This Is Unnerving

Jul 3, 2021 7:06 AM

jessiPiJunkie

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https://twitter.com/MrRJNKNS/status/1411154840928010240?s=19

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2021/07/dozens-of-shots-fired-into-home-of-mobile-democratic-state-senator-police.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/561387-alabama-police-nearly-two-dozen-shots-fired-into-democratic-state

Violence, intimidation, anything to try and make people retreat and back down. Maybe this was random, maybe not. I'm getting more and more worried though...

Cat tax: The Colonel, enjoying a nap

Man, where's Jack Bauer when ya need him...

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Did it not begin when the American far right tried to kidnap a governor? or any of the *many* other times they've engaged in terrorism?

5 years ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 3

The cherry on top was how it was brushed off how Trump supported that plot to kidnap and possibly murder her.

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Republicans every single time stuff like this happensn including the Capital insurrection

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Welcome to the crumbles. It’s not a broken nation, but one whose cracks have begun to widen.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A lot.

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Fox News, horrible public education, the fact that one of two major political parties is tacitly supporting this (sometimes not tacitly...)

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Well boys, might be the end of the world, but fuck it, lets get hunting:

5 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 8

Who are we hunting? I love hunting. But I've never hunted human.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It's fine, Nazis aren't humans, they're Nazis

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Oh. I'm down to hunt nazis. Do you know where any are? I met a few in prison but I think they'll let me in there without committing a crime.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"won't let me in there"

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

“It was a false flag by BLM and Antifa” - the rightist talking heads, tomorrow.

5 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 2

Read about the murder of Giacomo Matteotti by the hands of Mussolini's supporters when fascist party was still debating in parliament

5 years ago | Likes 478 Dislikes 8

Also the Potempa Murder of 32: Nazis murder a leftist in his home - sentenced to death, released when the nazis took over

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"We don't give a damn."

5 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 1

I maintain, the original version of this comment was a fucking masterpiece, and y'all are philistines.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

Hey, sorry, I’m not exactly following what you mean here, could you explain more please?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a reference to Mussolini-era fascists, when called out on their acts they usually replied "Me ne frego" which can be translated as 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

"We dont give a damn" or "I dont care" in a vulgar way. This attitude spread among Mussolinis supporters as challenge to their opponents 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Wow thank you for that info. We really don’t talk about history enough (or in the right way at least). Troubling times.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

We are speeding through history man. We at the Rubicon, and I'm pretty sure we damn crossed it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You still have idiots debating whether the term fascist is correct when talking about MAGAts while this shit happens too. We’re so fucked

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Amazing how Republicans only have hate and violence as their platform.

5 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 7

And fear. They want to get their people scared, so they'll do anything to protect what's theirs

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Fear is their only platform

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

and yet we see those they hate responding in kind. Watch what they do and do the opposite. Don't let them manipulate you into abandoning-

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 13

democracy.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 10

When republicans stormed the capital on January 6th, they abandoned democracy. Take your hypocrisy somewhere else!

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

$50 says the shooter owns a MAGA hat, any takers?

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

No, we all agree with you!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just a matter of time until these attempts become murders.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I'm not in America. But I think people who did that is a coward, uneducated and stupid.

5 years ago | Likes 76 Dislikes 2

I mean...Alabama. It's a pretty safe bet.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thats a dangerous line of thinking. Stuff like this doesn't happen in a vacuum, they're being manipulated into doing stuff like this by

5 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

people who're anything but stupid. The same with calling it unamerican. Given how much of it is happening, you can safely say

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

it's very american. Denying either of those is hiding the true threat to make yourself feel better.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

"I love the poorly educated."

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

they're called terrorist, nothing less, nothing more.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

HEY! Don't be blaming the GOP without evidence!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well I, for one, will not be intimidated into not participating in my right to vote and speak my mind. All those MAGATS can go to hell.

5 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 4

but can believe elected Democrats that fail to stand up to Republicans will say the same thing

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same, and good on you. I went and voted despite reports of republicans trying to intimidate people at the polling lines. Fuck 'em.

