the Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against the shooter, including under a novel legal theory that it was an anti-Christian hate crime

authorities have produced text messages from the suspect to his partner saying he was motivated to kill Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred.”

So they’re straight up saying that American Christianity = Hatred.

“We can’t resist them. Resisting would give them an excuse to do the thing they are already going to do.”

Yes, most billionaires keep quiet. Doesn’t change the fact that just because they are billionaires that doesn’t mean they can’t also be complete idiots.

When have they ever tried to hide it?

Only videos, but they don’t seem to be stupid.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have proven that intelligence, competence, and charisma are not important factors in someone becoming obscenely wealthy.

Now please read the original post.

Violence is not a biological need.

You are clearly not familiar with the vast majority of animals on earth. The capacity for violence is very much a biological need, even if just to defend ones self.

Sounds like the US has a shitty system and they should improve it. None of that is relevant to actually developing a third party however. There is 1 single president but (theoretically) needs support of the House and Senate. Recalls and budgets are irrelevant to the issue of only having 2 parties.

No, I was not encouraging people in the US to vote 3rd party in the last election. But now is an excellent time to start working on some 3rd party candidates for 2028.

Canada only really has two parties at the Federal level

The current as well as the past several elections have resulted in minority governments: The party with the most seats does not have enough votes on their own to pass legislation. They need a 3rd party to vote with them in order to get anything passed. The NDP has also been the official opposition in the past.

American exceptionalism strikes again!

Most exceptional place in the world, so exceptional that nothing can be done to solve issues that have been solved elsewhere, and if you don’t think so it’s because you don’t understand how exceptional it is!

It was only appropriate. They most likely were left with no other choice.

Therefore, on the individual level there are in fact times when violence is the answer, even if that’s just because it is the only answer remaining.

Do the Nazis ever claim they are intolerant of minorities because the minorities were intolerant to them?

Group A: “I am intolerant of (group) because they need to go back to their own country and not live in mine.”

Group B: “I am intolerant of (group) because they don’t tolerate other ethnicities.”

This guy: “but who was intolerant first?”

Nice try FBI

Sorry but there is an assumption implicit in your argument that tyrants like Hitler are somehow not human and are exceptional and not really a part of humanity

Never claimed or implied that. So don’t really have anything to respond to here as this is all entirely unrelated to what I was saying.

Exactly. If we keep doing it, clearly it is not the answer but rather a postponement

Clearly the answer to hunger is not eating. The answer to being tired is not sleeping. The answer to making a mistake is not apologizing…

It’s not whataboutism, it’s a legitimate point. I agree that Hitler was the problem and at fault, but that doesn’t change the fact that for the rest of the world the ‘right’ answer to the Hitler problem was in fact violence.

Florida isn’t the place starting trade wars with the entire world.

Very true, but not relevant to the ‘third parties are impossible’ argument.

Flip it in '26 and we’ll talk.

Has any country ever voted its way out of fascism?