• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I have mixed thoughts about this. On one hand, good riddance, he’s done a lot of harm to our country and helped a fascist into power. On the other hand, his death will further divide the country, which is also wholistically bad. It spreads further hate and turns people against each other even more.

    Overall, im not upset that it happened, just worried about what it will bring

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      7 hours ago

      Their acolytes have been doing everything in their power to split themselves off from the rest of the country, and this sort of call to try to come together with them is basically a call to throw ourselves into their country-sized log splitter. They’re splitting and hating and killing regardless of what their targets do to appease or not aside from full on conversion into their cult, and they’ve designed their cult such that it’s impossible for vast swaths of people to join with long term safety just based on their physical traits.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t know, man. I don’t think there’s any healing the divide that already exists. It’s not like Fox and the other propaganda machines are churning out messages of unity or anything. If you’re worried about a slippery slope, I hate to tell you that we’ve been on it for a long time, now. Obviously, the future isn’t set in stone, but I think it’d take one hell of an external threat to get us all to band together at this point. Maybe those UFOs we were all concerned about last year could do it?

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      17 hours ago

      Will it further divide us? Charlie Kirk? Maybe if it was Trump, but do you really think people care enough about this little fucker?

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          Comments online are not the same as real actions, or all politicians would be dead.

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        16 hours ago

        I’d hope not but I’m constantly disappointed in people, and he has a pretty big following as far as I can tell. I worry that he becomes a political martyr and this inspires more political assassinations on both sides.

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          16 hours ago

          He was inspiring political assassinations while he was alive. At least him being dead makes it only one last time.

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      14 hours ago

      It is going to justify the expansion of fascist power, to crack down on the dangerous, violent leftists and their evil ideology. This assassination is exactly the kind of thing the right wants, to further their agenda. They want a war.

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        13 hours ago

        They don’t need justification. They have already been steamrolling over any opposition in the legal sense.

        This is one less leader to rally around. That’s all.