Trump saying "Do X" doesn't make him responsible for "Y". We agree. Seems like we also agree that it was dangerous and irresponsible to say such things
My point is that vile rhetoric online is not the same as murdering people in real life. The latter is a huge escalation. Some of those posters are literally 12-13 year old kids trolling on their tablets because they don't know better. Right wingers often forget that young people are all over the Internet.
Is it vile and dangerous? Yes.
To be clear, my point is that right wing AND left wing politicians literally engage in open calls to violence and murder with their rhetoric. its just that most people can't be bothered to do it because they know it's bullshit, and wont throw their lives away for a lizard person's agenda. crazy people are happy to tho, on both sides.
how else can we categorize a "war on Christians", "war on white people", "trans genocide", "war on women", etc. All while constantly calling the other people equivalent to violent regimes from the Soviet Communists to German Nazis. If someone tells you that the literal nazis are coming to take away your freedom what is your response? if u dont get a gun and stop it you're as bad as the non-nazi germans who sat silent while jews were taken off to camps.
they are literally telling people to get violent, they're literally stoking a civil war, they're literally endorsing political violence. not implied, not vague. its clear as day. its modern US politics so settled people dont even bother to care.