Michael Snoyman on Nostr: I saw a video with LambdaMom last night, it was a bunch of leftists talking about the ...
I saw a video with LambdaMom (npub1ytx…qztz) last night, it was a bunch of leftists talking about the need to kill Trump. The phrase that stood out in my mind was "someone needs to take one for the team."
Four years ago, plenty of people on the pro-Trump side believed that a civil war was not only inevitable, but was a just thing to do. Arguably, that stance is far more vicious than assassinating just one person. The price in blood would certainly be higher. So a fair takeaway is: the anti-Trump crowd is morally more justifiable.
I disagree. The pro-Trump side was claiming--whether you think they were correct or not--that the system had been broken. The constitution ignored, laws circumvented, and that we had an illegitimate president. It was a belief in the good of the system, and a claim that bloodshed was the necessary next step to restoring justice. Soap box, jury box, ballot box, and finally ammo box.
The claim of "taking one for the team" is fundamentally different. It's a tacit admission that killing the president is a crime. It's a recognition that Trump _is_, in fact, the legitimate and duly elected president. It reveals the fact that democracy was never the point, but instead the outcome was. And that the good of their group outweighs the rules of the system.
It's tribalism, collectivism, and mob rule, all rolled into one delusional package.
https://youtu.be/Ypc0jRXV9Ms?si=4SOyQHMCzeDlf3Ho
Four years ago, plenty of people on the pro-Trump side believed that a civil war was not only inevitable, but was a just thing to do. Arguably, that stance is far more vicious than assassinating just one person. The price in blood would certainly be higher. So a fair takeaway is: the anti-Trump crowd is morally more justifiable.
I disagree. The pro-Trump side was claiming--whether you think they were correct or not--that the system had been broken. The constitution ignored, laws circumvented, and that we had an illegitimate president. It was a belief in the good of the system, and a claim that bloodshed was the necessary next step to restoring justice. Soap box, jury box, ballot box, and finally ammo box.
The claim of "taking one for the team" is fundamentally different. It's a tacit admission that killing the president is a crime. It's a recognition that Trump _is_, in fact, the legitimate and duly elected president. It reveals the fact that democracy was never the point, but instead the outcome was. And that the good of their group outweighs the rules of the system.
It's tribalism, collectivism, and mob rule, all rolled into one delusional package.
https://youtu.be/Ypc0jRXV9Ms?si=4SOyQHMCzeDlf3Ho