Wish I had that kind of optimism anymore.

Because I disagree they know shit about Gaza or USAID or DOGE

They don’t know shit about those things because they discard any information that makes them uncomfortably while privileging any information that affirms their pre-existing position or prejudices. I pride myself that I’m pretty good at arguing with people, and IRL, I tend to take a much softer tone because I have to deal with these fucks day-in and day-out. There’s no block function in meatworld if I find them too tedious. And let me tell you - you can lay it out in terms they absolutely understand, and in a week, a day, an hour, they will revert to their prior position. They don’t ‘forget’ what was said, they disregard it. “Well, it’s just my opinion. Who knows what’s true anyway? There’s a lot of lies on both sides.”

Their positions are not predicated on their knowledge, nor are they interested in retaining knowledge that contradicts their positions.

and we want H4A so how are we gonna get there when they keep voting in whoever’s on tv?

Fucked if I know. Really wish that ‘demographic destiny’ bullshit peddled in the late 2000s worked out better.

I hear ya, and I so get it. But look, these people aren’t trying to be evil or whatever.

I grew up in Appalachia.

These people do not have bad hearts insofar as they’re not sociopaths. They’re very capable of kindness and love, even towards total strangers.

But they bear a set of bizarre values that absolutely ends up with them trying to be, by our standards, evil.

Maybe. But I’ve watched much better people than him, who did far less to deserve it, die.

That one of the biggest cheerleaders of fascism here in the States, in both advocating for genocide here and abroad, got iced is basically celebratory. Insofar as it’s one less Nazi in the world, not so much that it’ll do anything worthwhile beyond that.

I watched it. Felt nothing.

I’ve been hyper-aware of the possibility of a school shooting since I was in grade school. I’ve watched Palestinians be murdered for over ten years. I’ve watched poor young Russian idiots and Ukrainian soldiers blown apart for the past three years. And I just saw one of the biggest cheerleaders of all that in the States killed.

“Sick reality” has nothing on it. A piece of shit who advocated for and contributed to the shittiest of shitty policy in the US, which has led to the deaths of numerous other people, was killed, and by one of the shitty policies he himself advocated (political violence or gun proliferation, as you prefer).

This isn’t even getting into the ‘less’ severe domestic dangers he was part of pushing forward - the concentration camps for immigrants, the rampant dehumanization of LGBTQ folk, the stripping of medical assistance to the filthy poors who are too sick to be worth keeping alive.

Fuck him.

At least one.

Yep. Several times. Felt nothing.

Am I numb? Maybe. But after shitwits like him supporting genocide, imperialism, school shootings, rape, political violence, domestic violence, and persecution, I’m done feeling empathy for fascists.

An autopsy may finally determine the true size of his face. Praying for the integrity of his facial features postmortem, for science.