• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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    3 days ago

    Political violence has been happening for… well, ever. If we’re talking recent history, Trump’s own attorney general chosen FBI Director from his first term testified to Congress after Jan 6 that right-wingers are nearly 2.5x more likely to be the ones doing it. And they have been.

    EDIT: I later remembered that I gave the wrong job title to Christopher Wray. My memory has never been great, and it’s getting worse as I age. sigh

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      4 days ago

      Only 2.5 times more likely?

      I wonder if that is like the “unskewed” polls the Confederates were leaning on…

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Why are so many people so fucking allergic to doing an actual root-cause analysis?

    Orangeboi has been overtly emboldening political violence since he came down that stupid fucking golden escalator in 2015.

    • brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Why are so many people so fucking allergic to doing an actual root-cause analysis?

      1. They are stupid
      2. Facts go against their narrative