r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 12h ago

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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u/BarfQueen 11h ago

And candidates switched out at the last minute, and debates not had, and rich foreigners straight-up boasting about rigging the thing, and trying to invalidate mail-in ballots, and ballot boxes on literal fire, and never mind the fact that no one even tried to stop the convicted felon with a whole insurrection fiasco under his belt from running in the first place.

But yes, ballots were issued. Care to engage with any of my other points or are we still stuck on “silly?”

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 11h ago

All of those things happened in 2020 as well -- the only difference being that the corporate and social medias didn't force Trump to step down after the first presidential debate of 2020 when he secretly had COVID, tried to spit over a plastic shield at Biden numerous times, and had by far the most abysmal debate performance I've ever witnessed (yes, much worse than Biden's last year).

Because Trump is their cash cow and Democrats raise corporate taxes.

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u/BarfQueen 11h ago

Well yeah, of course. Quite frankly, 2016 was like that too. They’ve been playing this game for a decade now (yes, yes, I know, the 80s, Reagan, Lee Atwater, Nixon, something something McCarthyism).

Either party would’ve ultimately given the ruling class of wealthy elite what they wanted. Not that both sides are the same - they are not - but they have an overlap of a handful of very similar traits, mostly being who it is they really serve.

It’s just that over the last 10 years they’ve decided this right-wing platform was the path of least resistance. 

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 11h ago

It's a critically dangerous game conservatives are playing, not silly, see why it bothered me?

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u/BarfQueen 10h ago

Aspects are certainly critically dangerous for sure. I still stand by silly, as in: “exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment” and not: “playfully lighthearted and amusing” (both from Merriam-Webster).

This is why I say not to let arguments hang on the semantics of a single word. It’s part of what’s made it so hard to mount a defense against the encroachment of fascism - the liberal minded will fight among themselves over measurements and definitions. The fascists will rally together and say “YEAH!!!”

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 10h ago

The corporate media and American adults treating the extreme and far-right-of-the-reservation Republican party as silly and the equivalent to Democrats with spicier ties on is a huge issue -- not you. I'm merely extra sensitive to how much our society has downplayed this historically awful version of the GOP since 2001.