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wiggs

(8,425 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 06:21 PM Sep 10

TSF and his supporters have tragically diminished norms for empathy, respect for law, courtesy, moral behavior, and

healthy public discussion. These have been replaced by anger, polarization, crude and threatening rhetoric, lies, and....violence.

I/we do not condone this lowering of expectations nor the violence.

I am reminded of the republican Georgia election official who warned against this kind of diminishment. Back in 2020. In a prescient and heartfelt warning against GOP silence re violence and rhetoric, his summary was that '...All of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.' There are very clearly people and organizations that deserve an outsized share of the blame for their rhetoric and their silence. Gingrich started it but TSF continues it on steroids. I will also place blame on MSM outlets which do not remind us of these real one-sided tendencies and of the many warnings such as the one below.

https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/01/940961602/someones-going-to-get-killed-ga-official-blasts-gop-silence-on-election-threats#:~:text=Updated%20at%2010:55%20p.m.,%22It's%20not%20right.%22

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TSF and his supporters have tragically diminished norms for empathy, respect for law, courtesy, moral behavior, and (Original Post) wiggs Sep 10 OP
O SoS and his supporters deserve no empathy, courtesy, or sympathy. Autumn Sep 10 #1
They have intentionally made decency, sympathy, empathy into 'woke' character flaws and weakness... to be mocked and wiggs Sep 10 #2

Autumn

(48,368 posts)
1. O SoS and his supporters deserve no empathy, courtesy, or sympathy.
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 06:33 PM
Sep 10

They have no decency or empathy for anyone else.

wiggs

(8,425 posts)
2. They have intentionally made decency, sympathy, empathy into 'woke' character flaws and weakness... to be mocked and
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 06:53 PM
Sep 10

legislated against. They are not good human beings, IMHO.

However...more violence doesn't diminish the darkness that they themselves have created.

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