cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9997521
To the person from lemm.ee who reported this post as “terrorism” go fuck yourself.
Link for tickets: https://events2022.tpusa.com/events/kyle-rittenhouse-at-kent-state
Locked because I keep getting reports from people arguing. Cool off.
What the fuck does he have to talk about? He’s just an idiot with a gun.
He has a story about getting away with murder. Sociopaths gonna sociopath
Big “Eh” there. Rittenhouse is no Zimmerman, but the media attention has pretty much ended any chance of a “normal” life for him. He’ll probably make a run for public office in a few years.
He murdered two people, flashed his Republican card, and walked. I’m not saying I admire it, I loathe it/him. I’m just saying a lot of these psychos would love to do what he did and they think he’s a hero, as pathetic as that is.
the media attention has pretty much ended any chance of a “normal” life for him.
Big “eh” there, he willingly stepped into the limelight after he walked, so I can’t blame the media for that one. I would say that at least Zimmerman had the good sense to shit up and fade away, but apparently he’s just super bad on the whole “right wing media” grift and has just floundered in his attempts to turn his vigilante murdering into a meal ticket like Rittenhouse has.
The irony of this happening at Kent State.
It’s not ironic it’s intentional.
After 9/11, this country took a hard turn into fascism and boot licking. I was complaining about the new McCarthyism, the demented expansion of the police state, and the march to the right when my aunt interrupted me to say “not everyone thinks McCarthy was the bad guy there.” She said it was such smug indignation I was genuinely shocked there were people that were fans of McCarthy.
When I said that that kind of un-American behavior leads to stuff like Kent State, she said, “If you can’t be loyal to the troops you get what you deserve.” That’s when I realized that we as a nation were absolutely fucked.
After 9/11…
Fascism and bootlicking were in vogue among conservatives since Nixon.
That’s for sure and I think you can make a pretty reasonable case that they only got worse. They managed to convince most Americans that somehow were becoming more liberal despite the fact that we’re in reality we are getting more fascist every fucking year.
We’ve moved so far to the right as a country that Joe Biden is more of a right-wing Republican than Reagan was. It just so happens that the alternative to Joe Biden is Donald Trump who is somewhere to the right of Hitler, And if Donald Trump were literate we would be in even worse shape right now.
Maybe, but there was definitely a dramatic uptick in highschool and college aged groups that wasn’t as pronounced before. I watched friends who had laughed at recruiters only a year before practically run to recruiting offices. I still know people who fully believe Sadam and Iran worked together to hide WMD.
Funny thinking back to it, those conspiracies were at least plausible.
This nation then reelected George w Bush while it brutally cracked down on protests and got super extra racist real fast and just in time to go murder 170,000 people in two countries that didn’t attack us.
It’s kind of hard to believe that she’s not sort of typical of American fascism. Our actions as a nation make it hard to believe that American fascism isn’t somehow incredibly widely tolerated and promoted.
Then we had Donald Trump, and the entire court system seems to be utterly incapable of dealing with this level of corruption or criminality but the right wing and the neoliberal apologists who own most of the revenue driven media seem to think this is somehow okay.
She’s enough of it to be a real problem.
I’ll grant that most aren’t aware enough to make comments on McCarthy specifically, but they would if they could.
Way too much of the country is running those things blue line flags and licking boots as hard as they can while thinking they’re doing the opposite.
signed up to attend as a student with the name of one of the Kent State Massacre victims.
I mean… it’s probably pointless to point out how tone deaf it is to have a panicked shooter speak at Kent State of all fucking places.
Sensible people’s disgust is the point, correct?
Im pro 2a and I think this fucker is scum.
All of those “armed citizens” fantasize about killing and are just itching to shoot someone. I’ve seen the videos and I agree with the verdict. It was very much self defense, however, he shouldn’t have been there to antagonise an angry protest.
I don’t think shooting a guy in the back because he’s falling down counts as self defense. I also don’t think continuing your killing spree counts when the other people are rightly concerned there’s a murderer running around.