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Case in point: Jaimee Michell of the weird 'Gays Against Groomers' group was on Tucker Carlson the other night and said that the shootings will continue until we end this 'evil' agenda of gender-affirming car.
It's an endorsement of terrorism. And Tucker loved it. Also, it shows how deeply the mainstream GOP lies about what they mean when they say 'groomer'. Gender-affirming care doesn't groom children for sex. That's just not connected. They just are saying it to legitimize violence and oppression. But people are people, and being in an oppressed group is no guarantee that one won't try to leverage hate for one's own benefit. |
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Tonight on Fox News:
Followed by a new special from Tucker Carlson that asks the question "Are roving bands of homosexuals murdering elderly people with machetes?". Tucker's special guest, the reanimated corpse of Phyllis Schlafly, has the answer and will explain what you can do to keep grandma and grandpa safe this holiday season. |
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The new media spin: the poor non-binary person was harassed by edgelords on the internet until he snapped.
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No it isn't.
First, Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't 'the media'. Second, they put 'harassment' in scare quotes for a reason. If you think Ben Collins is blaming them, he appears to just be reporting what they said, that the shooter had an entry, and that Encyclopedia Dramatica had relation to other massing shootings. Hey, does anyone else remember the right wing reporting that the Uvalde shooter was a trans gender person? The Buffalo one? No? How did that pan out? Neither Collins nor ED is cited there talking about the shooter allegedly being non-binary. |
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So...the shooter's father was interviewed and the good Mormon famous for...doing porn and meth...was elated to find out his son was the shooter and not gay.
Conservative values. EDIT: This is how the shooter could actually be non-binary and still full of hate for the lgbtq community. His family hates anyone connected to it, to the point they would rather their grandson and son be a mass murdering terrorist than be gay, and the shooter might blame the community for it. He could have been brought up to believe the only way to be lgbtq is because that community did something to him. Or it could be another right-wing troll to further attack the community that was just terrorized. Like the above mentioned assertions that other shooters have been trans gender when there was never any indication of that at all. Ironically it might make the shooter the first non-binary person to be accepted by mainstream conservatives. |
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Hate crime or not, the biggest problem is that this psycho got his hands on a gun.
He's already been upstaged by a Walmart manager who killed 6 employees yesterday, and 4 shot in a parking lot today. And of course that is a small fraction of today's shootings in the US. That's just what is on CNN's front page right now. This dude is already yesterday's news. One shooter is a right winger maybe, sure, but the next one is a teenager, and the next one is an angry employee. Statistically people are probably more likely to be shot in a Walmart than any club, and for no reason whatsoever. The common theme seems to be mental illness and access to guns. But we all know that. Maybe you can call it right wing terror but right now I hesitate to do so, even if it is a hate crime. Maybe I'm wrong. More info needed, but I don't really care to focus on this particular incident. People will always hate, nothing new there. It's the access to guns. Put it this way, if I had kids in school I'd be terrified. |
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Yes it is the access to guns. We will get the usual "My freedoms", constitution, good gun owners excuses handed out again no doubt but in other countries where mass shootings have occurred (my own country of Scotland for example) they have thought about it, decided that there should be sensible restrictions on gun ownership and have implemented changes that have made mass shootings a rarity. In America you have 2 in 1 week and I very much fear the political response will be to shrug their shoulders and say "nothing to be done" along with too many people in your general population.
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Then again, if enough of us wanted it changed we would be a force to be reckoned with. Not nearly enough of us do.
As mentioned above, in other countries like Scotland, the government and the people agreed to do something about it. Here, not enough people want to, and the politicians are paid/rewarded not to care enough. Ultimately, I'd like to see the 2nd amendment repealed, and in the meantime interpreted rationally. But too many people love their guns. We are a sick country/society in many ways, and I see a clear and deep divide between people. Maybe we blew it in the Civil War. We didn't clean up the mess completely. This country needs to grow up. |
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Canada certainly has room for improvement, and proximity boosts the risk of contamination by the American bacillus. Looking to my south I see the strains of a libertarian selfishness that cannot see its own self destructiveness. Clinging so fiercely to a fatal 'right', in the face of the evidence of its net negative impact and against the demonstrated benefit of at least some curtailment, points to a national sickness indeed.
If stats for civilian-involved shootings showed that more gun deaths resulted from self defence than from criminal aggression, there might be a justification for the widespread ownership of guns. Of course, the very existence of the shootings in the first place points to the underlying problem, leading too easily to an arms race. "People are having to defend themselves because of all the guns in circulation, and so the obvious remedy is more guns!" It's an insane Catch-22. Accent on insanity. |
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The highlighted I agree with. We are a sick country when it comes to the love of guns. So many people's love of guns in just incomprehensible to me.
I don't agree that we didn't handle the aftermath of the Civil War correctly as far as pardoning Confederates. You can't try millions of people for treason. |
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It's great to see resident right wingers using a terrorist attack on the lgbtq community to attack the same community. It's especially good because it is, as always, 'this system won't work because we will use it to hurt you, we are evil' as 'argument'.
Which is what the right in general has been doing, saying the attacks will continue until the 'grooming' stops. Your friends sure like that they can use the threat of violence openly now guys. How do you feel about that? Now they're even going after the Trevor Project, the anti-suicide crisis program for lgbtq youth, calling it 'grooming'. Yes, the shootings will continue until the threat to children from...not committing suicide, is ended. Can't have lgbtq kids being groomed to live. |
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Conservatives after a mass shooting: It’s too soon to talk about gun control.
