A historically well-informed "this is who we are" piece. Useful contrast to hand-wringing "Oh, Americans never used to celebrate violence, what has become of us?" editorials and columns. - ThreadSky

jfallows.bsky.social • 84 days ago

A historically well-informed "this is who we are" piece.

Useful contrast to hand-wringing "Oh, Americans never used to celebrate violence, what has become of us?" editorials and columns.

Reposted from Domestic Enemy Hat

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lp7.bsky.social•84 days ago

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clustertuck.bsky.social•84 days ago

Thank you for posting this great piece.

amyp-nobs.bsky.social•84 days ago

A friend said to me this afternoon, “This is not who we are,” in response to the unsettling on-line support for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. “Yes, it is,” I blurted out: “It’s exactly who we are.” And I don’t think it’s just our history or human nature that’s made us this way either. 1/

amyp-nobs.bsky.social•84 days ago

2/It’s at least in part a deep-seated anger about our careless mismanagement of the planet, overall greed, and the resulting lack of opportunity for people to get ahead. I fear this is just the tip of a very ugly iceberg.

insipidtwaddle.bsky.social•84 days ago

And if you mined the psyches of most Americans, I suspect that the answer to the question of "what individual (that you aren't personally acquainted with) would you kill if you thought you could get away with it" would look a lot more like the actions of Daniel Penny than Luigi Mangione.

grumpyoldscientist.bsky.social•84 days ago

Re-reading Huckleberry Finn in preparation of reading Percival Everett’s James. Beyond the racist language, it is a very violent book. And an American classic.

jfallows.bsky.social•84 days ago

'James' is a fabulous book.

twitterexodus.org•84 days ago

Thank you for being one of the leaders in the 'leave Twitter' movement. Would you be willing to use your large Twitter following for one thing--to post news about why people should leave Twitter and about a campaign to get people to leave?

jfallows.bsky.social•84 days ago

Thanks. I understand, and support the cause. But I think posting *anything* there would be out of keeping with my saying I was leaving the site.

eagernothings.bsky.social•83 days ago

Thank you for sharing this

argulator.bsky.social•84 days ago

Somehow this validates the ideathat while Trump is the most un-American president in history he is also the most American president ever.

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