testfactor

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[โ€“] testfactor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, perhaps you're right, but I bet if we took a poll here we'd get a majority of people sounding off that it was a good thing he was murdered.

But maybe you're right and everyone agrees it was bad he was murdered. I wouldn't bet on it though.

[โ€“] testfactor@lemmy.world -3 points 1 hour ago

I don't have a problem with the comic in the sense that I think the author should be shot, in the same way that I can have a problem with Charlie Kirk and not believe he should be shot.

I can disagree with people without wanting them dead, shockingly.

Kirk was trash, but that doesn't justify an extrajudicial killing.

[โ€“] testfactor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

A general call for someone's death has never been ruled as fighting words in the history of US Law. But I don't think that was really your point.

The thing is, I see people calling for the death of Donald Trump all the time. I don't think that means he's morally justified in killing those people.

That's effectively what this comic is arguing, but in reverse.

Look, I hate Charlie Kirk as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean we need to say that assassinating him was a good and just call.

He can be a loathsome PoS, and shooting him to death extrajudicially can be a bad thing. Both those can be true at the same time.

[โ€“] testfactor@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

In 1997? From Arkansas? That seems... exceptionally unlikely. Or, at least far far less likely than that he was just cheating.

[โ€“] testfactor@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Combine that with the fact that someone commiting adultery should be disqualifying for them becoming president.

Look, I get that all the social norms have been completely ground to dust, but character does in fact matter. We should want a good person who refuses to cheat on their wife as a leader.

Reducing this to just a fun fling because you like the guy is the same thing the hypocrites who support Trump and all of his scandals do.

If he's willing to betray his wife for a quicky from an intern, why would I trust him with anything else? For the person who's leading the entire nation the bar should be higher.

Also not to mention that he was 49 and she was 22. If this was anyone less "likeable" than Bill we'd all be calling him an absolute creep. He was pushing 50, and she could barely drink. And he was her boss.