• GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Mine was George Floyd. When I saw so many people stand up and say that man deserved death over a bounced check I knew they lost their damn mind.

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      7 hours ago

      The idea that death is an acceptable outcome from being suspected of any minor infraction underpins the conversation around basically every police killing, with every single person on the side justifying it being tacitly accepting of that premise.

      It’s lunacy.

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      7 hours ago

      A few years after 9-11 for me. I grew up watching my classmates sing songs about indiscriminately bombing people in Afghanistan, and news reports of people being beaten or killed in the US for wearing any clothing that appeared Middle-Eastern. It made me sick to my stomach.

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      24 hours ago

      Nobody deserves to die… Even if they’re… uh… charlie kirk… No I think that one’s ok.