Conservatives after a mass shooting at a gay club: Now is the perfect time to mock the LGTBQ+ community. Always such a class act. |
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Why are you equating self-ID trans activists with the lgbtq community? These aren't the same thing at all. In fact, lesbians make some of the biggest vocal opponents of the self-ID movement. And self-ID is hardly a universal position even among trans people.
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Yes, my desire for conformity is so strong I ignored groups like 'Gays Against Groomers' and 'LGB Alliance' and have ruled out the shooter actually being nb.
Wait, no, I did the opposite of those things. That doesn't mean I don't recognize the right wing trying to So, no, I don't think there is absolute conformity in the community over every detail, but I do know that the lesbian who went on Tucker Carlson and said that these attacks will continue until 'the grooming' ends is still a right wing terrorist regardless of the fact she is a lesbian. You'll spin this as 'any disagreement must be ejected' but no, anyone who leverages terrorism to get try to get their way must be rejected though. You're using a terrorist attack on the community as leverage to try to drive a wedge in. That's not subtle or clever and it doesn't need entertained as 'I'm just disagreeing'. The cost of this isn't just your dignity, but the further normalization, encouragement, of violence. It is putting one more 'silver lining' into terrorist attacks for your views. You're going to claim this is just emotional attacks on the right wing, but it's a clear and increasingly common outcome of tactics like you employ. Your fellow right wingers are going increasingly openly fascist and terrorist and you're here leveraging it. What do you think will happen? I called this long ago too. The right will keep killing more and more and you'll pretend to be against it while doing nothing meaningful to oppose it, and what's more, you'll try to gain from it. |
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Yet you cling to the idea that opposition to self-ID is intrinsically anti-LGBT.
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We should have done a lot more than we did. We let the ideology remain and fester...statues, memorials, laws. Flags on frickin' courthouses FFS.
I'm kind of kidding, kind of not when I say we should let them secede again, but this time annihilate them, especially the ideology. I'm letting my emotions run away there obviously, but that's how fed up I am. Our nation could literally fall apart because of these dimwits. |
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Nope, using it here and by the right wing anti-lgbtq people, is though. Using it as a wedge is.
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You'll do nothing meaningful and precious little even token. 'I don't support the shooter, but...' followed by whatever attack you want to make on dems or trans gender people or teachers. It isn't subtle.
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You don't want to talk about how even with red flag laws, this county decided to be a 'gun sanctuary'. You don't want to talk about how this shooter got away with tons of threats including against police. You don't want to talk about their MAGA grandfather and their father's crazy hate of the lgbtq community. You know, things that actually do matter in this shooting. You won't take a stance on it and 'it isn't the time' right? I 'wonder' why. |
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Believe me, I do understand your frustration. There are times I think we'd have been better off in the long run if the South had seceded. But there's that whole pesky not ending slavery thing.
![]() The nonsense with the statues, Confederate flag waving, etc. really started after Reconstruction ended in 1877. You certainly don't find statues to Hitler, Erich Raeder, Erwin Rommel (even though he fell out of favor, to say the least but the German people didn't know that) in Germany. |
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Benefit how? Saving lives? Disgusting, I know. If I'm wrong, in what other ways is this beneficial to gun control advocates? The majority of all Americans want stricter gun control. The benefit to me would be less people dying, perhaps even myself. The only ones playing politics after a shooting are the right wingers by saying that addressing it is political. Go **** yourselves. Wanting less gun violence isn't politics and neither is pointing out the idiocy of our policies, ESPECIALLY after a shooting. ETA: I think a lot of us on both sides believe it is wrong to talk about this or that after a shooting. Utterly ridiculous. I wonder which group came up with that one? |
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My daughter wants an AR-15 for Christmas. I told her she'd just shoot her arm off.
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Right wing terrorist attacks on the lgbtq community are a consequence of self-ID?
That's the same reasoning as the mainstream GOP who have been saying the shootings will continue until the 'grooming' stops. It is, quite literally, one step removed from 'nice place you've got here, be a shame it something happened to it'. 'This is a consequence of your ideals' is such the **** take. Or, it is just an off-topic attack on 'liberals' leveraging a terrorist attack on the lgbtq community. Conservatives are pushing more political violence, their reasoning is illogical, and their complaints about it being pointed out are hollow af. |
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Your say so is worthless. None of you have supported the idea at all. It has no merit and is transparently just a ploy to attack your political adversaries.
'The person who did the terrorist attack on the lgbtq community can use self-ID to call themselves non-binary!' 'Ok, so? That doesn't change a thing here.' 'It's a problem for trans gender people!' 'Why?' 'You just don't like the point.' Yeah, no, you all aren't clever but you are obviously trying to use murder to your ideological advantage. Gonna talk about all the right wingers lying about grooming in relation to this attack or just gonna keep pretending self-ID is meaningful here at all because...yeah, you all can't even connect the dots. It's just implying stupid, stupid things. |
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Your belief is irrelevant. You, Zigg, and Brainster, can't articulate how self-id is an actual issue here, on this subject. You're all using it to attack people you hate, even if those people were just the subject of a terror attack.
Giving pass to political violence, as has become mainstream GOP views in the US. 'Don't do it, but I understand if you do, wink wink'. |
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