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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's... a little more morbid than that.




At 12:21 p.m., 48 minutes after the subject entered the school, the subject fired four additional shots inside classrooms 111/112. Officers moved forward into formation outside the classroom doors but did not make entry. Instead, presuming the classroom doors were locked, the officers tested a set of keys on the door of a janitor’s closet next to room 112. When the keys did not work, the responders began searching for additional keys and breaching tools. UCISD PD Chief Arredondo continued to attempt to communicate with the subject, while UPD Acting Chief Pargas continued to provide no direction, command, or control to personnel.
After another 15 minutes, officers found a second set of keys and used them to successfully open the janitor’s closet. With working keys in hand, the officers then waited to determine whether a sniper and a drone could obtain sight of and eliminate the subject through the window. Those efforts were unsuccessful. At 12:48 p.m., 27 minutes after hearing multiple gunshots inside classrooms 111 and 112, and 75 minutes after first responders first entered Robb Elementary, officers opened the door to room 111. A team composed of BORTAC members, a member of the U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR), and deputies from two local sheriffs’ offices entered the rooms, and officers killed the subject when he emerged shooting from a closet. The subject was killed at approximately 12:50 p.m., 77 minutes after the first officers entered the school and after 45 rounds were fired by the shooter in the presence of officers.






With master keys in hand and confirmed to work, the BORTAC commander paused on the room entry so that a sniper and drone could attempt to get a visual on the classroom. If successful,
the sniper could have mitigated a great deal of risk posed by a gun battle inside the classroom. The sniper or drone could have provided valuable intelligence on the layout of the room, location of
victims, and the shooter that would create a great tactical advantage for the entry team. However, assessing these options added 10 minutes to the overall response time.




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“Though the entry team puts the key in the door, turns the key, and opens it, pulling the door toward them, the CIR Team concludes that the door is likely already unlocked, as the shooter gained entry through the door and it is unlikely that he locked it thereafter”




There's a variety of failures, here, and it's very much a 'porque no los dos' situation.  But the other side's more overt:




In some instances, outside the school and near the funeral home across the street, officers also used force to keep concerned parents from approaching the school or funeral home, where some of the evacuated students had been taken. One mother was handcuffed by the U.S. Marshals, who accused her of being uncooperative regarding where to park her car and remaining outside the law enforcementperimeter. As soon as she was released from the handcuffs, she ran and got her two children out of the school and to safety. She indicated that law enforcement “was more aggressive with keeping us parents out than going in to get the shooter.”  In another instance, one family member who was very upset on the scene, trying to get information on the whereabouts of their child, was thrown to the ground by law enforcement and threatened with a Taser when they tried to go to their child.




Ah, but those were just the untrained, and as laudable as their bravery or desperation might have been, they could have been killed or caused further harm.  Surely the officers in command didn't stop other poli--




Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw said that [Officer] Ruiz tried to save his wife, but was barred from doing so.  State Rep. Joe Moody said despite what surfaced in the video, he confirmed that Ruiz had tried to engage the shooter but was disarmed.




The flip side to heroic responsibility is that once you start prevent other people from being heroes, you've picked up a lot of responsibility.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
... yeah.  And worse, they don't even seem to be able to deep-mine existing IP, or consume and regurgitate, in any sense except of mine tailings or vomit.


As a metaphor, I'm a real big fan of FLCL.  Yes, it's very central example of anime that's filled with awkward surface-level visuals and the 'deeper' meanings are still not exactly high literature, and it's even self-referential about talking about anime that's got deeper meanings that aren't that deep and awkward surface-level visuals.  There's a very uncomfortable 'how much of this coming of age story relies on everyone being a pervert' section.


It's short, it's to the point, extremely well-animated, has a great message executed very well, manages to fit into the right space of weird without being incomprehensible, and for a decade and a half, it was done.  If you were a really big nerd you could read the manga, but it's a completely different story, something parallel and maybe interesting but about as related as two different Gundam universes.  People often point to the paucity of Avatar in fandom spaces as evidence of how shallowly people engage with it, and that's not wrong, but FLCL shows the other way that can happen.  It's got a mere double-digits coverage on AO3, and even on FFN it's tiny (at <600 fics, it's worse off than Redwall). Where Avatar loses out in fandom spaces because it's so vapid that anyone trying to use the setting can just serial-numbers-file-off into original fic and be the better for it, FLCL is hard to do anything but a visual reference, because going any further risks the original taking over.  It has a universe with potential, but any addition is a subtraction.


And, in 2018, Toonami threw out another two seasons.  FLCL Progressive and Alternative received... mixed receptions.  You could get five different opinions on them from four different fans.  Both suffered, badly, from some lackluster animation in signature scenes, Progressive leaned really hard into satiating the fans, and Alternative twisted hard away from the wacky hijinks into a more measured and slower-paced story.  From a culture war perspective, Progressive's intentionally dialed up the squick factor (there's several overtly sexualized guro and vore scenes, the only upskirt is from a chubby guy who's a bit of a dork) to hit people who misunderstood or 'misunderstood' the interpersonal relationships in FLCL proper, and Alternative's flirting with girlboss syndrome despite having a main character who's recognized in-setting as a real bitch.


But they were stories.  Even where Progressive was accused of repeating too much from FLCL, it had drastically different themes and story notes that could tell you how it was going to go, and what the differences would be (cw: spoiler for eight-year-old anime).  Where Alternative doesn't quite make sense in the series timeline (supposedly originally intended as a prequel, which gets really pessimistic, there's evidence for prequel, sequel, or even AU); it doesn't just flip everything that happens in the original and Alternative the bird.


It can be done!  It just... doesn't.


It's doubly frustrating because there's so many better concepts and ideas already written in so many of these universes, and the showrunners can't do it, or notice that they aren't able to do it.  Fucking Truce at Bakura would have made more sense than the actual sequel movies.