Shouts of “he should be shot” could be heard multiple times Thursday night at the Republican midterm convention as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was criticizing prominent Democratic politicians by name.
This is something Democrats and the DNC need to understand: Republicans are willing to kill for their beliefs.
Until the DNC stops believing that Republicans will be “reasonable”, Democrats will fail our country. It’s only a matter of time until Trump has his version of the night of the long knives.
People today are too far gone from the reality of our situation to understand this. Democracy is only meant to prevent killing one another en masse, as a means to say who would probably win in a war. That’s the very basis of its design.
Think about it. Think of human history. And why is the cutoff exactly >50%? Strength means victory- if not a pyrrhic one.
If you aren’t even willing to vote for your beliefs, you certainly aren’t willing to pickup a rifle. The other side still will.
But it’s only as good as genuine strength makes it count. Does anyone really think angry letters are enough? Our species is not actually passive; although proper education and acceptance of one another’s opinions could maybe one day get us there. Perhaps.
yes. We need to get rid of the ability for media companies to influence our voters, and rich interests to buy our politicians. Until then we are cooked, and the rest of the world is cooked in direct proportion to how much America can mess with them to satisfy some rich persons special interest.
Its hard to chart a path to get to a better result though. Clowns will say just voting will do it, but voting in a captured system will get you an outcome thats permitted by the rich, not one that will fundamentally change the game. Its like cows voting that they not be slaughtered. No one wants a revolution, but how do we get there without one? sit ins? voting in primaries? sternly worded letters? protests in protest zones? I dont have any answers either, but I feel like we have to think more creatively than just adopting what worked in the 60s or using revolution. We arent in the 60s anymore. Protests like those arent tolerated anymore, and the Dems are as bad as the repubs on repressing dissent.
I mean, the amount of cheering and celebrating at Charlie Kirks death pretty much shows that both sides are only leaving the other alive because jail is a powerful de-motivator.
But it’s only good enough to keep a person civil if they think they have something to lose. Make society bad enough and people start seeing violence not as a last resort but as a first option.
Kirk’s death was celebrated because he said that “a few deaths from gun violence were fine to justify gun liberty”. Kids dying at school were ok but his death wasn’t? Kinda double standard, don’t you think?
His beliefs killed him, we should be happy he died thanks to what he believed most.
Also, he thought empathy was a weakness, why should we show empathy for him? To show we are weak? Nah, he died, we laugh because that’s what he would have wanted.
This is something Democrats and the DNC need to understand: Republicans are willing to kill for their beliefs.
Until the DNC stops believing that Republicans will be “reasonable”, Democrats will fail our country. It’s only a matter of time until Trump has his version of the night of the long knives.
Just look at that AI post he made calling anyone opposed to AI traitors. His handlers are going to stop fucking around soon.
What post is that
The DNC is also willing to kill for their beliefs but Palestinians only please.
The DNC failed this country a long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far, far away.
‘We’re doomed.’
Democracy was doomed when Nixon wasn’t convicted of treason and sent to the firing squad.
People today are too far gone from the reality of our situation to understand this. Democracy is only meant to prevent killing one another en masse, as a means to say who would probably win in a war. That’s the very basis of its design.
Think about it. Think of human history. And why is the cutoff exactly >50%? Strength means victory- if not a pyrrhic one.
If you aren’t even willing to vote for your beliefs, you certainly aren’t willing to pickup a rifle. The other side still will.
There’s an absolute metric ton of domestic and foreign born propaganda out there trying to convince US citizens to pick up a rifle instead of voting.
Vote.
But it’s only as good as genuine strength makes it count. Does anyone really think angry letters are enough? Our species is not actually passive; although proper education and acceptance of one another’s opinions could maybe one day get us there. Perhaps.
But probably not.
yes. We need to get rid of the ability for media companies to influence our voters, and rich interests to buy our politicians. Until then we are cooked, and the rest of the world is cooked in direct proportion to how much America can mess with them to satisfy some rich persons special interest.
Its hard to chart a path to get to a better result though. Clowns will say just voting will do it, but voting in a captured system will get you an outcome thats permitted by the rich, not one that will fundamentally change the game. Its like cows voting that they not be slaughtered. No one wants a revolution, but how do we get there without one? sit ins? voting in primaries? sternly worded letters? protests in protest zones? I dont have any answers either, but I feel like we have to think more creatively than just adopting what worked in the 60s or using revolution. We arent in the 60s anymore. Protests like those arent tolerated anymore, and the Dems are as bad as the repubs on repressing dissent.
I mean, the amount of cheering and celebrating at Charlie Kirks death pretty much shows that both sides are only leaving the other alive because jail is a powerful de-motivator.
But it’s only good enough to keep a person civil if they think they have something to lose. Make society bad enough and people start seeing violence not as a last resort but as a first option.
Kirk’s death was celebrated because he said that “a few deaths from gun violence were fine to justify gun liberty”. Kids dying at school were ok but his death wasn’t? Kinda double standard, don’t you think?
His beliefs killed him, we should be happy he died thanks to what he believed most.
Also, he thought empathy was a weakness, why should we show empathy for him? To show we are weak? Nah, he died, we laugh because that’s what he would have wanted.
Awe. *sniff. You do care!
Thank god for dead Charlie Kirks.
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