I've been avoiding all coverage of the non-event like the plague.

[lucybeahere@mstdn.social]

@futurebird

You sum up my feelings about it exactly. I could not be more indifferent. There are so many other important things to focus on rn.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@lucybeahere

Exactly. But I do feel like I need to at least track if this will make some people crazy in new ways or not. If it's going to create more danger for people I care about it as they spin narratives.

[capnthommo@c.im]

@futurebird yes. I tend, and have tended for a long while now, to scroll away from most that appears at first glance to come from the trump or pro trump sector.

[neckspike@indiepocalypse.social]

@futurebird it's so infuriating. How many bazillion guns in this country and none of these assholes can pull off a simple assassination? Tetsuya Yamagami had to build a gun from scratch to kill Shinzo Abe, this country is a fucking joke.

[lucybeahere@mstdn.social]

@futurebird

I can understand that! For me, I see how these events barely move the needle anymore. We heard about how the Kirk murder was going to change everything, but as far as I can tell it hasn’t at all. But maybe that is bc I’m not plugged into that world. I read the news rather than watching it, which helps a lot in removing myself from the reality TV feeling of it all. My Mastodon friends also supply me with good articles. Grateful to be here!

[billiglarper@rollenspiel.social]

@futurebird

You sum it up nicely.

After having them seen instigate so much violence, and their disregard for its victims, it's really hard to feel anything for them.

Seeing them try to instrumentalize the event for their political gain makes me sick. Heck, even if they did nothing, it would still feel like a distraction from all the other shit they are pulling.

[lucybeahere@mstdn.social]

@futurebird

Yesterday it was the security needs of the ballroom, today it’s No Kings! So much flailing around. I wish the press spent more of their time covering real active harms inflicted by this admin.

[skleefeld@retro.pizza]

@futurebird I feel much the same. I disliked hating G.W.'s admin so much, but at least my anger was limited to just a relative handful in that administration based on their flawed (IMO) worldview. Now, there's not even a worldview; it's just bile and venom all the way down for the sake of it. And it's coming from not only the administration itself but everyone who continues to support it. I have to be *completely* intolerant of them for my and my wife's physical and emotional safety!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@lucybeahere

And it's starting to sound like the "assassin" might not have even fired first or at all.

I could see some guy getting in a shouting match with a maga head security guard and maybe flashing a gun and then our keystone cops overreact and shoot (and also miss) and this is all happening on another floor from where Trump is. But since shots were fired we have to have this "harrowing tale of how the president survived an attempt on his life"

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@lucybeahere

At least this time it doesn't seem like it was "friendly fire" so many of the other shooters have been former maga, this guy isn't though maybe. Although my trust is in the toilet. A manifesto? A nice little document to explain everything.

I guess it can happen.

[ingalovinde@embracing.space]

@lucybeahere @futurebird
> We heard about how the Kirk murder was going to change everything, but as far as I can tell it hasn’t at all

Yeah we'd need this to happen to more people than just Kirk alone in order for them to understand that they can be next; _that_ would move the needle.

[gbsills@social.vivaldi.net]

@futurebird Yes, it is hypocritical for most Americans to say they are glad the President was safe when they are eagerly awaiting Trump to die. On the other hand, natural causes are better, because it becomes harder to make him a martyr.

[thedansimonson@lingo.lol]

@futurebird I think a big part of it for me anyway—for children in this country, nearly daily, this happens somewhere, and the fear of it is ever-present. The minor ones, these dorks don’t even cover. They’re too afraid of backlash to turn their vast attention apparatus to chronic, violent harm to children.

Now that it’s happened to them, they expect us to care? No. If the kids of America can put up with this, elite media personalities can too

[gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird It's actually gross. I can't stomach the news in general these days; I kinda just catch up all in one go every 1 or 2 weeks. The daily atrocities are just not good for my wellbeing, but expecting me to be all solemn because somebody wanted to pop off the president!? That's just offensive. Like when they started scolding people for having the audacity to say that Charlie Kirk kinda had it coming... well sorry, but have you looked around? This shit is not fxcing okay.

[drsuzanne@disabled.social]

@futurebird same. As someone who considers themselves a compassionate person, they have drained me of the ability to have compassion for them.

[whitemice@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Oh, same, exact same. I, simple, completely, do not care about any of these people, or what happens to them.

There are people in the world who would benefit from being cared more about, and they are none of those people.

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

People are calling it Operation Ballroom Blitz.

It would be in very bad taste to make a music video of Ballroom Blitz using footage of the incident, but it runs in my head anyway.

[notsle@kzoo.to]

@Phosphenes @futurebird

[domo@pizza.enby.city]

@futurebird I respect you for not hating Springsteen for this, but I didn't like, grow up with him or anything. He's not some special guy. He's just a guy that has music that I didn't like to begin with, that's always felt a little appropriative, and now I hear that he's praying for the president? No. I just don't care about anyone who prays for fascists, so I vibe so much more with the latter part of your post. I absolutely don't blame you for not being mad at him. I just... I can be mad at him for the both of us. That's also fine.

Trump is a fascist who would kill all people of color if he could. I can't pray for him. I can't wish him well. Not after what he's done and doubled down on so much in the past like... over a decade now.

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@futurebird Same. I simply do not give a fuck.