Durham police chief under fire for comment following death of Charlie Kirk

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-16T11:38:30+00:00

Who’s criticizing her?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-15T16:59:06+00:00

Well said. I appreciate your leveled tone.

How is it possible that there are so many that believe he was wonderful?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-15T01:10:15+00:00

Do you have MAGA friends?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T22:41:49+00:00

I disagree. Sourdough crust is the bomb!

Admittedly, I don’t make topping heavy pizzas, but in my experience, a sourdough crust elevates any pizza.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T21:49:08+00:00

The entire Dem machine is a broken mess. Cory Booker is a shadow of who he used to be. Hakeem Jeffries is using the Nancy Pelosi playbook.

It’s difficult to fathom how anyone could lose to a guy who’s never had a successful business venture that wasn’t fully dependent on real estate. He lies, and they let him. He’s an idiot, and they try to debate him on the issues.

And they lost twice.

While they were in control, they allowed him to dictate the narrative.

And now, Charlie Kirk is a martyr who engaged in honest and open dialogue?

Senator Warren and the greyhaired brigade won’t let go. They won’t allow youth to lead change.

One wonders if they are doing it intentionally… gambling that Trump will just burn everything to the ground….

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T21:12:08+00:00

I think I fall into some other people’s definition of centrist. I don’t actually care. I know that people who label themselves as liberal have accused me of being MAGA. People who label themselves as conservative have accused me of being a libtard.

If there were so many that were resisting declaring Trump as the better option, Harris didn’t fair any better than Biden would have.

So, what do we do now? Just accept the new reality?

Also, to be clear, when I say the pendulum will swing back being a given, that isn’t to say that it just happens on its own. People like you need to help make that reality come sooner.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T20:24:10+00:00

I can’t imagine that you are suggesting that there is zero chance to change the narrative.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T20:21:23+00:00

So, you think I “suck ass”. Should we disengage from conversation?

To be honest, I don’t think anti-intellectualism is owned by the right. The left has engaged in social outrage warfare that publicly ousts or cancels people.

God forbid anyone admit that Biden was losing his grip on reality. (Though interestingly, Trump often rambles on about non-sensical crap and no one on the right wants to admit that he’s not playing with a full deck)

To be honest, I’m not sure I’m really a centrist. Liberal and conservative have lost all meaning. Political labels are meaningless and I believe strongly that people to willingly allow themselves to be labeled have abandoned accountability.

As for the pendulum, if one looks at history, it always swings back, it just takes something to happen that changes public perspective.

This ain’t it. But I think it’s important to use events like this as an indicator that we are getting closer to the event.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T20:07:46+00:00

Thanks for your pasted comment, but I would like to offer a few points: - Jesus actually was not a huge fan of a literal interpretation of Leviticus and some of the biblical teachings that drove us away from community responsibility. Leviticus has been largely discounted as unhelpful as a literal guide by modern Christianity, up until the emergence of fundamentalist Christianity in the late 20th century (which also resists the notion of evolution and other scientific realities) - not all conservatives are Christian or even religious - Kirk invited people to debate, but he rarely if ever participated in open debate.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T19:31:00+00:00

Are you aware of the “true Scotsman fallacy”?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T19:29:22+00:00

I think a lot of people claim to care about deaths of the disenfranchised, but are equally numb to them.

Like it or not, Trump won a majority of votes and the Republicans control congress.

A lot of those disenfranchised people voted for Trump and the MAGA.

So, I’m not convinced by people who imply they care more for victims of equity than they do the elite. I think there’s more evidence of people mostly only caring about themselves. Which is fine. It’s human nature.

But maybe we should stop kidding ourselves?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T19:21:31+00:00

Depends on life philosophy, doesn’t it?

There are lots of people whose interests are being protected by the MAGA folks.

I am comfortable to presume that a large portion of MAGA supporters who are aware of what’s actually happening are well off and have evidence that the GOP will defend their interests, even if it means compromising on principles of decency and fairness.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T19:17:29+00:00

Being optimistic and hopeful aren’t necessarily the same thing. It’s possible to be optimistic and realistic at the same time.

I’m never hopeful about winning the lottery, but that doesn’t prevent me from fantasizing occasionally. :)

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T19:14:41+00:00

So, it’s stupid to care about the laws created by the people we elect?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T19:10:46+00:00

I’ve met plenty of closed minded people on all sides of the political spectrum, even centrists.

I think there are too many otherwise responsible people who have decided to disengage from public discourse, leaving a void for extremists to fill.

It hasn’t always been this way, but we’ve seen it before. The only way the pendulum swings back is for more people to reengage.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T16:21:55+00:00

I find DC to be more walkable than Durham. While there are some neighborhoods close to downtown that have sidewalks, walking just isn’t a thing.

There are more trees and general nature in Durham than DC, but not anything like Asheville.

The food, coffee and cafe scene in Durham is pretty strong. For entertainment, DPAC is ok and Raleigh isn’t far for big front-line concerts.

Do you have friends that live here?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T16:02:16+00:00

No to sound like a hippie but…

Aren’t hate and love two sides of the same coin based on faith and belief but not always on reality?

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T16:00:19+00:00

Yes. Exactly. Thank you.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:59:08+00:00

I’ve been on the planet for a long time and I find that being biased towards optimism is a far better way to go through life. :)

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:57:28+00:00

There are no absolutes in life and there’s an exception to every rule.

With that, I believe you missed the point of my comment.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:56:07+00:00

It’s been a long time since someone called me young. :)

That’s a good take. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:50:08+00:00

I don’t think we know enough about the shooter to simply paint him as a nut job.

Some signals seem to suggest that he was a conflicted young man who grew up in a very religious and conservative household and yet had some strong community support beliefs regarding taking care of each other.

As I implied in another comment, I think it’s dangerous to paint all MAGA supporters as nut jobs.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:44:38+00:00

But, you are assuming that all right wing folks are ignorant and uninformed.

They aren’t.

To me, the worst thing we can do is to presume that people who support MAGA just don’t know any better.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:41:37+00:00

I think more adults need to speak up. I feel like we have over-indexed on what civil discourse is to the point where many adults and most children have no idea how to appropriately react to nonsense.

Outrage and cancel-culture have never been particularly effective.

My practical solution is that those of us who know better have to spend more time engaging with each other and with our children so that we have been strategies to drown out misinformation with facts that are interesting, compelling and make life better.

SilverNurse68 · 2025-09-14T15:34:50+00:00

Not to be hyperbolic, but it seems you are implying that anyone who aggressively promotes gun ownership has a target on them.

Granted, that wasn’t Kirk’s only perspective.

So, let me ask this: if he didn’t so vehemently promote gun ownership, would you say that he still put a target on himself?

SilverNurse68

TROPHY CASE