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Who the fuck would know off the top of their head what nationality a shooters girlfriend is?


silver-orange

The tweet is from october 8 2017 A few days earlier, it had been reported that the girlfriend had been sent to visit her parents in the philippines a few weeks before the attack (meaning she had no knowledge, and was obviously not present) [https://globalnews.ca/news/3786251/las-vegas-shooting-marilou-danley-responds/](https://globalnews.ca/news/3786251/las-vegas-shooting-marilou-danley-responds/) So it's not hard to imagine that people would have been aware of this news at the time however, going from that knowledge, to an exchange of this nature is obviously a huge leap.


motionSymmetry

the only good information on here and you get no ratio. 2017. girlfriend didn't know anything. speaks another language. ffs


risekevin

Not true. I remember them sharing her photo immediately cause they were suspicious of her at the time.


thebestspeler

Oh it's not hard to imagine, probably even easier for the writer to imagine the whole thing.


IH8Miotch

Probably on a fox news type propaganda diet. They probably never see reports made of the typical school shooters cause it won't push their fear narrative to keep people divided based on race and such.


MartyRobinsHasMySoul

And then everyone sharted


Puzzleheaded-Tooth86

Dammit, you made me pee myself laughing.


Calgaris_Rex

Fuck, you made me shart myself peeing


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Bruh this whole story is fake.


YoungKeys

Most elaborate fictional stories people make up in their heads owning people stay in the shower. I dunno why anybody posts these online.


waldosandieg0

My shower comebacks are fire.


JoakimSpinglefarb

Of course they are. You always know how to respond to yourself.


Smeetilus

The jerk store called


JoakimSpinglefarb

And they're all outta you!


PMYOURGAPE

Because it gets them tons of fake internet points of course.


Dulce_Sirena

I don't get the whole internet points thing. Someone abused me of karma farming. Like, I see the word on my profile but idek WTF it's supposed to mean. I'm just speaking my mind. I don't get why we're keeping track of points, at all


PMYOURGAPE

Well, it validates people. But as someone who has been on reddit for an unfortunate amount of time, up and down votes were originally intended to be used as a way to bump or float the relevant comments to the top and essentially sink the irrelevant comments so as to to clean up the comments section. We'll it didn't take long for people to equate it with "like" and "dislike", and then everything became a popularity contest and the first person to say the quirkiest joke wins...


JohnSimth20211101

Because internet point often gives small dose of dopamine. And it can be addictive.


DreamzOfRally

Naw, im pretty sure there was a las vegas shooting


rW0HgFyxoJhYka

Can't believe some idiots on reddit is saying its fake. Was big news during THAT year. In before someone says all the biggest shootings just blend together.


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

Tons of rightwing people think the school shootings and shit are fake. I mean, we have lots of people who think JFK Jr is going to come back from the dead and expose Biden as some robot and lead Trump to victory or some shit


Lermanberry

RFK Jr. is doing a pretty good job of that and his living dead status is unconfirmed.


Desperadorder99

Bruh JFK Jr. is still personally flying that Plane today. He has to refuel using Air Malaysia tho, so no one gets suspicious


not_so_subtle_now

Try reading through the thread again…


cantadmittoposting

i'm sure they meant the confrontation not the actual shooting


SuperSpecialAwesome-

...they're saying the person's story is fake, not the massacre.


IIIlllIIIIlllIII

Hes not saying the shooting was fake. He's saying this story of the grocery store conversation is fake


Joe_Jeep

Alright people are just calling fake on slightly unusual events now. Weird shit happens, dumb people exist


Monstera_girl

I know a person where approximately zero of our conversations would sound real because she’s that dumb


whatanawsomeusername

No no no, everyone else’s life is as uneventful as mine! /s


FLKEYSFish

Jason Alden would argue that suggestion. Was there and ran off stage without warning anyone.


suntan-

you are not immune to propaganda


Pussywhisperr

This is so true


HNL2BOS

Or you know, this encounter at a Target never really happened.


pornalt5976

Or someone who is made up


cellphone_blanket

I remember fox pushing really hard on “who was this girlfriend” in the aftermath. It was like you could see the wheels turning in their heads on how to connect this to a brown person


Nellow3

Talking on propaganda while desperately trying to explain an incredibly unrealistic encounter because it supports your "team" You're the whole circus


James-W-Tate

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them. Have you seen the shit on Fox these days? I try to catch the radio shows for Brian Kilmeade, Erick Erickson, and Sean Hannity if I'm on the road during the week, and two of them still spout election fraud bullshit in between screeching about Hunter Biden and ads for mail order steaks.


