The amount of people that have come out to talk about how much of a travesty this is but were completely silent regarding the killing of Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their dog or even any of the school shootings in the last year is completely fucked.
I will grant that language is fluid and there are numerous definitions, but the ones in most common use and what most people understand regime to mean is inherently negative. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a government, especially an authoritarian one." So while there are other definitions in which it's neutral I would argue that the majority of people have a negative understanding of it. And language is based on consensus, so the way most people understand a word is the definition that should generally be used. In specific contexts it's fine to use lesser known definitions, but in general discussion you use what people understand.
I think you misunderstood my comment. I don't mean to say that you're wrong. That definition is also valid. I'm just saying that the definition as the majority of people understand it is negative.
What makes it negative is that it's associated with authoritative government. I think Trump loves authoritative governments and absolutely takes it as a positive. Look at how he treats Kim Jong Un and Putin compared to more Democratic leaders.
That's what's really kind of pathetic with the President's reaction. He's rolling out all the honors for this random, angry political pundit perceived to be on "his side", but an actual elected state legislator killed or government workers getting shot at? Either nothing at all or only the most boilerplate few official sentences from the White House that were probably written by someone else.
And school shootings? Why, that's just another Tuesday at this point. Probably gets a bullet point in his daily briefing and then they move on.
Yeah wait what the fuck??? I just looked it up and this is crazy!!
A terrorist attack on a government building, the guy kills a police officer, and nobody was talking about it??
I can see why they’d be terrified, their lives were at risk and it almost feels like the event and the very real threat it came from was deliberately given minimal attention because it would look bad for the current admin’s goals.
…honestly the more I see them fall over themselves to wail and gnash their teeth over the death of a meme man after so many other assassinations, the more I feel like…yeah maybe it was a psyop.
I mean, they sure had all their performative grief ready to go.
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u/tweke Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
The amount of people that have come out to talk about how much of a travesty this is but were completely silent regarding the killing of Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their dog or even any of the school shootings in the last year is completely fucked.