• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    11 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.

    • Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      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.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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      10 days ago

      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.