Why wouldn’t people kill each other based on rhetoric like “Democrats are demonic and they’re trying to fuck your children and erase white people” or “there’s a huge child raping conspiracy involving tons of powerful people and now that I’ve said this you need to immediately forget about it you stupid fucking bitch”
Other people can argue about morality but I am obsessed with how things actually function. I’m obsessed with the “exploits” we allow.
ie murder is illegal. Telling others to commit murder is illegal. But it’s legal to use words and ideas to rig a Plinko game so that if someone was crazy enough to play, they’d drop their chip exactly where you wanted.
These deaths happened awhile ago, when people started upping the ante. Just takes awhile for the crop to grow.
No, it does not show this yet. Because we don’t know why he was shot still.
I know this might sound like a wild guess but…
I think he was shot because of the shit he said.
Just a guess.
I mean political violence has always been a feature of American history. We don’t need this to show it
Motive is irrelevant. It is/will be used as a political statement. It absolutely will cause MAGA nuts to kill in retaliation.
If this is the only option left…
To the guillotine!
Having a school shooting every other week shows political violence has been a feature of the US for a while now.
The political violence is reaching the white men, and now the media’s pretending its new.
I never paid attention to the guy in life so was surprised that this is becoming a thing, but on reading his wikipedias entry …. I’d say he deserves partial credit for political violence becoming normalized
Thats what we get for allowing the racist fascists to gain control of all facets of government and society. Violence is all they respect
The 2nd Amendment is reserved for when all the other Amendments fail.
Or attacked
Ah yes. The death of a tiny-faced, vile, white guy is what shows that. Not the thousands of mass shootings, or the Zionists running riot on college campuses, or ICE thugs (and pretend-ICE thugs) running rampant on the streets…it’s the extermination of vermin that did it. Sure.
Mango wants flags flown at half staff for this hateful man, who was not an elected official. No such honor was given to Melissa Hortman, and flags were raised for Asinine’s inauguration because they were down for Jimmy Carter.
The whole “it’s a new era of political violence” rhetoric only means that Republicans do not expect to get assaulted but it’s perfectly okay for that to happen to Democrats.
One white fascist is worth more than the mass shootings of school children and bars nationwide, don’t you know? ICE could deport every vaguely brown person and it’s not as important as when it happens to the normal and good people.
Especially when that execution was ordered by trump.
As opposed to vanilla gun violence, which is good for your health.
“now” as in since forever.
If your political ideology is based around advocating for harm to other groups of people, violence targeted at you shouldn’t be surprising. FAFO.
Rules for thee, not for me. Or something.
Political violence is our country’s beginning, middle and end. I’d say we have less than is historically typical lately. We just had such a lull in it for so long it feels like a lot.
#sad #leopards #look-out-fascists
Running off on a narrative before any facts are available is pretty on par with media
