Old, but seems relevant

  • @[email protected]OP
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    1081 year ago

    Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.

    If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.

  • @[email protected]
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    701 year ago

    “Look, you should just turn down the violent rhetoric!”

    -people who’ve been espousing violent rhetoric since 2008

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      One side cares about civility and condemns advocating violence, so the other side exploits that every chance they get.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        condemns advocating violence

        Surely you’re not talking about lemmy right? The past 5 days has been nothing but condoning and advocating for violence.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          No, I’m talking about the official stance of Democrats, since they’re the only viable side to oppose the GOP.

      • @[email protected]
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        It is! Whipped it up for the Political Memes community… and then got banned from Political Memes for ‘advocating violence’. Um… whoops.

        Maybe it’s temporary? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        Charity… my choice would be any of those most at risk by a turn in the political environment. Planned Parenthood, any LGBTQ+ resource… if you get a kick out of that meme enough to merit a $20 donation, I have a sneaking suspicion that the venn diagram of your values and mine is pretty close to a clean circle, so if there’s something specific you had in mind, you definitely don’t need my permission (not that you ever needed my permission on how to spend your own money, but you get the gist!).

         

        Edit - To be clear, posting that image in this thread is the 2nd time I posted it. The first posting was in Political Memes here. I realized in hindsight that that might make the post in this thread -not- OC. I created the image, but the one here isn’t THE original.

        • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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          241 year ago

          Doesn’t seem like it’s advocating violence at all. It’s making fun of someone that did advocate violence when it came after them.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            I don’t think the meme itself was the issue, but the discussion therein. Speculating on the motive, I mentioned the oath military and feds are required to take, and that it advocates violence… I probably shouldn’t elaborate or I’ll risk a ban here too…

            • @[email protected]
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              Right, it’s not a call to violence for the reader; it tells the reader that Trump was fishing for violent supporters. It’s prime “Leopards ate my face” material.

              Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to @[email protected]

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              I was hoping that the admins on Lemmy aren’t the same type of shitheads like the bad ones from Reddit were, yet here we are.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                It’s weird that those were the posts they took issue with. I’ve been pretty vocal about not giving a damn about Nazi lives, former president Agent Orange included… but discussing federal oaths and their implications is what crossed the line?

                I can understand the admins being on high alert after an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate though, so… whatever, I’ll just eat the ban and shitpost in other communities instead.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                World is the largest instance, so I understand them having an abundance of caution. Can always post on a smaller instance that doesn’t give a shit.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Yeah, the oath calls to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Not really your fault if someone claims that advocates for violence because it’s not you issuing a specific and legal order. Doesn’t say anything about protecting the government I suppose.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Stochastic terrorism should be addressed when it occurs. The duopoly gave him a pass on it and he keeps using it.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    "Don’t Advocate for political violence here on Lemmy! It’s OK to post about Donald Trump advocating for it though. "

  • Phoenixz
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    51 year ago

    This thread really shows the biggest crime Trump has committed so far: dividing the country.

    For all the rethoric in this (and thousands of other threads) were people from both sides say the other side should die, everyone seems to forget that they’re talking about their families, their friends, their neighbours. Anyone in doubt about how a civil war actually looks like should maybe ask Yugoslavia how well that worked out for them. Yeah i know, it no longer exists.

    How many innocent civilians were murdered?

    One should also think about what will happen to the US when other countries (hello China, hello Russia) will take advantage of the US being in a civil war. Land grabbing, US land grabbing and hell, WWIII aren’t off the table.

    To be clear, I’m veryuch against Trump, against the religious extremists and their takeover of the US government, but people on both sides need to calm down and look at their leaders. Right wing leadership is fucking evil and as far as I am concerned can all burn in a fire, but were talking about a fairly small group that pushes all this.

    Stop fantasizing about murdering everyone following right wing media, most of them have been brainwashed, are dumb, or just plain angry and once all this is over, they’ll still be your family, they’ll still be your neighbor, they’ll still be your friends, they’ll still be there, and you can’t murder them all, that is not how anything works.

    Start working on bridging the gap, start working today on reaching out and pulling those angry fixkers back into the fold. Show them we’re not the enemy.

    Their leadership, again, is a different story.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

    I remember after this all the Celebrities and Politicians talking AGAINST Donald Trump’s VIOLENT RHETORIC!

    JK I don’t!

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    And surely we can find old tweets condemning it from all the Trumpanzees screeching about “political hatred” today, right? Right?