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Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
(www.theguardian.com)
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Praise the baby Jeebus, Charlie Kirk has risen from the dead!
Perhaps instead of deriding everyone you could give some suggestions, as you're clearly much cleverer and superior to everybody else, and will have things sorted in 2 weeks if you put your mind to it.
Recognizing a hopeless situation is exactly what I’m doing. Sometimes there’s nothing that can be done. We had a chance, and a lot of people fucked it up for us all.
The bed isn’t going to sleep in itself.
Ah, so you're spreading their misery and propaganda. Good to know.
LMAO…. look around bud. Your little memes aren’t stopping shit. They’re going to kill people tomorrow, just like they did today and no amount of complaining about it is going to stop it.
So enjoy playing pretend while doing nothing like even else- but at least I’m being honest about it.
You're not being honest.
You're trying to get people to just lie down and accept the fascists as their rulers. You're spreading hopelessness and misery.
At best you've lost hope yourself and see no way out. At worst you're a Nazi MAGAt paedophile sympathiser who delights in suffering and violence perpetrated towards others. Either way, you're actively trying to make the world a worse place.
Considering how vehemently you're arguing the point I think you're a cowardly MAGAt. Trying to get others to lie down and accept the boot upon their face as their reality. To that, I say: fuck off.
I’m not trying to get people to do anything. I’m simply calling it how I see it without all the pomp and nonsense.
No pageantry. This is how it is.
If trump could have been stopped, he would have by now. And if it’s up to the people…. They need to stop sharing memes and yelling at one another online- but we both know that won’t happen.
So here we are.
And since you’ve resorted to ad hominem and personal attacks- you’re blocked.