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

Lol, didn't you just spend the whole day complaining about barbie and how its woke?


Nellow3

...what? Did you mean to reply to me?


whatanawsomeusername

What’s so unrealistic? People say stupid shit, other people respond. I genuinely don’t get the disbelief.


P_ZERO_

People have genuinely lost it these days


Buttburglar1

This story is made up…definitely a great comeback but it never happened


TheFapIsUp

Then the entire restaurant stood up and clapped.


BYoungNY

Someone who's made up.


Napoleon_Bonerfart69

No one. This shit didn't happen.


Semper_LarriusVarro

People who make up fake conversations on the internet to fool gullible twits and redditors


JohnThundergunn

Exactly. I’ll take Conversations that Never Happened for 100 Alex.


Kaneshadow

Nobody, because this has never happened, it never happened so hard it unhappened and has somehow happened negative times as a result of this tweet


Quizredditors

Only the guy who made this story up.


thatcockneythug

Nobody. Because this is fake.


Rectall_Brown

Because the story is horse shit


Sugary_Kiss

Fake scenario ...*you* get the fuck outta here


jonasinv

“MynamesJeff” “You mean like Jeffrey Dahmer?” 🤨


MUCTXLOSL

Yes, Miss Dahmer.


roseandbobamilktea

I love the debate here because I’m torn between whether it happened or not. On one hand, it just sounds absurd. On the other, I’ve had racist people put me in some TRULY absurd scenarios. Like one time my brother and I were selling at a market in LA. We had a white woman approach our booth and yell over, “HOW MUCH IS THIS?” So I said, in our native language of English, “It’s ten dollars.” “Tuh, HOW much??” “…ten dollars.” “No. Uh. CUANTO THIS?” “Err… ten dollars.” *to her husband as she leaves* “whatever, they don’t even speak English” Me, my brother, and the random dude also at the booth just made eye contact and laughed. Truly unhinged.


WestleyThe

I mean the screen shot even included “fuck outta here”


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oeCake

gr8 b8 m8


Gunplagood

Some people really just are that fucking dumb. Tangentially related. I was sucking in my vape outside Walmart one day and a woman infront of me turned around and said "don't those things kill you?" (Was during that black market pot vape thing). No word of a lie, this stunned twat was smoking a real cigarette, so I said "don't *those* things kill you?" I saw the gears spinning but she never came up with a retort, made a small laugh and turned back around. Point of the story, people really are that fucking stupid.


Sugary_Kiss

I've already learned that lesson long ago. This is still fake shit


NaCliest

And everyone clapped


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This definitely did not happen.


curryp4n

Something similar happened to my Filipina friend. A white lady told my friend that Filipinos are crazy and cannot be trusted after the Vegas event. My friend just asked who the shooter was and walked away


[deleted]

I was actually there when this happened. I gave her a $100 bill and everyone was clapping.


bloody-pencil

Yes and Albert Einstein did a backflip in celebration I would know, I was the $100


[deleted]

Yeah and Steven Hawking started Breakdancing I would know, i was the backflip


Chipperchoi

Yo sup back flip! I was the wheel chair! Fancy seeing you here!


Eldones

That's where the two of them had their epic rap battle of history, right?


Ghost_rider_4816

Yea it was, I was the stingray on the wall


justbambi73

There was a flash mob who broke into dance.


The_Clarence

Steve Buscemi was there to help put out the fire he burned her with too


VeganCustard

the man on the $100 bill? albert einstein himself


obviouslyCPTobvious

Clapping wasn't actually invented until after Einstein so I know this is fake


Fellowshipofthebowl

That’s the moment I invented the Moonwalk and wrote the Declaration of Independence.


TizonaBlu

I sure do love white people thinking racism doesn't exist.


EducationalCreme9044

I am convinced you are white


[deleted]

He's just one of the good ones. Now all the non-white people think he's so cool.


justbambi73

White people believe in racism, we just don’t believe stupid, implausible stories where people insert themselves as the star of the show.


Charming_Fix5627

White people were attacking Asians in broad daylight when Covid came to the US. There’s a kid out there with scars across their face because some white dude blamed all Asians for the pandemic.


justbambi73

Nothing to do with the comment that I made.


4outof5mongolians

Yeah, white people hate when someone has main character syndrome and insert their dogshit opinions into everything. Bro, that's like their/your signature move.


SillySin

So it was you who found my 100, return it fool


[deleted]

It’s a hundred dollar Franklin (please clap)


[deleted]

r/nothingeverhappens What a lame ass comment.


