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clearspira wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:55 am
Oh no! One weirdo.
Come on, now.
I stick by my petty comment. One weirdo with one bomb is not the trend that the original post implied intentionally or not. Show me ten Trump-supporters with bombs. A hundred, A thousand. Then we have a problem.
I will also remind those reading at this point that the left has spent the last twenty years reminding us that just because a handful of Muslims are terrorists that most of them are peaceful. This is something I agree with BTW. Interesting though how this goes out the window when it involves Trump. Especially as nothing has actually happened yet.
clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:01 amI stick by my petty comment. One weirdo with one bomb is not the trend that the original post implied intentionally or not. Show me ten Trump-supporters with bombs. A hundred, A thousand. Then we have a problem.
If you think that one nut-job with a bomb is not a problem, then you haven't been paying much attention...
"If you get shot up by an A6M Reisen and your plane splits into pieces - does that mean it's divided by Zero?
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Islamophobia is a matter of global affairs, seeing as how most of its population lives in the eastern hemisphere and the influence is extremely broad and, needless to say, nuanced in worldly culture that comes with its expected ordeals.
The initiated right wing contingents that have become ever so vocal and active since the 2020 election is not so comprehensive in background and relies on a warped view of American patriotism that tries to pick up where Teddy Roosevelt left off.
That being said, I'm not really conflating this with Trump voters or anything, but the provocations upon recent contemporary insurgents are a bit beyond what the left has to offer in terms of civil disruption.
clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:01 amI stick by my petty comment. One weirdo with one bomb is not the trend that the original post implied intentionally or not. Show me ten Trump-supporters with bombs. A hundred, A thousand. Then we have a problem.
If you think that one nut-job with a bomb is not a problem, then you haven't been paying much attention...
Yeah, I notice that any time an Anti-Fascist counter-protester punches a Nazi there's right wingers crawling out of the woodwork to complain "What about the radical LEFT?" but an attempted bombing of the seat of federal power is laughed off. The way this is getting downplayed you'd think it was a school shooting or something. =/
For the record, if some Democrat tried to blow up a federal building, or heck even city hall, I'd be freaked out and see it as an attack on democracy. But a democrat didn't do that, because one party tries to attack federal buildings when they don't get there way, while the other one tries to downplay terrorism as high spirits and people having a bad day. Like I said, if this wasn't somebody who belonged to the right check boxes, he'd be stray cat food by now.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 6:46 am
Yeah, I notice that any time an Anti-Fascist counter-protester punches a Nazi there's right wingers crawling out of the woodwork to complain "What about the radical LEFT?" but an attempted bombing of the seat of federal power is laughed off. The way this is getting downplayed you'd think it was a school shooting or something. =/
For the record, if some Democrat tried to blow up a federal building, or heck even city hall, I'd be freaked out and see it as an attack on democracy. But a democrat didn't do that, because one party tries to attack federal buildings when they don't get there way, while the other one tries to downplay terrorism as high spirits and people having a bad day. Like I said, if this wasn't somebody who belonged to the right check boxes, he'd be stray cat food by now.
Wasn't there some nut job sending bombs to various Democrat politicians a couple of years ago?
you know, I do remember that. At the time Republicans claimed it was a false flag operation by Democrats to create sympathy or something. So they were still recognizing that terrorism was something other than high spirits when it involved bombing attempts.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:27 am
you know, I do remember that. At the time Republicans claimed it was a false flag operation by Democrats to create sympathy or something. So they were still recognizing that terrorism was something other than high spirits when it involved bombing attempts.
False flag is the theme of the right it seems. School shootings seems to be false flags apparently.
Soon or later we will hear about 'freedom fighters of the right' committing terrorism...
I'm not sure if I find the False Flag narrative more or less disturbing than the "it's high spirits, nothing to worry about, he was just having a bad day" narrative.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
