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Thanks for the link. Some legitimate violence in there. I do think leftist have an unacceptable problem with threats of violence, and media organizations inckuding Twitter don't take them seriously enough.

Not particularly different than the right who also has a problem with violence and threats but I acknowledge there is a problem on both sides.


I'm not going to click on the Breitbart link. What is the list of murders committed by leftists equivalent to Tree of Life, Parkland, or Dylan Roof's massacre at the AME church in Charleston, say? Or Charlottesville? If we want to branch out from the U.S., how about Jo Cox in the UK or the Christchurch massacres in NZ?

"There is a problem on both sides" is a pretty bland way to absolve the guiltier party.


"They (who?) have a higher headcount so our violence is OK"

Conservatives call out and distance themselves from the far-right and violence. A few deranged lunatics on the fringes of society do not represent conservative views. By attempting to disenfranchise conservatives, as the media are constantly doing, then it's no accident that there are an increased number of incidents coming from the mentally unstable who are the most misrepresented.

The media are complicit in enabling and encouraging far-left violence, and are attempting to push the culture further and further to the left, even disenfranchising moderate liberals in the process who no longer want anything to do with them (who in turn get labeled "far-right Nazi's" for the non-conformance.)

Left/Right violence is still dwarfed by Islamist terror incidents. Christians are still the most persecuted peoples on Earth. There are indeed problems on both the political extremes that we should all be working to tackle together, but apparently, there's no such thing as going too far to the left, as the current democrat candidates are competing for the title of who can go furthest. (I think we know the outcome, but if you live in the bubble of a college campus or in SV, you might not have an accurate gauge on reality).




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