Citizens United spelled the final nail in the coffin.

It should come as no surprise that with the

• Decentralization of media,
• The massive rise in wealth inequality and number of billionaires,
• Deregulation of money as speech,
• And foreign interference from Russia, Israel, China, etc. muddying the waters...

... And finally, combined with

• Eroding education standards
• Distancing of parents from their children
• Widespread mental disorders and substance addiction and sometimes literal brain damage (lead poisoning, head trauma from football, etc.)

... That intellectualism is losing the race. These people live in completely alternate realities. Principals of religious faith have now fully been incorporated into political ideology. Once untethered from reason, it's all about what you want to believe.

It's not that they don't believe their side is violent.

They believe their violence is justified. It's everyone else that is wrong.

It's a subtle but important distinction because they will gladly accept violence for their ends. They already have during January 6th.

As soon as I saw "CDC" in the first headline I saw, I knew what kind of person did this, and what their political ideology was.

So fucking predictable.

I have an antivax coworker who is also virulently anti-immigrant. Her main reason for being anti-immigrant is that she thinks immigrants are unvaccinated and bring diseases into this country. When she told me this I was too busy looking for my jaw on the ground to try and argue with her. She is exactly as unpleasant and ugly as you would imagine.

That's smart.The probability any given antivaxxer might end up shooting you is still low, but I'd wager it's several orders of magnitude higher than if you disagreed with any other type of person on a similar subject.

I try to get in real good with the antivaxxers in my life, just in case. Like the people who thank AI.

Is the shooter still alive? Then definately white.

No no, they're saving lives by killing the scary scientists that are secretly injecting nanobots into our children that brainwash them into being woke!

When will Democrats tone down the rhetoric? /s

Pork is beans ...

Arbieit macht frei

You are commenting on a news article about it.

Now?

Cop was black, tho