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> 2. the extreme right is armed to the teeth and looks increasingly willing to use violence to slow their slide into irrelevancy and powerlessness. Kind of a w

by brink 5y ago

> 2. the extreme right is armed to the teeth and looks increasingly willing to use violence to slow their slide into irrelevancy and powerlessness. Kind of a weird accusation. This is what the left did during the riots last summer. Of course the right would be provoked to retort in kind.

AlexTWithBeard 5y ago
> McCloskey has given to candidates of both parties... I find stupid people being distributed across political parties more or less evenly. [1] https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251512028.html https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...
anonporridge 5y ago
That was a reference to the insurrection, not the riots. We also have crazy elected representatives like this fucker, https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/414450-fbi-investigating-washington-state-rep-for-manifesto-urging-all-males https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/414450-fbi-investig... Show me a liberal elected representative rallying for mass slaughter of their ideological opponents and I'll arm myself against them just as strongly.
- AlexTWithBeard 5y ago
  Hm... I've read through the document in your link [1] and it looks to me more like an excerpt from a bible study class than an attempt to raise the masses. I may be missing some context though. Liberal representatives (including those at federal level [2]) make enough worrisome statements. Now we can engage into the "he didn't mean that/she didn't mean that" game. The only way to win in this game is to say something like "I don't understand how a reasonable person can fail to see the difference between <...> and <...>". So instead of that we may turn to the facts of actual violence in 2020. This is left as an exercise to the reader. Note: if you decide to run your own small facts checking, don't use google. Use duckduckgo or bing. Yes, I know ddg uses google engine. No, I don't know why, but results are surprisingly different. Even in incognito mode. [1] https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-basis-war/ https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-bas... [2] https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/549514-traditional-media-yawns-as-maxine-waters-gets-pass-on-inciteful https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/549514-traditio...

by brink 5y ago

AlexTWithBeard 5y ago

> McCloskey has given to candidates of both parties... I find stupid people being distributed across political parties more or less evenly. [1] https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251512028.html https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...

anonporridge 5y ago

That was a reference to the insurrection, not the riots. We also have crazy elected representatives like this fucker, https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/414450-fbi-investigating-washington-state-rep-for-manifesto-urging-all-males https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/414450-fbi-investig... Show me a liberal elected representative rallying for mass slaughter of their ideological opponents and I'll arm myself against them just as strongly.

AlexTWithBeard 5y ago
Hm... I've read through the document in your link [1] and it looks to me more like an excerpt from a bible study class than an attempt to raise the masses. I may be missing some context though. Liberal representatives (including those at federal level [2]) make enough worrisome statements. Now we can engage into the "he didn't mean that/she didn't mean that" game. The only way to win in this game is to say something like "I don't understand how a reasonable person can fail to see the difference between <...> and <...>". So instead of that we may turn to the facts of actual violence in 2020. This is left as an exercise to the reader. Note: if you decide to run your own small facts checking, don't use google. Use duckduckgo or bing. Yes, I know ddg uses google engine. No, I don't know why, but results are surprisingly different. Even in incognito mode. [1] https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-basis-war/ https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-bas... [2] https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/549514-traditional-media-yawns-as-maxine-waters-gets-pass-on-inciteful https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/549514-traditio...