We like leftists and liberals.
We want to ban all guns.
We want free healthcare.
We want UBI.
We don't mind being taxed.
We want to give everyone a free abortion!
Okay?
I don't see a problem here. Right wing personalities encourage harming and killing LGBTQ+ people and liberals, far-right people bomb abortion clinics and kill doctors, but now it's suddenly bad to say that oh, yeah, some people deserve a good killin'?
Seems like crocodile tears to me.
I haven't seen nearly as many right-wing people praising/encouraging obvious murder at I have here and on Bluesky. If something horrible happened to Nancy Pelosi, you sure wouldn't see me posing with a model of her decapitated head - unlike a certain comedian.
Even granting what you say, is putting out veiled death threats under one's real name really the kind of thing leftist figures should be doing in the wake of an election where Trump was nearly killed twice and the US decided that the left is too extreme for them?
the US decided that the left is too extreme for them?
Er. No. That's not what happened. When you look at vote totals from 2020, you can see that Biden got 81M votes to Trump's 74M. Looking at vote totals from 2024, Harris got 74M votes--the same as Trump in 2020--and Trump eked out a slightly improved performance at 77m. This isn't a 'mandate'; this is fewer people showing up to the polls. If the same number of people had voted in 2024 as voted in 2020, it's probable that Trump would have lost again. That isn't people saying the left is "too extreme", that's apathy.
Given the levels of alarm that were being raised by the media and politicians across the aisle, I doubt people were too apathic to vote. It's hard to feel like that when every person on your screens tells you that Trump is a fascist threat to democracy. It's more likely that so many people sat out because they didn't like the direction that both parties were taking. Less "I don't care," more "I can't support either side."
Could it be that some people found the left to be too extreme but they weren't ready to vote for a Republican yet?
To be fair, like most left wing echo chambers like Reddit, you're probably more likely to see extreme content there than amongst most people on the left.
You are, but redditors are so strong a stereotype that you have just about every other site gunning against them. Even other redditors hate redditors.
Headline is a straight lie. She actually said, as the article buries
And people wonder why we want these executives dead
I didn't see anything about "encouraging" nothing like standing back and standing by at all.
This event seems to have united all people in a way that I haven't seen since 9/11. There's nobody in the country who hasn't been affected by the greedy and evil practices of health insurance companies. Conservatives and liberals alike seem to all be responding with "and nothing of value was lost" type responses.
This is from an article I read earlier today:
"Beyond the shooter's own motives, it's clear from the shockingly celebratory reaction online to Thompson's murder that anger about the American insurance and healthcare system has reached the point of literal bloodlust."
People are fed up, and millions have been pushed to a breaking point
She is saying what we are all thinking.