• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    “We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero,” he said. “It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them, by having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”

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      A conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.

      Conservative messaging 101 right there.

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        If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

        – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

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          This is a reasonable fear in a world where pilots are hired based on their status of being a minority. Is it not? That was the whole point, DEI practices enforce the idea that minorities aren’t qualified.

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      If I hadn’t been banned from Reddit for “showing extreme indifference” about Kissinger taking a dirt nap, there is NO way I would have made it through this week.