,
17 tweets,
6 min read
Read on Twitter
This *oaf* offers the following prescription, in light of the U.S. having had *251* mass shootings this year while the UK has had *zero*:
1) Get the mentally ill off their meds;
2) force women to stay at home; and
3) make children pray to Christ whether they're Christian or not.
1) Get the mentally ill off their meds;
2) force women to stay at home; and
3) make children pray to Christ whether they're Christian or not.
1/ Every time the NRA comes in for criticism after a mass shooting it's because *the NRA is what distinguishes America from countries with no mass shootings*. It's not that (say) the UK handles mental illness differently, or has more stay-at-home moms, or has religion in schools.
2/ Any person who offers a diagnosis for why the U.S. has had 251 mass shootings this year but *doesn't*, in so doing, explain why countries identical to us in nearly every respect culture-wise have had *zero* mass shootings in 2019 needs to go right to Hell without passing Go.
3/ Imagine how *provincial* you have to be to think the mass shooting debate is just a *domestic* debate, i.e. that we don't have to look abroad and say "Why does America have the same video games and school prayer policies as other countries but *251 times* more mass shootings?"
4/ I'm regularly infuriated by the far left, but at this moment in history it's only the far right that's a clear and present danger to us all. And well-paid liars like @TomiLahren are as responsible for the slow destruction of America as anybody else. I'm sick of these nitwits.
@TomiLahren 5/ Imagine that you're sitting right now in a European country with the same video games, religiosity, percentage of working moms, and digital culture as the U.S. but *no mass shootings this year*. Would Tomi Lahren seem like anything but a dangerous, deranged demagogue? Hell no.
@TomiLahren 6/ But Tomi's batshit ravings get 10k to 100k retweets on Twitter, while sane analyses of our gun culture (with rare exceptions) get nothing like that. Many of the progressives I know have just tuned politics out. Meanwhile the right is plugged in and having the time of its life.
@TomiLahren 7/ When I finally quit following politics (a time that is fast approaching), it'll be because apparently the only way for anything to get done in America is for *so many to suffer* that the masses who are tuned out finally tune back in. But we're *years* away from that right now.
@TomiLahren 8/ I know many who vote for Democrats but won't get active in making America a better place until something they deeply care about is directly threatened. If we could make progressives care about mass shootings as much as the right cares about guns, we'd be all set. But we can't.
@TomiLahren 9/ Here's my point: anyone who puts their desire to avoid a background check above the murder of kids is a bad person and you should have nothing to do with them. But what if, instead, you talked to (and maybe shamed a bit) the *tuned out moderates and progressives* in your life?
@TomiLahren 10/ The answer to why the right puts guns above people is, we must finally say it, because they have sh*tty values. That won't change. But what about those we love, whose values we think admirable but who are never activated by *public* crises like shootings or Trump's autocracy?
@TomiLahren 11/ There's simply no conversation to be had with the American right anymore. I'm sorry but that's where we're at, at least at this moment in history. The only conversation that matters now is between activated progressives and moderates and disengaged progressives and moderates.
@TomiLahren 12/ We'd eventually like to see disengaged progressives/moderates calling reps, attending town halls, marching, organizing, getting involved in politics... but that's a *tall ask* to start. So maybe silent progressives/moderates on social media could start by just... speaking up?
@TomiLahren 13/ We all have our niche on social media. Most of those we follow are in that niche...maybe it's gaming, maybe comics, maybe tech, maybe knitting, maybe poetry, maybe food porn, maybe cat vids. What would happen if all those locked in digital cloisters starting speaking up more?
@TomiLahren 14/ Maybe the Tomi Lahrens would get consistently ratioed. Maybe folks in digital niches who never see political content would start seeing it. Maybe media would start seeing trends in public thought they can't see now because their digital imprint is too soft. Or something else.
@TomiLahren 15/ All I know is, digital discourse right now isn't efficacious. It doesn't locate persuadables or engage the disengaged or push media to change its operations. I don't know if/how anything on this feed helps with any of that. That's why I can't run a feed like this much longer.
@TomiLahren UPSHOT/ Either we find a new way to make sane discourse really stick, or we finally activate the mass of Americans with good hearts who are now disengaged, or we wait until America is a flaming hell and there's no choice but for everyone to act. Those are the three options I see.
