didn't exist yet. That meme originated around the time of Columbine due to the massive media coverage and public attention drawn to those events. Now, people who want to end their lives while taking a form of revenge on society immediately think of shooting up a school as the way to do that.
Regardless of what you think about the Luigi Mangione case, I'd say there's a decent chance that those types of targeted killings will become a similar meme if his trial gathers enough publicity, which it almost certainly will if he doesn't plea bargain (or especially if he goes free due to repeated jury nullification).
Posted on 4/19/26 at 10:08 am to Chuck Barris
Good post.
Add to this the fact that both intentionally by some and unknowingly by others, the “demoralization” of society, as Bezmenov described it, or the radicalization through critical consciousness as the neoMarxists describe it, has spread through our society and left people bereft of meaning and purpose in their lives.
Add to this the fact that both intentionally by some and unknowingly by others, the “demoralization” of society, as Bezmenov described it, or the radicalization through critical consciousness as the neoMarxists describe it, has spread through our society and left people bereft of meaning and purpose in their lives.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 11:36 am to RollTide1987
4/20 eve
Posted on 4/19/26 at 11:37 am to Bayou
I have ancestors that fought on both sides of the American Revolution. And interestingly the descendants of the loyalists didn’t leave America when they lost. It seems many did, going to Canada or the Bahamas usually.
Posted on 4/19/26 at 12:18 pm to UnitedFruitCompany
quote:Never heard of it … adding it to the queue.
Across Five Aprils is a great book about the Civil War. All I got.
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