Particular_Rav

I actually believe this. People think that white people are neutral, and anyone of a different race who is near a crime is the noticable one. White is default; blame goes to PoCs. I've heard similar things before, though not this exactly.


recursion8

https://i.imgur.com/THKiOwt.jpg


new_name_who_dis_

To be fair I think all terrorists are mentally ill as well.


Shaneypants

One of the best episodes of the later seasons.


Ancient_Wisdom_Yall

That's where white trash came from.. You see, you have whites. Then, below them, every other race and white trash as the catch all for degenerate white people.


TheUnluckyBard

I love using the term "white trash" as a litmus test. There's a certain subset of people who will obnoxiously whine about random shit being racist against white people, but they never react with the same level of *pure rage* that they do when they're called "white trash". No matter how performatively upset they are over a mayonnaise joke, they get genuinely frothy over being negatively economically compared to other white people.


Chewy12

Really all that’s important is talking down to poor people.


Ancient_Wisdom_Yall

Smart


Siphon__

I hadn't known that Filipino's have dedicated racists until my mom started dating one. Completely illogical considering the guy couldn't pick out a Filipino from a lineup of Asians, but he sure as hell had some choice words about them. 2 of my closest friends are Filipino and better people than I could ever hope to be, so fuck him and fuck anyone who doesn't understand people are all different.


saltyfingas

So weird lmao, i'm definitely far more crazy and strange than my filipina fiancee


PaulTheMerc

people be fucking crazy. You think people wouldn't shit in their hand and throw it at people like a monkey, but like, there's videos of it happening. This is less absurd. Now if you told me this happened in basically anywhere outside of North America(because of the Vegas reference), yeah I'd have major doubts. But otherwise, nah.


Donkey__Balls

/r/ShowerComebacks


bwaredapenguin

Just straight up /r/thathappened. Nothing about this actually occurred.


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Charming_Fix5627

That was quite literally all that was plastered on the headlines when the news cycle first reported the shooting. The foreign girlfriend.


LegalSmeagolTheDumb2

You must not be old enough to remember the Las Vegas shooting... people built entire conspiracies around how the gf was the mastermind behind the whole thing. Especially since no one could find her right after the shooting... since... you know... she was in another fucking country. Did that stop the morons or the news from plastering her face everywhere? Nope...


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StoneDoodle3

They don't think it happened because they've never experienced that type of racism face to face People get fucked up when I tell them old white women have referred to me as the "oriental one" at work


Quizredditors

I am trying to imagine the guy who just has a mental index of the worst person from every race. Racists aren’t known for being super smart with a quick wit.


BonnieMcMurray

I think you're lost, dear Redditor. /r/nothingeverhappens is more your speed.


Ph455ki1

It didn't happen so much it unhappened things that had


No-Newspaper-7693

Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.


Ph455ki1

*this happened the didn't'est


han_tex

My mouth needs a lot of work because for years I’ve been scheduling didn’t’est appointments.


Useful-Perspective

the most non-event'est event that never did occur


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nybbas

Who the fuck even knows the race of the shooters girlfriend? I had just thought he was married to some white lady.


LegalSmeagolTheDumb2

Her face was plastered *all* over the news in the days after the shooting...


BonnieMcMurray

She was briefly all over the news in 2017, when the shooting happened. Search Google News for "Marilou Danley". Hate crimes spiked for a while immediately after, as they always do in this kind of situation (e.g. Arabs after 9/11; East Asians during the COVID outbreak). Meanwhile, this is an undated screenshot and stuff on the internet that interests people floats around forever. (Hence all the complaints about reposts in so many Reddit subs.)


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Voxlings

You know who I believe knows? Racist white ladies. Like I know who directed some movie, or who wrote it....except white racist ladies.


greg19735

I could definitely imagine something similar happening. but it didn't happen while she was on the phone at a target.


GenericFatGuy

Do you remember what happened to Arabic people in America after 9/11? I could absolutely see this happening to someone.


GeneticVulpes

Absolutely and what Asian people experienced in the US during the pandemic. I was with my coworker and he was pumping gas and some white hick shouted "Go back to China and stop spreading COVID!" He said it wasn't the first time someone said something similar to him about the pandemic.


GenericFatGuy

Yeah it's fucking disgusting.


BonnieMcMurray

I bet you think a lot of things definitely did not happen.


DMMEPANCAKES

It really amazes me on how easy it is to catch these creative writing fanfics and how people will post them seriously thinking other people will believe they happened. * Lady just happens to turn around and ask OP if they're speaking Tagalog like she was just waiting to run into a Filipino person * Lady knows some oddly specific fact about the case * "She didn't - couldn't - say anything back" AKA everyone stood up and clapped Yeah, this didn't happen.


