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Originally Posted by finnbow
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. |
My comments were spot on. In this case, I could care less if you don't like them. And I'm not sorry that you were triggered by them, resulting in the exhoration about "Republican idiocy, political violence (and even fascism) are supported up and down the party from the base through to its leaders". What a bunch of verbal diarrhea.
Here's a question for you? Why is it that this group - for example - has no entry of the leftist bible of extremist groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
https://janesrevenge.noblogs.org/202...st-communique/
The FBI admits their existence and states that they have the group under investigation. Yet, several bombings of pro-life centers and not one arrest. Not even a statement that they have a "person of interest".
Over the summer of 2020, thousands were arrested for participating in the BLM riots in various cities across the country. These were organized demonstrations with political demands, yet to my knowledge not one of those convicted was charged with any crimes related to political insurrection, or terrorism.
And, yes, Shannon Brandt mowed down a kid, Cayler Ellingson, with his SUV. Somehow he thought that it would be an OK "defense" to tell the cops that the kid was part of a "right-wing" hate group.
Now, after the Gabby Giffords shooting, I was pilloried here by forum members who insisted that the shooter Jared Lee Loughner was triggered by a Republican campaign video that had icons resembling crosshairs. There was at that time and still is no evidence that Lougher ever saw the video. That theme spun on and on for weeks afterward in the
media.
Yet, this poor kid Ellingson gets his young life cut short, and the MSM's reporting on Brandt and the killing appears to done. There's no desire at all to investigate or even discuss whether Brandt was motivated by Biden's speech, when he shouted about America being at an “inflection point” because “MAGA Republicans” “do not respect the Constitution.” “Donald Trump and the
MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic!” This speech was well stage-managed, complete with red background and Biden's clenched fists. (Biden kinda sounds like you too.)
Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono said fighting pro-lifers is “is literally a call to arms in our country.” Rep. Tim Ryan, running for US Senate in Ohio, said, “We have to kill and confront that [extremist] movement.” And those are just this month.
Left-wing violence exists and is alive and well. Just because it's either under-reported or buried by the media doesn't mean that it's not out there.