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I counted the number of right-wing political figures in the US commiserating her tragic death as roughly zero. Yet Starmer, supposedly representing a party against almost everything he stood for, was quick to leap onto social media about Kirk. Sickening appeasement of Trump & the right. Again.

The party getting placated is the one doing political violence professionally

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t like when political violence happens in general. No matter what side they stand on, I don’t think running up and killing politicians in front of crowds is a good thing

Walter Lübcke was shot in the back of the head by a fascist who was utterly incensed at his support for immigrants and refugees. The current German government is working to try and close the borders and shove as many refugees out of the country as possible. Like, fuck the CDU anyway, but holy shit.

And while I believe in "when they go low, we go high", stuff like this makes it so hard resist the temptation to stoop to their level.

I remember Jo Cox 🌸

Yep, exactly. Not one shred of self awareness.

I really thought the madness would break then, and it just rolled on…

I also remember how all the right-leaning tabloids that made the murderer think that Cox's work with refugees meant that he was going to loose his council home, and afterwards those same papers tried to frame him as sympathetic for the same reason.

True. We were talking about the educated past pollies in Australia who could discuss foreign policy in detail, knew their brief, so clever in comparison to what we have today.

And Farage saying they got Brexit do e without anyone dying

"a government of patriots" It's all so grim. bsky.app/profile/chri...

This. It just seemed to be a "ah well, best let Brexit through then" moment Didn't get anywhere near the coverage it should have.

It’s been a disgusting ass 24 hours because the whole time I have been thinking this EXACT thing. House members even joked about it.

Absolutely agree. Just appeared to be forgotten.

It's because "bipartisanship" is a euphemism for the military. The same military involved in colonialism & breaking labor strikes. I'm guessing the military policy of political neutrality doesn't include CPUSA, DSA, Greens, or PSL? But yeah, 2009 was the time to ban the GOP, and it didn't happen.

genuinely i dunno how the true believer west wing libs do it at this point are they made of stone. like unless you're actively profiting from it like democratic leadership or matt yg or whatever your life has just been fell for it again award betrayals since 2008 how are you not the joker already

I feel like the only lasting impact that had was the “you should invent a hammer with a camera inside!” Tweet. Nightmare country

they're so spineless that they don't even have self-preservation instincts anymore, it's wild

Really? Obama didn’t make a statement for the Hortmans?