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Since apparently this right-wingers on this hellsite have either forgotten that right-wing terrorism is a thing that still occurs to this day, or they willfully choose to ignore that fact, I chose to provide a little reference sheet so-to-speak.  You know, of right-wing terrorism, of right-wing suppression of free speech, of vapid, inane, and violent bullshit spouted as they try to say “The Left is crazy” with shit like this:

1. Islamic terrorism is right-wing Conservative Terrorism

This really, really isn’t up for debate.  Any actual look at what Islamic terrorism is and pushes for will throw this in your face.

It is a terrorist movement to instill traditional, religious values in a society.  it seeks the enforcement of a millenia-old book of morals not because they independently agree with those morals and found something that parrots them (like liberals who find a secular rationale to agree with Jesus), but rather “Because Allah said so.”

All of the Islamic terrorism in the world, ISIL and Al-Qaeda and San Bernadino belong squarely on the right side of the political spectrum.  This is basic political analysis, based largely on strict adherence to political texts and a denial of religious pluralism.

Since I have no doubt somebody is going to shout obscenities at me for “lying about leftist islam”, here are 3 different sources on the politics of Islam.  

(Oh look, here come the Genetic Fallacy believers!)  But let’s entirely rule out a large portion of right-wing violence going forward.

2. Right-Wing Institutions and Colleges deny Left-Wing Speakers just as frequently as Left-Wing institutions deny Right-Wingers.

The simplest way to measure this?  Disinvitation from events and discussions, line panels or commencements or talks.  These are all instances where a person was sought out to come to an event, invited, and then someone along the line took issue with them as people and their political stances.  Them taking issue with these stances then ends the invitation process, and the speaker ultimately gets no-platformed for their political opinion.

Right now, the best people at tracking these (and similar issues on campus) would be F.I.R.E., the Foundation for individual Rights in Education.  Browse through their articles and you’ll find them fantastic.  They’re non-biased and come out strongly against all attempts at censorship in colleges across America, including Berkeley and Harvard both.

They’ve got a full database of all reported disinvitations from colleges across the country.  It lists reported controversial speakers, the college where the controversy occurred, and whether or not the disinvitation attempt was successful.  You’ll find that liberal colleges attempt to disinvite speakers slightly more often, and that conservative colleges are a bit more succesful when they try to disinvite someone.

You know that Milo gets disinvited from colleges and protested, but so does Ana Kasparian fromt TYT.  

So, which is worse, being slightly more likely to try to disinvite someone, or having more power to actually disinvite someone?  Because they’re both making roughly the same amount of attempts.

3. Right-Wingers and Conservatives use violence over words plenty in domestic policies they dislike.  And it’s only getting more common.

Let’s ignore the right-wing Islamic violence for now and just focus on domestic policies. 

Let’s get the elephant out of the room and just state, for the record, the incredible amount of violence associated with the anti-abortion arm of the Right.  This is where I could post a shitload of pictures of burnt-out buildings, exploded cars, dead bodies, but i’ll sum it up in one benign picture from an anti-abortion protest.

In terms of actual statistics, though, here’s the deal.  In 2015 alone there were 3 murders, 9 attempted murders, and 94 death threats significant enough that police got involved and protected people, all tied to anti-abortion movements.

This has been a decades-old problem.  And I immediately know that people are going to say “oh, it’s going down!  From 7 down to 3″ except it’s actually going up again (re: previous citations).  

In addition to all that:

Right-wing domestic terrorism as a whole is going up.  It’s so significant that hundreds and hundreds police departments and law enforcement agencies label it as the #1 perpetrators of political violence.  The various right-wing extremist groups have even infiltrated local law enforcement agencies to the extent that the FBI has, for years, been treating them as potential adversaries.  This isn’t something you can put as some “Obama hates cops” bullshit.  This started under G.W. Bush in 2006.  

Bet you missed it, but right-wing terrorist Glendon Scott Crawford was arrested for trying to make a dirty bomb to kill muslims and liberals.  

