I'm still absolutely flabbergasted at how quickly we all moved on from Trump literally getting clipped in an attempt on his life.

They tried to muster some outrage and solidarity, but most of us just shrugged and went, "Damn. Oh well, maybe next time."

Billionaires who own the means of production trying to own the means of communication as well.

When they can't, they'll own the government, and outlaw it.

It's like poetry.

Its also hilarious that lemmy.world admins/mods did the same thing with early threads about this yesterday, nuking individual comments celebrating Thompson's death and 24 hr instance wide banning the users that made those comments, then within 2 hrs they undid the bans, and by today seem to have just given up trying.

https://lemmy.zip/post/27427367

The US mocked Trump for being shot at, then failed to keep him from being elected again.

Pretty good sign that people are not going to direct that anger towards actually fixing the problems.

Lol, I appreciate that final line in your comment. So many of us were that close back in 2020... Now things are slated to be worse, and I think I speak for at least millions of Americans when I say we are just fucking over it.

When we've tossed out any semblance of justice in our country at the highest levels, literally ruling that the president is immune from all prosecution (you know, like a fucking king), then asshole corpos that indirectly murder countless people getting gunned down doesn't exactly concern us. In fact, this sort of thing genuinely seems more just than what our highest courts are allowing.

Shit is fucked up in this country, and I don't think many of us want to pretend otherwise any longer. I'm not advocating violence, but I definitely don't think I'll lose sleep over this situation.

I think it makes more sense to use the 🤏 emoji in that context, rather than the Italian gesture.

r/all is covered with positive press for the shooting. Anything getting removed would have to be pretty egregious.

I disagree. I think it just hit it. Think about how shooters crave noteriaty. Think of how this assain is seen as a hero. No. This is just the beginning.

I think too many people saw this as a kind of justice that the courts have never and will never provide.

I don't advocate violence. I also don't think this has a different outcome.

Nah dude, this shit finally hit the fan. Just wait. Terrorism works. Look at what bin Laden did to this country - is it not obvious to everyone alive before and after that he won? He wanted to destroy America and he did. What this was is an act of terrorism, and it’s going to work. Corrupt leaders all over the spectrum are getting nervous. Americans are armed to the teeth and pissed. It only takes a couple of lone wolves with intelligence and gun skills to do some major damage. And who doesn’t wanna be famous these days? I mean who doesn’t like this guy? I’d put him on the cover of time as person of the year. This is just the beginning of some very interesting times. I can’t believe it took this long.

And even more uplifting, this isn’t politically divisive. There isn’t going to be right vs left retribution over this. The entire political spectrum save for a few uppity pearl clutchers (mostly lib elites) are celebrating this.

It's bewildering that aggressively-independent media feels equally cagey about randos saying "good riddance." Like if they allowed that, they would be forced, forced!, to let Nazis says the same about trans people.

As if having an opinion is a contradiction.

Mods of all websites: your role doesn't even require following written rules. If your temper is slow and your bans temporary, you can go by vibes alone, and you are doing a favor to the entire community. Just deal with assholes before the rest of us have to. When "the rest of us" plainly agree that some prick's death is more funny than tragic, silencing that is censorship for the sake of censorship, and people will seek places without you in charge.