Too many people pearl clutching today over worries of retributive violence, as if the fascists aren't already going to be committing that violence on us in the near future regardless. It's not too early to say that this scumbag deserved much worse and I'm glad he got rocked so publicly. Mods I'll understand if you delete this and I'm truly sorry for the trouble if you do, I just need a personal break today from the media cacophony of liberals collectively reconciling with the realization that we live in an abnormally and horrifically violent society.
I strongly worry about the short term for everyone. Listening to the fear and anger of both the people around me in rage and the people celebrating violence online, this feels like the first domino falling. Tensions will be high for awhile. Please learn to love your neighbors no matter how ignorant or disgusting their beliefs and convictions may be.
What about when their beliefs are "people you care about should die?"
It's a reciprocal relationship. I can tolerate them if they can tolerate me. If they base their beliefs on failing to tolerate me.... I won't extend the courtesy either.
Loving people like this doesn't make them question themselves - it makes them think their abhorrent views aren't so bad or that your convictions aren't really that strong.
And doing so does not stop the violence - there are already people dying in prison camps and being arrested and beaten for protests. The violence is already happening and keeping silent about it is just pretending it isn't and trying to keep it isolated to a group of sacrificial others rather than seeing it effect everyone.
Is the situation lamentable? Yes. But this escalation didn't happen in a vacuum.
Idk. Lot of people hoped Luigi would spark a trend and that never materialized. Don't fret too much
That was less than a year ago. In terms of history and revolutions, that's not a long time.
It's easy to read history and think everything happened seemlessly - events clearly triggered subsequent events, in an easy-to-follow pattern on a timeline. In reality, months on a timeline actually take months to happen. We are living in days that will be written in history books someday. The people who read about this time will have a hindsight into our era that we can't possibly possess.
Which is why I don't understand how we can be in the comment thread of a high-profile, wealthy conservative being shot, and there are still people saying that Luigi (or whoever shot that CEO) didn't "spark a trend." Just because we're too close to see it doesn't mean a trend isn't actively emerging right now.
Fair enough. I think lots of people talk about it like they were expecting that it's suddenly open season on em all, but yeah true. This could be a trend. Well have to see.
I mean, there was the blackrock ceo too.
I ain't gonna love bigots
Horrible Trauma is one of the few things that changes people's minds. It's generally in-group pressure, and trauma. Maybe some charlie supporter saw him get a well deserved death will have nightmares for a while, and then stop supporting horrible causes.
Nah, tried that. It Doesn't Fucking Work.
The only thing I'm afraid of is the reprisal that Trump will extract from us.
Whatever he does in vengeance he was going to do anyway.