• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If she was straight, maybe. I’m unfortunately not so sure they’ll care about open season on lesbians.

    If they get pummeled in the midterms it’ll be due to the economy, not the murders.

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      Only if there are free and fair midterms. If they’re not canceled, they won’t be free nor fair. I live in a country where an authoritarian regime was voted in. Do you know what happened next? None of the elections were canceled, but all of them stopped mattering, they became circus shows that people only attend by force or to receive a not even that good reward for it. MAGA knows you want to pull them out of power and they’ve got the means to ensure their rule continues.

      I wish Americans would just STOP waiting for the ballot box to right the wrongs. The time to do something is now.

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      I hope you’re wrong. There’s no way that officer knew her name at that point, much less her orientation. He was fully willing to, even if unknowingly, kill a heterosexual, Anglo-Saxon, Evangelical, stay-at-home mom as long as she was anything but politically right of center. Again, none of that demography should matter, but for those to whom is does, I hope they have or develop the common sense to know that this means they are and have been on the menu for quite some time now.

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        There’s no way that officer knew her name at that point, much less her orientation

        Are they not using Palantir bullshit and stingrays and everything? Not only that, but the wife was outside of the car filming and maybe said/did things prior to the footage to indicate they were together.

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        I hope I’m wrong too, but don’t underestimate the hoops people are willing to jump through to continue defining themselves as the in-group and every victim as the out-group.