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Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

mindslight wrote: post #190
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #75

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Self-identified "conservatives" are pushing this wave of censorship and autocracy. You're not helping anyone with those rhetoric tricks.

> Self-identified "conservatives" are pushing this wave of censorship and autocracy Yes, exactly! They are lying to themselves, and as a group. They're not conserving our society, but rather throwing it away. I'm not doing a rhetorical trick - they are doing a rhetorical trick, and I am calling it out.

When a group calling themselves 'X', who are also broadly called 'X' by outsiders, decides to do something, that group 'has something to do with X'.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by rsynnott »

mindslight wrote: post #204
Bratmon wrote: post #100

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This is a distinction without a difference. "Regressive", "reactionary", and "conservative" are three words that refer to the exact same people and mean the exact same thing.

No, the words mean different things. When used to refer to a group, those meanings confer connotations. The point is that we need to stop referring to people destroying our society as "conservative".

Words mean what they are used to mean. In a political context, "conservative" has had _many_ meanings over the past few centuries.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by nailer »

tastyface wrote: post #248
nailer wrote: post #245

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The core of Christian theology is that all humans are sinners, yet capable of change and salvation. Dehumanizing criminals by calling them vermin is about as antithetical to Christianity as you can get. It is the language of hatred and fear, not humanistic love. A Christian who calls his fellow humans cockroaches is wearing religion like a shirt.

What’s the first commandment again? I’m pretty sure murder and calls to murder are about as antithetical to Christianity as you can get.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by nailer »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #224
nailer wrote: post #208

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> Why is it bad to call criminals cockroaches? It's dehumanizing [1]. > vast majority of crime is immoral The most immoral acts in human history, crimes against humanity, have followed campaigns of dehumanization. (The term cockroaches is also peculiarly linked to historical genocides. If Kirk wasn't aware of the reference he was making, he was almost certainly citing someone who was.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Wikipedia isn’t a reference. Also you missed this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553429

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by [deleted] »

fzeroracer wrote: post #229
nailer wrote: post #207

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Downtown SF has been bad since Covid, as anyone that’s been there before and after can attest. Salesforce has a building in downtown SF. Wanting to have it be something close to pre 2020 levels of crime is very much precedented.

You could spend approximately two minutes looking up how that's going in Chicago and see how well it works.

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Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by nailer »

fzeroracer wrote: post #229
nailer wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downtown SF has been bad since Covid, as anyone that’s been there before and after can attest. Salesforce has a building in downtown SF. Wanting to have it be something close to pre 2020 levels of crime is very much precedented.

You could spend approximately two minutes looking up how that's going in Chicago and see how well it works.

As I already mentioned you could just ask people that live in SF:

https://x.com/andercot/status/1977098477399327009?s=46

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Post by lawn »

nerdponx wrote: post #23
iancmceachern wrote: post #2

No one is safe in this environment

Conservatives mostly can get away with anything right now.

Keyword "right now".

Many who initially supported Hitler found themselves dearly regretting their actions.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by estearum »

nailer wrote: post #263
tastyface wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core of Christian theology is that all humans are sinners, yet capable of change and salvation. Dehumanizing criminals by calling them vermin is about as antithetical to Christianity as you can get. It is the language of hatred and fear, not humanistic love. A Christian who calls his fellow humans cockroaches is wearing religion like a shirt.

What’s the first commandment again? I’m pretty sure murder and calls to murder are about as antithetical to Christianity as you can get.

What on earth are you talking about?

Is this some word-association game where you’re finding your way back to people celebrating Kirk’s murder?

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