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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What a pathetic excuse for an elected leader. Almost crying because the shooter was "one of them" and not their fake "enemy".

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[–] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Where is my straw man I ordered off Amazon?”

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

pulls off the mask a la Scooby Doo
"Another right wing gun nut?!"

"And I'd have gotten away with it too!"

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

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[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The investigation is ongoing, but I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this. We will find you. We will try you and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law. And I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah.

We can return violence with violence, we can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes. Because we can always point the finger at the other side. And at some point, we have to find an off ramp, or it's going to get much much worse.

Incredible the difference a day can make.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Source? Who said the second thing?

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[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The second quote is from 13:20 in the video linked above me. https://youtu.be/WNWEwyPTh_M?t=800 if you're lazy.

The first quote is from the same guy a day or two earlier, I found it transcribed in a fox news article and won't go looking for it again.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

Oh sorry. I didn’t want to watch a video so I didn’t realize the quote was from it. Thanks

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Governor Cox of Utah. his big schtick is lecturing people about reaching across the aisle for civility while still being abrasive and maga half the time

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't understand why he's trying to spin it like people from Utah are exceptional people for not rioting and burning cars. The guy was a grifting YouTuber. It's not like the president died.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago*

"That's just the spark son. The excuse we've been waiting for. America's wanted this war for years. "

They were going to make any attack on anyone an excuse for more violence on their part.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

The people who make it a regular habit to attack others because of who they are, yet also somehow have a persecution complex, find it pretty easy to assume that when one of their own gets attacked it's because of who they are too. It's like a damned street gang that's looking for a fight. "One of themmmm killed one of ussss, time to counter attack! To waaar!"

"... oh shit THAT bullet was from our side TOO? I think nobody noticed. Can we get this party started or what!?"

It's as gross as it is predictable. Their reactions to these shootings always follow the same rule: a member of the master race killing one of the subhumans is just an unfortunate fact of life, but one of the subhumans killing a member of the master race merits national if not global headlines that will at minimum be memorable trivia for people who lived through that year.

And I say this as an old white dude.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I will never be able to get over how this frightened, insecure 11 year old in an adult costume presents himself on camera:

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 22 points 1 year ago

he constantly on cocaine.

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[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago

He absolutely said that and tried to make it seem like he was talking about him being an Utah citizen.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I think he also meant Mormon. IIRC the shooter's family is Mormon.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Mormons have historically been extremely racist. It was pretty recently that they stopped preaching that black people are black because god cursed them (the curse of Ham). They put on a smiling, demure front, and the church has tried very hard to rehabilitate their image, but the Mormon religion is pretty fucked up.