My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over

Ah, I think you’re thing of Elron Hubbard of Battlefield Middle Earth fame.

Well, I meant cake!

Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry…

Ha ha, I’m already ahead of you losers, I’ve been proudly pronouncing the K in Salmon this whole time.

“…In Church of England, you can’t say, “You must have tea and cake with the Vicar, or you die!” You can’t have extreme points of view, you know. The Spanish Inquisition wouldn’t have worked with Church of England.”

The gaff being saying it out loud in front of cameras…

It may be something my brain ingested at some point in the past from somewhere else, but if so I don’t remember it.

I always get a lot of impressed looks when I pull out a severed hand that I use to hold the rail while I hold on to the wrist/upper arm. I can tell they’re all jealous.

If you had the choice, would you rather the railing be greasy or exceptionally sticky?

Yep. Apparently I stuck those in some sort of super resilient long term storage.

I mean the country was founded on the conceit that some political violence is ok. It’s embedded in the revolution and the framework of the 2nd Amendment…

That horse has left the barn far behind.

It’s also an easy misunderstanding to make for a journalist or online commentator because typically when somebody decries somebody “making something political” or “getting more political”, they mean in a way that they are not because to them, “their views aren’t political” even though they absolutely are.

The article I saw said he was getting more “political“ recently, not explicitly more left-wing…

Aside from the feeding and mating; I always learned it was fight, flight, or freeze (fawn).

In words and actions he did so incredibly clearly.

When one group proclaims the sadness of tragedy of a great harm upon a member of an intolerant group and the intolerant group refuses or even celebrates that same sort of great harm against the other, that normalizes the one sidedness of that for that society. Calls for reciprocity become decried as politicization

They’re not being bullied for their behavior, they are being bullied for their existence (unless you’re suggesting one support the bulling behavior). In our current environment there is no shortage of people reinforcing and welcoming the bullying behavior and decrying the existence of the bullied. If it was an issue of unfamiliarity you would have a point but that’s not the environment that exists and I’d prefer to make the bullied feel welcomed than the oppressor with what limited time and resources I have.

We all have choices to make, you seem to have chosen to make the oppressors and bullies feel more welcome with your time.

(Also, your link says that people who are ostracized by others tend to continue that cycle not that people who ostracized others were themselves victims of ostracization in the past. That’s swapping cause-and-effect, and doesn’t support your contention)

Imagine a scene where 2 new people come to your house for a party made up of people from many backgrounds, one is kind and the other is hateful and verbally abuses and bullies the one who is kind for something they have no choice over such that they leave your house. Then seeing this one of the other party members kicks the bully out of the house for them being massively rude. Now being massively rude and dehumanizing to others is an active choice one makes, that’s not a outgroup that one is in through any choice but their own. The party itself is still widely diverse accepting all who preserve the welcoming spirit of the party.

You’re arguing that the rest of the party should feel bad for the asshole that was kicked out.

Exactly the opposite. We should have empathy, tolerance, and inclusiveness for all, unless people choose to exclude themselves from that collective. I’m saying those who only have parochial empathy shouldn’t expect to receive empathy from others they’ve already cut themselves off from, and it’s not something those they shut out to be shamed for that they experienced the repercussions of their actions.