Also it’s odd that you’re complaining that I’m grouping republicans together (for a post/article you guys agree with and support), but when someone comes along and says “dEMocRatS aRe VIoLenT” you’re silent.
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Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months agoIve said it time and time again, conservatives are not a monolith. Please stop acting like it.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Can you link to somewhere blameta did this?
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And no I would never fit into the democrats. I’m neither woke nor a racist.
That is why so many Democrats are in prison compared to Republicans.
Democrats support illegal immigration. It’s not shocking since democrats love lawlessness.
As I’ve said many times, democrats. (Liberals) are racist.
That’s democrats who want the racial and gender caste system.
That is because Democrats love to spend money they don’t have.
It is well known the Nazis and Democrats are well connected. Two peas in a pod.
Democrats are still racist as they’ve always been.
This is just the past month alone, and just one user. Admittedly, 90% of these kinds of statements come from winter. But every single one, not a peep out of the mods saying “hey, don’t say that, democrats are not a monoloth”.
The exact one about democrats being racist must have been from a while ago. And tbh I don’t care enough to go digging for it. My point has been made.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So because I dont censor it, that must mean I agree with it? Is that really your mindset?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Guys I think this might be a joke
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If you’re going to comment, at least try to address what I’m saying.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You know what? Fuck it.
Crazy how you guys only care about gun violence when someone other than your own side does it. Especially given that most political violence is right wing violence.
Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.
That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.
Most shooters are straight, cis, white males.
Define shootings. Because with one definition, you can have 300+ shootings every year, but that counts gang violence, and suddenly white men aren’t the biggest contributors to the stat anymore. I’ll let you guess which demographic would, since you brought it up.
Alternatively, excluding gang violence, you can have under a dozen every year, and white men are the biggest contributors. Not per capita, but still in absolute numbers.
Yet you’ll never see fox news with a headline going “X shooting suspect identified as a straight, cis, white male with ‘kill all blacks’ written on gun”.
Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.
And here is an actually good source:
Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name. They are pushing an angle by omission. Same as fox, same as cbs, same as every news site.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.
I’m saying gun violence because that’s the topic. Getting upset over this wording is like getting upset somebody calls a ride on a plane “air travel” instead of “travel”. That’s the category of the subject being discussed.
That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.
Even if you’re just limiting to domestic terrorism, right wing terrorism is the majority of said terrorism.
Define shootings
I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about politically motivated attacks when I was talking about the straight white shooters thing. Gang violence isn’t really politically motivated.
And your numbers are way off, even by the other definition:
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
statista.com/…/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shoote…
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N363273/
Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.
So when left wing sources push an angle, it’s to reduce deaths. When right wing sources push an angle, it’s to demonize minorities who are already at risk for violence.
And you think that makes you look good? That makes it far worse.
Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name.
Glorifying shooters only makes copy cats more likely. The AP is being responsible.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Per the Reuters article from 2016 - 2020, trans people accounted for 2.3% of mass shootings but per 2020 census data only account for 0.6% of the population. They are 4x more likely to commit a mass shooting then the rest of the population.
See I can cherry pick stats to make them say what I want to too.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m saying gun violence because that’s the topic. Getting upset over this wording is like getting upset somebody calls a ride on a plane “air travel” instead of “travel”. That’s the category of the subject being discussed.
We’ve been over this so many times, it’s not worth typing it up anymore. But for our audience, gun violence is a propaganda term. It’s basically, take all violence, and throw out anything that doesn’t help with disarming the people. If pizza here actually cared about saving lives, he would actually look at violence itself. Remember, violence is a symptom. Disarming the people will not solve social-economic problems.
So when left wing sources push an angle, it’s to reduce deaths. When right wing sources push an angle, it’s to demonize minorities who are already at risk for violence.
You’re being intentionally obtuse. left wing sources want to disarm the people, not to save lives.
Glorifying shooters only makes copy cats more likely. The AP is being responsible.
We’re well past the point of worrying about copy cats.
MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There’s an easy way to get him to stop posting coal
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Even if I get banned, someone else will carry the torch for me and will bring reason to this place.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Do you honestly think you’re bringing reason to this place?
MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I mean if he does, it’s just further proof of how full of shit he is, since even in this thread he’s peddling the same gun violence bs that’s been disproven to him numerous times. He doesn’t care about reason, he cares about advancing his lies
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
More people should hear and understand this on both extreme ends of the political spectrum.
Don’t listen to people who broadly mock an ideology with straw man arguments and broad generalizations. That shit is for children.
If someone says “conservatives always…”/“liberals only think…” or any variation just ignore them.