• SuperEars@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Hey friends,

    Take it from an ally - this is a misleading headline.

    The utterance was uttered in the context of things one would want to avoid. It doesn’t even strike me as a threat by Brian Kilmeade, and is more of a gaffe.

    The whole clip is STILL a steamy shitty take.

    They are saying “mental illness sufferers, particularly the subset who are inclined to commit public violence, need to ‘come to Jesus’ and take the overly-bountiful government assistance available to them. That silver bullet will cure them of their issues such that they’ll no longer threaten poor old me. And if any refuse, they deserve whatever else might happen to them which, as stated earlier, is to be involuntarily placed into a mental institution.”

    And then Brian Kilmeade, the homunculus muppet that he is, thinks “I’m helping,” grabs the bag of Shake’n Bake his parents never gave him, and chimes in "and other bad things could happen, uhh hyuck, even inVoLuntaRy letHaL injEcTion (as a consequence of the implied context of a person who refuses help for their mental illness, who later takes a life during a mental episode, and who will suffer ramifications up to and including being tried for murder and sentenced to death).

    Maybe it would have been a dog whistle call to violence if anyone other than Brian Kilmeade said it.

    Maybe it’s foolish of me to disregard the words because the words were still aired, on a network with a vested interest in launching wind-up murder meatbots towards the left. If this is the point of the report, then this is a criminal choice of headline.

  • abcdqfr@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That sounds like a pretty mental thing to say. Haven’t committed any petty crimes, have we? Check yourself.

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    16 hours ago

    Is he gonna get fired for spreading hate and advocating violence? No that only applies to news outlets we don’t like? Got it.

  • ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    16 hours ago

    Yup, just like the nazis. It’s funny how much the “WWII armchair historian” overlaps with the maga base, like bro didn’t your fucking DAD kill these dudes all over the place? My granddad literally bombed them, from a plane, not like insurrectionist shit. And now my dad, HIS SON, thinks maga is great, and I’m the one getting strapped to kill Nazis again

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          The portion of my mom’s side who actually participated in WW2 worked on Stukas, V1s, and V2s. So no Nazi killing amongst my family that I know of. My great grandfather was on the right side of history though even if he was a bastard, Navy had him doing R&D on whatever the boys in Europe jacked.

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      15 hours ago

      And all the lunatics calling for civil war and death to their “opponents” before knowing it was conservative gang violence? Are we sure they’re not mentally ill? In which case, not death, but help. Except they gotta get their shit together first. Stop blaming the wrong people!