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…it depends…

I appreciate the links

“The left can’t meme” is the right’s 3rd and only good joke. The only other two jokes they have is mentioning trans people are a thing and mostly resisting the urge to yell the N word repeatedly in place of a punchline.

Humans aren’t machines; they need freedom. Let people do their jobs without micromanaging their existence on the clock. Set and track performance, sure; but this is like tracking mouse movement as a metric for productivity: you’re gauging the wrong thing and it’s actively harming your efficiency.

Tankies gonna wankies. Block and move on.

Ah, that could be the case I guess. But it’s not that i had a feeling of inconsistency: it’s just that I could understand how someone may see “violence is unacceptable” followed by “but glad he’s dead” to be disingenuous or some form of hypocrisy without thinking much about it; wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve had such a discussion.

A shortcut to understanding would be: I’d feel the same way if he had been killed by terminal cancer. I hate cancer, and I’d rather we lived in a world without it, and I’d have empathy for him and those who know him. But such a person being gone would still tip the cosmic scales towards a less hateful and othering world. Doesn’t make it right, doesn’t mean he deserved it, doesn’t mean I’d cheer for cancer.

It sure fucking feels that way sometimes. I had an argument with one of my parents the other day over the fact that she was completely incapable of understanding any distinction between a war and a genocide. “It’s war; they’re the enemy. You kill the enemy in war” - in direct response to me asking if she was okay with elementary schools being bombed.

Bizarre, surreal, and severely dejecting.

Perhaps being sane in an insane world is a type of insanity all it’s own.

Didn’t donate to Trump. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-suspect-trump-donor/

Could pick other things apart but less straight forward and I’m about to go to sleep, so I’ll leave that as an exercise to the reader. Anyways, call it a 50/50 chance. But as I said: it doesn’t really matter.

Yet again https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

Given the “hate” quote, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had left leaning beliefs. But does it matter? Conservatives were practically running with the trans-shooter narrative before his body even hit the floor. And for those who aren’t complete fucking morons, most understand that the only people who commit murders like this are mentally unwell which vastly overshadows whatever their voting preferences are.

There’s something to be said for conservative rhetoric appealing to and amplifying such delusional people, which may be why the vast majority of such violence is perpetrated by rightwingers. After all, a sociopathic lack of empathy contributes to both violence and bigoted worldviews. But they’re hardly causal, essential, or exclusive.

A crazy terminally-online white kid with a gun shot a racist fascist asshole dead. The reaction from both the right and the left is influenced very little by any other facts. Some people are sowing chaos and it’s working. Most don’t have the time, ability, capacity, or desire to sort through the mess and evaluate nuances and uncertainties: they’re just running with whatever fits their biases best. Not only does the truth not seem to matter, but what conclusions they’re drawing also doesn’t seem to matter because they already had them. It just nudged everything forward by a notch.

In time, I’m sure they’ll lean all the way reich

We are so back (to the 1900s)

Normally people quote something like that when they’re trying to point out something damning or draw attention to something that’s internally inconsistent… Is that what you mean?

Yeah so is the new testament of the bible but…

Ah yes, a dogmatic conservative religion and the progressive critics of capitalist economic theories; a natural union and group of people that definitely exists…

Never let a good tragedy go to waste. Sanctify evil and call its detractor’s behavior abhorrent. Lie, confuse, dilute, and sow chaos. This is what they do, and they’re well practiced.

97% chance of whoring, 2% chance it’s platonic and they’re just really lonely and socially inept, 1% chance you get a ride in the TARDIS

The sanewashing I’ve seen is wild. People crawling out of the woodwork to yap about him being a martyr for dialogue. Saw someone say “we sent a messenger and they shot him”… Aside from the fact that we know nothing about the shooter or their motive, buddy: have you seen the ‘message’? Because, yikes. I don’t think he deserved being killed and i condemn such violence, but i must acknowledge that the world is a better place; that’s just how the cookie crumbles when you live life as a morally bankrupt promoter of abject evil.

Profit motive. We engineer food explicitly to increase consumption and suppress or avoid satiation to that end. Obviously this would be the result.