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The Kotal man/BMCM's avatar

There was something inherently noble in the manner by which Trump faced what he knew could be his death.

In that moment as you said he revealed a stronger character than what we knew he previously held, and likely than what he knew he had, great article.

We live in interesting times, the tendency from here is escalation.

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I've advocated political violence once in my life.

During COVID I felt that the restrictions of government had reached a point that were "unconstitutional" in not just a legal but spiritual sense. I felt that while I could normally stomach losing political contests and having policies imposed on me that I disagreed with even strongly, there was a class of "rights" beyond all that which nobody could touch. In fact having such a class of rights is what makes it easier not to become consumed by politics.

I kept wondering "when is someone going to assassinate Fauci?" "When is a mob going to beat a school board to death?" "Why the hell has my church agreed to suspend communion?" "Why don't people tear down these barriers and just live?"

And then after wondering this for months...leftists just did all that in the name of hating white people and destroying property! And we all just sat around and let it happen. The the authorities supported it while they policed children hugging mothers at funerals and made toddlers wear masks all day!

I always thought of Jan 6th as "the covid riot". Whatever was going on in the head of the people actually doing that, I wondered why it didn't happen 1000x over for the last year.

I can't understand the assassination of Trump because I can't understand someone objecting to him that much. Not a rational person, even a person who doesn't want him to be president. I reject political violence in basically all cases. But I do feel like the Americans of 100 years ago simply would not have put up with that shit in 2020.

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