How will Orlando change America?

[airiefairie]

Terrorists usually have two major goals: kill as many people as possible, and cause as much damage to society as they can. They specifically target vulnerable places that symbolise open and free societies, aiming to cause doubt in those tenets of said society. Which is why the attacks in Paris and Brussels, and now Orlando, is as dangerous for

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[oportet]

Well, if Trumps way of thinking will lead to more of what terrorists want, and Hillarys way of thinking got them to this point in the first place - then we aren't at a crossroads, we're on a one-way street.

[htpcl]

Is there a third way that would at least turn this one way street into an intersection?

[oportet]

With all their flaws, I still don't think Trump or Hillary could be shitty enough where a significant number of people from both sides would go into the voting booths and pick a 3rd party. It'd be a trust fall, and the two sides just don't trust each other enough.

Maybe if the Presidential election were spread out like the primaries, or the primaries were condensed to one day like the Presidential election - I could see that eventually giving us better options (even though this time, I'm pretty sure it still would have given us the same two)

[htpcl]

Spreading the general election over moths? Oh please God no...

Wait... isn't the campaign already protracted enough?

[mahnmut]

What Orlando would do is nudge America yet one inch further into the same direction that it's been going for decades: deeper into the divided society that it has become, ruled by a corporate-dominated police state that has reached a point where it can't be overhauled without major upheaval.

[luvdovz]

How will it change America? It won't make it any better, if that's what you're asking.

[kylinrouge]

It won't.

[airiefairie]

Please elaborate?

[kylinrouge]

Why do I need to elaborate? It's presumptuous to assume that a mass shooting will "change America" in any context.

[airiefairie]

I see.

[underlankers]

I can't see the USA amending its own constitution to officially enshrine 'anti-terrorist' laws into its law of the land the way France did. Trump is going full Poland in gagging any media he doesn't like though, so if he wins we forfeit any and all ability to note that EU tolerance of such shenanigans is any different to this side of the Atlantic.

I expect a lot of crocodile tears, sound and fury, and then nothing at all. Sandy Hook didn't change anything and most of the time Islamists kill everyone equally, it's the Christian fundies who directly target LGBTQI people.