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To be crystal clear:
you don’t think we should show sympathy for someone - anyone - on the receiving end of a politically-motivated violent attack?
Kirk himself said that death was a necessary evil of maintaining the second amendment. He advocated public executions and even allowing children to watch them. I have great sympathy for his children who were present at his public execution. I've zero sympathy for him. It was literally what he asked for and promoted.
What a strange response from a different account, seemingly responding to the wrong comment?
is meco03211 antifa_ceo’s alt they forgot to switch, or are you just massively weird / confused?
No, you said -anyone- who is a victim of political violence deserves sympathy. They brought up one of the more recent people who 100% deserved no such thing.
I absolutely said no such thing. It sounds like you may be confused.
This not you then? Different number of 'l's?
Scroll up like 3 comments, dawg. You literally said this.
I asked a question. I did not assert anything, as reading comprehension tells us.
Ahhhh ok right. So nothing rhetorical here, just a genuine question you had with no planned follow-up or point to attempt to make. Uh huh.
How about I flip the question on you...
Do you think we should show sympathy for anyone and everyone on the receiving end of a politically-motivated violent attack?
My comment itself WAS the flipping of the question. this all started because someone named antifa_ceo said that an innocent person who was the victim of a political attack deserved no sympathy. So I flipped the question, like you did, like any person with empathy would do.
This thread is lost.
What a loser attitude to have when someone calls you out.
I don’t feel called out. I realize someone misunderstood my comment, and it’s easy enough to do when feeling emotional.
Anyone? Absolutely not.
I know nothing about this woman, so I'm not going to personally make a judgment call here, but you're a naive fool if you don't think there are people who would make the world a better place if they left it