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King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss is shot dead in Texas during an argument
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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From Jonathan Joss’s Facebook post
The article title is really fucked up for making it seem like it was both sides arguing and it boiling over.
That’s what they do. Our media absolutely covers for hate crimes right now.
I sent an email to their complaint department about the headline. Not likely to do anything, but I’ll still be annoying.
Posted this. Thanks for the idea!
Shame on your organization.
You ran an article titled "King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss fatally shot in Texas after argument with neighbor" and just conveniently left out the fact that there was no argument, just an active hate crime. You failed to mention the years of police reports, the context of the situation, or the open letter penned by his husband who was there, witnessed the murder, and heard the man yelling homophobic slurs as he shot at two completely unarmed non threatening men on their own property.
Organizations like yours protect the shit police forces, the bigots, the lowlives of our society. Decisions like this show where you stand. You're cowards; cowards protect other cowards.
Disgusting.
Pathetic.
Shameful.
I hope you actually ponder this one for a second. I know you won't, but got dang, find a moral or two. Y'all suck. This man deserved better; we deserve better. Even you deserve better.
Link to the complaint line?
I'll be sending this same message to them
I wish I had thought of doing that, thanks! I will join you.
Lemmy is "our" media. Mainstream media is owned by the 1%. It is heavily censored.
Corporate media is just misinformation and propaganda.
That is genuinely fucking horrifying.
Omg… this is so horrible. 😢
WTF is wrong with people!
They're Republican.
They're uneducated and are unable to process empathy, while also being fed a torrent of hateful propaganda
Or like the other guy said, they're Republican
It's not that they can't process empathy. It's that they're told that empathy makes them weak and unmanly and that if they start to "feel" they need to start smashing shit.
Rethuglikkklans
But you repeat yourself.
What's wrong is that some people have decided that they're at war with the rest of us.
Religion plays a big part.
Conservative culture creates objectively worse human beings.
ACAB.
Fuck the police
What a tragic story. Hope that fucking loser gets jailed for murder. There have to be consequences for behavior like this
His name is written like 10 times across the article, how could you still misspell it...
Thanks, homie. Fixed it for you. I think I let autocorrect get the best of me.
His name is written like 10 times across the article, how could you still misspell it...
His name is written like 10 times across the article, how could you still misspell it...