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In the US there's an implied "if they're brown" to those definitions. White supremacists are just angry people who need help (at best)

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

For the people saying thats not terrorism, this is litteraly taken from the FBI page on terrorism https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism

5 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 0

In their eyes it's patroitism.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

In their eyes it's social justice.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Anyone find it ironic this is the reason why we made the Patriot Act in the first place- to make it easy to find terrorists

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Why won't they wipe that filth off their face then?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Lol. People downvoting a definition…

5 years ago | Likes 109 Dislikes 3

I downvoted the unnecessary highlight, but now I see dipshits like you may need such things. +1

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 24

You didn't downvote it for the highlight. No need to lie to us.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

who would ever lie on the internet?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It doesn't align with their feelings

5 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

aww, the poor feelings of the non-outgoing "participation trophy" crowd. whatever shall we do to appease these.... well.... assholes lol

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Bots

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

It's not a good definition. Terrorism has 5 criteria: violence or threat of violence; targets are illegal (read civilian); done by non-state

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 31

Actor; motives are ideological not economic; and action is done for an audience. If you are missing one it's not terrorism it's smthing else

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 27

1) I'd agree that it could use a little refining, but I think it works as a basis. And I'd argue that any ideological violence is almost by

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's. literally. from. the. FBI. webpage. on. terrorism. Additional "refinement" is on that page. https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2) definition done for an audience, whether it's an audience of one's own followers or the audience is the people of a different ideology

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

People need to realize. If even one dem senator dies in a state with a rep gov...bye bye slim majority. Welcome back bitch McConnell.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 5

Depends on the state. Some require the appointed Senator to be of the same party as the Senator being replaced.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is it Nazi hunting time yet?

5 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 5

No. Doing that is doing their shit. It's time to run for office and rebuild democracy. That's the only true cure for fascism.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 16

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This isn't an either/or thing.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I mean... That ain't what we did in the 40s.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

The solution to fascism in 2021 is the same as it was in 1944. A bullet.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

With a handy applicator. Though now a days we have extended magazines.

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Saying "I disagree" when someone tries to murder you does nothing but let you die feeling smug. Action necessitates action, not discourse.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

you think running for office isn't action? You believe thinking things through first before reacting isn't action? dude, your problem isn't-

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

your fellow Americans. It's whoever is lying to them. Shooting fellow Americans is doing that person's bidding and destroying democracy-

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

on our own dime. Heck, we'd probably be buying guns from them. Follow the money, and there's your target. Think about what we'd have left-

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's always a good time to punch a nazi.

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5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Nazi open season is 24/7/365

5 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 3

No permits required.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

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5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

So are we LIMITED to 100 or is 100 our minimum recommended?

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5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

The term "targeted attack" could not be more accurate nor less necessary to add to the title.

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 4

I mean, Americans die from stray street bullets at home, so the distinction that these were intentionally fired at her makes sense imo

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

74 million of americans are ok with whatever happens, as long as it happens to the "other team"

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Yanno, reducing 74 million people's carbon emissions could be really good for the planet...

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

it's also that they really DO NOT care what happens to themselves as long as they can hurt libs. they spite themselves and laugh at the fact

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

and these "freedom-loving patriots" are also ok with a dictatorship (as we saw on the 6th), as long as the dic(k)tator says he's republican

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Who'd have thought that giving everyone guns to sort out problems, and then creating a platform for their problems to swirl, could go bad???

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 5

Even outside of America we should be talking about this. If you disagree with politicians then violence is not the first and only answer.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Ugh. That’s right, folks, we’ve slid into someone else’s case study...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Caveat: There are obviously some "regimes" that are actively against their people. The world is not black and white. Shades of grey.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The same people that attempted an insurrection, is trying to kill those that dont align with their politics

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Good. I hope it hurt.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Impossible to buy ammo now. These degenerates have been stockpiling it for over a year.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

God. Look at security video at places that sell ammo on the mornings after it comes in. Dudes in camp sprinting to the back to buy it all

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

itb be just as easy to shoot up your own home and blame it on those seditious losers for free points

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 24

Kid please get some sense. It's not always a conspiracy

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

yeah sure, just like the nsa doesnt collect domestic communications

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Against Tucker?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Good job sport, you identified a real conspiracy. Don't forget to point at it every time you come up with some batshit crazy nonsense ?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

oh you mean that batshit crazy nonsense like arming and training bin laden? or the nonsense about drugging US citizens with LSD against

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I'm not trying to defend them but its there any solid evidence indicating as much?

