• SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It was right before Kirk died, wasn’t it? And Republicans didn’t say shit, except maybe making fun of it. Then Kirk died and it was like we lost Jesus, suddenly political violence is horrible (even though he’s not politician), and the extreme left is out of control (even though it doesn’t seem like he was shot by a leftist?).

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          That’s the perfect description lol.

          Maybe I should listen to them because sometimes these great gems come out of it. The problem is I have to get through an hour of the gamble of sometimes interesting news coverage and funny jokes, sometimes uninteresting news coverage and cringe jokes lol.

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        He wasn’t shot by Robinson. He died suddenly after trying to talk Trump out of war with Iran and refusing a nine-figure contribution/bribe from Netanyahu himself. You’ll notice that Israel always has the most deeply unsympathetic patsies they use to blame-shift their despicable acts. They say Hamas deserved it, and it’s pretty hard to feel sympathy with them. I have a Mauser and there is no way you can disassemble it without a half hour and a workbench. Robinson will be acquitted or more likely a Jack Ruby (Rubenstein) will step up to silence him like they did to Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist at the height of the Red Scare.

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          There’s a strong case to be made J6 was an FBI op as well. Usually you can tell who’s a fed because they are the only competent ones. Federal informant after federal informant turns out to be the head of security for the “hate everyone” group. Far right fulfill every negative stereotype, so many are just plain dumb and couldn’t organize a community garden, much less a coup.

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        That was an FBI op. They set up their own terrorist attacks, usually they recruit mentally challenged people because it’s easier to talk them into doing illegal things. Muslims especially.

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        It’s interesting that I don’t remember any of them being this high-profile in the media.

        Or is this another train derailment/warehouse fire situation where Trump assassination attempts are more popular so they show up more in the news?

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          I think it’s because trump notoriously fires people he thinks are ugly (big fucking lol) so the others just had better teams that didn’t let the assassins get as close as trump routinely does.

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              To be fair, he fired up Bolton because of poor political reflex of Bolton who didn’t flip his position fast enough in 2019, and then instead of getting silently back into the fold he thrown up a personal tantrum and even wrote a book where he described Trump as not only being less warmongering than most of Rep establishment (unforgivable sin) but also having very suspicious skills like basic ability to recognize Pacific Ocean on the map. So it turned personal.

              Also, to be fair for Bolton mustache, while it is indeed a crime against facial hair, his face without it is not only even creepier, but he look kinda like the democrat hexbear emoji.

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      Oh, wow. That’s the one Sarah Palin posted a photo of her with a crosshair and sure enough, a Tea Party member showed up and gunned her down. Remember when Sarah Palin was the biggest idiot in American politics?

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      JFK was assassinated after introducing United States Notes to replace Federal Reserve Notes. He was also firmly against Israel getting nuclear weapons. LBJ quickly dropped both of these. Just wait until they eliminate paper money altogether and your Alipay won’t work more than 15 minutes from your registered residence.

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    I actually agree with your thesis, that portraying the opposition as an existential and real threat to everything you hold dear creates an environment where stochastic violence is inevitable. At least, I think that’s your thesis.

    However, your article ignores all the violence against Democrats, of which, there is plenty. It also ignores the fact that the Republican ideologue industry is rife with decades of people claiming the same against Democrats, often using even stronger language. Democrats are literally described as “demons” and such.

    This puts your thesis at a crossroads of contradiction: Either you are admitting that Democrats are also targeted due to the same rhetoric or that they are not. Well, if they are, then the whole vibe of your title is off. Democrats ARE targeted, too. Or, they are not and your thesis on the mechanism on why Republicans are always targeted instead of Democrats must be false.

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    This is literally incoherent lol:

    This is why assassins go after Republican presidents. They are an existential threat to the Democratic Party, and Trump is the tip of the spear.

    Brother, you made 0 points. What is this? Fucking embarrassing.

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      You should study until it becomes coherent.
      A lot of these people are reachable and it a is a huge failing to block and refuse to talk to them. I myself for the longest time had no idea what Marx said because the people who talked about his teachings were so off-putting. Often deliberately so. It’s like being a southern Baptist and getting people to follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth by being gigantic assholes and thoroughly enjoying it.

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        If you were debating a flat earther would you try to find the coherence of their arguments? There’s nothing worth trying to understand here, it’s just drivel about a cherry picked list. Call the author a genocidal pedophile and move on.

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          That’s what I used to think about Marx. It’s tons of fun to poke holes in them and make them argue against themselves. You start with their premises and prove them wrong, with their premises. “Know thy enemy.” – Sun Tzu

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            You did not think Marx was incoherent due to reading the Marxist arguments, but the vibes of the liberal zeitgeist. This is a different situation, since we’re analyzing the actual arguments and finding no substance.

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              Pretend they have substance. Use your theory of mind.
              Put yourself in another person’s shoes and argue their points. Do it better than them.
              Attorneys do it all the time.

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                Preaching political ideology to the lumpenproletariat is like teaching particle physics to a particle.

                You go ahead and waste your time with that. And while you’re at it keep proclaiming how the Marx (did you mean Leftists?) are mean to you like that’s an actual problem anybody should care about.

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              You don’t get it: you start with heir premises, then prove how they’re wrong, using their premises. It’s incredible! You get them arguing against themselves then prove what they just did. They get angry, then you make memes about them getting angry.