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Jarqui

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37. My reaction is

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 12:27 PM

Yesterday

"what are these people thinking? Charlie Kirk is their MLK ???"

It is like we're living in a bizarre world: equating a hater who accepts some killing by guns as a acceptable price for 'his freedom' to someone who was about stressing love and peaceful, non-violent solutions to achieve racial equality (among other things)

Their premise to equate the two strikes me as delusional or insane - oblivious to the facts.
A properly function media would expose Charlie Kirk, dead or alive, for what he was and scold them for attempting to equate the two while pointing out all the Democrats who suffered political violence without the right acknowledging anything beyond "thoughts and prayers"

George Wallace got shot and paralyzed which was a terrible thing but the country and its media didn't lose sight of what he stood for.

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Alan Berg, talk show host, was shot to death. Guess the perpetrator's politics in this and 8 other attacks on Democrats [View all] Doodley Monday OP

Maybe we are too silent. yardwork Monday #1

Agreed. Look at how frequent attacks are since Trump came on the scene. Doodley Monday #2

We try to change things thru legislation Karma13612 Monday #3

Another who agrees with you. mwmisses4289 Monday #4

Agree. Let the new guard Dems take over. ananda Monday #5

Maybe? Heidi Monday #8

Yeah, one would think so. hadEnuf Monday #13

Right wing billionaires own and control our news. Initech Monday #17

They control certain news. OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #23

Agreed 100% Doodley Yesterday #25

It's not that. The problem is the race issue JI7 Monday #18

There is a lot of faux moral outrage on the right, blaming the wrong people, but on the left there is a lack of Doodley Yesterday #26

Maybe those with podiums and microphones in front of them yellow dahlia Monday #20

link? G_j Monday #6

K & R malaise Monday #7

Kick dalton99a Monday #9

Takes one to know one, donald. calimary Monday #12

So, by MAGA logic, Trump should be deported. Doodley Yesterday #27

To a certain extent, picking the victim influences the perpetrator EdmondDantes_ Monday #10

During BLM protests, it was the Boogaloo Boise who burned yellow dahlia Monday #21

I don't generally believe in instagators as a large source without evidence EdmondDantes_ Monday #22

As for example, applied to Tesla Dealerships victimized by a "mysterious other"? Torchlight Yesterday #39

Exactly. It is in the nature of angry gun-loving, racists, bigots, and religious supremacists to have a higher Doodley Yesterday #29

So obvious, right? yellow dahlia Yesterday #38

At least 75% of political attacks are carried out by right-leaning perpetrators. This list shows that Doodley Yesterday #28

Thank you . Saving this. surfered Monday #11

You are welcome. It is a good reference if encountering somebody who tries to label Democrats as the cause of Doodley Yesterday #30

I remember the Alan Berg shooting. LeftInTX Monday #14

We are always drowned out. GOP lies always win over Dem truths. I don't know how that can change. Doodley Yesterday #31

But ... but ... but ... it's TOO SOON to talk about gun control! FakeNoose Monday #15

Good point. Doodley Yesterday #32

Thanks for the top post Jarqui Monday #16

And now rhe right are effectively trying to create the narrative that they have their own MLK moment. Doodley Yesterday #34

My reaction is Jarqui Yesterday #37

The person who killed MLK was a crazy, hateful white supremacist ... FakeNoose Yesterday #40

Anthrax was sent to Dem Senators and the "'Lef-ewing" media. nt Festivito Monday #19

Good point. And yet the nation is being told that Democrats are the cause of political violence. Doodley Yesterday #35

Let's not forget the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Crunchy Frog Yesterday #24

Excellent point! Doodley Yesterday #33

And yet they turned that around a blamed it on Clinton for the raid in Waco.... LeftInTX Yesterday #36