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Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:28 PM Sep 2025

Remarkable example of why this country is completely broken, a racist and bigot gets shot and

Half the country mourns the loss as opposed to just denouncing the violence.

The fact that the person was as well-known as he was in the first place and simultaneously saying and posting the ugliest most hateful violent garbage a human being could do, says everything about our current condition.

Someone like this should be unknown and never EVER idolized.

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Remarkable example of why this country is completely broken, a racist and bigot gets shot and (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 OP
Fascism is spreading faster than covid Blues Heron Sep 2025 #1
Well stated, I will steal it. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 #2
And yet again Diraven Sep 2025 #3

Diraven

(1,951 posts)
3. And yet again
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:53 PM
Sep 2025

There was and endless stream of right wingers vowing holy retribution, issuing death threats, and calling for a civil war against all liberals, and progressives, and Democrats who they immediately blamed for it with no evidence. Until, as usual, it turned out to be a radical right wing gun nut. And then no apologies, just crickets ...

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