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RIP to this dude. Fucking crazy that some whack job was able to just walk into his office and stab him to death. Really disturbing.
Also found it really sad that, as I was scrolling some of the comments on Facebook and Twitter about this, I noticed so many felt the need to preface their sympathetic messages with some political statement. "Politics aside...", "I may not agree with him politically, but...", "I hate the Conservatives, but..."
It just shows that small brain, tribal chimp mentality that permeates so much of our society where we can't just express sympathy that a human being was brutally murdered at his place of work without prefacing the fact that - my god - we didn't fully agree with the victim politically. Fuckin idiots.
Because in England and most of Western Europe, no one expects their elected officials to be physically harmed. These are high trust societies, liberal and relatively easy going.