• yesman@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The absolute fragility of the right. I mean people on the left have been feeling pretty low this week, but I haven’t seen a single lefty so openly seeking validation from the right. You can’t “both sides” some random cruel rhetoric with specific stated cruel policy goals.

    You are a bad person for voting Trump. And you’re fretting about being labeled a bad person because you know it.

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      5 days ago

      Doesn’t the left sometimes misrepresent the right? Putting the most extreme example of the left in a meme is no different than putting the most extreme example of the right in a meme. People like that do exist.

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        You are comparing the mainstream message of the Republican party, which includes violence and oppression, to left-wing incivility in wishing that Republicans that support that regressive policies feel the consequences firsthand.

        It’s not really comparable. Republicans are actively pushing for a world that protects rapists, and forced women into motherhood against their will. They are stating the intent for brutality in the open.

        Liberals and Leftists are not waging a campaign of brutality. They are being rude to Republicans, and wishing that the societal harms they’re forcing on society will be visited on them.

        If anything, you only seem upset that these threats were directed at you, not that these threats are directed at women every day. You don’t give a shit about the harm your policies cause unless they harm you.

        Why shouldn’t we see to it that you reap what you sow?

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        5 days ago

        “Both sides do this!” Is a terrible argument when one side does it 50x more frequently