On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 5:22:21 PM UTC-5, Ken Olson wrote:
> > The wonders of rsfc. A thread about how violent the left is, filled with righties talking big about laying down ass kickings and shooting / sniping them evul socialist scum.
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> > I have a feeling most of you have been decked in the grill a few times, but conpletely lack any experience in decking back. Much less frightening to daydream about being behind a scope, preferably a quarter mile away.
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> > Cheers.
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> I see Americans concerned with the ability of people to peacefully use
> their 1st Amendment rights being attacked by far left fascists/anarchists.
That's a problem. But I've heard of many more instances of that behavior from the right than the left.
There was the girl pepper sprayed in Wisconsin while the right wing "counter-protesters" told her:
“You goddamn communist n***er-lover, get the hell out of here!”
Same sort of thing in St Paul:
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/24/video-counterprotester-pepper-sprays-womens-march-in-st-paul-capitol/
Multiple (former?) Trump supporters are now suing him for directing them to attack protesters:
"A white nationalist leader accused of assaulting a young African-American woman at a Donald Trump campaign rally filed a countersuit on Monday claiming the president directed him and other supporters to remove protesters.
Matthew Heimbach claims in his federal court filing that he “acted pursuant to the directives and requests of Donald J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for President” and that, if he’s found liable for damages, “any liability must be shifted to one or both of them.”
How about the wingers who blow up planned parenthoods and/or kill docs going in and out?:
• Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed in Pensacola, Florida, by a gunman who was against abortion in March 1993.
• Dr. John Bayard Britton and his volunteer security escort, James H. Barrett, were shot and killed in front of a Pensacola clinic in July 1994.
• Clinic employees Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols were shot and killed in Brookline, Massachusetts, in December 1994.
• Off-duty police Officer Robert Sanderson was killed in the bombing of a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in January 1998.
• A sniper killed Dr. Barnett Slepian in Amherst, New York, in October 1998. The 51-year-old physician had been the target of anti-abortion protesters since the 1980s.
• An anti-abortion gunman killed 67-year-old George Tiller in a Wichita, Kansas, church in 2009. Tiller was one of the few U.S. physicians who performed late-term abortions.
(Notice that sniper one - so maybe we on the left *should* get a little nervous when y'all start in with the righteous indignation sniper stuff...)
Just since he took office, how often has Trump thrown out examples of islamofascist terrorism that turn out to be, well, wingerfascist terrorists?
In fact, in the decade after 9/11, right wing terrorists committed 337 attacks, killing 254 people:
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/challengers-from-the-sidelines-understanding-americas-violent-far-right
Y'all on the right have this bad habit of not only refusing to acknowledge the extremist stink on your side of the house - but, worse, using those flaws as motivation to attack the left.
Every single white supremist in America votes Republican consistently - so y'all go on a scream campaign about the soft racism of the left.
Every neo nazi in America hates those "commies on the left" - they do GOTV campaigns to push winger agenda - but it's the left that's "fascist".
Wingers blow people up and attack peaceful protesters all the time - so the mere threat from the left - anonymous emails, even - becomes something that needs to be trumped up all over the place (sorry, had to do it).
Wingers push legislation that's loudly derided by folks that actually, you know, do science. For a living. They lobby to get creationist "alternative facts" taught in natural science classes. But they're the party of science, of course. Keeping an open mind. Just keeping it skeptical.
It's always up is down and left is right. Bizarre, really. All IMO, of course.
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> Up close and personal or from a distance, I'm game. I'm likely the only
> one here with experience dealing with out of control situations without
> a weapon on my person.
Ummm, I have a seven and three year old, so...
Cheers.