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This was thought provoking.. Not my post but copied from Facebook. Let’s start where adults start: a woman is dead. That’s not a meme, it’s not a dunk, it’s not “content.” It’s a human life—gone. And that’s a tragedy, period. But if we’re going to be honest—if we’re going to deal in reality instead of slogans—then we also have to say what too many people are tiptoeing around: This didn’t happen in a vacuum. This is what happens when you take a human being and marinate them in apocalyptic political propaganda until they can’t tell the difference between a disagreement and a war. When you convince people that ICE agents are basically the Gestapo… When you tell them the country is a Nazi regime… When you sell them the idea that detention facilities are “concentration camps”… Then don’t act shocked when someone decides, “Well, if that’s true, then normal rules don’t apply. I’m justified to do whatever it takes.” Because if a person genuinely believes that—if they truly believe brown people are being rounded up and shipped off to camps—then yeah, that would feel like an emergency. That would create panic. That would make them feel heroic for jumping in front of cars and trying to shut things down. That’s what hysteria does. It hijacks your judgment and hands you a cape. And the sickest part is: that kind of narrative didn’t just come from some random internet crank. It got boosted and normalized. It got repeated so many times—on TV, on social media, by activists, by politicians, by people who should know better—that eventually fiction starts to feel like fact. So no, I’m not surprised she thought she was “standing up to evil.” I’m not surprised she believed she was doing the right thing. But here’s the part ideology will never tell you: believing something hard enough doesn’t make it true—and it doesn’t make it safe. Now she’s dead. And for what? No grand victory happened. No magical prison doors opened. No “camp” got shut down. No hardened criminal became a better person because someone played vigilante in the street. What did happen is real life—brutal life: Children without a mother. A family wrecked. A community shaken. And the same people who pour gasoline on the public mind are going to do what they always do—move on, deny responsibility, and crank the volume even higher. Because they won’t learn from it. They never do. They won’t dial back the rhetoric. They won’t admit that calling everyone Nazis and calling everything genocide is reckless. They won’t acknowledge that when you tell normal people “this is 1933,” you are practically begging for someone to start acting like it. So here’s the takeaway, and it’s not complicated: You can debate immigration policy without lying. You can protest without encouraging lawlessness. You can hate an administration without turning your neighbors into monsters. But if you keep feeding people end-times propaganda and praising vigilantism as virtue, you’re going to keep getting tragedies like this—until the next person believes the fantasy so completely that reality kills them for it. That’s not activism.

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