Exhibit A: A post on a video game forum

Exhibit B: A Republican president inciting a riot in which they broke into the capital building chanting "hang mike pence".

Yeah, not hard to see why people see Republicans and the right as significantly worse than Democrats or the left. There's a reason why the FBI, even under Trump, acknowledged that right wing extremism is our current most serious terrorist threat in the United States.

So you can get off your "both sides do it" high horse. It's comparing a candle to a house fire, and the left is not the house fire.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Mar 10 2021 01:02am

My point was not to argue in favor of both sides being equal, my point was to argue against the notion of complete one-sidedness which was implied by crossbones. According to him, you and several others, it's virtually exclusively the Republicans who have radicalized, who promote or apologize violence and who have a problem with nutjobs in their ranks. Yes, perhaps the GOP is a bit worse in some of these categories at the moment, but the difference is much smaller than you think it is - and that was my point. You can of course feel free to disagree and go back to the "red party bad"-circle jerk. *shrug*

Keeping in mind that until Trump, and maybe even still... the FBI was about as un-corrupt as a $3 hooker. ^^







This post was edited by Ghot on Mar 10 2021 02:59am

A peaceful protest isn't a riot.

You people are bloodthirsty Bolsheviks and you don't deserve dog catcher.

The FBI flat out admitted this week that they don't hunt down ANTIFA because antifa violence justifies their budget. They hunt down proud boys because proud boys reduce the amount of crime that exists in suburbs. The FBI doesnt care about me or you, they just want more government cheese and you are their pawn.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Mar 10 2021 05:55am

nice whataboutism there. do you at least acknowledge that boebert sympathised with q anon, and that the movement has significant impact on the GQP, or do you just expect your denial thereof to be forgotten, maintaining that literally the only crazy within the party is mtg?



you're a liar. this false equivalence here is how this whole discussion started:



also, suggesting the GQP is just "a bit" worse is absurd, considering all the crazy shit they have supported and peddled lately. you trying to downplay blatantly racist lies, the rejection of presidential elections, support for an insurrection, baseless conspiracies, and science denial by pointing to progressive policies that you personally consider 'radical', but that (unfortunately) don't even have the slightest chance of being implemented thanks to corporate democrats, is pathetic. it's hard to believe that you could even fool yourself with that...

This post was edited by fender on Mar 10 2021 06:31am

lmao