Bulletins and News Discussion from July 8th to July 14th, 2024 - Nevertheless, He Persisted

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Trump's victory, and the further mass oppression of minorities, is closer than ever before. May god have mercy on our souls.

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Every westerner who has opinions for a living is going
over the Trump shooting right now. "Political violence" is unacceptable, we are told. It's an attack on Our Democracy™, we are told. People who were talking about how dangerous Trump was are now wishing him well because of how beyond the pale the shooting was.
Meanwhile, in a very different instance of "political violence", the very same people are sitting on their ass doing absolutely nothing as hundred thousands of Palestinians are being murdered in the zionist genocide. That's not a big deal to western professional opinion-haverd, at least not big enough to do anything about beyond at best saying that both sides are bad and voice an uncommitting support for the general idea of a "two-state solution".
It has never been more clear that when the media- and political elite are talking about how "political violence is unacceptable" what they really mean is that it is unacceptable for the violence to affect them personally. They are clutching their pearls because the violence that they are so nonchalant about inflicting on others suddenly got too close to one of of their own.
- Its really wild the more I think of it.
  Trump, labelled as an existential threat, almost get killed = thoughts and prayers, stop the political violence.
  Campus protestors, doing a peaceful protest against genocide, get assaulted by police and in same cases by Zionists = why is everyone so divisive, the antisemites drserved it.
  Its disgusting. I don't know how anyone can continue beliving in such a farcical political system. Give it a few weeks and we'll be back to the very same pundits fearmongering over Trump as if they weren't just coddling him for getting shot at.
  
  Say what you want about the elite but they are extremely class conscious. They have their internal squabbles but when one of their own gets targeted they circle the wagons around him.

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