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Noone cares anymore about the left rioting

klyrs 6y ago
That's because they're laughably ineffective and tend to shit their own kitchens. It's also last year's news, a whataboutism to deflect from the actual insurrection that occurred this week.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  "Shitting in their own kitchen" got many/most major cities to examine how they allocate police and social service resources just like the protesters wanted.
  - beerandt 6y ago
    Negotiate with terrorists, expect more terrorism.
lamontcg 6y ago
The left wasn't being actively encouraged and incited by the sitting President.
- ufmace 6y ago
  Not by the sitting President, but by every single mainstream media organization and a pretty solid fraction of sitting Democrat Congresspeople and Senators, who spent months excusing and denying violent riots as they raged for months.
  - jansan 6y ago
    Here are two examples. Chris Cuomo on CNN "And please, show me where it says that protests have to be polite, or peaceful" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable."
  - sirshmooey 6y ago
    Trump’s nature further polarized both sides. He’s a binary-minded individual, either for / against. Dangerous quality for a leader, pushes both sides toward the extremes.
- throwawaysea 6y ago
  Can you please provide evidence for the President inciting violence? I would also say that there are leftist politicians who are encouraging and inciting criminal acts. See this recent tweet from AOC (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080), where she excuses activists acting illegally because the "polite language policy game" (her words) didn't work for them. This is no less an act of incitement than Trump, since Trump never called for violence or encouraged acts of violence. I also think there is a great deal of hypocrisy from the left on this point given the events of this last year. There have been numerous riots, arrests, deaths, and illegal occupation of public places recorded. All the politicians, activists, organizations involved in those criminal acts have been given a pass and have faced very little accountability and virtually no censorship from big tech. Even before George Floyd, we have incidents from left-leaning activists where they literally invade federal buildings. Here's an example documented by the Associated Press (https://youtu.be/B_kxyacaAF4 https://youtu.be/B_kxyacaAF4). What was the response from the far left elements? Rashida Tlaib and AOC actually joined some of their events and encouraged them (https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sunrise-activists-nancy-pelosi/ https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez...). And yet, these two continue to be allowed their platforms. Let's be honest, the tech platforms are using this ridiculously inept protest at the Capitol as an enabling excuse to further censorship and erode free speech, aligning with the interests of their left-biased employee bases. The precedent it sets is dark, as it will be employed to discriminate against viewpoints that disagree with the progressive agenda.
  - mudil 6y ago
    Exactly. Remember when this was OK? https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19 https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19
    - throwawaysea 6y ago
      I totally forgot about that one - it's almost an exact fit for what happened here.
    - ardy42 6y ago

That's because they're laughably ineffective and tend to shit their own kitchens. It's also last year's news, a whataboutism to deflect from the actual insurrection that occurred this week.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago
"Shitting in their own kitchen" got many/most major cities to examine how they allocate police and social service resources just like the protesters wanted.
- beerandt 6y ago
  Negotiate with terrorists, expect more terrorism.

lamontcg 6y ago

The left wasn't being actively encouraged and incited by the sitting President.

ufmace 6y ago
Not by the sitting President, but by every single mainstream media organization and a pretty solid fraction of sitting Democrat Congresspeople and Senators, who spent months excusing and denying violent riots as they raged for months.
- jansan 6y ago
  Here are two examples. Chris Cuomo on CNN "And please, show me where it says that protests have to be polite, or peaceful" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable."
- sirshmooey 6y ago
  Trump’s nature further polarized both sides. He’s a binary-minded individual, either for / against. Dangerous quality for a leader, pushes both sides toward the extremes.
throwawaysea 6y ago
Can you please provide evidence for the President inciting violence? I would also say that there are leftist politicians who are encouraging and inciting criminal acts. See this recent tweet from AOC (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080), where she excuses activists acting illegally because the "polite language policy game" (her words) didn't work for them. This is no less an act of incitement than Trump, since Trump never called for violence or encouraged acts of violence. I also think there is a great deal of hypocrisy from the left on this point given the events of this last year. There have been numerous riots, arrests, deaths, and illegal occupation of public places recorded. All the politicians, activists, organizations involved in those criminal acts have been given a pass and have faced very little accountability and virtually no censorship from big tech. Even before George Floyd, we have incidents from left-leaning activists where they literally invade federal buildings. Here's an example documented by the Associated Press (https://youtu.be/B_kxyacaAF4 https://youtu.be/B_kxyacaAF4). What was the response from the far left elements? Rashida Tlaib and AOC actually joined some of their events and encouraged them (https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sunrise-activists-nancy-pelosi/ https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez...). And yet, these two continue to be allowed their platforms. Let's be honest, the tech platforms are using this ridiculously inept protest at the Capitol as an enabling excuse to further censorship and erode free speech, aligning with the interests of their left-biased employee bases. The precedent it sets is dark, as it will be employed to discriminate against viewpoints that disagree with the progressive agenda.
- mudil 6y ago
  Exactly. Remember when this was OK? https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19 https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19
  - throwawaysea 6y ago
    I totally forgot about that one - it's almost an exact fit for what happened here.
  - ardy42 6y ago