771
9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests
(www.9news.com.au)
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
771 points (99.4% liked)
News
30010 readers
4309 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Are we great again yet? Or do we need to be made great again again again and again?
Unpopular Opinion: Y'all were never great. The country had one brief period of some sanity before it got dropkicked out the door by Reagan. The only difference between the United States and Russia is good PR and even better propaganda. The United States is offensive to common sense and human decency on every fundamental level, from it's inception until today. Things are just more obvious now. That's the only difference.
Oh come on! At one point, through almost an accident of history, our country was still able to make things, build things, and pump out babies while the rest of the organized world had to reassemble their firebombed and nuked cities.
The US threw over 100,000 of its own citizens in concentration camps 60 years before Reagan was president. You're giving the man far too much credit.
You think the U.S. was great in the late 70? I guess if you were a straight white guy then of course.
Would you mind pointing out where I said that?
Go ahead.
I'll wait.
Well the brief period of time before Reagan was the late 70s... A truly horrific time for the U.S. but you seem to think it was a period of sanity.
They said, quoted verbatim:
Would you mind pointing out where I said that?
Go ahead.
I'll wait.
Actually, screw this. Let me just cut this off now so I can get on with my life.
The operative word in that sentence is the word SOME. Stop painting my opinions to be all or nothing, stop shoving words down my throat, and actually read what I have to say. I also did not specify the period I was talking about, only that Reagan drop kicked it out. You made an enormous amount of assumptions and pretended as if they were reality. They're not.
If you are curious next time, the correct thing to do is ask for elaboration or clarification.
Please stop wasting my time.
Near highest crime rate in u.s. history was "some" sanity? Wierd.
You're either a troll or literally incapable of understanding that "some" means certain things I pick, not you.
Whatever the reason, the outcome is the same.
...but you could pick any moment in history and it would have "some" sanity. So you effectively said nothing.
Come on… other than the eugenics movement the 20’s sound decent. Lots of nice art deco a few years later….
Take that with the mid 50’s though the late 70’s and you’re talking about a solid half century. It’s not a bad run given our assumed trajectory ;-)
I was always kind looking forward to seeing the dystopian wasteland phase.
Oh yeah, that beautiful time when white people could lynch someone of color and get away with it, such nice times.
Not like that's changed since then
I love how we can tell your skin colour and socioeconomic status from this comment
You seem to have forgotten the concentration camps FDR stuck 120,000 American citizens in between 1942 and 1946
Calm down kids, it’s called sarcasm.
That is an incredibly bad take. One so fundamentally poor, indeed obtuse, that this comment has to be filed under, " you've got to be fucking kidding me"
Don't expect a response from me. I won't waste time on stupidity.
You can refute it with some facts. No one is stopping you.
I'm no history scholar, but here's a quick run down:
Declare independence.
Kill most of the natives and relocate the rest off of their land to reserves.
Civil war (which, I think, was mainly about allowing the owning of slaves).
A brief time when things were ok?
The world wars happened. Which, in the second at least, the us initially wasn't interested about being involved with until Japan said "lol, no".
Another brief period of not bad?
Reagan. Haha, this was the bit in recent history where things get well iffy.
The Bushes and Clinton. Things continue to get fucked.
Obama. Which was 50/50 depending on which country you lived in.
Then it was the Orange Shitgibbon. Where the rest of the world though it couldn't get any worse.
Biden. Who refused to do fuck all tRUMP and his crimes or treachery. Plus all the genocide stuff.
To now, Orange Shitgibbon 2: Dictator Boogaloo.
Who is fucking things up in ways that if I time travelled to 15 years ago and tried to tell everyone I would be locked up. They'd probably believe I could travel in time, but not that a fucking failed reality TV star could do so much damage.
Again I'm no history buff, so you can explain the eras where the us want fucking things for everyone else if you so choose.
The 50s and 60s were the peak of Robert Moses and similar figures in American urban planning. Explicitly racist, destroying the liveability of cities in ways that are still ongoing to this day, with only some of the very most progressive cities even starting to try to turn things around.
It was also the peak of the red scare, during which the "freedom of speech" Americans are so proud of took a back seat to witch hunts over political ideology. Along with that you get the height of US intervention in foreign governments, with the US involvements in Pinochet's regime in Chile probably being the most striking example, but far, far from the only.
So nah, it might have been a period of time when the US was perhaps less bad than today, but it's still not great.
Had nothing to do with any of that. The comment is because the laziest, most generic thing you could have said was exactly what you said now. However you weren't an asshole to me, so I'll respond.
So my comment wasn't that America hadn't committed atrocities, we have. It's heartbreaking, and I have heritage heavily affected by those atrocities
You'll note I Mentioned hype. See that's really what it's all been. In fact. Every country has its share of atrocities( and every one should be stamped out and the perpetrators held accountable), but not all countries atrocities have been committed by the supposed " police" of the free world.
That impression of the United states is what I was referring to.
America was never greater than any other country. It was just billed so, and you know what? Many other countries bought into that, relying on us to a point they would sometimes cripple themselves military, but also causing the United states to feel fat, bloated complacent,and outsource many vital industries to other nations.
Much like "Animal Farm", the noble goals of our past have been sacrificed for the opulence and vices of the elite and rich who keep us down. The leaders of every country playing shell games with us
You want great again? America never was GREAT. We WERE doing well, moving forward, like many other countries with rich and varied histories. But Insidious men and women over the generations wormed their way into positions of leadership, as money tends to buy power , in all countries. And now every government is rife with them
It's isn't America that needs to be great again. It's people that need to be. And until this orange lunatic is gone, the United States we have lost any claim to great.
So your take was bad. To me. We were never that great. But like all things,age steps in and we see that the old man may have looked good when we were young, but now that we've gone through things and now what to look for, we can tell that like all of us, he was just limping through life.
Now we have an interconnected world with separated people. .
So yes. IMHO ad take. But probably not for the reasons you thought
I initially said I wouldn't respond because I figured I'd get the replies I did, because people online don't pause and think, just insult.
You didn't though. Thank you for that. It's a sign that we can still talk through things.
Thank you for your reply. Honestly I feel that if you had have replied initially with something the same as this comment then you'd have a lot more people agreeing, and even rooting for and with you. I know I would have, mainly because everything you've said is spot on. Unarguably so.
Good luck for your future. I am rooting for you and people like you.
Your right of course. I'm tired is all. I am Old, cranky, angry and enraged at the injustice we see.
Makes me have a short temper, and with so many ass hats around, Im in strike first mode .
You didn't deserve that. My apologies to you.
Troll
Also... Oh nooo... I won't get a response from you.... oh noooo.... Whatever will I do?
Bruh, I only knew you made a comment because a friend pointed out the silliness of it.
You do realize that the people who voted for Trump are loving all of this. They want a police state. Because they believe that they will never be subject to it.
Let the leopards eat their faces.
We're getting greater. Gotta get rid of anybody with pronouns, skin, or who is awake.
That includes you, queers, and you, darkies! And you, brownies! And don't forget the people that believe in gods. And likely the people that don't, too. And anybody that disagrees.
Ok. Now, who's left?
Now who doesn't fit in? Who's the deviant, now? We gotta keep pruning and killing and sowing unhappiness.
Only once we reach the end, will we be great.