• Ioughttamow
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      Sounds like a lone wolf, nothing can be done about such a thing

      As an aside: how can you be a lone wolf, yet have two wolves inside you? 🤔

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      brain washing half the country with your sick violent rhetoric.”

      Greene in 2021 appeared in a campaign video holding a 50-caliber rifle and promising to “blow away the Democrats’ socialist agenda.” She then fired the rifle at a Toyota Prius with a “socialism” sign on its side. Footage showed the vehicle exploding with the words, “Target destroyed” displayed on screen. The video promoted a giveaway of the rifle “for Americans only.”

      When was the last time a Democrat appeared in a political ad with a firearm? More of the right’s projection and gaslighting.

      I don’t see political ads - do the ones Biden’s running say things like “Trump must be stopped at all costs?” I just worry that the dems will take the bait and turn down their messaging while the right keep the flames burning.

  • @[email protected]
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    874 months ago

    Looks like it’s the consequences of their own actions circling around again. Time to blame liberals/trans/minorities/foreigners/anybody else!

    • finley
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      334 months ago

      The party of personal responsibility can never seem to accept responsibility for anything

        • @[email protected]
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          The stupid bit is they’re supposed to strive to be like Jesus.

          But they’re unironically being pretty malevolent narc.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s actually kinda funny watching them flail around blaming nothing and everything because one of their own tried to shoot Trump. They were NOT prepared to deal with this situation at all.

      • Todd Bonzalez
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        What additional evidence do you need? He was asked directly by the state what party he considers himself a supporter of, and he said Republican.

        Conservatives are going to try to disown him no matter what. Don’t let their endless bad faith requests for additional proof convince you that the facts here aren’t straightforward.

        • @[email protected]
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          No no no. Voter party affiliation on voter registration doesn’t mean anything on its own. People change their registered parties all the time to vote in the other party’s primaries and such. Also sometimes people forget to switch back.

          For kids, their party affiliation is going to be whatever their parents are (lest they be disowned by their family). For kids, their political views can and do change radically from 18 to 25.

          Party affiliation on voter registration means nothing in the case of the shooter.

            • @[email protected]
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              Fine, young adult, whatever. My point still stands. Young new voters are most likely to be registered with the same party affiliation as their parents. It doesn’t mean the shooter is actually a republican.

      • @[email protected]
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        If nothing gets released (like very little was released about the mini-arsenal, bump-stock Las Vegas mass shooter) he’s probably right wing. If there’s anything leftist about it you can bet they’ll dig for every possible way to exploit it.

      • @[email protected]
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        We may never be able to put him on so narrow a box, but he was registered, a gun nut, and he didn’t donate to Dems - that was just someone with the same name in the same state.

        That’s not confirmation, but thus far there isn’t any reason to believe otherwise.

        But also he was 20. It’s likely he didn’t have a strong personal affiliation with any political party.

      • @[email protected]
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        94 months ago

        Not in any way that will convince someone who doesn’t want to believe it, but for reasonable folks…

        https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-was-definitely-conservative-classmate-recalls

        Smith shared an American history class with Crooks, and remembered a mock debate where their teacher made students stand on one side of the classroom or another to signal their allegiance. “The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other.”

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          44 months ago

          This was years ago. Kids change really quickly as they grow up. Ask me how I know. I used to be a kid in high school who was spouting my parents’ bullshit conservative christian views. After high school I started thinking for myself and left all that toxic garbage behind.

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            I’ll use that counterargument the next time someone brings up how he donated $15 to pacblue when he was 15 to convince me he’s a crazy left wing antifa whackjob or similar. Edit: Apparently that donation has been debunked anyhow. So on the balance of available evidence…

  • comfy
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    As an aside, I’ve always found it hilarious when a Faux News host says ‘the media’, as if they’re not one of the biggest media outlets in the world. It’s an amazing disassociation and it seems to land somehow. The television screen tells you "the media doesn’t want you to know the truth!", o fanged poet.

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      Weird how the largest broadcaster is somehow telling everyone secret knowledge that is often like an out of context publicly available clip or note

  • @[email protected]
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    Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves? It’s like narcissism’s victim-blaming 101: shifting accountability, gaslighting, and projection.

    Projection is all they do.

    • @[email protected]
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      Pretty sure that’s literally one of Eco’s 14 characteristics of fascism. Publicly accusing the opposition of doing the exact (awful) thing they’re doing.

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      If I’m not mistaken, it was a US Libertarian who attempted the assassination. It’s analytically pointless to group them in with the Republicans, even if they’re both horrible. Infighting is serious business. [redacted: see my reply]

      But yes, they’re still going to blame the Dems anyway lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        Source he was a libertarian?

        US libertarians are republicans’ worst governing qualities on steroids, but they’re essentially republicans here despite the naming difference.

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          I’m going to redact my claim until I find evidence, because I may have just misinterpreted a flag they had up. Outlets are reporting the were a registered Republican.

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      Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves?

      And then the Dems agree that Something Must Be Done, so you get the next iteration of the Mulford Act and a SWAT Team kicking down the door of the Socialist Rifle Association.

    • Bakkoda
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      244 months ago

      Put your hand in the bowl. Grab as much shit covered spaghetti as you can. Now throw it at the wall.

      Repeat this on multiple stations a day 24/7 and it won’t matter how ludicrous it sounds, it’ll stick. You’ll be covered in it. It’ll be fuckin everywhere.

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    The archive is blurred out for me, but highlighting everything makes it readable.

    Saying we’re too divided and in the same breath casting divisive blame is… Not even surprising anymore.

    • @[email protected]
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      saying we are too divided while casting blame is entirely self consistent, if one’s actual implied position is “we think everything bad is your side’s fault, we want it to stop existing, and then there wouldnt be a division anymore”.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Glad that works and thanks for sharing the tip, getting webpages in a format where they’ll load well for the most people is getting tougher everyday

  • @[email protected]
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    Yeah, couldn’t be all of that political violence they, the Republican party, have been preaching about and encouraging for decades now.

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    Guy had long hair, I’m surprised trans hasn’t made it yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    I do hope the daily show has the guts to do the mashup of trump’s violent rhetoric paired with the fox news broadcasters tone policing democrats