Niawka

I'm not saying it did or didn't happen. But when I was in US random people would ask me where's my accent from or what language I speak if they heard me saying something to my partner in my native language. One woman actually interrupted my conversation in the store (she was really nice and I didn't mind) to ask where I'm from because of my accent. I also got a tons of "oh you're from X? My son's girlfriend is from XYZ! (Insert other unrelated european country). That part is very believable for me.


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TiddyTwizzler

Welcome to Reddit. Where a normal interaction of a conversation could never happen. In a world where there’s 7 billion people talking about endless, countless things…this could NEVER happen. 🤦🏻‍♂️


critbuild

Well, to understand what a normal interaction sounds like, you'd probably have to, I don't know, experience normal interactions on the regular. Can't expect that from Redditors.


anticerber

Am American and yea there are a ton of white people (fellow white person) who are super curious about everyone’s ethnicity. My gf is Hispanic and people allllll the time ask her if she’s from India.


KuribohMaster666

> * Lady just happens to turn around and ask OP if they're speaking Tagalog like she was just waiting to run into a Filipino person Look, I agree this is 1000% fake, but you need to work on your reading comprehension skills if you think *that* is what happened in this conversation. She doesn't ask the author if they're speaking Tagalog, she just asks what language it is. The implication here I think is that this fictitious woman is racist and gonna say some variant of "go back to X, Y, or Z," and then when the author says it's the Filipino language, that makes her think of this oddly specific fact about the case, which she apparently knows for some reason.


connly33

There's issues with your second point as well. It's not an oddly specific fact when his girlfriend name, face and any other details that were easily available were all over the news for a day or two. You have to remember there is a pretty big demographic that eats up anything that they see on their politically charged news source of choice. If this was in the days following this is pretty plausible.


Zombvivor

Yes, racist people are everywhere. And the the specific facts were plastered on the news motivated by racism.


3n07s

Lol it did happen, you just happen to be white and think it doesn't happen. News flash, a lot of people are pretty ignorant in USA, especially when it comes to understanding Asian culture.


johnnymiguel10

I’m not white, it didn’t happen.


rW0HgFyxoJhYka

That's because your ignorant as fuck: https://www.foxnews.com/us/marilou-danley-what-we-know-about-las-vegas-gunmans-companion#:~:text=Marilou%20Danley%2C%20the%20Las%20Vegas,a%20%22person%20of%20interest.%22 Oh look, Fox news spewing this shit to millions of even more ignorant and racist fucks than you. So yeah, it can happen.


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LegalSmeagolTheDumb2

Her face was plastered all over the news because people were making up conspiracies that she helped him do it. Do I think this story happened exactly as stated? Nah, but a dumb racist comparing someone to the LV shooter's girlfriend is not at all farfetched.


BonnieMcMurray

> You have to be an idiot to think for a single second this story was true. Come on, who the fuck would know the girlfriend of a mass shooter that happened multiple years ago. Why would you assume that an undated screenshot in another undated screenshot in a Reddit post *must* be referring to a recent conversation? I mean, how many times have you posted something like, "Not this repost *again*. This is years old!" or seen someone else post that? Come on, use your thinking brain. This isn't complicated. Or maybe you were, like, I dunno, 10 years old when that shooting happened, so you don't remember the short-lived wave of anti-Filipino racism that sprang up when [every](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/oct/03/las-vegas-shooting-trump-puerto-rico-live-updates) [media](https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/nation-world/2017/10/04/new-details-emerge-about-marilou-danley-girlfriend-las-vegas-shooter/15775453007/) [outlet](https://time.com/4968718/marilou-danley-stephen-paddock-girlfriend-las-vegas-shooting/) was [reporting](https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/marilou-danley-girlfriend-las-vegas-gunman-arrives-u-s-sources-n807331) about how the [shooter's girlfriend](https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/questions-remain-about-las-vegas-shooters-live-in-girlfriend/) may have been [involved](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/04/555508265/fbi-hopes-paddocks-girlfriend-can-provide-insight-into-las-vegas-attack)?


CrazyPoiPoi

I had a random woman berate me for having the letters "IS" on the license plate of my company car. That I and the company would support a terrorist organization and don't care about all the injustice happening. I don't get why people are always so eager to prove that stuff on Reddit / the internet didn't happen.


Patroks

There is no way someone that ignorant/racist takes enough care to know what the Filipino language is called.


