Republicans and Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Mace, are canceling events and taking other security precautions.
The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is sending shock waves through Capitol Hill, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressing fears for their own safety and taking greater security precautions following a summer of political violence.
Members are beefing up their security, moving public events indoors or canceling them altogether. One is even vowing to carry firearms.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the progressive star who has faced numerous death threats over the years, said Thursday she had postponed two public events planned for this weekend in North Carolina, including a rally in Raleigh set for Sunday.
It’s always depressing yet eye-opening to hear the opinions of people at the grassroots. The average citizen of America truly is so unfathomably dumb. Even the lower class of the 1700s probably had better critical thinking skills. We might even be setting all time records here.
There are some arguments, like the “not able to defend himself” one, that are so mindbogglingly stupid that I don’t even know what to say in response.
Which might be their rhetorical purpose.
People have always been this dumb as a whole. We’re apes who decided talking shit to each other is better than throwing shit at each other. If a few dozen of us hadn’t gotten lucky enough to figure out some amazing things over the centuries we’d all still be praying to the god of the hunt to bring back the buffalo herd next season so we don’t starve to death.
There’s a good book called “Not for Profit” came out around 2010 and describes how the systematic erosion of arts/literature, the Humanties, from school systems, is being replaced by bare minimum to train workers. Creating a dumb population that can’t think for themselves, makes it easy for government control with no resistance
If throwing shit was socially acceptable I’d definitely choose that over talking.