The notion that Americans should dial down their incendiary rhetoric is undeniable, but that message cannot be delivered credibly by the person who literally sent a mob to the US Capitol, and then sat back and cheered the thugs who assaulted cops for three hours.
The plea to ease up on hate speech cannot be made by the guy who invented a patois of political violence, who prods supporters to assault hecklers, threatens to shoot undocumented immigrants and looters, jeers the husband of a rival who was assaulted with a hammer, and refers to opposition as “vermin.”
And the idea that the toxic talk has gone too far sounds hollow coming from a demagogue who thinks Hillary Clinton’s fate might best be settled by “Second Amendment people,” that Liz Cheney should be sent before a military tribunal, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, should be executed.
This is the political atmosphere that Donald Trump has nurtured, so when he whines about how “the rhetoric of Biden and Harris” has inspired two troubled people (both likely Republicans) to shoot at him with assault rifles, it can be dismissed as one of the most pitiful attempts at gaslighting from a deranged felon who has made a career of it.
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Yeah Trumps the biggest threat to democracy. But its not like people here want democracy. They dont want other people on the ballot. Yall use the word democracy like republicans use the word freedom.
I’ve yet to meet a person on Lemmy that doesn’t want more candidates on the ballots. Especially in local/state elections.
Not wanting other people on the ballot, and being happy when bourgeoisie funded spoiler candidates for national elections. Like Stein, who do nothing for anyone but themselves. Fail to make it on a state’s ballot to divide the left. Are very different things.
No that is definitely a clear cut example of not wanting a candidate on the ballot
Failing to make the ballot and not wanting them on the ballot are two different things.
What? You’re saying you failed to make the ballot.
No. Good try though.
Youre disagreeing with a claim im making about you
“I didnt say X, I said Y, which is different from X”
Its not a comparison between failing to make a ballot and wanting someone to not be on a ballot. Its wanting someone to fail to make a ballot. Which means they wont be on the ballot…
That’s not really what’s happening here either.