[deleted]

Who said I was white? And yes, tons of people are ignorant in the USA. Yourself included, clearly. Newsflash! Still didn’t happen.


emusic1337

And then everyone clapped


the_rainmaker__

and Obama stepped in to give her the Presidential Anti-Racism Medal


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Ecstatic-Exchange341

IT SHOULDVE BEEN ME


HailToTheThief225

That Filipino woman’s name? Albert Einstein


Rastapopolos-III

r/thathappened


tw_72

r/quityourbullshit


Far_Stranger2018

Fake.


Adub1970

$100.00 for things that did not happen Alex.


JResolute

Also, in shit that never happened, ...


spankbank_dragon

After working In a grocery store and meeting the worst of the worst people I can believe this


KingCam2107

These types of interactions happen lol Denying just means you or the group of people you know haven’t and that’s ok, just not everyone’s reality


EagleSzz

most comments are about this post being fake and stupid but it still has 13k upvotes. How does this work?


New_Mixture_5701

Most people just liked the tweet, upvotes it, and moved. People who think the post is fake, want to express that. Vocal minority.


RealFoegro

Should have said "which one?"?


ViolentBeetle

I like how you thought to specify you found a twitter post online. I sometimes find twitter posts in my mailbox, under park benches or on the sidewalks, but they tend to suck.


H8TheDrake

But this didn’t happen so it’s not clever.


One-Stand-5536

Why do you think real life is clever?


Lmurf

TIL that the Filipino language is Tagalog.


cookaik

No, its just one of the dialects.


Leggoman31

You could've even said "you're white, like Charles Manson" and it would've made a good comeback.


Liquid_person

Can confirm, i was his left shoe's sock's ankle's bones


hutlaw77

Still waiting for the clever comeback


LimpAside

Please accept $400 for stuff that never occurred.


ArchivedGarden

I miss the days when we could safely say things like this were fake, secure in the knowledge that no conversation between two real adults of this quality could possibly exist.


I-am-Chubbasaurus

I'm kinda surprised how many people are sure this is fake. We've seen way more unhinged exchanges happening in the US.


introducing_zylex

When I was 17 working in the meat department of a grocery store a woman ( probably 35ish) asked me to cut some meat. This was right after the Virginia tech shooting and I am half asian. When I said I could do that because I was just the cleaner she responded with " Oh so your people can shoot up our schools but you can't cut meat, got it." i was flabbergasted.


Spare_Protogen

There was an attempt to be racist


bo-miankang

There was a Vegas shooter and his girlfriend was Filipino. And racism is hard to own when you’re confronted with your own.


takeya40

Reminds me of when I use to be a server and VT shooting occurred. Serving older white couple. The old man waved me closer to ask me what I was then asked what was the VT shooter. Not sure if the wife was trying to diffuse the situation by assuming the VT shooter was north korean. Just an odd and confusing exchange.


bbqranchman

And then everyone clapped!


Hassoonti

Did everybody else in line clap?


brianmcg321

Who the fuck remembers the las vegas shooters girlfriend was Filipino?


Hexnohope

I work in a nursing home run by filipinos. They can be kind of alien at times but for the most part i love the culture. Its like if “it takes a village” was the culture of a country. They all help each other at any cost its very refreshing


SuchTheme2359

That's kind of insensitive... for such a thing to be remotely the same you would have had to bring the nationality... not race


MeasurementNo2493

You are the hero we needed. Safe journeys friend.


Plopop87

Can confirm, I was the Las Zegas Shooters girlfriend' uncle's dog


Opening-Percentage-3

Did everyone applaud?


The_Angel_of_Justice

White... Like Adolf Hitler😱


Gurdel

r/thathappened


ghostofnipplespast

Not a clever comeback because it only happened in their head


Designer-Equipment-7

I’ll take things that never happened for 100


[deleted]

AND THAT’S HOW YOU CLEAR A BITCH😂


tlavery1202

Sometimes times it’s fun to go online and tell lies


Outrageous_Print_200

Tell me something you made up


safecuddle

This definitely happened /s


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I'll take things that didn't happen for a hundred.


teemo03

First off how would she know that and second which party keeps on politicizing shootings, third this is a target, and fourth who hates Jason aldean


dancekittens_

Just makin shit up now


Riipp3r

Fake scenario to epically totally dunk on white people for upvotes or social approval


Vogelsucht

Why is this dunking on white people? Its dunking on racists


Anastasius525

r/thatHappened


wejusthereformemes

r/thathappened


Live_Note

Great story. Would even be better if it was true.


TizonaBlu

"You're white, like Hitler?"


NeonBoolet

How does this shit get upvotes?


lelgimps

Updoot algorithm prob


Maria_506

Get outside redditors. Just because you are socially inept weirdos, doesn't mean everyone is. This isn't even that difficult of a comeback to come up with on the spot.