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Your view is simply one that is not in line with reality. There's the numerous Obama assassination plots, 2017 Unite the Right rally, Jan 6, the recent assassi
by lynndotpy 1y ago
Your view is simply one that is not in line with reality.
There's the numerous Obama assassination plots, 2017 Unite the Right rally, Jan 6, the recent assassinations of Democrat politicians, Abbott in 2024 pardoning murderer Daniel Perry who went to a BLM protest with the intention of killing protestors, and the terror groups like the Proud Boys, the 3 Percenters, The Base, the O9A/Cvlt/764.
And that's not to mention the Christchurch mosque shootings, the Club Q or Pulse Nightclub shootings, the El Paso Walmart shooting, the Jacksonville Dollar Tree shooting, or the Charleston church shooting.
And these are just the ones off the top of my head. These aren't cherry picked; the stats disagree with you too. Here is one such study, but you would be hard pressed to find one that shows otherwise: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/
The right commits far more political violence. That is just a simple fact of reality.
(edit) If you are sincerely concerned about political violence, then it's worth keeping up with the far-right accelerationist movement. They have been increasing in activity since 2020, and attacks on gun proponents and conservatives are part of those plots, like The Base's foiled 2020 attack on a gun rights rally in Virginia, or the the foiled 2024 energy grid attack ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atomwaffen_Division_members_in_the_United_States_who_faced_criminal_charges#Skyler_Philippi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atomwaffen_Division_me... )
- stouset 1y agoDon’t forget about Melissa and Mark Hortman. Or the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.
- lynndotpy 1y agoI forgot their names; Melissa and Mark Hortman were the assassinated Democrat politicians I mentioned, yes. I did forget the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot though-- no reason other than it slipped my mind.
- pclmulqdq 1y agoIt slipped your mind because 12 of 18 conspirators in that plot were FBI plants or informants, 2 took a plea deal, and 4 got off due to the entrapment.
- lynndotpy 1y agoThis is a non-sequitur, why would that make it slip my mind? Those aren't even details I readily remembered, and searching them up, it looks like those details aren't even factual. Searching it up, it seems thirteen people were arrested. The defense claimed three and a half years ago that there were twelve FBI informants. I think it slipped my mind because there were already too many examples of far-right and conservative terrorist violence, and I was not intending to write an exhaustive comment in the first place.
- pclmulqdq 1y agoThe reason for the non-sequitur is because if there were anything behind this plot, it would have gotten a lot more news coverage than it did as an FBI-seeded conspiracy. As it stands, there were better examples of crazy right wingers (many of whom were actually crazy right wingers), so they moved on to those. In some other parts of the country, the demand for crazy right wingers exceeded the supply, so hoaxes filled that. Thirteen out of eighteen were arrested. Five were directly agents, and FBI agents tend not to get arrested when they are the ones doing the arresting.
- StatsBlaster 1y agoThere were 9 convictions, so I think there was definitely something behind this plot, and not just some hoax as you imply.
- grosswait 1y agoYou mean the one that came out of the FBI’s extremist cultivation https://reason.com/2022/09/04/its-almost-always-the-feds/ https://reason.com/2022/09/04/its-almost-always-the-feds/