On a sticky Texas morning, Kimberly Mata-Rubio is lacing up her running shoes ahead of two races she is running in Uvalde in tribute to her daughter Lexi, who was killed in the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
First up is a charity run honoring Lexi’s life. Then it’s back to a tougher contest: Campaigning to become mayor of Uvalde, a town still divided after one of America’s deadliest mass shootings and a botched police response that is still under investigation.
“One thing I hear with all of my children, and it echoes my own belief, is that right now Lexi’s legacy is our priority and we just want to honor her with action,” Mata-Rubio said.
Uvalde overwhelmingly re-elected the same politicians, judges and sheriffs that led to the shooting and lack of response. Uvalde also voted strongly for Abbott.
That’s when my last shred of sympathy for that community evaporated. If they don’t care about their own children being killed, why should I? Clearly they want this to continue happening.
Consider that sometimes there are more voters who are unaffected by the people and policies they vote for, than voters who are affected.
I imagine in the case of Uvalde, there are more grumpy senior citizens who don’t give a shit about the lives of children than there are parents of school age children – or at least more voters in the former category than the latter.
Don’t forget that voter suppression exists, too. Just because the same shit heels got voted back in doesn’t mean that the people who were most hurt didn’t try to do something about it. Don’t give up your sympathy because of what it looks like to you at a distance.
i’ve learned first hand that not even the liberals in austin give a rats ass about voter suppression in texas; so she must be doing this for herself because she’s not going to have an impact in uvalde and much less for the rest of the state.
Well if it happened in Austin then it must apply to everyone and everywhere else. Makes perfect sense.
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How does any of that change what they said?
In case you’re legitimately asking:
OP is saying that “they” don’t care that “their” kids are being killed. This reads as OP saying the parents of the murdered children don’t care about their own murdered children. OP says that because the same bad politicians from before the shooting were voted back into office, this means the parents don’t care. OP therefore says they won’t bother caring either.
I’m saying the bad politicians may not have been voted back in by the parents of the murdered children, and instead have been voted back in by callous people who don’t care about other peoples murdered children. This would mean OP’s assertion that the parents don’t care is wrong, and their decision to not care about murdered children is wrong.
And that was in reply to:
A comment directed at the community as a whole.
So even if what you say is true, it simply reinforced OP’s point that the community is fucking garbage, as the fact there would even be a majority of evil people to override the will of the parents makes the town undeserving of sympathy.
Wow, you sound like such a wonderful person. Jesus fucking christ.
I didn’t kill their kids, I didn’t stand around refusing to help, and I didn’t re-elect cowards who let kids die… Uvalde did though. So as bad and callous as my opinion sounds, it’s not as bad as what they did to themselves