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I'm happy he's not spewing hate anymore. However, I abhor (and denounce) how that came to pass and remain genuinely disgusted at the sick, bloodthirsty mob social media turns into when shit like this happens (or attempted happens).
I am very much not an "ends justify the means" kind of person and firmly believe that kind of logic is extremely dangerous.
How does this make me feel? Well, disgusted. Disgusted that there's more gun violence in the world, disgusted that people are cheering it on, and disgusted with pretty much everyone's knee-jerk takes on the matter. I can forgive celebrating his passing as dark humor / gallows humor. I can even understand laughing at the schadenfreude due to the guy's stance on exactly this kind of thing. But for people to be praising the suspect or calling for more is firmly crossing the line into psychopath territory.
Again, the ends do not justify the means.
I can feel in my bones that the other shoe is about to drop, and all these people salivating over the bloodshed are not going to be happy when it does. Violence only begets more violence, and people need to understand that and not be cheering it on.
Thank you for your empathetic reply. You pretty much wrote out what i was thinking. We don't need more violence, we need change not bloodshed. We need people that will safeguard certain lines that may not be crossed.
Exactly.
If people are so willing to cross those lines, what are we even doing or trying to uphold?
Thanks, I love it.
This exactly.
I'm not sad about his death because he was an objectively harmful person, but I do feel pretty bad that this is how it happened.
A civil war is only going to hurt the US more, but it sure looks like they're headed that way based on the online reactions I've been seeing over the past few years.
How can they be hurt more. They are no longer the country they were 8 months ago, not even a close approximation. They've flipped the script and then thrown the script in the garbage.
Outside of the Internet, where nuance still has meaning(for now), the US is largely populated by reasonable people that want pretty much the same thing. Which is to say, they want life to be better for themselves and their communities.
The steps on how to make that happen and who is at fault for the situation currently are debated at length, but widespread calls for real violence are a fairly recent phenomenon. It wasn't like this a decade ago and they are cashing in whatever global goodwill they had at record pace, but outside of the admin, most of the people in the US are just people, with complex opinions and ideas. They aren't the caricatures they appear to be online.
A civil war is going to throw basically everyone's current life into disarray, leading to even greater instability, and misery as well as problems in policy both domestic and foreign.
100%.
I try to remind myself, though, that it would be a waste of time trying to yell at this tidal wave of rage that's bearing down on us just as it would to yell at an actual tidal wave. I think we need to be grabbing sand bags and securing our food supplies and looking to get to the other side of this period of history. I think it could easily last a generation. And if we're really, really effective (and lucky) it could be as short as another decade. But there's no use rubbernecking or bellyaching. We just need to focus on fixing this broken-ass world.
I do agree, I think more is to come soon, and we should take take precautions to be ready.
This may come off as a bit crazy, but I think it might not be the worst idea to prepare a bugout bag, just in case