Pretty sure the left needed a win here. They were set up with a big one. Between Epstein and The economy getting better slower than expected they were poised for a MAJOR mid term. But just like Trump’s multiple assassination attempts bumped his numbers this will most likely light a fire for the right.

The right will go even more extreme and people will support it. Why? Because every time the left gets a leg up to point out the right is “more extreme” some idiot comes out of the woodwork and screws things up.

It’s the curse of the left for trying to be “too inclusive”. You always end up allowing the nutters in too.

I think part of it is when you’re online discussing politics the only thing people see of the other person is their political beliefs. I have lots of friends in the real world who have different political view points from me. But they’re people who you know and engage with on more things than just politics.

Online discussing politics, the only thing people see is someone’s political views. It takes the humanity out of the discussion.

I mean you have always had the fringe groups in society. I can't speak to numbers, I'm just not up on it to know if those groups have vastly broadened their base. I suspect you still have gatherings of people standing with sheets over their heads. We just have vastly more noise, it echos all over the internet and it's your face more now as a result.

It truly does bring out the worst in all of us. I'm 90% sure I'd be friends with most people on here in any irl setting.

You keep trying to both sides this issue while reality just doesn't support it.

Maybe there are people gathering with sheets over their head. I never seen or heard of such but i'm sure there are some somewhere in bumfuck Mississippi or Alabama, what i do see though is Antifa assaulting people pretty much on any footage of some protest.

Between Iryna and Charlie getting murdered how many Hobby Lobby do you see looted or how many city halls are in flames today?

By all accounts the shooter was not a lefty and more likely a republican, so I don't see how your point applies. The one thing the US right has is an insane propaganda machine funded as a direct result of them suffering consequences for their actions once. They do not care for truth and apparently neither do their supporters.

I didn't even consider sides when making those posts. That's just an example that jumped to mind. When I was younger a black family moved here and the first thing that happened was a burned cross in their yard. Guess the memory always stuck since I always thought well that's not what my family thinks but now these poor bastards probably think we all hate them.

I think things just cause significantly more noise these days. Everyone's been given a platform and rather than just a news story on our 3 channel TV it spans across the world rapidly with everyone and their dog pitching in comments to get the other person opposing to give them a reaction.

I think you thinking the way you are probably only feeds the satisfaction that they're getting this reaction out of you.

Sadly our entire social media has been built on "reactions".

I can digest the possibility that I'm also just grasping were not so far gone as to one may conclude based on the current political environment. And that I myself am not seeing the full picture clearly.

This post was edited by SBD on Sep 13 2025 07:10am

We already know that’s not true. His friend already did several interviews with news people saying he grew up rough being the ONLY liberal in his highly conservative family. Literally his FRIENDS said this.

My last information was that his literal grandma said he was MAGA, did that turn out to be false?

Don’t know. Haven’t read it to be honest. I know two of his high school buds he gamed with came forward and said his family was hard on him because his views didn’t match theirs.

This is one of them. I’ve read about 2 separate people. The other one said basically the same thing except that his family bullied him about it or something to that extent.



This post was edited by T3XBOT on Sep 13 2025 07:17am