It's time we face the fact that the reason we have massacres is because the people who prevent any remedy want them to exist.
The massacres aren't the price they're willing to pay for the freedom for "gun rights," whatever the hell that means.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres aren't the price they're willing to pay for the freedom for "gun rights," whatever the hell that means.
The massacres are the point.
Those who insist on the right to bear arms against oppressive government insist on their right to a massacre at their personal discretion.
They may disagree with another man's choice of massacre, but they still insist on their right to their own.
The massacre is the point.
They may disagree with another man's choice of massacre, but they still insist on their right to their own.
The massacre is the point.
And then we have right-wing demagogues.
What is the point of fomenting hatred against marginalized people, if those who would follow your dark proclamations to their natural conclusions don't have the ability to easily carry out what you suggest?
The massacres are the point.
What is the point of fomenting hatred against marginalized people, if those who would follow your dark proclamations to their natural conclusions don't have the ability to easily carry out what you suggest?
The massacres are the point.
And then we have the gun industry, whose profits rise with every massacre.
The massacres aren't the point for them.
The profit is the point.
The massacres are just marketing.
The massacres aren't the point for them.
The profit is the point.
The massacres are just marketing.
The killers are with increasing frequency killing people the president is not-so-subtly identifying as deserving
The things he says aren't distinguishable from things white supremacists and neo Nazis say, nor from things said each day on Fox News or other extreme right outlets.
The things he says aren't distinguishable from things white supremacists and neo Nazis say, nor from things said each day on Fox News or other extreme right outlets.
The massacres are the real-world staging of manifestos inspired and emboldened by power.
Yes, and this morning I'm reminded of the Trump voter disappointed by his harmful tariffs, complaining "He's not hurting people he needs to be hurting."
The massacres are a desired result.
Yes, and this morning I'm reminded of the Trump voter disappointed by his harmful tariffs, complaining "He's not hurting people he needs to be hurting."
The massacres are a desired result.
Do you think you can participate in a political movement energized with a collective desire for massacre, without participating in that desire?
I don't think you can.
"Send her back" means "Make her not exist."
They didn't care where she came from.
The tribe has spoken.
I don't think you can.
"Send her back" means "Make her not exist."
They didn't care where she came from.
The tribe has spoken.
"Lock her up" means "make her not exist."
"Build the wall" means "make them not exist."
"Shithole countries."
"Destroying our way of life."
"America first."
"Make America great ... again."
So... who ARE the right people to hurt, anyway?
The massacres are the point.
"Build the wall" means "make them not exist."
"Shithole countries."
"Destroying our way of life."
"America first."
"Make America great ... again."
So... who ARE the right people to hurt, anyway?
The massacres are the point.
Does the news of a massacre while the previous massacre happened terrify you?
Does it make you feel helpless?
Want to leave the country?
Want to hide?
Withdraw entirely?
Then I think it did what was desired.
It "hurt the people who should be hurt."
Mission accomplished.
Does it make you feel helpless?
Want to leave the country?
Want to hide?
Withdraw entirely?
Then I think it did what was desired.
It "hurt the people who should be hurt."
Mission accomplished.
Those reading this who participate in this political movement, and who think I'm being unfair in my conclusions: prove it.
Stop blocking every remedy preventing massacre.
Because otherwise I don't believe you, over the evidence of my eyes and ears.
Stop blocking every remedy preventing massacre.
Because otherwise I don't believe you, over the evidence of my eyes and ears.
"When violence is my orientation, I no longer have to ask those questions. I don’t have to worry about motive or objective—the violence itself represents both purity of motive and objective in and of itself."
armoxon.com/2017/09/bubble…
armoxon.com/2017/09/bubble…
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1157803228530188289?s=20
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/erixson76/status/1158171601583521792?s=21
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/briantashman/status/1158709176132145155?s=21
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1159442336751001600?s=21
Even a person who considers themselves the “good guy with a gun,” has a worldview contingent on being the hero by preventing massacres. Their worldview still requires massacres to make sense.
Massacres do not threaten that worldview; they support it.
Massacres are the point.
Massacres do not threaten that worldview; they support it.
Massacres are the point.
But if you’re a person who is actually actively trying to create massacres, then every massacre helps.
A pro massacre ideology wants to create a world with massacres. Any massacre will do.
The massacres are the point.
A pro massacre ideology wants to create a world with massacres. Any massacre will do.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/mattbors/status/1162125081612390400?s=21
Every massacre enacts a collective desire for massacre.
When you're pro-massacre, you start to root for the tanks, not the lone man standing in front of them.
You start rooting for the gears of the machine.
You cheer the boot, not the human face.
When you're pro-massacre, you start to root for the tanks, not the lone man standing in front of them.
You start rooting for the gears of the machine.
You cheer the boot, not the human face.
https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1162158202013782016?s=20
For a pro-massacre ideology, any massacre helps create the world they seek.
Every massacre is the desired result.
The massacres are the point.
Every massacre is the desired result.
The massacres are the point.
Gun defenders understand a world with massacres; it's a world without massacres that confuses and frightens them
The right they seek to preserve is the right to deliver killing violence, at any instant, at their sole discretion
The massacres are the point
An elected official:
The right they seek to preserve is the right to deliver killing violence, at any instant, at their sole discretion
The massacres are the point
An elected official:
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1183544912043741190?s=21
Do you understand the reason we have gun massacres is because we have an entire political movement for whom a world without massacres makes no sense, and a world with massacres is energizing?
They watch their leader gun/rampage murder and they cheer.
The massacres are the point
They watch their leader gun/rampage murder and they cheer.
