1/I wonder what the function of talk like this is. It is trivial to think of examples of "mass atrocity crimes" that had nothing to do with "poisoned politics of hate and demagoguery;" e.g., Paddock, the Edmond post office shooting; James Holmes, etc. And it's not clear whathttps://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1056591285740625921 …
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It's unclear to me too what we ought to do in response to this. Not sure what "push back loudly" is supposed to entail exactly. I do expect it will translate to the usual idiocy about gun control and lots of fingers bring pointed at the usual suspects.
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It's clear that the derangement is still building, perhaps towards critical levels. How many atrocities have to go down before it's clearly time to GTFO? I'm only alive today because my grandparents GTFO of Poland before it was too late.
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He didn't say no cultural context. And in any case there are plenty of mass killings that have no real cultural context beyond some guy being a psycho. As to derangement building, yeah I think it's absurd to compare America today to e.g. Weimar Germany.
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things progress over time, you know? Germany in 1928 vs. Germany in 1933 vs. Germany in 1939. What year is it in America?
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There is no comparison whatsoever. Seriously.
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