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Originally Posted by whell
Right on. Doesn't it remind you of the left's glory days when things like tree spiking were all the rage? Reminiscing probably gives you a lump in your throat.  |
You are engaging in a classic conservative debate tactic - trying to label Democrats as equally fucked up as Republicans based upon singular or rare events not supported by the party's rank and file or its leadership, whereas Republicans idiocy, political violence (and even fascism) are supported up and down the party from the base through to its leaders.
You also did this regarding the conservative kid recently run over and killed in North Dakota as if this relatively rare event is as frequent as the far more frequent and deadly political violence by the Right (Jan. 6, massacres in Charleston, El Paso, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma City, Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Sikh Temple in Wisconsin ...). Of the 443 people killed at the hands of extremists over the last 10 years, 333 (or
75%) were killed by right-wing extremists. Of the remainder most were from Black nationalists and Muslim extremists and hardly any by the Left. From 2008-2017,
71% of extremist murders were attributable to the Right and 3% to the Left.