The massacres are the point
They understand a world with massacres.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
We have massacres because many of us want massacres.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
We have massacres because many of us want massacres.
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1188067961707388929?s=20
They understand a world with massacres.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1199200986658553857?s=20
Shout-out to the people who write me every day to tell me this thread is sick: maybe go tell the people who fantasize about massacres that they're sick.
They understand a world with massacres.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1204838304031657984?s=21
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1204838304031657984
They understand a world with massacres.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/NYTNational/status/1211029572805939200?s=20
They understand a world with massacres.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
They fear a world without them.
They see massacres as an entirely viable and reasonable solution to losing power through constitutional or democratic means.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/repkenbuck/status/1235944686910660609?s=21
https://twitter.com/RepKenBuck/status/1235944686910660609
It's not the last time an elected figure has casually threatened to murder their colleagues, and it won't be the last; and they do it because they understand their voters, who understand a world with massacres, and fear a world without them.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
They understand a world with massacres—the ability to create a massacre at a time and place they judge proper.
They fear a world without them.
The massacres are the point.
They fear a world without them.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
The entire idea is that violence is good. It's not self-defense. It's the right for white people to kill who they think needs killing at any moment.
Police brutality is the outsourcing of the massacre.
The entire idea is that violence is good. It's not self-defense. It's the right for white people to kill who they think needs killing at any moment.
Police brutality is the outsourcing of the massacre.
https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1269486494957387776?s=20
The white supremacist in the video and the one who approvingly retweeted him both clearly understand the police to be a violence-delivery mechanism operating on their behalf.
Otherwise why would the police removal necessitate them doing it themselves?
Otherwise why would the police removal necessitate them doing it themselves?
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1270159388079263746?s=20
The massacres are the point.
The brutality is the point.
Removing cops is unacceptable, not b/c they desire order, but b/c they desire violence, delivered on their terms, to recipients of their choosing.
They understand a world with massacres. They fear any alternative.
The brutality is the point.
Removing cops is unacceptable, not b/c they desire order, but b/c they desire violence, delivered on their terms, to recipients of their choosing.
They understand a world with massacres. They fear any alternative.
The more we watch police, the more they're videotaped, the more we see their outraged reactions and escalating violence in response to any suggestion to any accountability, the more we realize that brutality isn't an aberration.
It's the product.
It's the product.
Wanting to reform brutality out of the institution we call "police" is like wanting to reform eggs out of a hatchery.
If you did so, the institution wouldn't exist anymore.
Which in the case of a brutality delivery system, we should hope to do.
The brutality is the point.
If you did so, the institution wouldn't exist anymore.
Which in the case of a brutality delivery system, we should hope to do.
The brutality is the point.
The massacres are the point.
It now seems inevitable, that police would begin to side with shooters.
It now seems inevitable, that police would begin to side with shooters.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1298743052207620097
The massacres are the point.
The individual ability to carry out massacres as a matter of sole personal discretion was always the point.
The reason they're saying so now is this: they feel it's safe to.
The individual ability to carry out massacres as a matter of sole personal discretion was always the point.
The reason they're saying so now is this: they feel it's safe to.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1298774120599973889?s=20
And they feel safe to say so because power is celebrating it, advocating for it, openly.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/1298739954751803393?s=20
And here I am being told that independent voters fearful of violence will turn to trump.
It’s a lie. “Independent” voters who desire increased violence will turn to Trump. We’re going to find out how many there are.
The massacres are and always were the point.
It’s a lie. “Independent” voters who desire increased violence will turn to Trump. We’re going to find out how many there are.
The massacres are and always were the point.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1300609591085064194
The massacres are the strategy and the point.
These are people aligned with violence.
These are people aligned with violence.
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1301200926989062146
When I started this thread last year, I assumed it was only a matter of time before Republicans literally started glorifying shooters.
If you'd told me they'd suggest running them for office by 2020, I'd have nodded.
The massacres were always the point.
If you'd told me they'd suggest running them for office by 2020, I'd have nodded.
The massacres were always the point.
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1330150935771967489?s=20
The massacres are the point.
The entire idea is that violence is good. It's not self-defense. The right they are protecting with their false interpretation of the 2nd amendment is the right for white people to kill whoever they think needs killing at any moment.
The entire idea is that violence is good. It's not self-defense. The right they are protecting with their false interpretation of the 2nd amendment is the right for white people to kill whoever they think needs killing at any moment.
There are only a few pillars to conservative thought in the US, and one of them is that any violence they commit is, by definition, very good.
Not just *a* solution to problems, but the best solution. The most moral solution.
They are oriented toward violence.
It's observable.
Not just *a* solution to problems, but the best solution. The most moral solution.
They are oriented toward violence.
It's observable.
This is what orientation toward violence looks like.
Why do this? Because of what you believe to be good.
Punishment is good. Violent punishment is better. Fatal gun punishment is best.
The massacres are the point.
Why do this? Because of what you believe to be good.
Punishment is good. Violent punishment is better. Fatal gun punishment is best.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1331606733840666628
They understand a world with massacres—the ability to create a massacre at a time and place they judge proper.
They fear a world without that option.
The right to create a massacre is the point of their focus on "gun rights." It always was.
They fear a world without that option.
The right to create a massacre is the point of their focus on "gun rights." It always was.
https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1359821241670979589?s=20
They defend unlimited guns not *despite* regular massacres but precisely*so there can be* regular massacres.
The massacres are the point.
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1398058997312278528
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1453217787057512458?s=20
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/RoryLinnane/status/1455672869887823875?s=20
The massacres are the point.
https://twitter.com/meiselasb/status/1621019274193276928
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