Hippiekinkster
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda quote:
ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster Or just maybe if the public gets outraged enough and speaks up right after shit like this happens, the right-wing agitators will cool their rhetoric and the unhinged will be less likely to believe they received a message from Palin or Beck to go murder a Dem Congresswoman or some innocents in a church in Knoxville. Spot on, as usual. And I'll take your reasoning a step further - I'm shaking my head in bewilderment here, because it doesn't seem to have occurred to any of these people that maybe - just maybe - the reason that some of us are so outraged and outspoken right now is specifically because we are furious about the senseless loss of innocent life. I mean, jesus christ... a fucking nine year old child goes to the store with her parents and gets her fucking head blown off by a fucking lunatic. A nine year old child. It's fucking horrifying, and god damn it, it's fucking infuriating. I would think that to most people, it would go without saying that we are appalled and sickened by the tragedy and the horror of it. But apparently, unless we recite it out loud as though it's some sort of secret password, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that we are unfeeling monsters, and have no right to discuss the issue at all. Well, fuck that. I've been literally sick to my stomach all day from the mental image of that dead little girl, and the unimaginable grief of the people whose loved ones were blown away by this worthless piece of dog shit - and I still feel like discussing the political aspects of the crime. So I'm going to. Because I have yet to see anyone offer a single rational reason I shouldn't. Well said, Komrade. Anger was my SECOND response. My first was sympathy for those who suffered such a horrible loss - not only the victims, but their families, their friends, and indeed anyone who knows them. Tears started coming to my eyes (well, I'm an unabashed and unapologetic Liberal - we have those sorts of reactions. As a chronic pain sufferer, I have great empathy for those who have to endure pain, whether physical or psychological), but my emotions quickly morphed to fury at a portion of our society that urges, goads people into going out and murdering for their political beliefs and actions (even if such goading isn't blatantly overt; just overt as in the "crosshairs" adverts). The attempts at deflection I've read (well, it wasn't political, he's just newtshit crazy; or "people use language like "crosshairs" and "targets" and "take them out" and "shoot 'em dead, burn the corpses, and salt the ashes" all the time") are pure and simple horsepucky. THAT deflection, and the refusal to take responsibility for their words, are revolting to me. The Weeper of the House quoted that sick fuck Beck as saying something like, "politicians on the other side use the same language..." Yeah? I haven't heard it. Have any of y'all? Not only deflection, but a flat-out lie by that sonofabitch Beck. Crickets chirp in the background as I impatiently await the rightard apologists to own their shit.
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