And Republicans continue to say the Left is the ones responsible for fomenting political violence.
The Left obviously isn’t violent enough.
I think their position is that it’s not political violence if “they’re right”. That’s just standing up for truth.
Political is when something is untrue like, I dunno, periods or something.
Isn’t that the position most anyone is willing to take? I’m certainly no maga fan but I see online calls to violence against them on a daily basis.
I’m fully within a bubble here, but I’d say there are calls to violence from a minority on the left, but little to no actual violence demonstrated. There are calls for violence on the right from a larger proportion of their population, though perhaps still not the majority of them, and actual violence and murder frequently documented on the books.
I think the people on the left are often on the left because they have a certain respect for human life, unfortunately all human life, and we tend to believe in the political system more, rather than resorting to violence outside that system. We also tend to believe in people’s bodily autonomy, which leads to people’s right to not get punched in the face against their will. We also tend to not believe in the death sentence, even for the most heinous crimes.
Typically the calls for violence from the minority on the left are a frustrated desire to respond to violence with violence, to resist violence with violence, or to throw off the system entirely and build a new one, which often requires violence.
But there’s relatively little actual violence, at least right now, with a few calls from a few keyboard surfers.
Exhibit #354,364 that we’re on the wrong timeline: Crowds used to cheer Nazis getting punched. Now they cheer Nazis punching.
Let’s be real, it’s not as if America is interested in punching Nazis anymore. You might be surprised what people would cheer if you’d get off your cowardly asses and start taking action.
You first. Let me know when I can cheer.
This has always been America. The country’s moral outrage following the holocaust was just typical American hypocrisy.
Shaping hearts and minds. Looks pretty fucked when it’s happening to us. We are all being manipulated.
Celebrating violence. Definitely worthy of a Peace Prize.
Too bad I heard FIFA may be retiring their peace prize after one year.
Trump might be the only person less deserving of it than Obama.
Thank god Henry Kissinger wasn’t as bad as Obama.
Oh God I’d blocked out that they gave him one too
His Deathday is going to be celebrated worldwide by people of all colours. It’s gonna be kind of unifying. It won’t really change much, but it’ll be a good day.
After he glitched out today, making all those weird noises I don’t think that day is too far off. Like he might not make it to 2027.
My dad started making noises like that and a few weeks later could not even talk. A month after that he was gone.
Dementia Don is not long for this world.
One can hope, but these ghouls have a way of clinging to life.
But given the current replacement plan, this won’t be a good day either.
They’ll McConnell him. Put him in a bed with someone underneath with their hand up his arse, manipulating him like the puppet he’s always been. Bet they make an intern do it. Tough job, gotta go shoulder deep.
And Republicans continue to say the Left is the ones responsible for fomenting political violence.
That’s no contradiction. They say is with the expliciet intent to distort the discussion to support their violence.
Sometimes I complain about how Lemmy folks don’t get jokes and argue about everything, but the reason I’m never leaving is probably related: people just get it around here.
Being on Lemmy in the first place requires a certain sort of situational awareness. It’s full of people who looked at Facebook, and Reddit, and Xitter, and said “man something’s not right here” and then took actions about it.
Statistically speaking, Lemmy users are more likely to be clued in about more things than your average internet user.
Yeah, I was just explaining Lemmy/PieFed to a friend the other day and they didn’t quite get it. I left all the mainstream social media sites because I could see what the algorithm is doing to people, but so many that are entrenched in those sites just don’t see it.
I explain to people that I’ve removed algorithms and advertisements from my life, deleted my linkedin, don’t use android or iOS, don’t buy anything from Amazon or Walmart, and only read paper books, and then they look at me like I have three heads.
Basically the same here even down to paper books, except I’m guilty of iOS usage. I will go hang my head in shame lol
Fucking love how the “law enforcement officers” just let the magat traitor filth (who sucker punched the real American like a little bitch) go without arresting him for CLEAR AND UNDENIABLE ASSAULT.
Why arrest one of their own?
You’re absolutely right. No laws in a fascist state, except those used to oppress freedom.
Me when Trump gets punched or worse:
“Man, I loved that!”
Guy was always a piece of shit. Just sucks how many yall are ok with that.
Lemmy is famously chock full of Trump supporters.
This but unironically.
Tacit support by way of inaction is still support.
Aside from the terminally online posting, what action are you taking?
The Orange Pedo loves to be a bully.
