• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If your feelings weren’t mixed you either don’t value human life or you don’t value democracy.

    • macniel@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      is Democracy really just a choice between an evil and a good? the USA needs way more politcal parties than just two.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        What? The current events are an attempt on someone’s life with the goal of saving what semblance of democracy we have left.

        I don’t even agree with him, but did y’all seriously miss the memo? It’s pretty obvious what he meant if you haven’t been under a rock for the last 24hrs.

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          It’s pretty wishful thinking to think Proj 2025 and all the other MAGAs are going to fade away after the orange man is gone. Did you not see De Santis’ support before Trump entered the race?

          • Facebones@reddthat.com
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            3 months ago

            There’s a lot of bullets in the country, Republicans made dire of that. Shame if it backfired on them.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Edit: a bystander Trump supporter was killed

      FTFY. They were attending a Trump rally. They weren’t just a bystander. They were complicit.

      • supertrucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        You are truly the epitome of an evil person. God help us if someone like you ever gains any real political power

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Trump has frequently called for the violent death of his enemies. Everyone at that rally supported this position.

          I don’t feel bad at all for the thing they want to happen to others happening to them.

          • supertrucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            3 months ago

            So, for all your haunted ideals, at the end of the day, you are no better than him. You are a narcissistic person that gets a perverse pleasure from the suffering of your perceived political enemies

            • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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              3 months ago

              Would you kill Hitler, or throw aside your gun for the sake of “civility?”

              Would killing Hitler make you “no better than Hitler?”

      • supertrucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        No, the person most likely to end democracy will advocate rolling back freedoms to ‘preserve’ it, or to punish the wicked people that are considered their political enemies. The most likely person won’t be a Democrat, but will almost certainly be a leftist that starts their own populist political party

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          Leftists don’t believe America can be saved, they wouldn’t “roll back freedoms,” whatever the heck that means, they would dismantle the state and build up a new one.

        • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          Fascism has always been a right wing ideology. While leftists have made some terrible mistakes, you shouldn’t pretend they are the only or main threat to democracy.

    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Sorry but most politicians don’t care about democracy either, just enriching themselves and close friends

        • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          If I have a bowl of rice, and one of the grains is actively trying to end my way of life, I don’t mind when someone shoots at it with an assault rifle.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            First of all: rice doesn’t have that kind of agency

            Second of all: shooting at a grain of rice in your bowl with an assault rifle is many times more likely to hit you than that specific grain of rice

            Third, if that’s REALLY the best analogy you could think of, you should just stop the whole “communicating your thoughts to other people” thing. Evidently it’s not something you’re ever going to get the hang of.

            Fourth and finally: a propos of nothing except the fact that I just listened to an episode of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, horses are overrated, and not just by the McElroy brothers.

      • canihasaccount@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I never understand why lemmy downvotes someone who is trying to help by providing accurate information, presumably because they think that there’s a very small chance that the person they’re replying to isn’t being sarcastic.

        • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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          5 days ago

          Funny enough, I wasn’t entirely sarcastic. I’ve seen some trump memes that day and suspected smth happened to him, but they were the 1st to explicitly tell it as far as I remember 😅

  • jose1324@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn’t die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We’re fucked.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      There’s still time for the DNC to swap Biden out for a more electable candidate and energize their own base again, for what it’s worth, though at this point I think the DNC wants to lose so they can secure more funding.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I’m thinking… earthquake in the Kremlin?

    There’s a lot of really nice architecture there, it’d be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.

    That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple bystanders Trump supporters dead.

              • InputZero@lemmy.ml
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                3 months ago

                True, but they’re still people. Dehumanizing them because they dehumanized you is another path that I don’t care to see. It’s good to be intolerant of intolerance, but nothing ever gives anyone the privilege to do anything intolerable.

                • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  The Nazis sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials were people, but they still deserved what they got

              • Midnight1938@reddthat.com
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                3 months ago

                Yep, given the number of places currently ‘technically’ invaded by the country. I guess i guess everyone’s desensitised

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            We’re getting into paradox of tolerance territory, tbh. I’m not upset that supporters of fascism were killed.

            I am upset that the guy with the rifle didn’t have better aim (if indeed that was actually how everything went down, and it wasn’t staged in one way or another, because there are several fishy things about this).

          • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            3 months ago

            They are, indeed, people. My point was only that they are not “bystanders”. They are actively involved, and much more so than the average voter.

          • experbia@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            i wouldn’t know, according to them and their folks, my friends and family and I are not people, so I guess my definition of that must differ. moreover, I don’t dispense sympathy for people who would cheer and support the news that me and mine have been hunted down and shot in the street. I don’t sympathize with the aggressors. I’ve just been trying to mind my own business and live my life as best I can, but these people (in sudden newfound need of sympathy and feelings of safety, lmao) have been talking for years of purges of non-Whites and gays, and civil wars, and rounding up the undesirables (that’s me, apparently, by virtue of birth) to clean up the country. might as well be asking me to sympathize with a school shooter over his hearing damage from not wearing earplugs while he mowed down a classroom.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Not mixed, the attempt does not improve or reduce make his ability to run the country. What it does however is increase his chances of winning.

    Gives me Reagan and Hitler vibes.

    • suction@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That it does probably means that Americans deserve whatever lows their country will fall to.

    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Its disappointing. Good someone had the balls to actually try and show he is serious when he says the 2A is there to prevent fascism. Sad he failed.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Disappoint in not enough to describe my feelings.

      I feel like I’m blocked under a huge building about to collapse at any moment and a huge piece of the support pillar just came off…

      …that’s how i feel right now.