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“Man, I Loved That’: Trump Celebrates as MAGA Fans Attack Protester
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I think their position is that it's not political violence if "they're right". That's just standing up for truth.
Political is when something is untrue like, I dunno, periods or something.
Yeah it’s the same mindset as; you’re a man, or you’re political, you're white or you’re political, you’re straight or you’re political etc.
Not agreeing with them is an attack on their ego and they cannot tolerate it.
Isn't that the position most anyone is willing to take? I'm certainly no maga fan but I see online calls to violence against them on a daily basis.
I'm fully within a bubble here, but I'd say there are calls to violence from a minority on the left, but little to no actual violence demonstrated. There are calls for violence on the right from a larger proportion of their population, though perhaps still not the majority of them, and actual violence and murder frequently documented on the books.
I think the people on the left are often on the left because they have a certain respect for human life, unfortunately all human life, and we tend to believe in the political system more, rather than resorting to violence outside that system. We also tend to believe in people's bodily autonomy, which leads to people's right to not get punched in the face against their will. We also tend to not believe in the death sentence, even for the most heinous crimes.
Typically the calls for violence from the minority on the left are a frustrated desire to respond to violence with violence, to resist violence with violence, or to throw off the system entirely and build a new one, which often requires violence.
But there's relatively little actual violence, at least right now, with a few calls from a few keyboard surfers.
As a Christian Anarchist, I was reading your entire post like "YES. EXACTLY!"
I'm continually baffled by how the faith was hijacked by the violent, greedy, sociopathic despots of the world, because this valuing of human life and rejection of violence against others are central.
If only the people would read. Most people's kneejerk hatred for the gospel comes from their interactions with violent and hateful righties that go to weekly feel-good seminars to justify their misanthropy to themselves.
The rich infected and rotted the Church because it used to be a communitarian leftist thorn in their pockets.
Yeah...I struggle with this sometimes. I get heated, and I get angry, and I wonder where the line is to rack our rifles and go "FINE. HAVE IT YOUR WAY." ... but I'm still deprogramming growing up in a conservative household...
No?? wtf there’s a select few things I could understand violence over, even fewer political violence, just cause I share political ideology with you doesn’t mean I think you should get carte blanche to do whatever political violence you want. If you think political violence is ok as long as you agree with the perpetrators you’re probably part of the problem.
You have some very poor interpretation skills. Never said or implied such a thing. Put the pipe away and wake up.