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Charlie Kirk's memorial was Christian nationalism's biggest moment (www.motherjones.com)

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Praise and partisanship become strange bedfellows.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

We're already at infinitely encouraging stochastic terrorism. We have shootings several times a week. And it's always the right

How do they escalate that? By tearing down the monuments to victims? That's not really escalation, that's performative sociopathy. But look how they whine when their own actions result in friendly fire.

I'm not saying it's not something very real, and very bad... It's just there's no way to escalate that. How do they elevate that to the next level? I don't think they can