I’ve watched this dumb show every year since 1987 and it’s silly and i know it doesn’t matter but I guess I’m only now realizing I spent a year assuming it wasn’t going to happen again, and I’ve got no snark in me tonight.
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The problem with saying that I’m employing a strawman is, I’m repeating things that are being said by such fringe conservatives as, hmm, let’s see, their last president, their current congresspeople, their highest rated propagandists, and the majority of their voters who listen.
One point that’s often missed in all this “we’re afraid to say what we think” handwringing from these purveyors of immoral outrage:
They’re cowards.
They’re *self-professed* cowards, who lack even the courage to blame themselves for their own cowardice.
“I’m afraid to say what I think.”
Everyone Else: Who gives a *shit*? What, d’ya think the world was just YEARNING to hear you make the same five points Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson made yesterday? You’re wearing mirror-shades and a hat behind a truck, BRYCE. WE KNOW WHAT YOU THI
You know should be afraid to say what they think? BLM activists.
When they say what they think, militarized cops will threaten them, arrest them, brutalize them, & kill them.
They say it anyway. Because that's what people do when they believe something and they aren't cowards.
What people who didn’t intend to offend or harm say when they’re informed they have nevertheless caused offense or harm: “I’m so sorry.”
What people who intended offense and harm all along say: “so now you’re telling me I’m not allowed to do that anymore?”
Which is obvious.
Likewise if police didn’t intend murder we’d see some slight attempt or even pretense at an attempt to recognize that what happened was tragic or at least undesirable.
Instead they frame each murder entirely around their license to continue.
They kill who they want to.
Police are fully revealed now as an institution that believes that racist brutality and murder are not only necessary but good; not only good, but *very* good.