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 18

The plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan. Not too far a leap for other extremists

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Occam’s Razor. Innocent until proven guilty, but you start with the most likely suspect. In this case, a Trumpsucker.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I don't know why you're getting downvoted for essentially asking for a source...

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

It's an imgur political post. Not a lot of room for nuance typically.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

You mean like Rand Paul getting his ass beat by his neighbor? Not for politics, but because Rand Paul is an asshole neighbor?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

No I mean this situation is terrible, but at this moment there is literally no public evidence for who did it. Automatically pointing 1

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Fingers is what the very people you are deriding do. Fucking be better man. 2

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Terrorism.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

What kind of backwards 4th world country is USA turning into?

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Europe between 1950 and about 2000.

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believing it was anything but is your first mistake

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 4

Exactly the dream of the GOP - full of scared idiots with guns willing to kill each other while they do as they please.

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I bet it was antifa /s

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They were just tourists. /S

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

On vacation from the FBI.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Why isn't the national media covering this?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Shots Fired Into Senator’s Mobile Home

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

I used to live in the area. Outside of Mobile, there are a lot of mobile homes in Mobile County. Perfect for Hungry Hungry Hurricanes.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just to be clear…. This is simply a pun for pun’s sake…firing one bullet into any home is deplorable.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Having so many guns in society is really great and cool! Helpful to civil discourse.

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I just started watching handmaids tale with my fiancee. Now a days it seems extra scary to me.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

"No one is surprised" Hey America, Heads Up. Firing 23 bullets into a politician's home is something only happens in failed states.

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Still not surprising it happened tho

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You obviously don't remember Europe a few decades ago. Mortar attacks on Downing Street, Spanish Fascist politicians being sent in to orbit①

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Italian PMs being assassinated by Communists (who might have really been Fascist NATO commandos sponsored by the CIA and run by a②

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Masonic Lodge because Italy is this parallel dimension where every conspiracy theory is true.)③

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No part of taht sentence ended the way I thought it was going to. What a ride.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm actually interested in that last bit. Sauce or just conspiratorial thinking?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

IDK if its true since I'm not an expert on Italy, but these things did exist and were involved in "Years of Lead".

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Weird how all political violence seems to be against Democrats. I wonder what that says about their opponents.

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Going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Decades of indoctrination to undo. It won't be done quickly or quietly

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I was going off about right wing extremists as far back as the 80s when I was an unusually politically aware punk rock teen & was never ->

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what does it say about their opponents?:

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Except for that one dude who was a Bernie supporter and shot up that baseball practice. But generally, I agree with you.

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Opponents: We FEEL attacked! We FEEL suppressed! We FEEL unheard! We FEEL threatened!!

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This was obviously just blmantifa out to make the peaceful right wingers who toured the capitol look bad!

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In conjunction with the reverse vampires!

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That the GQP are fascist?

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Her party isn't stated in the post above... It didn't need to be because you already knew.

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I’m more than willing to retaliate. Fuck these cultists

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You won’t do shit, stop the cap.

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Bet

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So weird that all these false flag attacks are so convincing.....

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That was ANTIFA - Gop prob

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

Violence against democrats republican voter suppression i hope the fascists dont win

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And when threats are leveled against Republicans (such as "Hang Mike Pence" chants), they also come from Republicans.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

No, no, if you ask a right-winger they'll tell you about the terrible violence of them not being given the megaphone in every public square.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

bUt BoTh sIdEs ArE ExTrEmE

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The irony of the situation is they feel their voices are "unheard" so lash out violent to be heard but demean anyone else for doing so.

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@INeverReadTheTOS /a/HEfJ7ca

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Hah, serendipitous.

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ThEyRe JuSt TrYiNg To MaKe RePuBlIcAnS LoOk BaD bY fRaMiNg ThEm -Republicans, probably

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I personally doubt any of these terrorists even cate about the political right, they just see a path to the violence they crave to inflict.

