Like for over 50 years American right wingers have been fuming about the liberals having managed to turn one of "their" guys into an American icon and the conservatives have mostly had to at least pretend to respect him and his legacy in public and they've felt humiliated and emasculated about it the whole time

Now they want to make the liberals bend the knee and force them to slobber over one of their guys or risking getting fired

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[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 23 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Feel like they’re more trying to lathe into existence a second 9/11 using the dumbest possible event. Like we can talk about the politics around 9/11 but it was a tragedy where a lot of people died, which then of course gets used to increase surveillance on Americans, invade Afghanistan and then Iraq and clamp down on “anti-American” speech (cancel culture anyone?)

Sort of trying to do the same thing again, but instead of a real tragedy where thousands lost their lives and many more lost loved ones and family members, this is just a single shitty debatebro podcaster stuck in the anti-sjw days of 2014 getting mercd. Already trying to pass some bullshit called the Charlie Kirk act. Which I haven’t read but just sounds like bullshit. And of course their constant desire to go after trans people and the broader left. Which yeah they’re already doing, but anything to demonize these groups further. After the Minnesota shooting they were trying to ban trans people from owning guns, we’re probably gonna start hearing about that again. And of course the free speech warriors are already going after people expressing their right to free speech, a la 2001. First as tragedy then as farce.