Have they forgotten all the Trump supporters who have killed, attacked, and threatened both prominent Democrats and opponents of this president in recent years? I haven't – and I have a list of them.
The way I as a leftist want to deal with the Charlie Kirk problem (aka online far right influencers) is via a national online forum. Not shooting people. The problem is that people like Charlie are getting undo influence via various foreign and domestic groups donating to him via Crypto and advertising for him for free, especially to children on video games.
A democracy means everyone gets a say fairly, not that one asshole gets to flood our every commercial and social media feed with his hateful illogic constantly (and there’s something to be said here about good faith arguments, freedom of speech, the law, and democracy as well). If his comments were on a classic forum with classic moderation, no vote systems, everyone with one say, he wouldn’t be treated like anything special, and he wouldn’t be able to interrupt and talk over people either. He’d be like everyone else and his words would have to stand for themselves individually one time, and they are dumb.
But conservatives solve everything with violence because it’s their one solution, just like they have the one joke. This is why we shouldn’t spank kids, it just teaches them to incorporate violence as a solution or to use violence before actually problem solving. So they project this regressive ideology onto the left, the progressives which means new ideas that address issues and create progress, which then “conveniently” allows them to justify violence- their one solution that they were always going to arrive at anyway.
The way I as a leftist want to deal with the Charlie Kirk problem (aka online far right influencers) is via a national online forum. Not shooting people. The problem is that people like Charlie are getting undo influence via various foreign and domestic groups donating to him via Crypto and advertising for him for free, especially to children on video games.
A democracy means everyone gets a say fairly, not that one asshole gets to flood our every commercial and social media feed with his hateful illogic constantly (and there’s something to be said here about good faith arguments, freedom of speech, the law, and democracy as well). If his comments were on a classic forum with classic moderation, no vote systems, everyone with one say, he wouldn’t be treated like anything special, and he wouldn’t be able to interrupt and talk over people either. He’d be like everyone else and his words would have to stand for themselves individually one time, and they are dumb.
But conservatives solve everything with violence because it’s their one solution, just like they have the one joke. This is why we shouldn’t spank kids, it just teaches them to incorporate violence as a solution or to use violence before actually problem solving. So they project this regressive ideology onto the left, the progressives which means new ideas that address issues and create progress, which then “conveniently” allows them to justify violence- their one solution that they were always going to arrive at anyway.