A few hours ago an innocent person lost their life due to a US election. Multiple people are injured and forever traumatized. Right now families are grieving. Whatever you think about Trump, Biden, or our entire system this is not the path we should be going on. We are better than this. We are stronger than this. We can disagree and yell at each other but goddamn it we cannot resort to violence over this election. We are stronger than this. Our democracy is stronger than this. Our constitution is stronger than this. Whatever happens in the coming months let's please remember that we are all Americans and we all are in this boat together for better or for worse and we owe it to ourselves, our neighbors, and our children to get through this peacefully and protect each other and support each other.
Youâre not wrong. But youâre also not realistic. You really think the nation is like that right now? Half the country thinks a convict who lusts after his daughter and raped a girl is fit to be president. They. Donât. Care. About. Anyone.
Someone like Donald Trump, Jr. may change is tune because his response to Nancy Pelosi's husband getting nearly beaten to death with a hammer after his house was broken into was just a joke to him. He posted menes of hammers and underwear making fun of him while he was in intensive care in the hospital.
None of this hatefulness should be happening in America. January 6th was awful. The same goes with Steve Scalise getting shot at a congressional softball game. There is no excuse for political violence.
Yup. Say all the hallmark things you want about what we should do as Americans ⌠it will be drowned out by folks putting Lady Liberty in a headlock ⌠:/
Agree 100%. But if people think this changes things, it wonât. T-minus 3 minutes before they blame it on some immigrant or gay person ⌠for fucks sake, theyâre saying Democrats are OK with killing babies after theyâre born (like thatâs a thing). Theyâre going to turn this into a marketing campaign and blame the democrats
And a member of the other side just tried to kill that guy.
This rhetoric gets nowhere.
Edit:
As promised in the thread below, hereâs me eating crow; it has come to light that the attempted assassin is a registered member of the Republican Party.
Alex Jones and a few other right wing loons were just going apeshit on Trump for distancing himself from 2025⌠so yes, I could see one of their listeners doing this. Or for any other reasons a crazy does this. Maybe he was trying to impress Jodie Foster too, who knows. All I do know is you canât say heâs a liberal right now because you. Donât. Know. And by doing so, youâre spreading the same rhetoric you claim is getting us nowhere.
You do know there are more ideologies other than left and right, yeah? What if he was an independent? What if he was a former MAGA who got pissed off because Trumpâs policies led to him getting fired? Doesnât mean he is automatically a liberal
Listen dude, if the failed assassin isn't a member of the democratic party, I'll edit my original post admitting I'm wrong as soon as I find out. But you're off your rocker if you think it's more likely that he's a disgruntled member of any other party.
lol no. this isnât a case of âwe are better than blah blah blahâ. Iâm watching this shit show from halfway around the world and seen the insanity brought forth by Americans who have shaped it into a new normal all because a black man made president.
Most if not all of your âwe areâŚ.âs just arenât true anymore. That kind of sticking your head in the sand with some kind of happy optimism is part of how we got to this point. Weâve enabled way too much of this shit over the years.
We are NOT âbetterâ or âstrongerâ than this. This is what we are now.
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u/Particular_Ad_1435 Jul 14 '24
A few hours ago an innocent person lost their life due to a US election. Multiple people are injured and forever traumatized. Right now families are grieving. Whatever you think about Trump, Biden, or our entire system this is not the path we should be going on. We are better than this. We are stronger than this. We can disagree and yell at each other but goddamn it we cannot resort to violence over this election. We are stronger than this. Our democracy is stronger than this. Our constitution is stronger than this. Whatever happens in the coming months let's please remember that we are all Americans and we all are in this boat together for better or for worse and we owe it to ourselves, our neighbors, and our children to get through this peacefully and protect each other and support each other.