https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressman-posts-family-christmas-picture-with-guns-days-after-school-2021-12-05/
Have you seen this picture?
How do you counter people who are so purposefully disgusting?
Good trigger-discipline by everybody in the photo except the congressman himself. He's clearly a poseur, an all hat and no cattle type.
I'm told the answer is to stop focusing so much on identity politics and virtue signalling.
So first off, it should be pointed out that this photo is identity-politics for Republicans. It's virtue-signalling to their voters; it's just that it's a different "virtue" being signaled. "We share your values."
And yeah, being outraged over it is giving them exactly what they want. "See? The liberal gun-grabbers are offended by this photo of a traditional American family exercising their freedom to bear arms."
This is a US Rep for a gun-happy rural district in Kentucky, and the notion that he must have posted this to mock the victims of school shootings in a different state is quite a reach, and not one that would persuade anybody who's not already inclined to believe that Republicans are inherently evil. It's not actually an argument for gun control, it's at best an argument that this Rep Massie is an insensitive
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Being outraged over this gives the rednecks exactly what they love. "Triggering the libs" makes them laugh. They will be delighted to see the "Libtards having a meltdown over Rep Massie's family Christmas photo!" Being outraged over this might make urban liberals less likely to vote Republican, but they already weren't going to vote Republican. It's preaching to the choir, with no awareness of how it sounds to people who aren't in the choir.
-k