I. CAN. NOT. EVEN. IMAGINE.
I can't imagine how the victims of this latest hate massacre can appear on air and express what they feel with any kind of coherence or control. I would be a writhing mass of quivering rage and anger. I force myself to listen to all of their stories although it is so painful that I am left feeling hopeless and helpless.
To put it is perspective, I thought about losing my own mother last fall during peak pandemic. I was only able to visit her once in the last year of her life. The experience was so traumatic that I have not shared it with anyone except close family. I could not even begin to post something on DU, for example, let alone appear on television.
I did want to say that my relationship with my mother was complicated, but we always loved each other. I have been thinking about her younger self when she would actually say that she loved black people and felt kinship with them because of her southern poor roots. She also took college courses and learned about Reconstruction after the Civil War and how that had basically ruined the chances for a good life for black people. I mention this because she later became a FOX news viewer with all that that entails. The rightwing media has a lot to answer for when it comes to good people like my mother and especially, ESPECIALLY, when it comes to this replacement theory GARBAGE.
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10 people dead isn't a false flag you fucking morons! It's 10 people - DEAD! This isn't a damn video game. It's not Call Of Duty. If you get shot in real life, you don't get a second chance. You don't get power ups and invulnerability.
It's seriously like we're living the plot of "Don't Look Up", only instead of an asteroid - it's guns. Hey gun nuts, guess what? Your guns kill people! And they are doing so right now in record numbers! Yet your only solution to a violence problem is more violence. Your solution to a gun problem is more guns! Your solution to encountering a mass shooter is to go Superman on them! Instead of preventing a mass shooter from coming into a classroom, you've done everything but that - you give kids bulletproof backpacks, turn classrooms into fortresses, and place your fucking wannabe GI Joes on the rooftops of nearby buildings to act out your sniper fantasies.
It's truly fucking insane what is happening to this country. 
I'm sure Marjorie Greene will go on Alex Jones any minute now to complain about it. 
but wrapping my head around the fact that anyone could believe that is difficult. I often wonder if they really believe it or just want to believe it . Doesn't really matter I guess.
Yes...replacement theory is indeed garbage and the MSM is in the process of normalizing it. I fear before long, it will be an accepted excuse for mass murder of any group other than angry white straight men.
It's still hard to talk about.
we should not do this to people (media talk to those mourning)
I am so sorry for your situation and I understand not being able to share / express feelings
They know how to turn the psychological screws and design it down to a science. This is the front on which we need to better gear up, and fast. My dad started falling for rush’s twisted lies bit by bit, too, late in his life. It’s hard to have convos when the truth has become so obscured.
Deepest condolences, senseandsensibility…
You summarized some of why my relationship with my mother was so complicated, but lately I have been thinking about her as a young woman. That was the real her.