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> you have to examine how far your partisanship has gone that you’re cheering for violence against someone who disagrees with you

Partisan violence was de facto sanctioned by Trump’s January 6th pardons. Coristine, moreover, was directly involved with decisions—almost certainly ones he made outside the cover of law—that cost lives in America and around the world [1].

Finding schadenfreude in a violent person receiving the violence they gleefully meted out to others isn’t toxic. It’s quintessentially human.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/musk-s-do...



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