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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 11:50 AM Aug 2020

Remember when we on the left all rallied around the guy who shot up...

...the Republican congressional baseball practice that injured Rep. Scalise?
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Of course not, because that never happened.

And it would have been sick and morbid and morally wrong if we had.

Yet that is exactly what has happened with people on the right and Kyle Rittenhouse.

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Remember when we on the left all rallied around the guy who shot up... (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2020 OP
Because on the right it has become 100% team before everything else. AleksS Aug 2020 #1

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
1. Because on the right it has become 100% team before everything else.
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 12:12 PM
Aug 2020

It's team before troops
Team before morals
Team before country
Team before decency

They are we're-number-one-dedicated-superfans. They're ride-or-die for republicans. I get the feeling with many it's not even about the racism anymore. They've just picked a team, tattooed the team's logo on their brains, and that's all they need to know. It's not about governing, policy, running a country, anything but their team winning. I don't know if they understand that running a country is more than winning elections, and, if they did understand, I don't know that they even would care.

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