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• @orangelantern@labyrinth.zone 2026-01-08 16:43

  @LucieLazerEyez Neither does ignoring it. As has been proven. Also, I feel the murdered victims kinda deserve to be brought into peoples’ consciousness instead of being another abstract number in the news. Everyone who didn’t vote or vote for this should be ashamed close to suicide. And everyone else filled with burning rage. I think it does do something. Because actually seeing what fascism is seems a more reliable lesson to me than just hearing about it in abstract terms or from history books or from far-away countries. And this is such a blatant and indefensible example of direct state-sanctioned murder. Their attempts to spin this as a “defence shot” sounds so ridiculous because it bleeding obviously was not. You really need to see it to annihilate any doubt in your mind that there might be something to the spin. There is no room for that if you saw the video. This is Floyd all over again. And people got mad for a while because they saw. I guess this just needs to happen more frequently so that people finally remember to stay angry. But I do agree, if you’re already hurting from this, you don’t need to watch it over and over again. That would indeed be self-harm. You already got it. It’s not about self-chastising, it’s about getting those who still think this is somehow normal to open their eyes. Edit: Also, there is diminishing returns on this. At some point it becomes a spectacle and then pointless. But for once, everyone needs to see, I think. And I don’t think anyone of age should have the luxury of choosing to not look at least once and pretend it’s not there, when this might be the future everyone’s looking at. We’re past the point where comfortable denial is an option. That’s what I mean when I say, we’re all not angry enough if we’re more upset about hearing about the horrors than actually having them happen in our backyard.

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