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APnews already has a list of democrats saying "no place for political violence".
There, however, is a place for violence when it comes to the American government murdering members of my family, other workers, those abroad, anyone who sneezes wrong, etc, etc, etc.
Social murder is too big a concept for liberals I guess.
Not even social murder. Where's the disavowal of genocide?
I'd count (at least "casually", as in casual conversation) supporting/enacting a genocide as social murder. Maybe a stretch of terms, but support for one is almost always tied to the other.
What I mean is that it's a much stronger case of social murder; even in socialist countries there's social murder (though often not the fault of the government, moreso the imperialist system), but genocide is a different thing entirely that our liberals can't bring themselves to condemn when it's their side doing it.
That's not social murder, that's just normal murder
Right by the israeli video of them raping trafficked underage girls, which is right on top of the other Financial crimes they have evidence of.
what word was this
what's weird about the filter regex for "r*pe" in particular is that the word filter deletes the preceding space, which makes everything harder to read
ooooooh, it even took me a while to figure out what it was after seeing your explanation, thanks that makes sense!
Canola-ing
No idea, them raping, banging, underage girls is what I thought I said, should spellcheck better.
Trump sending federal forces to chicago is clearly not political violence.
Oh, that was a misprint. It should say "No! Place for political violence!"
The smart response for public figures when pressed for statement is firstly, not giving one, and secondly, "he just died? Wow. I didn't know that…he led an amazing life. What else can you say?"