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The violence that they crave to inflict upon people who are different than themselves, that they might become dominant.

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That being said their politicians certainly aren’t discouraging the behavior until they get caught then they are thrown away like used tools

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

There it is. The one example the right clings for whataboutism in the face of numerous and increasing right wing terrorist attacks

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A drop in an ocean

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The drop in the ocean would be the right wing 'terrorists' compared to inner city violence

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inner city violence is not politically motivated

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Politically motivated or not it's a significantly bigger issue then pushing a political agenda

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"The right are becoming radicalized and a violent threat to democracy" sparkthis: "Yea, but like, the poor... *mumble*mumble*"

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5 years ago (deleted Jul 3, 2021 2:39 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Lot of liberals are starting to worry they’ll have to protect themselves from political violence because the right is full of violent idiots

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

so because they're "better armed", they should be allowed to commit massacres? Where were you on January 6th?

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

They aren't though. Right wingers tend to talk about guns all the time. Left wingers own guns but don't talk about it because we aren't nuts

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

The vast majority of states do not require a license to own a gun, just the standard federal background check, a couple require safety certs

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Or a license or purchase permit for certain types of firearm. TMYK! ?

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No way, really?

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Yeah, it’s part of the rights the government can’t restrict without overriding reason (bill of rights), and generally we frown on >

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Licences for rights (religion, press, speech, security of personal effects, etc), whether you think self-defense etc should or shouldn’t >

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Hey now, that doesn't fit the narrative. Just like how they decide what's racially motivated violence and what isn't.

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Yup, that one incident 4 years ago changes everything. Sounds like you are trying to make things fit your narrative.

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There it is. The one example the right clings to for whataboutism in the face of numerous and increasing right wing terrorist attacks

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Careful, you might get banned for wrongthink for bringing actual evidence to the feelings party.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 14

Turns out America’s biggest threat is Americans

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Have you ever met America? The only thing we like better then shooting other people, is shouting ourselves!! This is America.

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Nobody could bring us down- so we had to do it ourselves. Started by ignoring urgent memos.

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Lmao

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“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” —Pogo

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think the real problem is a lack of historical perspective. Neither party is innocent in the US.

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so basically, because "neither party's innocent" ,massacres are ok? Where were you January 6th?

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Thats a hard sell when one side does almost all of the murders :)

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Herp derp both sides

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I agree with you. You'll get downvoted since your not being super nice to Democrats but..

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 75

Nah he's getting downvotes because it's because it's a false equivalence. One party's constituents tried to overthrow the govt bud.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

No, he's being downvoted because it's an old tired myth with no root in reality. There's no "both sides are bad". One side is clearly worse

5 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 4

Unfair downvotes. They just shared a fact. Though it is an rare exception.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 20

Hey some other idiot commented the same thing as a reply! You guys need new material ?

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Burth surds! /s

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There it is. The one example the right clings for whataboutism in the face of numerous and increasing right wing terrorist attacks

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Now look at the response to that incident by the left versus what right wingers say after their flock shoots up a place. Thoughts & prayers

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Fair. It's not 100%. More like 99.9%.

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Make believe numbers are so fun, aren't they?!

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so I imagine you have proof they're fake. You can show that now, please.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Spoiler alert- he doesn't and he won't.

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They sure are - so here's some non-make believe numbers to show you just how bad the gap is - https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2019

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The report shows the vast majority of politically motivated crimes/attacks are committed by right wing extremists.

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But what would imgur say if this same thing happened to Mitch McConnells house? Shoe on the other foot. It's bad but obviously good for USA.

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Just for the record apparently I come off as a McConnell supporter, I am not. I simply was more curious if it was ok if it's someone bad

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Fuck Mitch McConnell but I don't want the guy killed. Here's the problem with your whataboutism, those against you have actual morals.

