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Uvalde schoolchildren were massacred under a sheriff’s watch. He was still undefeated on Super Tuesday (www.independent.co.uk)

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Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day

For nearly two years, a Texas county sheriff has refused to step down after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in 2022.

Instead, on Super Tuesday, Uvalde County sheriff Ruben Nolasco faced voters for the first time in the wake of the massacre.

And he won re-election with roughly 39 per cent of votes against three Republican challengers, according to preliminary results.

The sheriff has repeatedly rebuffed calls to resign or withdraw his candidacy for re-election despite overwhelming public pressure from victims’ families, demands that he face criminal charges, and a federal investigation that detailed a minute-by-minute timeline exposing “cascading” failures in the law enforcement response that day.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Debate? It was a personal attack because they took my opinion personally.

That's not what happened. They didn't take your opinion personally, they were pushing back against the assertion of your opinion, debating you. They were not emotional in any way.

There is such a thing as being exasperated

And you hit that point way too quickly. Honestly, it seems like you were the one being emotional and taking things personally, and not the person you were responding to.

and I have a right to experience that without justification.

No, not really. At least not if you are participating on an online forum of conversation. You are polluting the conversational 'town square' with your overly emotional responses, and they ruin the conversational experience for the rest of us (which is already borderline here on Lemmy). You really need to take an inner look at how you respond to others in public.

Am I sorry that they live in a shithole state? Yes. Do I have any more fucks to give? No.

Fair enough (and sorry to hear that, hope the situation changes for you in the future, truly). But that doesn't mean you get to emotionally dismiss and/or be rude to others, delude yourself to that fact, and when they challenge you on your responses not expect any kind of pushback.

Anyway, take my advice any way you want (I'm not going to respond further), but for the record, it was given sincerely, and not to score Internet points. If we the community don't strive for a higher standard of intercommunication with each other, then the 'town square' goes to shit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

And you hit that point way too quickly.

I'm not exasperate with the user, I am exasperated with red states.

I am tired of being part of an oppressed minority yet eveyrone seems to expect that I am the one who has to adjust, I am the one who has to be extra fair to others after a lifetime of the same poeple you would have me give extra room being out to literally have me executed. I am tired of watching states restrict my rights and then be told that I have to actually feel sorry for all the people. It's a weird thing, honestly, that I who don't live there should be expected to care for people who live there more than other people who live there. It's disingenuous. It's unfair. I'm done with it.