Mountain Man
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Looks like the political situation in the US is about to get a little more nuts...
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trtcttc
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First in Minnesota and now this. We used to only hear about political violence in far away places. I hope nothing happens in the next little bit. But once something like this starts and there's copy cats, it could get out of hand. It's not possible for law enforcement to set up a perimeter for every political speech.
Mountain Man
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Apparently a lot of hard liners on the right are calling for violence against the left in the wake of this. I hope they make an arrest soon, the justice system needs to function here.
There have a been a lot of political motivated incidents recently. On top of the Kirk incident and the incident in Minnesota, there was an incident with someone trying to burn down the house of Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, There was some incident with Nancy Pelosi's family getting attacked. There have been some others I'm forgetting, but yeah, things are getting crazy.
What scares me is the amount of threats coming from the right wing side. I mean almost all of the politically motivated attacks have been coming from them already, and now this happens and they are threating revenge? Each time I think things can't get any crazier, they get crazier.
What scares me is the amount of threats coming from the right wing side. I mean almost all of the politically motivated attacks have been coming from them already, and now this happens and they are threating revenge? Each time I think things can't get any crazier, they get crazier.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
The "media" on the far right is just getting looney, Fox is actually a moderate compared to a lot of this stuff. People just sit there all day and consume this hateful nonsense and take it as 100% truth. I haven't seen an equivalent on the left.
trtcttc
Senior Member
The right wing rhetoric has definitely been worse, but the more high profile cases have been against right wing figures too. Biden/Obama/Harris didn't almost get assassinated and no one from MSNBC or some left wing commentator was gunned down at a live event. The reality is most of these cases aren't even that political, like the Trump one.
CalgaryTiger
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There is a well established American culture of assassinating political figures. The more recent rise in the last 10 years in the US of us versus them rhetoric has made its possibility even more likely. It is probably a combination of their gun culture and culture to just throw the guy in power you don't like out. Never under estimate the American habit to just solve their problems with a gun.
We're similar to them in a lot of ways, but I think, even most people in Canadian gun culture circles don't have the mentality that shooting people is an option for solving a problem.
I'm worried about Trump dying in office, by either natural causes or assassination. It could trigger something that could send the US down some dark paths.
We're similar to them in a lot of ways, but I think, even most people in Canadian gun culture circles don't have the mentality that shooting people is an option for solving a problem.
I'm worried about Trump dying in office, by either natural causes or assassination. It could trigger something that could send the US down some dark paths.
That's what I was getting at. There have been cases on both sides, but the revenge type threats coming from the right side are what worry me. We didn't see that from the left side on the attacks against democrats. It concerns me there could be some actual revenge attacks...at least judging by the stuff I've seen on social media.
Mountain Man
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It's also largely people on the far right that hoard firearms...