• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

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

    Edit: a bystander was killed and so was the 20 year old gunman. This is the human life I’m referring to.

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        5 months ago

        There is no way to know if he wouldnt have just turned into martyr and help elect someone even worse

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        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

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          5 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.

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          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.

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      5 months ago

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

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          5 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.

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            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.