Fox News’ latest attempt to churn up negative stories about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz backfired immediately this week.
He did. And he publically acknowledged that it was a bad call and apologized. He also was the reason rotten cop who killed George Floyd was even prosecuted.
If we want to criticize someone, we should also acknowledge when they listen to that criticism and correct the behavior going forward.
You do live in China and reside on hexbear. So there’s that.
Edit: lmao after getting their friends in here as a group they banned me from hexbear.
Oh, here comes the hexbear backup singers. Oh no.
Oh look, and you’re on .ml what a surprise.
I’m travelling. I’m leaving China on the 7th and will be in Japan for 2 months, followed by about 3 months in South Korea, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. How does that fit into your theory of what I am?
Tim Walz deployed the national guard to suppress protests.
What does you traveling have to do with who you are? It doesn’t change anything about how your entire rhetoric is “America bad”.
Anything you say about American politics is moot.
I guess when you got two people who took a shit on your floor and you gotta pick one to house-sit for you over the weekend, it’s probably best to ask them why they thought shitting on your floor was a good idea.
When one says, “I’m sorry, I was trying to help by de-escalating, but this made more of a mess than I expected” and the other says, “I wanted to show off my Bible,” while holding their Bible upside down, then you’ve got a much more clear choice.
Someone who shits on the floor with good intentions shows that they’re aiming to please and can be trained to do better using positive reinforcement. Someone who shits on the floor for attention with sociopathic reasoning is a bit of a wildcard with no means or desire to be reined in.
Sure, you could consider someone else who hasn’t yet taken a shit on your floor, but you gotta wonder how they’re gonna keep your house safe from other floor-shitters when they don’t have the ability to work door locks.
I would simply not hire anybody to house sit for me who has shit on my floor before.
Now I’m sure you’ll explain to us how it’s complicated and not that simple, even though it totally fucking is.
Nope, not that complicated at all. That’s completely your right.
The problem is that someone’s always trying to shit on your floor. I agree, in a perfect world, I’d prefer if people just wouldn’t shit on the floor.
I’m struggling to understand this metaphor. What does the house, the floor and the shit represent. Who is doing the shitting?
The house is the United States of America and shitting on the floor represents breaking up protests via official requests of enforcement agencies.
You correctly pointed out that Walz called the National Guard on his own citizens. During protests that risked growing out of control, if they weren’t already. While I don’t love that use of force, I can understand being concerned for your citizens and attempting to deescalate. Considering the context of the protests and ongoing police mobilization, local first responders couldn’t exactly be trusted to handle the situation. I’m sure Walz’s previous service with the National Guard let him feel like he could trust them to reasonably handle the situation, and it’s part of the reason they’re there in the first place.
Mobilizing enforcement agencies is usually pretty shitty in general, but if you genuinely think it’s gonna help and hurt the fewest people, then at least your intentions were in the right place.
As for the other person mobilizing enforcement agencies so they can hold a Bible upside down, here ya go. Four days after Walz called in the National Guard to curb violence in Minnesota, Trump mobilized multiple enforcement agencies to violently break up peaceful protests Lafayette Square. Causing what the New York Times aptly described as “a burst of violence unlike any seen in the shadow of the White House in generations,” Trump then slow-walked his fat ass out in front of St. John’s Church and held a Bible upside down for cameras. Stood there, creepily, saying nothing until a report asked “is that your Bible?” To which Trump responded in a disturbingly aggressive tone “it’s a Bible.”
So, as you enumerate all of Walz’s single great mistakes that keep getting echoed, I feel the need to remind you of content, context, means, scope, and justification.
Now, you might argue, asking “why do you feel the need to immediately point out Trump? There are third party candidates who haven’t mobilized any enforcement agencies!” and you’d be absolutely right! You know who else has never mobilized any enforcement agencies? Me. Just because someone has never been in a position for them to have the ability to mobilize enforcement agencies or sell military weapons doesn’t mean that they won’t. And you know what else I have in common with those other third-party candidates? We all have the exact same chances of winning the presidency in this election.
