I agree.
And if these claims had been presented as simply “having more” or “having an edge,” I suppose I’d have said nothing.
But in previous threads, the claim has been “orders of magnitude” more from the right than from the left. It’s this that I disagree with.
There is no possible way you are ever going to prove or disprove this by posting “gotcha ya!” style posts every time some left-winger says something obnoxious. Even if you designed a study with rigorous parameters looking for specific word usage and analyzing which phrases were used more often by Republicans or Democrats, you’d still wind up getting into arguments with people about whether or not your methodology was correct. This is not a winnable debate and IMO it’s kind of a silly thing to get worked up about.
So what for anything on this messageboard? We’re shooting the shit, to use the violent metaphor.
Ever notice how when you say “Shoot the shit”, bunch of Republicans duck their heads? Reflex, probably.
I think you missed the target.
Aaaaand, a poster supporting Bricker is banned within the hour. I guess they were not following board rules. If I were Bricker, I’d be embarrassed.
In my opinion, people vent like this a lot. Doesn’t matter if they have a D or and R on their voter registration card. It isn’t surprising.
I’m only concerned when the so called leaders of the party make threats, veiled or otherwise, against their opponents.
Wait – wasn’t the whole lesson of this that random idiots’ activity cannot be imputed to the causes they support?
If I should be embarrassed over this, then you should be embarrassed over the Twitter content.
With only one post too, which is rather telling. If I were Bricker, I’d be annoyed by the association, not embarrassed.
Also, if I were Bricker I’d probably be better paid.
…that the board rules weren’t written to exempt Bricker supporters? Honestly, I don’t know where you’re going with this.
I’m not even sure how many of those people would really even qualify as being “lefty” as opposed to simply people who hate Scott Walker or hate Republicans.
Fortunately this link refutes that silly allegation. 
So we know it’s more - we’re just debating the price.
ER… Yes. I agree that, if for no other reason that gun rights are a right wing issue, more credible comments about violence come from the right. I don’t agree it’s a landslide.
Well, I guess as soon as someone suggests a way to categorize a threat as specifically right-wing or left-wing (I assume someone like Jared Lee Loughner, a schizophrenic, can’t be treated as either, so we’ll have to filter those ones out) and a way to count the number of threats, and a line of demarcation between the merely “more” and “landslide more”, we can begin a serious debate.
Well, get busy. I want a draft proposal ready by next week.
I don’t see how making unproven assertions helps the debate. If you can’t back up what you say, don’t say it.
Regards,
Shodan
You know how it is: first you have to apply for the research grant…
Actually Gyrate I enjoy twitter.. i don’t go to trends and all of that shit.. I simply follow the 120 people I find interesting.. (sports, news, a couple of musicians) and leave it at that. The racist tweets concerning the hockey game.. I learned that on Yahoo.. this Gov Walker shit.. I learned it here in the Pit..
Twitter can be as big as you want it to be and vice versa. small..