Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
by throwaway-11-1 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:25PM
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this country is literally building concentration camps, masked gangs are kidnapping people off the streets with no due process and the executive branch is threatening business leaders into public humiliation rituals of loyalty. What exactly should we be allowed to describe this style of politics as? Please frame your answer like I'm the dumbest guy who's ever lived and have never read a book
Don't forget law firms that participated in cases Trump doesn't like have been bullied into doing hundreds of millions of dollars of pro bono work for the administration. And his supreme court just decided, with no explanation, that picking people off the street based on their perceived ethnicity is OK. And people are being deported to prisons in countries they've never visited, where they spend all day shackled with no prospect of a trial.
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
by antonymoose on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:36PM
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Nothing you’re describing is happening.
Circa 2017 during then “punching Nazis” era of social discourse, I started a new job. The first week in I went for lunch with a Junior teammate and was told “violence against ‘Nazis’” is fine, it’s justified. I asked how. I was told, my brain is a part of the body, so if someone says something so stupid that it ‘hurts the brain,’ the speech is now assault, so counter-violence is justified.
I, with hint of irony, told my new coworker that was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard and asked if I should now assault them for hurting my brain… and was met with hostility.
I don’t quite known I’m going with this exactly, but I feel folks are not giving the world around them an honest assessment, no matter their Ivy diploma. Politics isn’t a “gotcha game” and please stop tying to make it such.