Old, but seems relevant
Is this OC? If so, $20 to the charity of your choosing. Or decline/ignore.
It is! Whipped it up for the Political Memes community… and then got banned from Political Memes for ‘advocating violence’. Um… whoops.
Maybe it’s temporary? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Charity… my choice would be any of those most at risk by a turn in the political environment. Planned Parenthood, any LGBTQ+ resource… if you get a kick out of that meme enough to merit a $20 donation, I have a sneaking suspicion that the venn diagram of your values and mine is pretty close to a clean circle, so if there’s something specific you had in mind, you definitely don’t need my permission (not that you ever needed my permission on how to spend your own money, but you get the gist!).
Edit - To be clear, posting that image in this thread is the 2nd time I posted it. The first posting was in Political Memes here. I realized in hindsight that that might make the post in this thread -not- OC. I created the image, but the one here isn’t THE original.
Doesn’t seem like it’s advocating violence at all. It’s making fun of someone that did advocate violence when it came after them.
I don’t think the meme itself was the issue, but the discussion therein. Speculating on the motive, I mentioned the oath military and feds are required to take, and that it advocates violence… I probably shouldn’t elaborate or I’ll risk a ban here too…
Right, it’s not a call to violence for the reader; it tells the reader that Trump was fishing for violent supporters. It’s prime “Leopards ate my face” material.
Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to @BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place
I was hoping that the admins on Lemmy aren’t the same type of shitheads like the bad ones from Reddit were, yet here we are.
World is the largest instance, so I understand them having an abundance of caution. Can always post on a smaller instance that doesn’t give a shit.
Yeah, the oath calls to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Not really your fault if someone claims that advocates for violence because it’s not you issuing a specific and legal order. Doesn’t say anything about protecting the government I suppose.
Done :)
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Receipt is in your DM. I’m not posting it here to minimize any doxing chance from all the friends I’ve made on Lemmy lol
Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.
If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.
See also - that time Trump joked about Paul Pelosi getting bashed with a hammer
He’s consistently in favor of his political opponents being threatened with violence, it’s one of the few things he’s been consistent about in his life
bUt ciViLitY!!1123
Did you just mock somebody/somegroup by appending part of the Fibonacci sequence 😅
I get the “!!1!eleven!!” thing (presumably the 23 bit is just mocking some ridiculousness or vapidity…?) but I find it very amusing to read your comment that way. Call it comic relief if you like 🤷
Yeah, it was not intentional, just a representation of the keyboard smashing that might go with that kind of comment, but I’ll take the accidental Fibonacci lol 😂
Any sympathy I had for this assclown dried up ages ago.
“Look, you should just turn down the violent rhetoric!”
-people who’ve been espousing violent rhetoric since 2008
One side cares about civility and condemns advocating violence, so the other side exploits that every chance they get.
condemns advocating violence
Surely you’re not talking about lemmy right? The past 5 days has been nothing but condoning and advocating for violence.
No, I’m talking about the official stance of Democrats, since they’re the only viable side to oppose the GOP.
Maybe the first time we wished a Republican would have leaned just a little more to the right.
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Maybe it’s a good thing he did, who knows. Might have ended up worse in the timelines where he didn’t.
How the world is a better place with Fuckface 45 in it…that concept makes no sense to me.
Because somebody worse might take his place.
Not someone who could gather the same unified support though
Could’ve been a hero.
Now is just a dead nobody.
You should put the date in the title.
Fair point. Done.
There was also that time he said McConnell had a “DEATH WISH” because he voted for some stuff trump didn’t like.
Wow you know what trump has aged a lot in 8 years. I guess that’s a long time n shit huh
Probably a tougher 8 years if you were already geriatric at the start of those 8 years.
We go high, they go low.
Today on Facebook, a big trumpist just admitted to me that he just wants to see his political opponents suffer (even die), and sent me a gore image.
I’m in a gun club and the WhatsApp chat had, surprise surprise, a rich, fashy vet immediately saying that the attempt meant that all supporters of the Democrats were now “enemy combatants” and should be treated like enemy combatants were back when “they” were deployed. Fucking psychotic, brownshirt ass. I know this makes me sound like him, but people like him have one solution and it’s measured in six foot increments of rope.
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I’m absolutely positive that he thinks this was actually a Democratic sympathizer. These people’s brains are so full of conspiracy theories it’s ridiculous. We’re talking about the same people who think that there’s a global movement to groom minors just because some people prefer bussy and would rather present in a different way than they would. These people are so far gone.
Tell them you want exactly the same for Trump and watch them get triggered like the little snowflake they are.
Right. We all agree that encouraging violence is bad.
Right lemmy?
RIGHT LEMMY?
Self defense is still a form of violence. I’ll allow it.
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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[A]s long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force
Karl Popper, 1945, The Open Society and Its Enemies
I hate pacifists, man. They always try to publicly shame you by making it seem like violence is never justified… stupid deontological thinking
It’s only free speech when we speak. When someone says something I don’t like, that’s not free speech.
It’s only ok to incite violence when we do it.
This hypocrisy isn’t a good look. Lemmy loves to point at Trump’s hypocrisy (see OP) but are blind to their own. It makes your position appear weaker because you don’t actually stand for anything (e.g. free speech as it exists in the US).
I’ve said it before but many here are more like conservatives than they realize. They also don’t really stand for anything. For example, they pretend to love small government and then bend right over with pre-lubed assholes when DeSantis legislates lab meat out of existence in their state instead of letting tHe FRee MArKeT decide.
It’s only ok to incite violence when we do it.
Wasn’t the guy who shot Trump a registered Republican?
Is it possible that he was incited to violence by… other Republicans?
Yep. And confirmed conservative, if recent headlines are to be trusted.
We pretending like every thread on Lemmy wasn’t filled with “wish he had better aim” sentiment?
In most the posts I saw, the comments wishing he had been killed were downvoted.
So yeah, some people made those comments, but most people didn’t agree with them
I don’t have time to go look right now but when I went through the threads that was very much not the case.
That hasn’t been my experience in any thread that I’ve seen.
I decided to look for examples of threads and most had neutral comments and some comments agreeing with my memory events.
When both teams suck, all you can do is root for injuries. But no, “I wish you’d just die already” is not a call to violence.
I remember you from the other thread. You’re a fan of feigning ignorance if it helps your point.
Read this thread. The people encouraging violence are upvoted far more and those discouraging it are downvoted.
It’s not just that thread either.
To continue a theme from our previous thread - you mind if we quit playing stupid?
The people encouraging violence are upvoted
The top five root comments have no such thing.
Dated Aug. 9, 2016
I remember after this all the Celebrities and Politicians talking AGAINST Donald Trump’s VIOLENT RHETORIC!
JK I don’t!
And surely we can find old tweets condemning it from all the Trumpanzees screeching about “political hatred” today, right? Right?
Stochastic terrorism should be addressed when it occurs. The duopoly gave him a pass on it and he keeps using it.
They are armed and organized. Are you?
"Don’t Advocate for political violence here on Lemmy! It’s OK to post about Donald Trump advocating for it though. "
Nuance is not strong with this one
