robocallBut don't say it out loud
kubicaIf your feelings weren’t mixed you either don’t value human life or you don’t value democracy.
chemical_cutthroatWe aren’t running out of humans, and we don’t live in a democracy…
Turns out you don’t have to be running out of humans to value human life.
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.
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.
Define ‘Human’
macnielis Democracy really just a choice between an evil and a good? the USA needs way more politcal parties than just two.
What? The current events are an attempt on someone’s life with the goal of saving what semblance of democracy we have left.
I don’t even agree with him, but did y’all seriously miss the memo? It’s pretty obvious what he meant if you haven’t been under a rock for the last 24hrs.
It’s pretty wishful thinking to think Proj 2025 and all the other MAGAs are going to fade away after the orange man is gone. Did you not see De Santis’ support before Trump entered the race?
There’s a lot of bullets in the country, Republicans made dire of that. Shame if it backfired on them.
galoisghostThe USA needs ranked choice voting
NorthWestWindI don’t even know the news how can I feel mixed
Assassination attempt on Trump in a rally.
I see. Thanks
explodicleParadox of tolerance: Trump will end democracy and even more lives.
There is no way to know if he wouldnt have just turned into martyr and help elect someone even worse
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
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.
Cowbee [he/they]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.
The “bystander” was a fascist at a rally. Excuse me for not crying over someone cheering about installing a dictator, killing LGBTQ+ people, sending immigrants to camps, and destroying the fucking planet.
I don’t value fascist life.
RivalarrivalEdit: a bystander Trump supporter was killed
FTFY. They were attending a Trump rally. They weren’t just a bystander. They were complicit.
You are truly the epitome of an evil person. God help us if someone like you ever gains any real political power
I’ve been called worse by better people.
You don’t have to convince me. I believe you
Trump has frequently called for the violent death of his enemies. Everyone at that rally supported this position.
I don’t feel bad at all for the thing they want to happen to others happening to them.
So, for all your haunted ideals, at the end of the day, you are no better than hi.
Would you kill Hitler, or throw aside your gun for the sake of “civility?”
No, it means the next guy to commit atrocities will have a different last name. Your cartoonish views on morality is tiring
Gotcha, you would in fact let Hitler be.
Well, what if the guy that took Hitlers place was every bit as evil, but wasn’t a bumbling idiot in military matters? Worse yet, what if he gave his scientist budgets and told them to make super weapons with no real interference? The first atomic bomb could have dropped on Bristol or Leningrad, instead of Hiroshima
It would take time for someone to take his place, which gives resistance time. It is a good thing to fight fascism.
There was plenty of resistance to the Nazis rise to power, until the Nazis consolidated power and suppressed it. Any authoritarian leader in 1930s Germany would have done the same thing. Remember, if you’re taking out Hitler before 1931, all the factors that allowed him to rise to power are still there, like the great depression and the treaty of Versailles. Anyone becoming a dictator during that time would have done so likely by some variation of Hilters playback with much the same results
Yes, the liberals generally aligned with the fascists against the antifascist left. This consolidation of power did happen because of the material conditions in Weimar Germany, you are absolutely correct. However, that does not mean killing Hitler would have been worthless.
History does not move by Great Man Theory, we agree on this. At the same time, fighting Nazi leaders does harm the Nazi movement.
Sorry but most politicians don’t care about democracy either, just enriching themselves and close friends
I don’t have to have feelings about something to value it.
Today was a bad day
I have thoughts and prayers for the bullet that couldn’t do it’s job
What happened? Did we discover another exo-planet?
hungryphrogSome guy tried to shoot Trump. Tried.
FBI or secret service?
Secret service proved itself once again to be the most useless.
“What the fuck do you fucks even do?”
“It’s a secret”
DUMBASSNearly.
No signs of intelligent life?
I don’t have mixed feelings. No-one should ever, attempt, to assasinate a would be dictator.
Do or do not, there is no try
- Yoda
Yep, we all know Yoda would be disappointed.
rustydominoNo mixed feelings at all. I am unequivocally sad that we lost Richard Simmons today 😢😢😢
Damn this is how I found out. Extra sad now, thanks.
And Dr Ruth. That lady was such a charming little horn dog.
hemmesAnd Dr. Ruth! 😪
it sounds like he was in a dark place for the last decade or so; if that’s true, at least now he’s no longer suffering.
DiplomjodlerAbsolutely not. My feeling of disappointment was completely unequivocal.
You mean this: bleepingcomputer.com/…/hackers-use-poc-exploits-i… ?
Pretty regular stuff if you ask me
No, there was an assasination attempt on Donald Trumpet.
I never understand why lemmy downvotes someone who is trying to help by providing accurate information, presumably because they think that there’s a very small chance that the person they’re replying to isn’t being sarcastic.
Funny enough, I wasn’t entirely sarcastic. I’ve seen some trump memes that day and suspected smth happened to him, but they were the 1st to explicitly tell it as far as I remember 😅
Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn’t die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We’re fucked.