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IHaveGreyPoupon OP t1_iv294tz wrote

Some people are going too far, and I fear it could get worse. I worry about physical fights starting over drop boxes, too. As a nation, I believe we need to call out everyone who goes too far so as not to normalize this kind of behavior, and that applies to people of all political persuasions.

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Divio42 t1_iv2aeod wrote

I don't think that you're going to find anyone reasonable that disagrees with the sentiment on its face but it's also important to realize that people are going to capitalize off this trend with bullshit.

They already have.

There was that politician just yesterday or the day before. Articles posted were claiming he was "physically assaulted" when he wasn't touched or they were conspicuously omitting any details about the alleged assailant which may lead the reader to draw false conclusions about their political leanings.

We need to condemn the actual violence but we also need to view every instance we read about with some level of skepticism rather than jumping to conclusions.

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movzx t1_iv394bj wrote

i.e., ghoulliani claiming he was attacked because someone touched his back

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Im_Pronk t1_iv3stma wrote

Why is everyone talking about this recently? It was months ago and suddenly I'm seeing comments everywhere

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O0O00O000O0000O t1_iv6mqv9 wrote

Because that’s America in a nutshell. The powerful use the courts for whatever they want.

We live in a country where poisoning water warrants a $100,000 fine and smoking a handful of weed can get you 20 years.

If you are rich and powerful you can appeal until the end of time. And no media really calls a spade a spade because everything must be alleged, and pro status quo. It’s ridiculous.

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Im_Pronk t1_iv7csjj wrote

What the hell does any of that have to do with people bringing up Guliani claiming he was attacked 6 months after the fact?

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O0O00O000O0000O t1_iv7d613 wrote

Because Americas mayor trying to ruin someone’s life through the court system and almost getting away with it is sadly a theme in todays world. We don’t live in the land of the free we live in an overly litigious bureaucratic hierarchy where you can be ruined for tapping someone on the back and saying what’s up asshole if they’re rich and powerful enough.

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Im_Pronk t1_iv887kk wrote

He didn't almost get away with it. It was tossed immediately. Anyone can sue anyone for anything. Doesn't mean there's a case

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movzx t1_iv84c4i wrote

Are they? I can't say I've really seen anyone talk about it.

I brought it up because it seemed like an incredibly relevant supporting example that most people would be familiar with.

I don't know of a more egregious political example of someone filing assault charges over benign contact. Do you?

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Im_Pronk t1_iv853lc wrote

No, your example is better than perfect. Maybe it was just an odd coincidence that I saw that being brought up so many times. Honestly I never even knew about it until you brought it up.

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DestroyerOfMils t1_iv45ogk wrote

>I don't think that you're going to find anyone reasonable that disagrees

Unfortunately, reasonable people seem to be in a progressively shorter supply as American politics continue to spiral into a worsening shit show by the day.

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black_flag_4ever t1_iv35itx wrote

>In a video provided by a witness, a man can be heard saying, "act like a normal person," a woman later responded, "I am."

Just normal person things.

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drs43821 t1_iv5rz8v wrote

Someone won a bet on Luis Suarez will bite someone in the last world cup, and it was for only 1:175. So pretty normal I guess.

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Chippopotanuse t1_iv24dru wrote

They either really hate each other or really like each other.

What is it a second grade teacher? I think that’s the age where they antagonize people they like.

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personAAA t1_iv2bloz wrote

Political violence is always wrong and never called for. Does not matter the parties.

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fight_your_friends t1_iv2isbt wrote

Does that include the political violence of threatening to force a woman to carry a fetus under penalty of law?

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AnwaAnduril t1_iv2oe9f wrote

Sad that you’re getting downvoted, friend.

Unfortunately, a lot of folks seem to think that political violence is only wrong when committed by people on one particular side.

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AnwaAnduril t1_iv3zrmh wrote

Unfortunately, this is the Democratic way of thinking in 2022.

So the Scalise shooting in 2017 was your way of “checking” it?

This woman biting someone was you “checking” it?

Anti-fascist action, amirite?

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AnwaAnduril t1_iv4cxma wrote

I’ve never seen someone so drunk on Antifa’s propaganda.

So what do you advocate people do, then?

Show up with a semi-automatic rifle to a Congressional baseball game to kill as many Republican congressmen as you can?

Assassinate sitting Supreme Court justices?

Run over unarmed teens with your SUV because they support the Republican party?

These are all things your side has done lately. And it sounds an awful lot like you’re advocating for these actions.

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AuthorSAHunt t1_iv4euen wrote

I don't really care about "Antifa," and don't give a shit what they're doing. Antifa is also not some organized, monolithic group, despite what Fox News tells you. It's simply anyone that doesn't want to be wiped out of existence by the state - or anyone, really - for no reason other than fear and ignorance.

And no, I don't advocate shooting anyone or running anyone over. But when I have to move to another state, or leave the country, because I and my family's existence has been made illegal, what is my recourse? Just go to jail? Just let them take me out back behind the courthouse and put a bullet in my head?

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Invaderk2 t1_iv5m6pn wrote

You have 1 shooting 5 years ago. The guy hitting the teen had nothing to do with politics you just love to cling to whatever bullshit Fox news runs that feeds your narrative lol.

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ascii122 t1_iv2cho0 wrote

Never use the term 'Bite me'. Lesson learned.

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keloyd t1_iv2tl0p wrote

Came in to make a wisecrack about the Republican lady turning into a teacher after getting bit by one...but she IS a teacher.

Bonus points for taking photographic evidence of the injury, that's a grownup move, so that other entitled trash needs the book thrown at her, shouldnt matter how old and White she is. Charge her like a Black male.

/no longer voting Republican
//hv refrained from biting any, so I'm not a hypocrite yet

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AnwaAnduril t1_iv2oguh wrote

All. Political. Violence. Is. Wrong.

Go ahead Reddit, downvote me all you want for saying it.

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Sneaky_Bones t1_iv3c5bx wrote

Will do.

Typical political violence is wrong, maybe most in history is wrong, but you can't be throwing out "universal truths" and not expect to be called out on how bullshit a statement it is. According to your statement the Warsaw Uprising was immoral, Turner's slave revolt was immoral, the American revolution was immoral...

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AnwaAnduril t1_iv3ke92 wrote

Way to jump through hoops to justify attacking people you disagree with, but you do you. Interesting to hear you think this woman biting a Republican had the same moral value as the Warsaw Uprising, though.

Anti-fascist action, amirite?

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bik3ryd34r t1_iv53797 wrote

The way you talk about it the bite was as moral as the holocaust. Its not black or white,, its on a spectrum and as far as things go biting is pretty funny.

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spinereader81 t1_iv6ncjk wrote

A phase most people outgrow by three years old.

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ZY_Qing t1_iv4gfla wrote

Damn, people be biting chair now?

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LostInNonThought t1_iv38c0y wrote

Wasn't Dixon's big horror movie moment biting a guy?

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[deleted] t1_iv2fdk3 wrote

This is obviously wrong, and legal action isn't inappropriate. But the biter is still certainly a better person than Tudor Dixon or the Wayne County GOP chair, by rather a wide margin.

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AnwaAnduril t1_iv2olc0 wrote

And yet, only one of those people has committed an act of political violence.

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CritaCorn t1_iv3cluc wrote

Republican Party said it, they are all terrorist

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Jim_from_GA t1_iv2d08g wrote

Probably caught rabies from one of her students.

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StringerBel-Air t1_iv25cyx wrote

Turns out this litter boxes in schools were actually for the teachers smh.

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