I liked McCain. He came to the Consol R&D labs during his campaign when my sister worked there.
Definitely cut from a different cloth considering the Hanoi 7 and what they endured.
We really didn’t.
We just didnt see him as some hero worthy of multiple bronze statues, and we saw that he was being turned into a hero by most people on the left.
We also saw that he died of causes unrelated to his arrest. As in, he was going to die within a few hours of that video no matter what.
Trying to equate the two - both in circumstances, and in the way they died is a very big mis-step.
Neither deserved to die.
Only one of them was trying to make the country a better place.
Only one of them was killed.
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I think both were killed and none of them tried to make the country a better place.
Unless their country was their immediate family or something.
Was all those riots and burning and murder and assault of police and innocent people the right celebrating?
I must have missed the invite.
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In the sense that one of them took a lethal dose of fentanyl and the other took a bullet to the neck, sure.
This is how I know you should stop trying to weigh in on the subject.
Ignorant people always seem to say the most.
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Nah that was just performative anarchy by strange “men” and women.
I shouldn’t be laughing because if I was a business owner I’d be pissed…but looking back on it….what the hell even was that time period
Everything isn’t a sports team argument Andrew.
You’re right.
When people show up to argue shit about sports teams without knowing anything, they get shit on hard.
This is you showing up to argue sports without knowing anything, and getting shit on. Hard.
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“We also have to figure out how it came to be that a kid with a 4.0, with a 34 on the ACT, with a full ride scholarship at my alma mater, who didn’t even last a semester, drops out and ends up doing something like this,” the governor said. "We need to understand that, and we need to figure out how to stop it.”
A dress rehearsal for what we’re seeing now.
Thats why federal departments roll in heavy with the national guard and all the back up they can muster.
Smack that shit down before it can gain momentum. Its no longer “Defund The Police” and BLM, its defund the criminals and stay the fuck out the way.
What is there to know?
If you have to ask, you shouldn’t be having the conversation.
Back under the bridge for you, troll.
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Even if that may be true, that may never change their opinion. Goes in one ear, out the other.
That’s just a people thing.
I’m all for blindly following leftist ideals.
I know
Alright I’ll fuck off. Sports team arguing is addicting.
I suppose this feels a bit personal for me, due to having a step-brother (now a step-sister) who followed the exact same path.
Incredibly intelligent by those metrics, but it turned into a sense of entitlement because life didn’t get handed to them. So rage started to build, and eventually the family lost contact.
It was self-worshiping intelligence, not put to use - he wanted to climb the social hierarchy without learning it.
I found out later that he had been pissed at me when our parents got married, because he had always been the smart one, but I showed up and was smarter than him (in his mind) and athletic, which were polar opposites.
He dropped out of a private christian college after a year, while working a job at UPS which had 100% tuition reimbursement.
I haven’t spoken with them in over a decade, but looking at this shooter has me revisit those memories.
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Another racist response from a racist
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Are there any meaningful actors from ”the left” who are celebrating or downplaying Kirk’s death?
I mean like influencers, policitians or other notable figures.
Asking sincerely.
Ps. I don’t usually watch political influencers from social media, but since this spilled out to the strength world I watched this.
https://youtu.be/bmu_nV-3kbg?si=cE5BA4jFsjhdcraZ
I’m getting the vibe that I’m extremely lucky to have several close people who are ready for debates about any subjects and who are very sensible, even if you disagree with them.
Pps. Not that I think Hoopers video was particularly deep or well argumented, but I agree with the end of the video.
He literally went to college campuses to challenge ideas and allow himself to be challenged. It is basically impossible for a right wing echo chamber to exist. I suppose you might have missed the woke ideas if you watched no sports, no TV, no movies, no pop culture award shows, didn’t have the internet, and never visited an American city or university. Amish elders might exist in an echo chamber that is free of radical leftist thinking, but few others are so fortunate.
I feel so lucky to have survived hundreds of assassination attempts when I was subjected to deadly knee pins over and over by men much larger than Chauvin. Maybe not doing fentanyl and meth before doing things that get you pinned on the ground was the key to my survival.
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Locally we have the District Attorney of Maine’s largest population center, multiple public school teachers, a prominent blogger promoted by multiple universities, along with Maine’s largest newspaper running an op-ed characterizing his views as fundamentally malicious two days ago.
Most national level Democratic politicians have the good sense to say that assassination is bad, but still lack the good sense to say that calling half the country Nazis is bad.
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