• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    6 hours 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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      5 hours 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.

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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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        2 hours ago

        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.