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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
We are a coarse, fractured, complex, splintered, diverse and loosely tied together society

Take a bunch of people who are diverse in every way, ethnically, religiosity, political ideology, economically. racially, put them in a big melting pot, turn up the heat and watch them bump up against each other.

Sometimes you get Tex-Mex, Korean tacos, bahn-mi (crusty French bread, pickled veg and roasted pork) or shrimp po-boys. Yum.

Good things happen when cultures collide. Scientific innovation, art, music, theater, cuisine but also and less frequently bad stuff happens, think butter chicken nachos.

And sometimes, and thankfully even less often really. really bad stuff happens. Like people get targeted for partaking in the freedom to exist in this great messy uniquely American social construct.

They bump up against the crazy, or evil, and crazy evil is really not a good combination, much like butter chicken nachos shouldn’t be a thing, but it is, and they are, both things.

Disharmony is the price we pay for freedom. Frictionless, stasis has never been reality and it never will be reality.

[b]Maybe this is the best we can hope for in a country of 400+ million diverse souls — the isolated, one off, crazy evil bad actors who occasionally pop off and take down a few of the many.[/b]

After all the many still stand [b]safe and strong [/b]and [b]free[/b].[/quote]

No, we can have better. Hope is not working. We have to make real changes. We are in a situation where many, many freedoms are being taken away from us. We live in fear. We make our kids hide under desks in dark rooms to practice for the day when a shooter enters the school. We have cameras all over the place for the time when we need to review the footage. We avoid going places with lots of people. The many do not stand safe and strong and free. Our kids are afraid and we are afraid for them. Who protected them in Uvalde? 
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