Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

Thread: The Travis Scott Astroworld disaster

This analysis by Todd Grande PhD is on point. He's a very good commentator on social issues. I don't agree with every opinion he gives (on other matters) & that's OK.

Grande's video lists the previous criminal charges and related incidents that should have alerted Houston Police and other officials that a fatal stampede event was highly likely.

Large events have to have a detailed security plan.

Authorities should have forced the performance to stop.

It would not have saved every life but it might have saved some of them.

I hope that every event manager and relevant LE agency ensures this NEVER happens again in the US.

The Astroworld 2021 disaster is a symptom of the recklessness and stupidity of many people in the world today. I know that people my age have always said this about some within the younger age groups - and I swore I wouldn't become that person. Oh well.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Sure, there were disasters, wars, terrorism then too. But objectively, the 21st century is turning out to be something else, compared to those years.

The person most culpable for these (so far) 8 deaths is Travis Scott (Jacques Bermon Webster.)

Next are the crowd members who deliberately worsened the stampede, presumably for their own entertainment.

I haven't yet been able to confirm if one or more people were injecting opioids into others but that's just... wow.

I've always said that could be used in terrorism.

Certainly not saying this was a terrorist attack - the mundane facts of it are bad enough on their own.

But when security lose control of a 50,000 strong crowd, anything can happen. Not to mention the spread of Covid, in TX: already second only to FL for covidiots in govt.

At such events, usual industry practice is to use barrier fencing to break up the crowd a bit. That would've saved lives. Security planners knew in advance his record of inciting violence at events. He's just one more felon now added to an already covid-stretched justice system.

Like most people did with Alec Baldwin, anyone with even a slightly operational moral compass, should denounce Travis Scott's actions and distance themselves from him asap.

Laws aren't enough to keep people safe; We need to stand up for what is morally, ethically right.

These two men have a lot in common. Lack of insight or remorse. Selfishness. Cowardice. With Alec Baldwin, we know he shows signs of narcissistic personality disorder and cruelty toward the vulnerable (eg his own daughter, the child of the woman he recklessly shot.)

I'm referring to Baldwin's photo op with Halyna Hutchins' widower and 9 year old son (Matthew and Andros Hutchins.)

He exploited an already extremely traumatized boy, for his own public image. And the 2007 voicemail to his then 12 year old daughter shows you who Baldwin is.

It doesn't matter if you're left, right, or in between. Most of us know instinctively when a person in power is abusing it for their own gain, at the expense of others, and often those who are the most vulnerable.

We have an epidemic of NPD-type personality disorders.

After the artist, and those in the crowd who deliberately made the disaster worse, anyone whose position in the event's management gave them a duty of care is also culpable.

Just threaten to shut off the mains power for a minute, then do it. That would have gotten attention.

If nothing else, the sound of the music made rescues harder. So many attendees and first responders will have been traumatized at this event.

I will be interested to see what, if anything, the R governor of TX says. Guessing he will blame Houston officials.

And there is definitely a racism issue here. So many maga cult followers openly stereotype POC as "thugs" "gangsters" "looters" etc. I've seen several POC in the cult do this, too.

Until I was #XGOP I didn't see this clearly. I do now.

nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opi…

I point that out just to note that many on the right wing will disregard the disaster altogether, because if they can apportion blame to POC, many of them will. This sort of thing helps decent people to realize they are in a cult, drip by drip.

Stop condoning racist behavior.

The style of performance used by this artist was effectively condoned by corporations such as Nike and McDonalds. And media like Rolling Stone and the WaPo.

Read more about the foreknowledge people had, in this NYT piece: nytimes.com/2021/11/08/art…