Uh-oh, be careful guys, he cited Breitbart. We all know how unimpeachable they are.
Each incident there has a link to the actual story so you can look at them on their own. Indisallowed nearly 1/3, and frankly I was a lot more severe against ones that support my thesis than ones that were antogonistic to it.
Frankly you guys missed a lot.
Okay, I went through all the footage from LiberalMedia.com (definitely a real website with the same sterling credibility as the likes of Breitbart.com, though it happens to be down right now), and counted up 1791 instances of Trump calling for a Democrat (or liberal or progressive) to be assaulted or locked up without due process (and being roundly cheered by the crowds of thousands). I removed 17 of them because the audio was sketchy, leaving us with 1774 instances. If we add the 14 Scylla-approved prior cites, then we can conclude that there were at the very least 1788 instances of Republicans calling for violence against Democrats. 1788 is about four times Scylla/Breitbart’s count of 455, so we can conclude that the Republicans are about 4 times as violent as Democrats in the present.
Nice job. What’s the answer for 1788 vs. 455?
Oooh, I forgot – I think we can ballpark that approximately 80% of Trump’s crowds cheered his violent rhetoric. Using Breitbart’s criteria for calling something an instance of violence or harassment, everyone that cheered for his violent rhetoric was an individual instance of violence or harassment… if the average Trump crowd is 5000 people, then ~4000 people, on average, cheered each time Trump called for violence, threats, or harassment… back of the envelope math – 4000 * 1788 = 7 million, 152 thousand. 7 million, 152 thousand / 455 = approximately 15,700.
So with Breitbartian criteria, we can conclude that Republicans are about 15 thousand times as violent as Democrats, roughly speaking.
So what is this worth?
Not a lot. It’s not scientific, or comprehensive.
It should still be disturbing. No matter how you slice it there is a lot more actual violence and hate being directed at the right from the left than the other way around, and, if anything, it appears to be accelerating. I don’t beleive you can actually search and compile in anyway approaching objectivity and reach a different conclusion. To do so would be about as reasonable as saying that this board is largely conservative.
I actually don’t expect any actual evidence to matter to you. You actually have to do a lot of work to see something that you really don’t want to see, and no matter how smart you are you have to be ready to see it.
And as an aside, at this very moment Trump is praising Congressman Gianforte’s assault of a journalist, and getting lots of cheers and applause, and thus we can probably add a few more thousand to that total number of incidents.
Truly, Breitbart’s list of things that relies largely on random tweets and other Breitbart reports (and a handful of other mostly very conservative websites) is utterly unimpeachable, but luckily we have the brave reporters at LiberalMedia.com (unfortunately the site is down right now), and can compile a list with similar legitimacy and authenticity, revealing that Republicans are several thousand times more violent than Democrats, at least in the present.
If Tolstoy had had a message board…
I didn’t expect you to be an asshole like this. Each incident has it’s own link that you can check out and make your own determination.
Making up shit and ridiculing a process that you participated in when it reveals unfavorable results to your preferred position is not intellectually honest.
So do it.
LOL. You lost. Just admit it.
Dude, it’s fucking Breitbart. It’s utterly worthless as a source of information about anything. Might as well cite Stormfront. I went ahead and clicked on a few, and sure enough, they rely on random tweets, other Breitbart reports, and a few other conservative websites, and that’s about it. It’s a bullshit list, and it’s frankly very sad that you’re taking it seriously in any way at all.
If you don’t want to be mocked, don’t cite Breitbart and expect to be taken seriously.
Scylla’s post was thread-shitting.
BAN!!!
You are not clicking the links. In the first ten we have Reuter’s, Breitbart, Wapo, Fox News, Minnesota government, and yes, Twitter. If you keep clicking there is pretty much every source out there, and quite a few have film or pictures.
The twitter one shows a woman actually being touched and threatened with rape.
So yeah, ridicule it.
You claim to actually give a shit about victimized people, but I guess that is just in the abstract. If it’s not the narrative you like, you just pretend it’s fake.
Hmmmm…
You even said in your own post that you didn’t proofread. IOW, you thread shat.
BAN!!!
I’m not going to waste my time with an organization with the same credibility as Stormfront. It’s an utterly ridiculous list, from a ridiculous organization, and I’m amazed that you convinced yourself it provides any useful information.
And while my “LiberalMedia.com” stuff might be nonexistant, Trump really has called for violence, threats, harassment, and for Democrats to be locked up, hundreds or even thousands of times, and has indeed been cheered on by thousands of fans each time, and using the same feeble criteria Breitbart relied on for some of those ridiculously cited “incidents” in that list (that at least one possible progressive/liberal/Democrat somewhere in the country expressed positive feelings about the idea of violence or threats or harassment against a Republican or conservative), that really would add up to hundreds of thousands or even millions of incidents, utterly swamping the pathetic and ridiculous list from Breitbart.
If you want to rely on that list, I’ll rely on all the times Trump has said such things and been cheered on by thousands, and the math will very, very easily work out in my favor.
Trump praised Congressman Gianforte’s assault of a journalist just a few hours ago, and was cheered on by thousands. Hell, using that feeble Breitbart criteria of what can be considered an incident of violence, harassment, or threats, there’s been more such incidents by Republicans in the last few hours than in the entire list Breitbart put together.
It’s a list of links with videos and there is usually additional evidence that you can check out, again, the actual stories are on a very wide spectrum of media sources.
Breitbart is not Stormfront. It’s right wing and partisan yes, but that is it’s role.
Do you expect a list like this to be on Mediamatters? The raw data is there for you to review. Data does not care about what website it’s links are compiled on. The validity of something does not change based on who says it.
This is very closed minded of you.