They had 32 bomb threats in Fulton Co. alone. From Trump's Russian friends.

Even if Harris wins the election, it's hard not to think that basically everything is lost. Trump has been completely normalized and with him all kinds of horrific shit. Like, there is no penalty in America anymore for being a Nazi. It's just part of the range of acceptable

That is true. 2016 could have been an aberration. There was room to correct after 2020 if they wanted to. In 2024 this is what republicans want. This is who they are.

One of Trump's clearest "accomplishments" is how thoroughly he's desensitized America to behavior that, in another era, voters would have deemed disqualifying. Plenty of blame to go around—media, craven GOP pols, blundering Dems—but this may be one of his most enduring legacies.

To me, a Nazi salute means "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

I have noticed that the left-of-center response has been condemnation of the violence, while the right-wing response has largely been some variation on, “We need to physically destroy liberals”

We’re at a point where minorities are just supposed to openly accept pure hatred as a “political leaning”

What I currently see on my TL is liberals and (most) leftists expressing dismay and rightists salivating over using this as a vehicle for political repression, even as identity of the shooter and their motivation remains unknown. How's that for "politicizing death"?

Sorry but "black people are too dumb too fly planes" and "slavery was good for black people" arent moderate positions

They don’t view those things as contradictory because they don’t really see people on the left as human. Us yelling at them is far far worse to them than them killing us

Ok I need to leave Twitter again. I should not be getting into fights that help nobody. I will say, about an interaction that happened, that I have a 12 year old sister. The president and standard bearer of the Republican Party is a child rapist. Nobody should be a Republican.

Now that it’s a white dude with no political affiliation but who does have years of pictures of him using guns with his conservative family, I bet Republicans are going to switch to “Well, we don’t know his motive yet, it’s not time to assume” pretty fucking quick.