• klemptor
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    11 months ago

    This administration is absolutely salivating for a violent leftist attack. It’s disturbing.

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      11 months ago

      Putin has been trying to get a “color revolution” going here for nearly two decades and Trump loves the idea because they think they could end local governance and any hint of new elections if that happens. That’s why you see rhetoric everywhere about how “you can’t fix this with elections” and “this only ends one way.”

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        11 months ago

        Is the violent leftist extremism in the room with us right now?

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            You remind me of Julius Streicher. He used the same evidence standards as you do. He argued that left wing violence was out of control. He did so, like you, not through statistics, but anecdote. He would demonize minority groups and ideologies by breathlessly posting the few crimes committed by them, while ignoring the overwhelming number of crimes committed by conservatives or the racial majority. Fascists thrive on anecdotes and hypotheticals and wither in the face of actual statistics.

            As for your buddy Streicher? We hanged him in 1946 at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity and incitement to genocide.

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            “Right-wing extremists were responsible for the vast majority of domestic terror attacks and foiled or aborted plots in the past 30 years, followed by Islamic jihadis.”

            Yes, clearly it’s the left that’s the problem.

            “However, left-wing attacks were very rarely fatal with only two deaths since 2020 - Luigi Mangione’s alleged assassination of UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson last year, and Michael Reinoehl’s fatal shooting of right-wing protester Aaron Danielson in Portland, Oregon, in August 2020.”

            Well, so much for your claim of “uptick in violent leftist extremism”. Two deaths, and that’s giving you Luigi Mangione as an extreme leftist, which itself is a pretty dubious claim.

            But hey, at least right wing attacks were down the last few years. I wonder why that might be?

            “CSIS said Joe Biden’s crackdown on far-right groups after the January 6, 2021, insurrection also helped, as it left extremist movements in disarray.”

            Oh hmm… well good thing all of those insurrectionists are still in jail so they can’t do any more harm. Oh…wait a minute…

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                You literally said the following.

                Well, unfortunately, as of recently, there has been an uptick in violent leftist extremism.

                Didn’t see that being attributed to some news source, or quoted or anything like that. That was something you most definitely claimed.

                Though the best part has to be this.

                Why do you seem so personally irked by this?

                Followed by:

                Dont make assumptions, and dont put words in others mouths.

                I have to say, you people are hopeless.

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                    So you’re just parroting some crap you read somewhere? And we’re supposed to just know that because you used a fancy word like “uptick”?

                    It’s pretty clear you’re the moron here. Perhaps you should try to educate yourself? You can start with actually reading the articles you claim as a source.