Wow, really sour grapes over not getting the thread title. He was Smirky McDouchebag the first time this board made threads about him, and it wasn’t that long ago. No need for the passive aggressive meltdown. It wasn’t really an inside joke.
I can’t think of any extreme leftists who got 500 years for driving their car full speed into a crowd.
From 2009 through 2018, right-wing extremists accounted for 73 percent of such killings, according to the ADL, compared with 23 percent for Islamists and 3 percent for left-wing extremists.
In just 2018;
Deaths due to Right Wing Extremists: 50
Deaths due to Left Wing Extremists: 0
Yet they want to go hard after Antifa instead of their own extremists.
When political violence is acceptable and condoned, including by people here, don’t act surprised when one side excels at it and casualties result. What did you think would happen when one side initiates violence?
Now, the wise person would disavow political violence as a legitimate tool within the US. But I don’t see that happening unfortunately.
This.
Had he apologized I probably wouldn’t even remember this incident.
Instead he pushed a big pile of bullshit about how he was the victim and demanded a quarter billion dollars from the Washington Post for putting him on blast for acting like a dick. On top of that bunch of tighty righties ate up that bullshit with a big spoon.
Fortunately the judge in this case was not buying what Smirky McDouchbag was selling.
That kid, and anyone defending his behavior, can go fuck themselves.
Just when I think there might just be an ounce of rationality buried under your thick veneer of hyper partisanship, cherry picking, and inability to follow even simple arguments, you outdo yourself. Positing that the fault lies not with the conservative killers, but rather that the liberals weren’t loud enough, in your fevered imagination, in condemning political violence is just jaw dropping idiocy of the like of December to shame. Congratulations?, I guess.
Bullshit like that is the reason I have that man on ignore.
Quite honestly, if anyone should be held responsible on the Covington side, I think it was the chaperons. THEY’RE the ones who really dropped the ball.
That’s a beautiful rant but it doesn’t answer the question. What did the far left which advocates violence justified solely by their opposition’s apparel and/or who they’d vote for think would happen?
(And having read my googled link to the very end, I don’t agree with everything the writer had to say there–especially towards the end–but he is right on the media reaction to this teapot tempest.)
And this is the link I had really been trying to find (having read it when it was first published.)
“Excelling at” disproportionate and illegal violence is what we call in plain English being a dangerous criminal, and “casualties result” is what we call criminally assaulting and murdering people.
No, I personally am not at all surprised that conservatives “excel” at being ideology-driven violent criminals compared to liberals, but I would think that you might be. And for conservatives, who always seem to be bragging about their dedication to the principle of “personal responsibility”, to try to deflect responsibility for acts of conservative terrorism by whining that the other side “condoned” violence is pretty hypocritical.
Telling people how they should vote, think, speak and present themselves and punishing them for dissenting from those requirements, will garner unfavorable results. People are constantly being told they are Nazi’s, racists, bigots, idiots, privileged and a host of other things that they are absolutely not and in reality despise. When some push back, they are further labeled as bigots and nazi’s because they pushed back and didn’t accept being called bigots and nazi’s in the first place. It’s pure insanity. Given, it is typically the media causing these problems, especially in cases like this with the Covington kid.
It’s only a matter of time until instigators other than the media like the ANTIFA Starbucks Stormtroopers or the armchair warriors making death threats to teenage boys piss off enough people with their “THINK LIKE US OR ELSE” attitude.
Won’t end well for a particular side.
There are a thousand things wrong with your “question” (not the least of which is your tortured logic of “far left” = liberals while “far right” are not the responsibility of the Republican party), but the gaping chasm of sheer dumbfounding idiocy is this idea that if some vast minority of people are OK with violence, then they are more to blame more than the actual perpetrators of the violence.
I think it was you who I went around the topic of Smirky awhile back, but I hadn’t gotten the impression that you were as far gone as your recent comments clearly reflect.
I tire of this “he was blameless” schtick. Even putting aside his individual clearly expressed support of his friends’ behavior, do you not see the wrongness in their actions? Had the Native American played his drum near one of the imbeciles who was mocking him and his people with racist chanting and tomahawk chops, would you be so defensive?
Yeah, we’re definitely getting close to “octopus should be reported to the FBI as a danger to society” territory. After all, if you’re willing to say such things in a public, non-extremist forum like this, you’re likely much farther along that path in forums that are more friendly to that sort of thing.
And, just cause your idiocy pissed me off, ask yourself about Heather Heyer.
I’m willing to bet you had to Google her name to realize who she was. And how she never deserved what happened to her no matter what some fucking idiot who you identify as liberal said that pissed you off.
Fuck you.
:dubious: Well, so much for free-speech absolutism, huh? When a conservative is opining about how feminism is cancer or Islam is evil or whatnot, conservatives get incandescent with rage at the assault on freedom of opinion if the opiner so much as gets a campus speaking engagement canceled or gets kicked off Twitter. “FREE SPEECH!” “I may not like what you say but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it!” Etc.
But when a liberal’s calling some conservatives Nazis or racists or bigots or privileged :rolleyes: and the conservatives don’t like to think of themselves that way, then oooh, watch out, liberals, this won’t end well for you and could “garner unfavorable results”, if you know what I mean and I think you do!
“How dare you use your free speech to say things that personally offend ME and express opinions on how I should think or vote?! It’s only a matter of time until we say the hell with your constitutional rights and come beat you up or murder you for pissing us off!” Touchy bunch of snowflakes.
:rolleyes:
You are assuming I endorse these hypotheticals. I do not. Just being realistic.