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by hanniabu 2y ago
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- briantakita 2y agoSame difference.
- clipsy 2y agoI'd say there's a pretty important difference!
- briantakita 2y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 2y agoWe’re just gonna pretend Trump hasn’t used any violent rhetoric, are we?
- briantakita 2y ago[flagged]
- trealira 2y ago> Trump's rhetoric is justified. Especially when it's taken out of context. Especially? You're saying that the worst interpretations are actually justified? > Gloves are about to come off. For our own protection It seems like the only one spouting violent rhetoric is you.
- briantakita 2y ago[flagged]
- trealira 2y agoFYI, I'm not who flagged you. You can look at my profile; the vast majority of my posts up until this post have never been about my politics; but seeing political arguments being made on a political post, I'm not going to hide what I believe. > Blame the guy calling out the gloves coming off. Yall are good at hyperfocusing on the melodramatic banalities. You're the one who was sounding vaguely threatening without being specific about anything. Regarding politics, the gloves have been off, for a long time, since before Trump was President. But the violent rhetoric definitely escalated since then. It's pretty rich to criticize the liberals and the left for violent rhetoric when there was non-stop violent rhetoric from Trump and Republican politicians while he was president, and frequent right-wing political terrorism echoing Trump's rhetoric. One good example being how the El Paso shooter defending his country from replacement and invasion. I remember when those bombs were mailed to the Clintons, Obama, George Soros, Joe Biden, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Maxine Waters. I remember Trump mocking Pelosi family after Pelosi's husband was beaten with a hammer. Even a ton of non-explicitly violent rhetoric, like calling immigrants an infestation, or when he called the media the enemy of the American people, or when he called liberals vermin, or him calling for Biden's day of reckoning, or how "Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country". I have heard Republicans, Fox news hosts and former Trump advistors, call for violence like when he was impeached, or when they lost the 2020 election. The 2020 election: all the threats against the election workers and elected officials, and then the actual January 6th insurrection. It pisses me off to hear people equivocate that with calling Trump a threat to democracy, which is the truth; he tried to overturn the 2020 election. The right has been stoking violence; frankly, I have little sympathy. Like I said, the gloves have been off; I don't think one could do much worse than what's already been done. > The tech articles are great. But the topics of cloak & dagger politics where the guidelines enable some sort of barely plausible disingenuous cosplay. Not so great. > Since this whole article is flagged & only a select few of us are here. It's a good opportunity to have a frank discussion. I kind of agree; there should be a clearer policy regarding the posts allowed here. Either political posts are fine or they're not, but it seems like some have been flagged and others not.
- klyrs 2y ago
- csomar 2y agoAn assassination is successful. An attempt is when it fails.
- throwaway4aday 2y agolawyer: "don't worry, it's only attempted murder. I'm sure the jury will see things your way."