Anonymous #1 4d

you know how many times we’ve had this EXACT conversation. “he’s on your side!! no YOUR side!! no look at this social media post its YOUR SIDE” im so tiredddddddd

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Anonymous #1 4d

You don’t have to do that. You can just assume it’s a Republican and be right 99 percent of the time.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

youre missing the point entirely

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Anonymous #1 4d

If you say so.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

weve had several conversations on here before and i gotta say this is the most uve let me down in this regard. usually ur more open to these topics

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Anonymous #1 4d

I don’t really like centrist vaguery. The left commits less violence than the right full stop. That’s just reality. Sure I understand that everyone frantically looking to blame the other side is indicative of a division in society, but maybe that division is good. I really don’t wanna be closer with the domestic terrorists and pedophile supporters, many

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

*man

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

again, thats not my point literally at all. im not a centrist im very very much on the left

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Anonymous #1 4d

I understand that and that’s why I’m trying really hard not to make any remarks that might feel disparaging, but I think the sentiment is a little silly man

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Anonymous #1 4d

Like, there *is* a side that does more violent shit

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Anonymous #1 4d

And that side owns the media and has spent millions convincing the country that we’re the violent ones.

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Anonymous #1 4d

We have to be able to just say that they’re violent

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

i just want people to recognize the pattern. what happens in themselves when they search for which side the bad guy was on and use it as ammunition in petty online fights/finger pointing people almost get excited when horrible shit happens as long as they can use it to push a narrative (on both sides, and for the sake of this conversation idc which side does it worse/in a more harmful way, ppl need to recognize that we both do it)

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Anonymous #1 4d

Sure and I hear that. And I generally don’t engage in it for that reason. But we *have* to be willing to call the opposition violent when they are.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

couldn’t they call us violent too? there is evidence on both sides and while i agree with u in that i feel their side is worse, its not an objective observation. for it to be objective we’d have to have access to a fuck ton of information we just don’t have

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Anonymous #1 4d

All evidence suggests the right wing is *more* violent on average. And they already do call us violent. Theyve built a media empire of lying about us being violent. You can’t make people realize that they’re the ones doing domestic terrorism if no one ever says it.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 4d

what evidence specifically? even if you could tally up every politically motivated act of violence, and know for 100% certainty which side did it, it wouldn’t be objective also let me clarify again that i share ur emotional backing. i (in a way) believe these things too. but i got to a point where i hated them so much that i studied them. i put words to the things they did, and to my horror i realized that we do a lot of them too. it seems to me like a cycle that will never end

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