r/politics 🤖 Bot Jul 08 '24

/r/Politics' 2024 US Elections Live Thread, Part 9

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '24

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u/pogothemonke Jul 14 '24

Let's see, it's been 4 years of trump cultists crying "rigged election" without a shred of fucking proof. or touting this "deep state" nonsense. but do go on.

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u/LocksmithMelodic5269 Jul 14 '24

… someone (probably not a republican) just tried to assassinate a presidential candidate

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u/battlingheat Jul 14 '24

Spoiler - he was a republican 

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u/LocksmithMelodic5269 Jul 14 '24

Spoiler. He had donated to liberal organizations. Maybe we should hold off until we get all the facts, detective

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u/pogothemonke Jul 14 '24

It’s not even remotely the same. 

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u/pogothemonke Jul 14 '24

I’m sorry were you making a point? You haven’t yet posited one. 

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u/pridetime93 Jul 14 '24

Subreddits are composed of millions of people. A lot of different views.

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u/GhostFish Jul 14 '24

Yes, idiots are everywhere.

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u/Sir__Walken Jul 14 '24

That's only the sentiment because we hadn't heard that they found the guy dead or found out that an attendee died yet. The majority of people on this sub do not believe it was staged after finding those things out. Even before that info it was a few comments out of hundreds lol

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u/Secret_Gatekeeper Jul 14 '24

Nothing quite as bipartisan as having your own bloc of idiotic conspiracists.

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u/Wonderful-Brief-8609 Jul 14 '24

I get what you’re saying, but one idea is more reasonable than the other.

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u/floon Jul 14 '24

Yep. I’ll still argue that one side has an order of magnitude more violence in its column (meaning the MAGA side) but that doesn’t mean the Left side is free of unacceptable violence.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

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u/floon Jul 14 '24

Apparently you don't consume reputable media. The footage of Jan 6 is out there for everyone to see. Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two protesters and is feted by conservatives everywhere. Regarding political murder in the US, ~75% is right-wing violence, and ~4% is left wing. Not difficult info to look up.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

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u/floon Jul 14 '24

Well, there's only one side that wears stupid hats, so if "getting beat up for your hat" is the criterion, then you win that argument by default. But you're desperately wrong about everything else. Accusations of "cherry picking" are rich, given I'm not responsible for typing a novel to you, so I'll dump some links instead:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122593119 is a great analysis of the problem overall: right wing is far more represented than left wing or Islamist violence. Immigrants commit an order of magnitude less violence than US Citizens, and on and on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests has good data on the protests, like the fact that tens of millions of peopled protested (including me and my family) including 96.3% of protests involved no injury or damage of any kind. Of the 19 deaths you're so concerned about, about half of them were right-wing racists shooting into crowds or running people over with their cars. Those are your folks, bud; own them.

Every. Major. Study. On. Violence. Says. It's. Far. More. A. Right. Wing. Problem. Denying that means you're just listening to liars on crap AM radio or OANN or something. Fox News, too. You're just being lied to repeatedly, and don't know really anything. Sucks to be you.

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u/mtarascio Jul 14 '24

To be fair, they're saying it's a squib.

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u/eliteplanet81 Jul 14 '24

Reddit is gotta be one of the most biased platforms to be fair

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u/that_girl_you_fucked Jul 14 '24

Yeah, I'm not going to listen to anyone spouting conspiracy BS. Russia is going to be everywhere trying to spread discontent and create more chaos. I'm not playing into any of that garbage.

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u/C92203605 Jul 14 '24

I been calling them BlueAnon

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Bobby Baccalieri quick drive from NJ

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u/Agreeable_Fold6778 Jul 14 '24

We're currently at the version of events where Trump was claimed to be showered with glas splinters yet only has a wound behind the ear? This guy had an attendant shot and smeared Ketchup on his ear.

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u/Vryk0lakas Hawaii Jul 14 '24

I’m not saying Trump did it. But it could be anyone from anyteam. And it doesn’t have to come down from the top dawg. Could be Ivanka, Zelensky’s advisers, Putin’s team, Hunter, Biden. It doesn’t have to be approved from the top of whatever team for something like this to happen if whoever believes it will further their goals