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when dealing with people on the left there is only rhetoric to deal with and no action so never have to worry about the left doing anything especially violence
You’re having a lot of trouble with this post, huh?
We’re witnessing A LOT of people realizing the bandwagon that they jumped on to “feel cool” or “own the libs” is actually fucking them hard. So they act out, like we see here as @Verdant_Banana@lemmy.ml demonstrates
Verdant banana can fuck off back to Reddit.
Yes, exactly. What the extreme right has done is they’ve found an equation, so to speak, to ring in these types of folks and create this narrative of, like you said, “own the libs“, a sports team like mentality. And that’s what extreme right folks are doing, treating this like a sports team with Trump laughing all the way to the bank (this video is about a year old and he’s still producing more of these gaudy pieces of crap…as a sitting president…hawking garbage).
Wait so is the left violent or not? All I’ve been told incessantly is that Antifa is going to come and eat my child or whatever the story is today so it’s hard to know if the White House or some random post on the internet is truth anymore
Well yeah they called in the military to keep you safe from antifa. It's like how this rock I have keeps the tigers away. I don't see any tigers around so its working.