Anonymous #1 1w

Are we really a free society anymore?

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Anonymous #2 1w

If we think we’re in danger should we act like animals?

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Anonymous #1 1w

What do you think we should do?

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Anonymous #2 1w

One not escalate shit like that did. You shouldn’t celebrate something like this because it polarizes us further. The way I see it the Democrat Party is failing to answer to Republican policy. Gotta fix that and get them actually ready. We treat each other with respect, we have conversations, whatever can do to bridge the gap. The last thing I want to see is blood. Blood is what’s tearing us apart.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Ok. How? How do we answer to Republican policy when the Republicans are consolidating power and shutting down avenues to respond?

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Anonymous #2 1w

I don’t think they’re shutting down anything. It’s just that the left’s communication is complete ass. Instead of name-calling, and no matter how actually awful a person is, these are your voters and they are people. So get to know them. Shaming people doesn’t change people’s minds, it just conditions them to not want to listen to you. This has happened on both sides, but especially on the left.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Then you haven’t been paying attention. Trump’s cabinet is filled with yuppies who are unqualified for their posts, he’s firing federal judges, and he continues to erode checks and balances by overusing executive power and ignoring the judicial system. What you’re proposing is essentially a massive advertising campaign, which isn’t a bad idea, but does nothing to help us now. It’ll only help in the midterms next year. So what can we do to stop this now?

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Anonymous #2 1w

Every time someone reacts harshly it has backfired on you. You won’t like it but if you make moves for the midterms you can cover some ground. If it’s as bad as you say it is, all you have is your reputation and your ability to communicate. Every time you protest the media will only take the opportunists who do stuff like burnings or only show one side. You really do have to talk to people, it’s hard to villainize an honest dialogue, and the more people see that the more they will listen.

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Anonymous #1 1w

You’re kidding, right? Villainizing an honest dialogue is commonplace. Leftist violence is very rare. Everything else has been from the right and it hasn’t changed anything from them or slowed them down. There is no way to nonviolently defeat a group willing to use violence. The media is going to demonize leftists regardless of if they’re violent, and it’s working. There was an insane amount of hateful rhetoric towards the left even before the Trump shooting.

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Anonymous #1 1w

he wasn’t assassinated he was murdered. he is a political commentary person not an elected official. do u know who was assassinated? Melissa Hornman

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Anonymous #3 1w

He participated in and led a political association. He’d be more than a political commentator atp. What is the relevance of Hornman? In both cases people made fun of the deaths, do you think I’m okay with that?

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Anonymous #2 1w

Wdym group willing to use violence. You’re taking the extreme fringe minority of people who actually have shot someone, and half the time it’s a republican. Atp you wouldn’t even be considered a republican because you don’t shoot your own team unless you’re against them. Not even that these are just insane people who took advantage of what they had at home and did crazy shit. Stop playing the “more violent game”. There’s one side, another side, and the nutjobs. In what world is it justifiable

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Anonymous #1 1w

To shoot some civilian political figure out of the blue, for what? Saying stupid shit?

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Anonymous #1 1w

Would you like to list the positives of what happened on Wednesday, and how that will make things better, because all I see are people even more aggravated, angry, and bloodthirsty for one another.

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Anonymous #1 1w

As I said, the right is continually calling for violence. Just because they’re not out in lynch mobs yet doesn’t meant they’re not at least willing to do so. Read a single Fox News comments section, or look at the insta story of a single one of your old conservative high school classmates. What happens when the GOP destroys so many democratic institutions that there is no longer a way to nonviolently resist? What happens when our right to protest is eliminated? Will it be justifiable then?

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Anonymous #2 1w

None of those rights have been eliminated. I’ve never picked friends for political views, so I wouldn’t know either. And you’re pulling from stuff from such small samples. I can’t say the same for your end, however. How much “someone’s gotta do it” rhetoric, name-calling, etc, glorifying assassinations. There is still so much representation for you in Congress and online. The only reason your party is failing is because they suck and don’t play smart. Calling people Nazis isn’t getting new voter

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Anonymous #2 1w

s, nor is shaming people going to do anything but make people put their fingers in their ears.

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Anonymous #1 1w

What kind of people have we bred? People that will laugh at other’s misfortune, something guilty of both. And all I see is pointing fingers at each other. We can’t have a society that is eager for violence. The Founding Fathers sure weren’t, but they did that which they had to do because they had zero representation and even more problems than we do. We can’t set the precedent to be “x spread hateful messaging, political violence is necessary” because now anyone can self-justify it to anyone who

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Anonymous #1 1w

they feel is hateful, regardless of the truth. Political violence is the last resort, when there is absolutely no voice, which there is plenty of voice to come around. And even then what makes you think people aren’t just going to go willynilly and shoot whoever? Too many people are wanting this, there won’t be an organized revolt, it will just be carnage.

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