• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      He’s dead. I hated him but I can’t cheer.

      This is too violent, too awful for the country I grew up in. I am sad not because I give a shit about a dirtbag like Kirk, but that we are now losing Rule of Law and the social contract. We are falling as a nation, and this is just one more domino in that process. They made this world for us but they’re not the only ones who are going to suffer from it.

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        but that we are now losing Rule of Law and the social contrac

        We lost that when we failed to jail Trump after his felony convictions, which came after the failure to convict him in the senate of supporting an insurrection.

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        but that we are now losing Rule of Law and the social contract.

        The last chance to recover this was gone when Biden failed to uphold it against Trump and his followers after Jan. 6. Now Trump is back and throwing the last vestiges of law and order away. You need to accept that we’re not going to vote our way back to normalcy.

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          Absolutely agree, every single person involved in that coup attempt should have been paraded around in orange jumpsuits and shackles and publicly shamed before being locked away for however many years traitors get in prison.

          The next slap in America’s dying face was the Supreme Court granting our king, I mean president, full immunity for whatever the fuck he wants to do.

          Now that people are starting to realize we don’t have a system anymore, we’re going to see more and more violence as the country continues to decay.

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        This is what happens when violent and hateful rhetoric is allowed to be aired freely under the guise of “good Christian values”, while voices calling for checks notes being nice to other people are silenced. We all know that sowing division absolutely rakes in the profits, so do the math on who benefits from that.

        This is not a right or left issue. This is the tolerant refusing to tolerate the intolerant after nothing else has worked.

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The news already brightened my day.

      He’s literally called for attacks on trans people as well as other marginalized groups. He was one of many who were laughing at assaults on liberals and the left. He and others have actively caused harm and death.

      Fuck’em. I won’t “directly” call for violence, but I will engage in shaudenfruede. They can taste their own medicine.

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        He’s literally called for attacks on trans people as well as other marginalized groups.

        Genuinely asking so I don’t have to wade through a cesspool… Do you have some sources I can scour through?

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          In 2024, Kirk cited Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them”) as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters”.[105]
          
          Kirk argued against gender affirming care for transgender people, saying, “We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country. Donald Trump needs to run on this issue”, according to Media Matters.
          

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk

          copying a different comment, but there ya go. there are absolutely more examples to look for too, but i am not going through a dead nazi’s history rn, too busy having a good time.

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        literally went out and got some cabernet sauvignon! i’m no wine connoisseur, but i felt like i needed something to mark the occasion