I posted the following on a different thread, but it is even more relevant here.
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As this thread's title says, Charlie Kirk was shot for his ideas.
As Rush Limbaugh did before him, Charlie Kirk showed that Democrats, and progressive liberals in general, cannot compete in the arena of ideas. Kirk refuted their agendas in every topic and exposed their mendacious intellectual dishonesty and moral bankruptcy publicly every time he sat under that awning. . . .and they killed him rather than talk with him.
So much for the often expressed desire to " . . .have a conversation about . . ." whatever.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
You misuse the term arena. I'd liken it more to a thunderdome for one-sided beliefs since the mantra "Prove *ME* wrong" is not an open debate. It is to measure up to someones preconcieved idea of things.
Firing Line would be more to the point of arena. Everyone was invited and openly posted ideas/thoughts.
Trump is demanding a crackdown on the ‘radical left’. But a new study shows more political violence comes from right-wing extremism.
https://www.the-independent.com/news...-b2828170.html
Originally Posted by royamcr
Roy, the rightie rights are steadfastly being blind to that fact. Guess that is another page from their playbook. Like repeating a lie enough times its true. Ignore a fact/truth enough and it's false.
Liberals just don't entertain hate, racism, and bigotry in any way. Liberals also don't have a cult that goes around and rallies constantly. The cult has to constantly try to sell their extremist ideas to stay somewhat relevant.
Originally Posted by royamcr
They don't do thunderdome. Makes maggies mad that only one person enters. I wonder how many maggies do go on Firing Line?
Seems the DOJ has 'disappeared' their own 2024 study (but it remains on the 'wayback machine'
https://archive.ph/cBfwR
or
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911...stic-terrorism
The report, “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,” was a project of the National Institute of Justice, an agency under DOJ, and based on internet archives, was still available on the DOJ website on September 12 but was gone by September 13.
Originally Posted by RX792P
Just a page from the maggie playbook on covering up anything that puts them in a bad light.
Yes. And disagreement gets you a bullet through the carotid.
They riot, murder, and burn cities down instead.
Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
Not a bullet in the ear? And do such like January 6?
Still wonder why donny pardonned all those Antifa people?...He did, didn't he? That would put him in a catch-22: If they were antifa like he says, why he pardon terrorist? If not, than it is violent maggies.
No win for donny & co.
The only dead people on January 6 were Trump supporters.
Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
Factually correct. ....but....
It's been quite awhile since I posted here but maybe we should get some things straight. The murder of Charlid Kirk was WRONG WRONG WRONG. There is nw legitimate reason for political violence unless you believe in an Authortian regime I grew up with that crap in the sixties with JFK, MLK, and RFK. Just out flat fucking wrong. Now am I sorry this racist, homophobic, hate-filled person is gone? No. I do grieve for his wife and children however. This should NOT have happened and in a proper undevided society it would not have. The MAGA/right wing folks have tried to paint the liberla left as bienin the perpetrators of violience. Welcome to a report from the CATO Institute (NOT you standard liberal organization) regarding where the domestic terrorism comes from. Now the havem lists that include and then exclude 9/11.
https://www.cato.org/blog/politicall...-united-states
Originally Posted by chefnerd
Chef, I know CATO Institute is a HIGHLY factually correct source. Forgot how they lean. Thanks for showing it is another Conservative source. But maggies have incessantly been ignoring anything that puts them in a bad light about the Charlie shooting. They act just like Charlie: "Change my Mind". They don't care about the facts so that won't budge their twisted thinking.
So you are sayig that ALL the Capitol Police casualties were Diaper Don supporters.
Have you ALWAYS been this gullible?
Originally Posted by chefnerd
They are probably saying that Capitol Police lives don't matter when it doesn't support donnys narrative.
So much for the party of law and order. They are blind to it. But they openly invite dicatorial mandates.
I presented this to Democrats here on a silver platter in HoHounds thread and no one took it and ran with it,
https://www.cato.org/blog/politicall...-united-states
It's from the Cato Institute, which is nonpartisan but right leaning. Unlike the Biden Department of Justice which did the 2024 study, nobody can argue it has a pro-Democrat bias.
It would indicate that the right is responsible for several times more political deaths than the left. The larger data set, since 1975, makes Islamic terrorists and the right look worse because of 9/11 and Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing. Still, strip those out and still the right is the bigger culprit, by several times.
HOWEVER, how many deaths are we looking at? Taking away 9/11, only 12 a year since 1975. Since 2020, only 14 deaths per year. This is nothing. Like I said in HoHound's thread, your chances of dying from a lightning strike are greater than dying from political violence.
On the other hand, there are around 20,000 homicides in the USA every year, virtually all unrelated to political violence. How many of those are committed by Republicans versus Democrats?
I don't believe there's a direct way to answer the question. However, a series of papers by Marc Meredith and Michael Morse about 10 years ago show that several times more ex-felons registered to vote as Democrats than Republicans. Can this be extrapolated to murderers? Maybe so and maybe not. But if so, then Democrats commit a lot more murders than Republicans.
So there! Some here say the Democrats are the murderers and some say the Republicans are. You're both right!
Originally Posted by Tiny
Tiny, you see that the maggies are actively trying to change the narrative that all that has happened of late in not their fault. But that only works in their minds. What is there is not in the real world.
This is reality. And the reality is maggies are supporting a person bent on dictatorship by busting the boundaries between goverment branches and is throwing in a good does of anti-secular actions.
... There were NO Capitol police DEAD on 6th January.
... None.
... But there were two dead Trump supporters.
... You must have missed that fact.
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Originally Posted by Salty Again
So, that means their lives don't matter? Even when they were trying to enforce the laws 1/6 and killed a person breaking them? If you can't shoot someone in The House, why doesn't Congress take away the right to defend your home then? It was The Peoples House that the Capital Police were defending.
Since it's 'already been shown', please provide evidence of the 'garbage and lies' in the 'disappeared' DOJ study.
Should be very easy....
Originally Posted by RX792P
That brought a tear to my eye. A maggie being called out to support what they said with facts/evidence.
I ain't gonna wait
Tiny, for some one who admitted that you never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was assassinated and to repost chefnerds hateful crap about him is pretty lame. Chefnerd wants it it both ways and so do you..
Originally Posted by TheDaliLama
Seeing that you are an admitted liar here, That must mean chefnerds words are the god given truth and his as strong as the lords bond with Moses.
Thanks for your reverse logic in upholding what libbys are saying in the maggies eyes.
You mean the ones that show 60-70% of political violence is from the right? That report the DoJ has scrubbed from their website?
Originally Posted by 1blackman1
They are in hyper-overdrive trying to change the narrative.