You haven’t been murdered yet. Now, you might be, and people are making jokes about the situation.
My concern about you maybe getting murdered because of what gets inflamed by this is exactly what I think it’s wrong, and that the people who are happy about it are terrifyingly mistaken.
I am really sad about these comments.
If it makes you feel any better, they are completely wrong.
For me it’s not even about the death penalty aspect (although that also, yes). It’s the extrajudicial killing aspect and what it will do to our already fractured democracy.
That’s what I mean about the thread being fascinating. That dude in particular is all over the place.
100%
And a lot of people work by emotion and groupthink and really want someone who’s super confident with their presentation, who can tell them how to look at it in some satisfying exciting way, and want to follow the presented thought patterns. It actually works really well.
Guys, those of you (what percentage Idk; for all I know it could be 100%, too) who are US left people - taking potshots of violence at a fascist movement is about like eliminating the wasp’s nest by going up and trying to destroy it with a ball point pen.
This is just in general a fascinating comment thread overall
Idk about the people in this thread; the accounts and that whole blahaj genre of left is unfamiliar to me so I can’t say. But I will say that some of the other super “left” accounts that I have observed being super amped up about not voting for Biden being real important, and not really being all that convincing about other aspects of their left persona, have pivoted seamlessly into being super amped up about how this is a good thing and everyone on the left in the US needs to do a lot more of it.
I know how to shoot, too. I haven’t done it for a long time. I’ve had friends in the military, known people who talked about killing people, having nightmares, saw them having trouble adjusting back to normal society and trying to deal with it. It’s not really my world; I’m not familiar at all, but I’ve seen enough little touches about it second or third hand to at least hear some little stories.
You have not the slightest fucking clue what you’re talking about unleashing, like it’s a big game you’re playing. Not an inkling of a fraction.
Ah yes, those well know 1944 elections that everyone was trying to keep on an even keel to avoid a real spasm of violence, or literal death camps, from coming about. Who could forget how instrumental the assassination plot was, in preventing that outcome, before anything bad could happen.
(The Reichstag Fire is a lot better example)
Serious explanation: "Democrat" as a noun is normal. "I'm running as a Democrat." "The current majority in the house in with the Democrats."
"Democratic" as an adjective is normal. "Democratic Party."
"Democrat" as an adjective is super weird. I think it was originally intended as a slur, but to me it just sounds weird, like bad grammar. "Democrat Party." Almost no one uses it that way except conservatives, because no one who doesn't consume conservative media would even run across it.
I found your explanation very bizarre because something like "I'm running as a Democratic" is something I've never heard in my life. If someone actually did tell you that "Democrat" is a bad thing even as a noun, there was some severe miscommunication on someone's part.
Apologies for being sarcastic about it
Edit: Welp, I looked over the history for the user I was talking to, and now I feel silly for thinking maybe they were actually confused somehow, and trying to help them. They’re just trying to obfuscate the original issue by introducing this nonsensical straw man of “I’m running as a Democratic,” I think, and I’m naive enough that I bought into it enough to give them a straight answer on it.
I've tried to Democratic as a noun, and it felt grammatically incorrect. "I'm running as a Democatic." "The current majority in the house is with the Democratics.”
Well that sure is a totally normal human explanation.
I guess I was just mistaken about the nature of blahaj.
Also, it’s not really related to what you said, but I am a little bit curious to see if the really shocking nature of the pattern of the votes changes now that the Americans are going to be waking up.