• snooggums@piefed.world
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    ICE raids, violent border security, deploying the military to cities, the president declaring war on cities…

    Political violence was a feature before today.

    • Boomers and older Gen-Xers seem to truly have no concept of how many school shootings that Millennials and Zoomers have lived through.

      The response to those was the same every time, and the words they used were similar to those Kirk himself used — “a little random violence is the price we pay for the freedom to own guns.”

      Since Uvalde, I have just been straight with it and just refer to it as the Second Amendment God. The Second Amendment God occasionally gets hungry, and must be fed with blood. That’s what we as Americans want. This has happened a thousand times over in 25 years, and each time, we all cast a silent vote that this is what we want.

      The Second Amendment God exists because we want Him to exist.

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      It’s only “violence” when liberals do literally anything as a response, even if it is mildly rebuking the Confederates, or telling them NO.

      The convicted felon in chief gets his panties all twisted when people - particularly Black people - were protesting. I’m sure he deemed that “violence” even if most of that was spurred on by police and Confederate counter-protesters being the violent ones.

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        In this case apparently it’s “liberal violence” before there’s any indication of the murder motives or affiliation

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        Which is why I think we’re at the tipping point. I think Dems and leftists have realized we’re going to get blamed no matter what, so if we’re going to get blamed then at least do something to get blamed for. And start making them afraid

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      It’s only “political violence” when it’s right wing figures that get hurt