Vance Boelter accused of killing legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding John Hoffman and his wife
The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, was apprehended late on Sunday night and charged with two counts of murder and two of attempted murder, the state’s governor, Tim Walz, said at a news conference.
Vance Boelter, 57, is suspected of fatally shooting the Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their residence early on Saturday. Boelter is also suspected of shooting the state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home, seriously injuring them.
“One man’s unthinkable actions have altered the state of Minnesota,” the state’s governor, Tim Walz, said at a news conference.
Part of the problem I have with this form of interaction is that every comment exists in isolation. There’s no identity behind them. If we knew you, and were familiar with your posting history and thoughts, we’d probably pick the sarcasm straight away, but without actually going and checking, and who has the time to do that for every comment, we can only take the words in front of us at face value.
I generally find it easier to assume someone is joking when making such comment on Lemmy than on Reddit, which has, let’s call it a broader audience, but we can’t know for sure, and there’s a lot of looneys or there that do genuinely believe such idiocy.
As such, subtle sarcasm can be misinterpreted as a genuine opinion. In those cases, it’s better to make the sarcasm as unsubtle as possible. The /s is a bit crude, but there’s plenty of creative ways to express it.