Holy shit, people are still trying that lie? We’ve known that’s a lie for a while:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/extremism-right-wing-deaths/
Reality means nothing to conservatives or they wouldn’t be conservatives.
I heard a guy with a theory that it’s all kayfabe and it makes so much sense. They know it’s a lie and they believe it because it’s more satisfying than reality.
It’s such a flagrant lie, too. I mean, it’s not like it’s in the realm of close, of that it depends on how you interpret the data - there are way more on the right, period.
No, see, they are wholesome Christians who worship guns and fear mongering. They love phrases like fuck around and find out, don’t tread on me (or else), and something along the lines of this house is protected by Smith and Wesson. But Lincoln was a Republican killed by Democrats, so they are evil murderers. Please ignore that in today’s politics he would have been a far left woke Democrat killed by a Republican…
He is projecting
GOP
His lips are moving.
Abortions are political violence according to the right.
They would probably agree with you on that one.
And murdering abortion providers are actual murders
Right-wing extremists were just as likely to commit violent acts as those motivated by Islamic extremism, the researchers found. Left-wing extremists were a distant third.
Word.
If the Left perpetrated violence the way the Right says we do, we’d have executed most of their leaders by now.
I’m anti-violence, fwiw. It’s one of the reasons I believe we’re gonna lose in the longterm. We have fucking morality and ethics to contend with and they just lie and cheat openly and shamelessly.
I can’t find anything in the article that suggests a reporter called out his lies to his face.
We need some real journalists covering these ghouls, not stenographers.
The people listening to him don’t give two shits about the truth.
Uh, January 6th? I’m pretty sure the sum total of political violence on that day swamps everything else for years.
This is the “bloodless revolution” psycho.
Right-wing extremists were just as likely to commit violent acts as those motivated by Islamic extremism, the researchers found. Left-wing extremists were a distant third.
I can’t speak for every leftist, but I don’t think anything can really be accomplished through individual, random acts of violence. Then again, I don’t really think very much of anything can be accomplished through any means, really. I’ve come to see hope as futile and change as impossible. But, I do think acts of violence are especially futile. Plus, I don’t really want to hurt anyone, even people I don’t like very much.
Several things can be accomplished: instilling fear, forcing disproportionate responses, provide thinly veiled excuses for… well, almost anything.
It’s just that there’s nothing positive that can be accomplished that way.
Lasting change only comes with compassion and understanding. Violence does not create either of those.
There should be consequences to blatant lies from the media and our politicians.
There are, already; their preferred candidates usually get a bump in polling. Why let the truth stand in the way of that?
Removed by mod
I fuckin wish
I want to change the world. (you have to kill people) I want to affect the world. (you have to kill people) I want to make the world a better place…(you have to kill people) GIVE ME MONEY TO KILL PEOPLE!
The progression here…
How much does a kitchen knife cost? $10?
Yes, but that’s not going to change the minds of the people he was talking to.
As usual, the lie gets halfway around the world, before the truth has got its boots on.
Facts
1: Young people are predominantly left-leaning
2: Instances of criminal violence decline with age
3: Police/Military can’t commit criminal violence, because they are our friends. So nothing they do counts.
Conclusion
The majority of violence must be committed by The Left. I’m sorry, but facts don’t care about your feelings.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
THE FACTS: Roberts’ remarks came in response to questions about comments earlier this month in which he said the country was in the midst of “the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Increasingly, he said, many of those responsible for political violence espouse “muddled ideologies” combining a rejection of authority with conservative views, for instance, or supposed anarchists who say they support a strong central government.
Questions about political violence and its place in American democracy are getting renewed attention following Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, a Republican.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was gravely wounded in a 2011 shooting outside an Arizona grocery store, had been threatened and windows of her congressional offices in Tucson knocked out after she voted in favor of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform.
Last year, a man with a history of mental illness went to the Fairfax, Virginia, district office of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, looking to kill him with a baseball bat.
People typically overstate the violent intentions of those with different ideologies, too, Westwood said, with one party believing the other is far more willing to commit violence to further their political agenda.
The original article contains 848 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 76%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
