• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Didn’t Spencer Cox even say that he is shattered that the shooter was “one of us” (read: white male) and not an immigrant? Like on TV, not in a cocaine-fueled xitter rant post.

    Edit: Found it

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      3 months ago

      What a pathetic excuse for an elected leader. Almost crying because the shooter was “one of them” and not their fake “enemy”.

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      The investigation is ongoing, but I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this. We will find you. We will try you and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law. And I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah.

      We can return violence with violence, we can return hate with hate. And that’s the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes. Because we can always point the finger at the other side. And at some point, we have to find an off ramp, or it’s going to get much much worse.

      Incredible the difference a day can make.

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      I don’t understand why he’s trying to spin it like people from Utah are exceptional people for not rioting and burning cars. The guy was a grifting YouTuber. It’s not like the president died.

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        "That’s just the spark son. The excuse we’ve been waiting for. America’s wanted this war for years. "

        They were going to make any attack on anyone an excuse for more violence on their part.

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      He absolutely said that and tried to make it seem like he was talking about him being an Utah citizen.

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        Mormons have historically been extremely racist. It was pretty recently that they stopped preaching that black people are black because god cursed them (the curse of Ham). They put on a smiling, demure front, and the church has tried very hard to rehabilitate their image, but the Mormon religion is pretty fucked up.