A 52-year-old industrial mechanic who was the first person in the U.S. convicted of trying to produce a weapon of mass destruction under a 2004 law intended to stop terrorists from using radiation-dispersing “dirty bombs” was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release.  Glendon Scott Crawford, of Galway in upstate New York, planned to kill Muslims because of their religion as well as other people whose political and social beliefs he disagreed with, U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said.

This was TWO MONTHS AGO

3.5 While republican administrations and governments entirely ignore right-wing extremist violence

Meanwhile, republican President Trump is re-purposing the department that actually would investigate and combat domestic right-wing terrorism into something explicitly focused only on radical Islamic violence.  This is similar to Bush 43, who shrank the entire department in charge of investigating right-wing terrorism to one guy.  This was even in the face of the fact that terrorism threats from foreign states was declining.

4. Fear Mongering about Nazis, and all of its inglory.

I mean, are people seriously trying to say “Leftists try to stir up fear and over-reaction over everything!” as if it’s something new, something unseen before?  Even off the top of my fucking head this is laughable.

1. Leftists are coming to take your guns!!
1. Obama signed federal bills expanding gun rights onto trains and national parks.  In terms of control, what he did was enforce the laws already on the books.  This is the same shit republicans and conservatives say should be done instead of implementing new rules.
2. The NRA has literally called federal agents Nazi thugs in the past for enforcing existing gun control laws.
2. FEMA Concentration Camps are coming!
3. Democrats are going to kill your grandparents!
1. Which is coming back around now that Trump is president.
4. McCarthy.  No source needed.
5. Sharia Law is taking over the country!
1. Here’s a two-fer.  Obama is a secret kenyan muslim,
2. Donald Trump lied and misled people about Obama being foreign-born for political points.

I mean…give me a break. Are you serious?

I don’t need to go in-depth about crazy, radical-leftists.  There are plenty of people who are more than eagerly doing so.  But you can stop being personally affronted and amazed that anyone could be radical and violent, and how “those leftists are dangerous to society.”

Fuck your confirmation bias.

2018 Update

It’s been a while so I decided this needed to update how fucked-up the Right-Wing is right now.  Especially with the news going around today.

5. Current Right-Wing Political Assassination attempts and violence

1. Pipe bombs sent numerous times.
1. George Soros
2. Barack Obama
3. The Clintons
4. CNN
2. Far-Right Terrorism is a significant majority of deaths in the US.
1. There was a dramatic surge in white supremacist violence in 2017.White supremacists and other far-right extremists were responsible for 59% of all extremist-related fatalities in the US in 2017, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism. The ADL’s annual report—“Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017”— found that the number of murders conducted by white supremacists US more than doubled last year, compared to 2016.

6. Right-Wing Politicians Endorsing Political Violence

1. “[Political violence] is a really effective way to solve problems.”
1. Gavin McInnes, who was invited to speak at a Republican Club in Manhattan whose followers proceeded to assault protesters outside.
2. Sean Hannity blames the right-wing political violence on Antifa and says the right-wing violence is justified and retaliatory.
1. “I don’t know anything about them. But there was a hate rally at Republican headquarters in New York City,” Hannity said. “The way the media’s portraying it—I just have no idea because I don’t have it, but, according to the Daily Caller, antifa members actually vandalized the Metropolitan Republican Club in New York ahead of an appearance of this group, Proud Boys, prompting an outbreak of violence there.”
3. The NRA calls for the right-wing arming itself for open violence against the left.
1. Even pro-gun conservatives said it was promoting violence and a shade away from calling for civil war.
4. Representative Steve King openly comes out as a white nationalist, doubles-down, and parrots the 14 words.

1. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” King wrote. “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

5. Trump actively praised a politician who on tape assaulted a reporter, plead guilty to the assault, said it was a good thing to do, and has zero regrets.
6. Jesus Christ, Trump.  Do I actually have to explain this?

My mother…she called me at 10:15 EST as I was walking into work.  I could hear CNN on in the background; she was crying because in the past 48 hours we’ve now had four separate attempted assassinations.  

