Um, of course it’s wrong. The DHS (correctly) identified the right wing domestic terrorist threat wayyyyy back under Bush.
Naturally, the radical right wing freaked right out over this revelation.
Common misconception. He was actually saying most political violence is committed by people politically to his left, which I think is undoubtedly true.
He is projecting
His lips are moving.
Q: How can you tell when Donald Trump is lying? A: The tip of his ear is missing.
GOP
Abortions are political violence according to the right.
And murdering abortion providers are actual murders
They would probably agree with you on that one.
The people listening to him don’t give two shits about the truth.
This is the “bloodless revolution” psycho.
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?
5.99
I’ll refund your knife purchase upon job completion.
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.
Not true. Groups that are made up of altruistic individuals who work together are more successful than groups made up of individuals out for themselves. That’s part of the reason why democracy has prevailed over monarchy and despotism.
But it prevailed through … checks notes… violence.
Not just violence, ultra-violence. All rights are won through violence.
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.
I’m pretty sure if you, like, locked the doors at cpac and filled the rooms with carbon monoxide so they all died, you’d accomplish quite a lot. It wouldn’t fix everything, but a lot of evil doers would be gone.
I don’t know, I’m not so sure. The problems are systemic, not necessarily a result of a few people of poor moral character just doing evil things. So, even if you eliminate all the evil-doers, because they were products of the system, new evil-doers will emerge to take their place, so long as the system remains unchanged.
I don’t entirely disagree. However, if enough of the active evil doers were removed, it would be easier to change the system. Like, we could fund education better if we didn’t have Republicans constantly trying to gut it.
Uh, January 6th? I’m pretty sure the sum total of political violence on that day swamps everything else for years.
Everyrhing else was already still swamped by the Oklahoma City bombing.
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.
Got to find a way to pay them well tho
Yeah, revenue from click farming isn’t it or we’re doomed to drivel.
AP is doing the Heritage Foundation’s work with this article.
The unhinged fascists don’t need to be right. They don’t need to be taken at face value. They don’t need anything but publicity, and AP is giving it to them.
No but it will be if they continue FAFO is coming.
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.
The only thing white people are actually currently embracing with supremacy: violence against their own citizens.
There should be consequences to blatant lies from the media and our politicians.
It impresses me that people haven’t gone to Fox News HQ or any other to do something about it
They’ll just flip it and go see, we were right, the left are terrorists!! There needs to be enforced legislation. News should be news. It has to be factual and unbiased. Instead, we have corporations saying whatever the hell they want so their guy gets in and hurts the people they hate while giving them tax breaks.
News should be like the Michelin star system. One star means you are following basic reporting practices and can call yourself “reporters”. 4 star is “news” and you are held to stringent fact checking and balanced reporting practices and can call yourself News or have News in your name. 5star would be super special paragon of journalism, opinion-free reporting of facts thing. Zero stars would be “just asking questions here!” level.
No censorship or anything, just an indicator of how reliable sources are. And make it mandatory to display like their channel bug in the corner, but a restaurant grade type thing.
The problem still is, people will ignore that. Look at how many suckers believe fox “news” now? It wouldn’t change anything.
There are, already; their preferred candidates usually get a bump in polling. Why let the truth stand in the way of that?
