Rep. Clay Higgins Doesn’t Understand Irony

From the Daily Kos:

Rep. Clay Higgins, the deeply problematic Louisiana Republican, threatened to have anyone who he says “belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk” banned from social media platforms.

“If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution… those profiles must come down,” Higgins wrote in a post on X of Kirk, who was gunned down on Wednesday at a college event in Utah. “So, I’m going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.”

Cartoon by Clay Jones.

My comment: I do not condone violence of any kind. But Rep. Clay Higgins’ threats are as ironic as they can get, considering that such angry words actually further enflame and encourage some folks on the right to seek revenge, especially when many were already calling for “war.”

I have vetted the following Dr. Seuss cartoon on Snopes. It is TRUE and a very chilling affirmation that history does, indeed, repeat itself (in varying ways).

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— Max T. Furr is author of The Empathy Imperative, a philosophical novel exploring the nature justice and religious belief.

Was Descartes wrong and God was a deceiver, after all?

Consider that if the Christian Bible were true (sans contradictions), then what would that say of objective science, such as astronomy, biological evolution and medical research? Indeed, what would it say about logic and the Creator, Itself?

What would the world be like had it been created by a truly benevolent god and our primary motivating force was empathy, not self interest? How, indeed, with the human condition as it is, could we achieve such a world either via a god or by humanism?

Join Professor M. Jefferson Hale as, in part II, he puts God on the witness stand in an ethereal court to answer for Its malfeasance and terrorism.

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