"Attack". A single, relatively non-violent riot is the exception that proves the rule here.
That's not a right or left thing.
I genuinely don't know what you're trying to say.
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"We only tried to violently overthrow the government to keep our guy in power once this decade. You're really almost as bad, when you think about it."
In any other protest, you would post those same pictures as acts of violence by the police, you hypocrite.
Too late to edit in unnoticed, but oh well, the cinematic adaptation is finally out;
How many times have you seen police put up nooses and chant for someone to be hung?
You've got nothing and you know it. Sit down and shut up.
You all say "eat the rich". Is cannibalism not worse? If the police beat people for saying "eat the rich", would you side with the police?
Geert Wilders is being even more of a hypocrite than usual. He's whining that parliament is too hard for his party members despite Wilders himself having demonized pretty much every single one of his peers the moment they so much as sneezed. And he whines how unfair it is there are already motions of disapproval and no confidence while governments he wasn't part of couldn't even let a fart without Geert pulling out a motion of no confidence.
Wilders when a minster from a previous government had a posh accent ''SHE'S A WITCH! And I'm gonna keep shouting that until loonies come threaten her at home!''
Wilders when his party members have been caught spreading Nazi ideology ''How can you even SAY that?! You can't be so hard against our ministers!''
In general the first two days of Geert Wilders government are a shit show. In the opening parliament session the coalition members are openly brawling it out between themselves. The whole thing is even less stable than everyone thought and that's really saying something, since most people already assumed this was going to stumble on the first hurdle.
Wilders when a minster from a previous government had a posh accent ''SHE'S A WITCH! And I'm gonna keep shouting that until loonies come threaten her at home!''
Wilders when his party members have been caught spreading Nazi ideology ''How can you even SAY that?! You can't be so hard against our ministers!''
In general the first two days of Geert Wilders government are a shit show. In the opening parliament session the coalition members are openly brawling it out between themselves. The whole thing is even less stable than everyone thought and that's really saying something, since most people already assumed this was going to stumble on the first hurdle.
Many far right parties are clown cars driven by bullies.
They have mostly grown as parties of protest with implausible political agendas and inexperienced in government. And of course they are masters of scapegoating: much of the far right agenda is fundamentally about blaming anyone and everyone, only they can save the country. It should not be a surprise many of them are in little shape to be effective should they take power. The trick is often whether they can aggressively throw shit at others hard enough to get their house in order before they fall out of favour too.
Are the people saying "eat the rich" storming a rich person's home, breaking windows, beating up police?
You are actually offending me with how stupid you seem to assume I am, to believe anything you're saying. We all know you're desperate to normalize this, because you know that a second Trump presidency is your gateway to the pseudo-Christian theocracy that you're so eager for America to become; you're champing at the bit to see us "sinners" forced by rule of law to live how you think we should. Fascism, the end of rule of law, an America for sale to the highest bidder- these are all prices you're willing to pay for that dream.
Also some nuances to consider. People who say ''eat the rich'' typically do not enact violence against the rich. At worst they just daydream about it. And their hate is to some extend valid due to most of our problems being able to be directly traced back to the highest echelons of the upper class.
The other side however did enact violence and they weren't so enraged at their would be victims because actually harm had been caused by them. They were enraged just because Trump wasn't crowned president after losing both the popular and electoral vote. And their would be victim wasn't even unwilling to do it, just unable because the powers he was expected to abuse were ones he never had to begin with.
Sure we can argue Pence didn't dangle from a noose just as how the left hasn't eaten Musk, but Pence didn't hang only because his attackerd didn't get to him while no one even tried to nibble on Elon's flesh.
The other side however did enact violence and they weren't so enraged at their would be victims because actually harm had been caused by them. They were enraged just because Trump wasn't crowned president after losing both the popular and electoral vote. And their would be victim wasn't even unwilling to do it, just unable because the powers he was expected to abuse were ones he never had to begin with.
Sure we can argue Pence didn't dangle from a noose just as how the left hasn't eaten Musk, but Pence didn't hang only because his attackerd didn't get to him while no one even tried to nibble on Elon's flesh.
Funny enough, the people who say "eat the rich" spend a bunch of their time enacting violence against the poor and middle class, as their neighborhoods are more accessible for riots.
That noose was like 2 feet long, on a 5 foot platform, held together by like 4 nails. You literally could not hang someone from it.
No, but not for lack of trying. A lot of these people are stupid enough to think that burning down churches and breaking in store fronts are attacks on the rich, and they've pulled that crap many, many times. Republican offices are regularly vandalized and occasionally genuinely attacked.
That's where you're wrong. It's not normal, normal people don't act like that, crazy people act like that. I have no fear of any mass movement of Republicans to act like that because we're mostly normal non-crazy people. Your fear is projection, because you're all just as crazy as those people, and would not only defend but endorse political violence by those you perceive to be on your side. There are people in this forum (I forget which thread, they're all kinda blurred at the moment) actively wishing that political violence was more normalized. It's not any of the right-leaning users saying that, it's your people.
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You might have a point there if the event in question happened a hundred years ago and people were still bringing it up, not during THE PREVIOUS ELECTION which happened to include THE SAME 2 CANDIDATE WHO ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING.
People commonly die hanging by a belt from a doorknob. Jails take away your shoelaces so you don't hang yourself with them. It's not hard to hang someone so that they strangle to death.
Doors and jails are properly constructed though. This however:
That would probably fall over if you hung a gallon of milk from it.
And your examples are people hanging themselves, you're counting on the Vice President being involuntarily lynched to not think to just stand up.
And hanging/burning someone in effigy doesn't mean the people actually want to do that to the actual person; symbology doesn't equal actual violence. Does everyone that does the finger across the throat need to be arrested for a threat of murder?
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It stops being symbolism when there's a mob actively trying to get at the person in question.
If you do the finger across the throat to someone and then pull out an actual knife and start lunging at them it's no longer symbolism.