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whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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Get wrecked white supremacist fascist, advocate for gun violence and against empathy means you shouldn’t be surprised when someone takes you up on that bet.

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - G M Gilbert

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Manmoth@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The irony of this comment.

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- whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” - Karl Popper
  
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  - Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There is a difference between not tolerating intolerance and actively calling for the killing of / celebrating the death of an intolerant person.
    
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Cruel@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
He did not support gun violence. Just blatant bad faith.

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- whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  He did support gun violence, wasn’t his whole motif the only way to stop a bag guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, and armed guards in schools to prevent mass shootings? That’s clearly advocating for gun violence to avoid the obvious solution of better gun control regulations. He was willing to accept violent gun deaths in support of his 2a position.
  
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  - Cruel@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Using that logic, everyone who supports cops or the military using guns is a supporter of gun violence, and anyone who supports physical self-defense is a supporter of violence.
    
    He was willing to accept violent gun deaths in support of his 2a position.
    
    Yeah. Everything has a trade-off. I don’t want swimming pools outlawed, so I have to accept that ~350 toddlers are going to drown accidentally in pools every year. That does NOT mean I support toddlers drowning, I just tolerate it as a cost. It’s not like Kirk wanted deaths from gun violence.
    
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