# Isolated shit, courtesy your neighbourly right wing scumbag **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 26, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900 "2022-06-26T17:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/61 "2022-08-11T18:49:54Z")
I think one of us has misunderstood the other. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/62 "2022-08-11T18:50:30Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > If right-wingers want critical mass, the name of the game is to get an armed liberal mob to attack a conservative demonstration. Yeah, they keep wanting this, but for some reason, BLM and Antifa, two of their biggest lefty boogeymen, just are not taking the bait. There’s also the problem of finding an “armed liberal mob” in the first place - shhh, don’t tell them! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/63 "2022-08-11T18:51:52Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Yeah, they keep wanting this, but for some reason, BLM and Antifa, two of their biggest lefty boogeymen, just are not taking the bait. Right, and this is why they’re talking up BLM and Antifa to be about a thousand times more actively violent and organized than they actually are. If you can’t find any armed terrorists to oppose, you have to invent some. > [@snowthx](#): > > There’s also the problem of finding an “armed liberal mob” in the first place - shhh, don’t tell them! Gun-owning liberals exist. It’s very much a thing, and on the uptick. But with them it tends to be a private, prudent precaution against social collapse. They’re not like conservatives, publicly parading around with long arms hoping that somebody else will start something. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/64 "2022-08-11T18:51:55Z")
Perhaps I did misunderstand. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/65 "2022-08-11T18:59:08Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > If you can’t find any armed terrorists to oppose [ISIS, for example.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-under-our-beds/696533) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/66 "2022-08-11T19:04:17Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > No, sorry, .01% = .0001, or 7,400 people (in the entire country) if you suppose every single trump voter should be included in the base group. > > Of course, that percentage was pulled out of someone’s nether regions, and only time will tell what it should actually be. Pulled out of there indeed! But to indulge me, if these 7400 people committed a violent assault this year, that would be 7,400/800,000 violent assaults per year, or an increase of about 1%. Well within the year to year variability in these stats. And these folks are scattered around the country, and too stupid/mentally ill to get organized. Anyone with the ability to organize would be intelligent enough (presumably) to see what has happened to organizers of violent insurrection attempts in the not too distant past. I think we might see a few highly publicized cases, but nothing to actually get worried about. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/67 "2022-08-11T19:09:51Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > I don’t know how accurate that is, but even if it is, that could theoretically amount to several million believers who might be willing to give it a go; My admittedly pulled out of my ass figure of 99.99% means that 1 in 10,000 Republicans would be “willing to give it a go”. 36 million registered Republican voters. 1 in 10,000 means 3,600 idiots willing to give it a go. Scattered around the country. They’d all be in jail before the sun sets. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/68 "2022-08-11T20:07:09Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > 1 in 10,000 means 3,600 idiots willing to give it a go. It is estimated that about a third of that number entered the Capitol building illegally on January 6. > **[Exclusive: Classified Documents Reveal the Number of January 6 Protestors](https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-classified-documents-reveal-number-january-6-protestors-1661296)** > > In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot. > Federal prosecutors have charged more than 700 people with participating in the protests at the U.S. Capitol, and new indictments and arrests are still continuing almost daily. Early in the arrests (when the number was closer to 400), most news media outlets said some 800 people entered the Capitol, but now the number—circulating in classified assessments made by the Secret Service and the FBI, and obtained exclusively by _Newsweek—_ is 1,200. I think your numbers might be a bit conservative (pun intended) if you’re talking about folks nationwide willing to engage in violence. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/69 "2022-08-11T22:11:45Z")
Now this guy was Smart… /s ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/70 "2022-08-11T22:21:07Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > A less generous person would have correctly called that a stupid mistake. 🙂 I am too aware of my own stupid mistakes, in the past and to come; if I am being generous, it is to myself as well. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/71 "2022-08-11T22:24:25Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > An armed subject just tried to break in to the FBI field office in Cincinnati. Dude’s dead. Evidently had ties to Jan 6. > [@](#): > > “Save ammunition, get in touch with the Proud Boys and learn how they did it in the Revolutionary War, because submitting to tyranny while lawfully protesting was never the American way,” the message read. Remember kids–dying alone and unmourned in a corn field is the right way to do it. > **[Standoff With Gunman in Ohio: Armed Man Is Killed After Trying to Breach...](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/11/us/fbi-cincinnati-shooting-news#fbi-cincinnati-ricky-shiffer-jan-6)** > > Authorities said the man was wearing body armor and fled to Clinton County, Ohio, where he hid in a cornfield after exchanging gunfire with the police, and refused to surrender. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/72 "2022-08-11T22:27:45Z")
Another death on 45’s head. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/73 "2022-08-11T22:28:32Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Another death on 45’s head.  That’s one way to look at it. Another way is One fewer Trump voter. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/74 "2022-08-11T22:36:15Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Remember kids–dying alone and unmourned in a corn field is the right way to do it. So, if you attack an FBI office with guns, they’ll send you to the corn field. Seems 100% accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/75 "2022-08-12T00:37:51Z")
How they did it in the Revolution? With single-shot muskets, then shift to the bayonet? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/76 "2022-08-12T00:43:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sure, there are and will be ongoing incidents of right wing violence. But I feel they are on the decline overall. I wish I could concur, but no way - despite the majority of them being cowards who take potshots and then run away to their comfy basements, and even if it turns out that only .0001% of those scumbags commit chargeable crimes - nah, their greasy shenanigans will not be on the decline at all. Wishing my speculation turns out to be dead wrong, but I wouldn’t it past a lot of these shmucks to stupidly risk prison time so they can get in their “vengeance”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/77 "2022-08-12T00:58:15Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > So, if you attack an FBI office with guns, they’ll send you to the corn field. Wait, is that what our mods are doing to spammers and trolls?! Holy shit, the SDMB doesn’t mess around! I thought they were just banning accounts and deleting threads. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/78 "2022-08-12T00:58:33Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > How they did it in the Revolution? With single-shot muskets, then shift to the bayonet? Only if it’s narrated by Ken Burns… ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/79 "2022-08-12T01:00:34Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > So, if you attack an FBI office with guns, they’ll send you to the corn field. “_FIELD OF DREAMS_” about that great “murican” pastime of insurrection. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/80 "2022-08-12T01:53:53Z")
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