cpcallen
8mo ago
I was a little confused: I looked up Sakamoto and didn't see the connection!
cpcallen
10mo ago
Well, if I'm in a hurry then 70, but if not then I'll happily sit in the left lane with the lorries, which are limited to 60. Definitely never knowingly faster than the posted limit, since I don't want a ticket and speed cameras are ubiquitous on the motorways here.
I appreciate this articulation of a distinction I felt but I was having trouble formalising. I thought the comments about Thatcher were in poor taste but not fundamentally harmful.
With Kirk, I am even sympathetic to those the "reaped what he sowed" variety of comments, because they are at least not unambiguously in favour of political violence (and from the non-US, non-pro-gun point of view there is a sad but also delicious irony in a gun rights advocate who argued that occasional deaths were a price worth paying himself paying that very same awful price himself)—but I am appalled by those who openly celebrate the murder of another human in any circumstances (save perhaps a very narrow exception for those who present a clear and immediate danger of doing the same or worse to others).
Charlie Kirk might have been a reprehensible shill for a harmful and destructive political movement, but no sane person should be pleased to see people being gunned down for their beliefs.
As they say: send not for whom the bell tolls.
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