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I'm not for Mitch McConnell lol I'm simply examining all angles. I gate the guy

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Hate*

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McConnell is a piece of shit, but I would be as angry and concerned had this happened to him. If we choose violence as a solution, we are

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So much more fucked than we presently are

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So let me ask you this, when does the 2nd amendment come into play? That right was put there to prevent tyrannical government

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It's always in play. It's a deterrent. That said, political violence rarely works unless it is weirded by a force with a greater capacity to

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I would, I want McConnell alive to watch his legacy be dismantled

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Terrorism is never good, regardless of the target.

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I wholly support the murder of corrupt, sadistic people that intentionally roadblock the path to a better quality of life. When democracy >

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>is not permitted to fulfill its function, what other recourse is there? The problem is only one side is willing to engage in this sort of >

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

>behavior, and that fact is weaponized against those who would pursue civility.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Shouldn't come as a surprise; domestic right-wing terrorism has always been the greatest threat.

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Yet you can't click even once on the Internet without finding some brainwashed rube who INSISTS that "leftists" are inherently violent, >

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are responsible for "burning a dozen cities to the ground" for George Floyd, and right-wingers only want to defend America from them...

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Then why isn't this recognised and measures taken against it? I'm straight up confused if US knows the issue and still doesn't fix it

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Because domestic terrorists vote consistently.

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Because the people who enforce laws are more likely to be sympathetic to right-wing extremism.

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Because by and large the people who are in a position of power to do something about it are the ones encouraging right wing extremism.

5 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

Making sure the right look bad order to prove to the majority that the left are good? That's a complex point of view, but not unbelievable.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

1/2 No, it's to radicalize a huge amount of people to the extent that they will support the powerful no matter what they do, and to ensure

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is how republicans want it. They've been crafting it to be this for 50 years and this isn't even their end goal.

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Ignore that it's "republican". It's right-wing, and the right-wing (whether Dem or Rep) has encouraged it for 200+ years.

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Yea, fair enough.

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Side effect of the lies and conspiracy theories the right uses to stay in power. Few regular people actually support the right on policy.

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Short version, steps were taken at the end of Obama's term, those steps were reversed under Trump because Republicans like to whine and...

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were afraid of law enforcement targeting people based on their (Right) political beliefs. Biden has now refocused the gov back on this.

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Because Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

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Because it's clearly a secret deep state Antifa plot using double agents to put the blame on good law abiding patriotic Republicans. (/s)

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That eventually, the attacks may increase and get more sophisticated and the Dems may be wiped out in a long violent takeover

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Just the worst possible scenario I can think of. Also plausible if nothing is done about the idiots you allow to roam the streets, killing.

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As a Democrat. We have guns too.

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God damn right we do.

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But the point is that they would rise to violence first, and destroy anyone who attempts to give leadership and focus to the left.

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The US is too mixed up for a 'rising up', there's no North vs South this time. Instead the US will become Mexico. Nationally ruled by one

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party. With local/regional control contested between the two big parties...which is where the violence will come in. Perhaps if Democratic

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Of the 4 assassinated US presidents, 3 were Republican. 2 more attempted assassinations were against Republicans.

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Kiddo, there were more assassination attempts against democratic presidents in the last 30 years by far.

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Just remember that the republican party back in those times was closer to the current democratic party of today. Shit flipped at some point.

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1964 civil rights act and Nixon's southern strategy.

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Sounds like you're lacking some... historical perspective.

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One of which was against Teddy, who was ironically the father of progressivism in the US. Ironic by today's standards...

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The Republican party WAS the progressive party prior to Nixon's southern switch. Every assassinated President was that era's progressive.

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I don't think its w mutually exclusive thing, don't forget the sniper attack at that baseball game a confe years ago targeting Republicans

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Goldwater's switch. He lost, but branding the party with racism was his idea.

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And those were all before Nixon. Therefore, before the Southern Switch. Isn't that interesting?

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Man, you said, "all political violence" with no distinction of time or place. You are factually wrong. That's all.

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The distinction of time comes with talking in the present tense.

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Duh... Replace republicans by conservatives, racists, right wingers (which happen to be republicans nowadays). There. Happy?

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Reagan was before Nixon? Who knew?

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My bad, when I said "those", I was referring to the successful assassinations.

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And in my defence, the attempted assassination of Reagan was explicitly not politically motivated.

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