What I find funny about this is the notion that police brutality and murder is left v. right. How is being anti-police brutality and murder a left thing? And if I accept that being anti-police brutality and murder is a principle of the left, then why is the right pro-police brutality and murder?
As we all know, dressing in black is the true sign of an Antifa member. There are no other reasons to dress in black, especially at night - black certainly doesn’t reflect light any differently than any other color.
For example, here is an Antifa member whose picture I found by google searching “thief” and copying the first photo:
Here is another Antifa member, whose picture I found by searching for “burglar”:
When I was a kid I remember dressing up as Antifa for Halloween.
Antifa costumes were popular in the 80s I guess. We were all being indoctrinated a long time ago.
Antifa has even infiltrated the corporate world. This is the top search result for “businessman” -
Oh my God. Antifa has even infiltrated the police!
And parts of the Klan.
And while far-left street violence should be addressed, I think most people are far more concerned about efforts to take down the power grid across the country.
Here’s a picture of Antifa training to invade our cities and take over to push their vandalism, murder, and general left wing anarchy.
Johnny Cash was Antifa.
That’s because the people being brutalized and murdered are mostly “those” people. The right sees the police as an extension of themselves, and a physical barrier between them and their fears. “Defund the police” was easily adopted by the right to bash the left. IMHO the left can easily claim the high ground on this one by supporting good policing and public safety, and not let the right continue to go on offense using “Defund the police”.
Yes yes yes.
Now, now… Sam specified dates up to 2015, and after 2020. Absolutely nothing from 2015-2020 pertains to this conversation.
Was Sam also one of those who used to always base climate change threads on 1998? Cause that happened all the time, because it was the warmest year ever on record to that point.
So, they always crowed about temperatures since 1998 as evidence the planet wasn’t warming because temperatures weren’t as high as that one cherry-picked data point. At least until the last decade, when we had a run of years even hotter.
No, I was the one calling out the dishonesty of people who do that, and pointing out that we have had a 30-year cooling period in the middle of an obvious upward climate trend, purely due to variance. So 8 years or 12 years of cooling does not necessarily mean anything.
But keep trying. SDMB users won’t smear themselves. They need the howling monkeys of the Pit for that.
Keep trying what?
Asking a question because I sincerely did not know the answer and didn’t want to simply make assumptions based on my preconceptions?
It’s something you clearly need to try yourself.
Oh, sorry. Here, knock yourself out:
That study focuses on 2015-2019.
And as usual, you don’t even read your own cite you moron.
By certain metrics, such as human casualties and frequency of attacks, the violence
committed by AVE actors in the past decade pales in comparison to other
categories of violent extremists.
You are bad at everything.
It seems they mainly conclude that right-wing extremism is more of a problem. You know you cannot just read the title right?
While it is important to note that this does not invalidate the overall trendline in the data—that right-wing extremist groups currently pose the largest threat of conducting mass-casualty attacks in the U.S.
As more right-wing AGAAVE and RMVE groups shift their focus from political engagement and
demonstrations to mass violence, it is possible that AVE groups will take the same
path.
Thus, the recent uptick in violence
perpetrated by right wing extremists in the U.S. may suggest that a continuation of
violent activity by AVEs should be expected over the coming years.
Therefore, while AVEs in the U.S. today pose a comparatively smaller risk of
perpetrating mass casualty attacks than other American violent extremists, there is
no guarantee that this assessment will apply to future iterations and evolutions of
what is arguably one of the primordial American extremist movements.
“…other American violent extremists…”
Ah, I see - they daren’t mention the “R” word.