Thoughts and prayers for Oxford, Mi.

[Pakuni]

Mental health care is a deflection by a certain political party when these things happen and the perpetrator is white.  The idea we’d actually address affordable access to mental health care options is preposterous

FTFY

[jesmu84]

Mental health care is a deflection by a certain political party when these things happen.  The idea we’d actually address affordable access to mental health care options is preposterous

Don't forget about the violent video game deflection

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

I'd like to believe it's all performative... but I don't believe it's all performative.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/boebert-massie-gun-photo/620942/

"Boebert’s and Massie’s photos suggest that we have moved past the point of a kind of firearm respectability politics. Here, the very meaning of guns is to make liberals hysterical; liberal hysteria is no longer an obstacle to good policy making or even an irritating by-product of the democratic process, but rather the desired outcome of almost all right-wing political rhetoric."