Against the media just days after Trump deflected from criticizing Saudi Arabia for butchering a Washington Post journalist.  

Against Obama, who Trump spearheaded the birther movement against and continued long after Obama released his birth certificate, which he took credit for.  Against both Clintons.

People have asked me recently, or pointed out, that I seem to be especially short-tempered and combative when dealing with people who are “not as far left as me.”

That’s simply not true.

I’ve lost patience for the people to the right of me who have divorced themselves from reality and facts.  If you want to have an actual discussion I will literally find the wayne’s world “we’re not worthy” gif and thank you for it.

If you think mobs of left-wingers and left-wing terrorism is a real threat to America in 2018, you’re wrong.  If you still think that after you actually look at the research and statistics and literal crime rates, you’re a jackass.  If you still think that after seeing “Intellectual Darkweb”, Mainstream, and elected right-wing politicians openly calling for violence, fuck you.  Full Stop.

If you think that the left-wing wants an “end to Due Process” because they explicitly wanted a deeper investigation into Justice Kavanaugh you have fully and completely given your brain over to propagandists.  That shit isn’t even internally consistent.

If you’re going to sit there and somehow say that the holocaust Surviving anti-communist uber-capitalist Hedge Fund Manager George Soros is somehow a secret nazi-sympathizer globalist socialist revolutionary, when he literally poured $18 billion dollars into fighting for capitalism and democracy, I’m done with you.

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Being a writer is making headcanons for your character only five seconds later realising that they could be canon. Because you’re the author. You have the power to make them do The Thing

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lazy parents hit their children and that’s real shit. Don’t care if you were hit as a kid and that is how you justify it now. Sorry you went through that and sorry you think it’s okay to literally hit an innocent child. Genuinely want nothing to do with people who feel this way. Get help

Also agreed.

Exceptions: my mum once hit me so I’d stop trying to drown my friend

Why were you trying to drown your friend?

I was like 2/3 years old and had no concept of death

Are you better now?

Mostly

Never bob for apples around a Brit.

There are desperate last resort scenarios where you may have to hit a child. However if you use hitting as a punishment for every little thing regardless of context, you’re indeed a lazy parent and your child shouldn’t be around you. 

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So a few weeks before midterms suddenly several identical bombs convieniently show up delivered to prominent liberals, none of which reach their intended target or detonate.

Making excuses for domestic terrorism now? Pathetic.

Bitch where the absolute fuck did I do that? I defy you to find anything even resembling an excuse for domestic terrorism on my blog.

Are you honestly suggesting that the liberals sent them to themselves? For what??? Why would anyone even????

You are kidding right? You don’t see the value in gaining sympathy right before the midterm elections? In scaring the public with stories of “crazy right wing terrorists emboldened by Trump”? Are we living on the same planet right now? May I remind you once again that not one of these bombs went off so it’s not like anyone was actually hurt (as I recall there was at least initially some debate about whether they were even real devices), but the message was definitely sent. And maybe it is totally legit, but I’m definitely raising an eyebrow and it’s ridiculous to pretend there isn’t a single motivation for this to be staged.

They’re timer based as shown in the photos.

That means it may never even reach the designated target UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT WAS A LEGITIMATE ATTEMPT ON THE RECIEVERS LIFE. The timer states either 14 hours or 14 minutes. It’s not disarmed and while it looks like a real bomb, we can’t actually say for certain that it is because we can’t see the internals or the explosive substance within.

Also, it’s a well known fact that most of these people don’t open their own mail. Most of them have secret service protection.

To me, if this was a legitimate attempt on their lives, then it was the result of the worst planning in history. Or an attempt to cripple the mail service.

Otherwise, it was a false flag.

Yes that’s another point I was thinking too. The Obamas, the Clintons, and others still have security detail and any moron knows you can’t just send something directly to them.

I mean you could also asume that the sender was a goddamn moron. I mean just look at his van:

When people have a car plastered with political images, they’re guaranteed to not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

Wow, a van that appears to be brand new plastered completely with pro Trump anti-liberal stickers. That sure does completely resolve possibility of it being a set up by somebody who wants you to think a far right nut did it. Consider my suspicions fully allayed.

