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> One side went full kinetic In 2017 a leftist gunman (2016 presidential campaign volunteer) shot up a group of federal Republican legislators, hitting one in
by aksss 6y ago
> One side went full kinetic
In 2017 a leftist gunman (2016 presidential campaign volunteer) shot up a group of federal Republican legislators, hitting one in a ten minute gun battle with Capitol police. Hitting only one wasn’t a failure of intent but of the gunman’s skills.
I’m not linking the events, but considering that a literal (not hyperbolic) deliberate mass assassination attempt was carried out on Republican congressional leaders in 2017, isn’t it a bit disingenuous to say that “one side went full kinetic”.
- boc 6y agoThe difference is in the reaction. Bernie Sanders and other members of the progressive caucus immediately condemned the lone wolf attack in very clear terms. The reaction of the president to the Wednesday attack was far different and will likely encourage future acts of violence. Twitter didn't ban Bernie Sanders because he 1) never encouraged the attack and 2) responded appropriately. Twitter banned Trump because he played a part in encouraging the attack and then didn't genuinely condemn the attacks. That's why these two scenarios are very different.
- aksss 6y agoThere are many reasons the scenarios are different. I’m calling out the fallacy in saying “one side went full kinetic”. This point has nothing to do with Twitter. This is about violent rhetoric leading to violent action, and a false supposition that “one side” in this has no history of violent political action (e.g. clean hands) in comparison to the other.