Aurora City Hall is defending its decision to raise flags at municipal facilities on Friday, despite federal and state proclamations to keep them at half-staff in honor of conservative activist

Aurora, IL

I am also told that at least one fire station had kept their flag lowered, and locked it in place, requiring the fire chief to come cut the lock. Also that there are people sneaking around lowering flags.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 hours ago

    Most everyone, when he was shot, was like: “Kirk who?”

    He’s just a podcaster with some followers.

    I just don’t get how this jamoke is more important than Carter? Or Melissa Hortman, FFS?

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 hours ago

      In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.

      He was a general of the fascist vanguard and died while fighting. Therefore he is a hero and a martyr. Hortman and Carter were enemies of the party, and therefore deserving of the celebration and laughter at their deaths.

      Hypocrisy and double standards are hallmarks of rightists.

    • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      He was a state-supported Christofascist propagandist. He was important because he amplified the white nationalist hatred MAGA wants.