Literally no one decorates their car windows with political stickers in completely neat rows with not ONE faded sticker considering Trump’s been president for 2 years. People sloppily slap their political stickers on the bumper & maybe the back window of their car/truck. 

There’s no way this car wouldn’t be cited for obscuring the windows too, btw

False flag. Without question. Every recipient knew they were going to receive a device, and that no one be hurt.

Multiple bomb experts have already called in that the released x-rays of the bombs so no means to detonate and in the case of a acedenintal detonation all of them would of just fizzled out with no explosion do to bad construction and low grade “explosives”. Every thing points to a false flag because even the county the van was found in would of pulled it over day one for blocking the view of the window as it is illegal to put those style of stickers on the glass.

Oh and a retired EOD looking at the X-ray also noted that none of the wiring was connected properly, there was insufficient voltage for any form of igniter, and no igniter present.

That’s a freshly decorated van, all with ALL the windows illegally covered, any cop worth a shit would have pulled that fucker over and ticketed the shit out of it and if not, impounded it for repeated offenses if it was 2 years old, and in that regards to the “”“”“conviently”“”“” covered van with pro-trump cnn-sucks stickers. This shit SCREAMS false flag and magical scape goat.

If the packages had been mailed out to so many different locations, they would never have arrived at the same time. The variability on delivery time would also mean that timer would either run out early and “detonate” in the post office, or not go off until hours or days after the package was delivered.

It would make more sense to have the package detonate on opening… except that then the timer wouldn’t exist, and also at least one of them would have gone off (not hit the intended target, but probably maimed a guard) if they were actual bombs.

Meanwhile, the stamps are unmarked. This not only means that the package never went through the post office, but it was put together by somebody who had no idea how the post office worked, and who had probably never opened their own packages. In short, it was assembled by somebody completely disconnected from the working class and hand delivered to the destination.

And as pointed out above, even if somebody was really driving around in that brand new highly illegal van, the stickers would all display different degrees of fading depending on when they were applied, the manufacturing of the sticker, the kind of ink, etc. Nobody would put all those on at the same time unless they were putting together a particularly clumsy false flag.

Wow I had a feeling this was fake but I didn’t think it was THIS FAKE. I’ve seen children who can lie more convincingly than this. 

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Actually… you’re still the one who is wrong. Which is probably why you put this on anon.

The jaws effect is vastly different from “fiction affects reality”

Because Jaws didn’t make people afraid of sharks. People were already afraid of sharks, and with the limited amount of research and knowledge about sharks at the time, people had thought the movie Jaws was actually real or in any way based in fact. 

If the Jaws effect really was “fiction affects reality”, then people would still be killing sharks despite the vast amount of research and knowledge we have about them compared to now. 

Also, kids they buy those fish because they think they’d be cool pets, usually unaware of that a pet is a lot different than a movie, however, it’s because to kids, having a pet is also good. 

I don’t know how to tell you that if someone murders someone… I highly doubt a horror movie had any actual influence in whether or not they were actually going to murder someone. If you murdered someone… I think you were going to murder someone regardless of the movie. Otherwise, anyone who has seen a horror movie or watches them regularly would be serial killers. 

But because we know killing is wrong… we don’t go out killing people. Seeing someone die in a horror movie doesn’t suddenly make someone thing “Wow! Murder must be okay now because it was in a movie!” 

People are not that idiotic. People who can’t tell the difference between fiction and fantasy are the exception, not the rule

Do I have to dig up the whole ‘slenderman’ issue? God these people are dumb.

Also Japan’s pedophilia issue is another classic chicken and egg scenario that Antis can’t understand. 

They think that lolicon media is the reason why Japan has a child trafficking issue. However what they don’t realize is Japan’s low birth rate lead to children being seen as “exotic” and youth being fetishized, this lead to lolicon being made in the first place. 

THE REAL LIFE PROBLEM CREATED THE MEDIA. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.