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Quite the classy take... I believe many people lost their jobs expressing an opinion like this after Charlie Kirk died. Edit: I am sadly expecting some brigadi

Quite the classy take... I believe many people lost their jobs expressing an opinion like this after Charlie Kirk died. Edit: I am sadly expecting some brigading on this thread.

koolba 7mo ago
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- SecretDreams 7mo ago
  Celebrating the act of murder is the distinction. There is no distinction here between someone gloating that CK is dead or someone gloating that RM is dead.
- krapp 7mo ago
  Which is weird because the right explicitly called for violence against the left and transgender people in response but nothing ever happened to any of them.
- skeeter2020 7mo ago
  no denying your dick conclusion, but the former doesn't have to hold. You can like the outcome without supporting the mechanism. In fact,t here's an entire school of thought around ends vs. means. But let's not get distracted here: unbelievable that anyone famous, let alone the president of the United States, would publicly promote such disgusting statements. Combined with his WH comments in front of the Japanese PM... I guess to a narcissistic (and frankly, just plain dumb) bully punching down feels like a big win...
  - _wire_ 7mo ago
    Plus psychopathic hypocrisy. It's not simply the pathos of lack of decorum, it's maniacal, inverted decorum. But in USA we are proud to do everything beyond excess.
- deeg 7mo ago
  He did the same thing when Rob Reiner was killed so I don't think that's an excuse.
stackbutterflow 7mo ago
Trump supporters and voters will have to live with the fact that they enabled this for the rest of their life. I do not envy them. Especially those that will snap out of it at some point.
- SecretDreams 7mo ago
  I think only a small percentage might ever feel remorse or empathy regarding how their voting choices shaped world outcomes thereafter. For those that ever do regret it, I think giving them a path to redemption is the only way the world will ever heal. For those incapable of having those feelings.. well, I can hope karma is real.
  - cosmicgadget 7mo ago
    Why would they regret it? He's doing exactly what they voted for. I mean, maybe there is fuel price regret but that's not really a redemption path.
- mindslight 7mo ago
  That was true after 2016, and plenty of them did. The problem is that Grump was able to attract a whole bunch of new scumbags - from his destructive politicization of Covid, the surveillance industry seeing a more direct route to become an inescapable part of the government, the growing performative chest-thumping "manosphere" etc. At this point I don't see much shame on the horizon.
- UncleMeat 7mo ago
  They won't just have to live with it. They like it. My aunt is a republican lobbyist. She is also a drunk. This means she regularly texts us the most incredibly odious beliefs. Stuff like how my other aunt should kill herself because she is a leech for taking disability from the government. MAGA voters aren't sad that Trump is out here saying "fuck you, libs" on a regular basis. They love it.
- no-name-here 7mo ago
  I wish you were right, but I suspect it will be like how in recent years most people will say they never supported the Iraq invasion etc.
leptons 7mo ago
One guy spent 37 days in jail for posting trump's own words "We have to get over it" (about a school shooting that happened 2 years prior to Kirk's death) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXBqxOmYhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXBqxOmYhA
rocketpastsix 7mo ago
"rules for thee but not for me". People who said _anything_ they deemed disrespected after Kirk died was basically crucified but when it's against someone they deem an enemy they dont care at all.

Quite the classy take... I believe many people lost their jobs expressing an opinion like this after Charlie Kirk died. Edit: I am sadly expecting some brigading on this thread.

koolba 7mo ago

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SecretDreams 7mo ago
Celebrating the act of murder is the distinction. There is no distinction here between someone gloating that CK is dead or someone gloating that RM is dead.
krapp 7mo ago
Which is weird because the right explicitly called for violence against the left and transgender people in response but nothing ever happened to any of them.
skeeter2020 7mo ago
no denying your dick conclusion, but the former doesn't have to hold. You can like the outcome without supporting the mechanism. In fact,t here's an entire school of thought around ends vs. means. But let's not get distracted here: unbelievable that anyone famous, let alone the president of the United States, would publicly promote such disgusting statements. Combined with his WH comments in front of the Japanese PM... I guess to a narcissistic (and frankly, just plain dumb) bully punching down feels like a big win...
- _wire_ 7mo ago
  Plus psychopathic hypocrisy. It's not simply the pathos of lack of decorum, it's maniacal, inverted decorum. But in USA we are proud to do everything beyond excess.
deeg 7mo ago
He did the same thing when Rob Reiner was killed so I don't think that's an excuse.

stackbutterflow 7mo ago

Trump supporters and voters will have to live with the fact that they enabled this for the rest of their life. I do not envy them. Especially those that will snap out of it at some point.

SecretDreams 7mo ago
I think only a small percentage might ever feel remorse or empathy regarding how their voting choices shaped world outcomes thereafter. For those that ever do regret it, I think giving them a path to redemption is the only way the world will ever heal. For those incapable of having those feelings.. well, I can hope karma is real.
- cosmicgadget 7mo ago
  Why would they regret it? He's doing exactly what they voted for. I mean, maybe there is fuel price regret but that's not really a redemption path.
mindslight 7mo ago
That was true after 2016, and plenty of them did. The problem is that Grump was able to attract a whole bunch of new scumbags - from his destructive politicization of Covid, the surveillance industry seeing a more direct route to become an inescapable part of the government, the growing performative chest-thumping "manosphere" etc. At this point I don't see much shame on the horizon.
UncleMeat 7mo ago
They won't just have to live with it. They like it. My aunt is a republican lobbyist. She is also a drunk. This means she regularly texts us the most incredibly odious beliefs. Stuff like how my other aunt should kill herself because she is a leech for taking disability from the government. MAGA voters aren't sad that Trump is out here saying "fuck you, libs" on a regular basis. They love it.
no-name-here 7mo ago
I wish you were right, but I suspect it will be like how in recent years most people will say they never supported the Iraq invasion etc.

leptons 7mo ago

One guy spent 37 days in jail for posting trump's own words "We have to get over it" (about a school shooting that happened 2 years prior to Kirk's death) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXBqxOmYhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXBqxOmYhA

rocketpastsix 7mo ago

"rules for thee but not for me". People who said _anything_ they deemed disrespected after Kirk died was basically crucified but when it's against someone they deem an enemy they dont care at all.