• saxysammyp@lemmy.world
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    Honestly this blood is on the hands of places like Fox News and OAN. They cater to and mermen’s mental illness until it manifests like this. And they know it. Fox News was making fun of its viewers off camera. The way that the skillfully manipulate the minds of the vulnerable is nothing short of intentional. If a therapist were to do this they would see jail time for sure. But when the media does it, we all just shrug.

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    I wonder how many MAGA Republicans come to his defense saying, “The police did not need to kill him, he wasn’t a threat. He was in his own home,” while they never gave two shits about Breonna Taylor, and possibly even said that she deserved it because she was possibly involved in crime. Well, here we are, you feel part of what the Black population felt, and so what can we change? Is it the guns, is it the law enforcement? Or is it the people at the top (same people, for both sides), who made this happen?

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        She used to date a person involved in crime, and went to his house a number of times, but she was not with him at the time. That’s all, but she was being followed in relation to him.

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            Correct.

            And just to be clear, I’m not saying she was involved in crime, I’m saying these things are why the police were watching her and why they might say she was “possibly involved in crime”. I do not believe she was at all, and from all accounts, she had already distanced herself from that person quite some time before her murder.

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    While I don’t celebrate the man’s death, I am thankful that the FBI acted to stop him before he hurt anyone else.

    I fully believe in free speech and open political discourse, but deadly threats of violence need to be taken seriously and acted upon quickly.

    If you threaten to kill someone, you’re denying their right to free speech. There’s no free speech when you’re dead. It’s my belief that a person should not be protected under the same rights that they deny to others.

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      It’s my belief that a person should not be protected under the same rights that they deny to others.

      Me too, but it sounds like a pipe dream at this point. 😢

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        It’s not. Remember that’s what all oppressors want you to think. All that evil requires to exist is for good people to do nothing, which is why those who would do evil do all they can to convince you that your efforts against them mean naught.

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      No, a PATRIOT who was MURDERED by the GOVERNMENT. I’m going to EMPHASIZE words by CAPITALIZING them and occasionally bolding them like a fifth grade POWERPOINT presentation, because my AUDIENCE has the attention span of a GUPPY suffering from COCAINE WITHDRAWAL. SAD

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    Anyone dumb enough to post about that kind of thing on Facebook… I don’t even have words. That would have been dumb in 2003, let alone 2023!

    Also, I am enjoying the mental picture of how fast this guy’s MAGA friends reached for the FBI hotline when they saw his posts.

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    There had to be a way to resolve this without someone dying, not that the FBI gives a damn, of course.