Is Right Wing Extremism a threat to the U.S.?

@CountScrofula News flash. Not everyone sees the world the same as you. Time to learn empathy.

@SumKindaMunster Yeah my 'empathy' tells me that if you don't think the Buffalo shooting was a right wing terror attack, you're more interested in protecting your political identity than you are in human lives.

@SumKindaMunster I’m sorry are you suggesting that anyone needs to have empathy for people who think it’s ok to shoot other people because of their race?

@summersong Of course not. But I don't agree with Count Chocula's ridiculous screeds either. He needs to settle the fuck down and accept that not everyone believes the same thing he does.

@CountScrofula I never said, nor implied any of those things.

Are you capable of having a rational discussion about politics without losing your shit and stomping away?

If so, I haven't seen it yet.

@SumKindaMunster I don’t think it has anything to do with accepting that people have different beliefs. It’s about holding the right wing responsible for dangerous rhetoric that is inciting violence. I get that the right has been so successful because of the ability to maintain a united front but at some point doing so becomes reckless

@summersong I'm [i]specifically[/i] refuting this statement:

[quote]Anyone who disagrees with this thinks the Buffalo shooting was a great moment for the protection of the white race. Full stop. How the fuck do you see that and not realize this is a problem.[/quote]

However, I do take exception to this from you:

[quote]It’s about holding the right wing responsible for dangerous rhetoric that is inciting violence.[/quote]

I think it's about holding anyone responsible for committing acts of violence. Not what they say.

Who decides what is "dangerous rhetoric"? You? The people that you support politically?

@CountScrofula The media is attempting to brand the Buffalo mass shooter as a "mainstream Republican" when he literally called himself an authoritarian leftist who was "deep into communist ideology" from a young age. So, there's that.

@CountScrofula They literally can't condemn this attack because one of their own did it. So condemning it means giving "points" to the left.

@Budwick This is Count's point EXACTLY:

[quote]The media is attempting to brand the Buffalo mass shooter as a "mainstream Republican" when he literally called himself an authoritarian leftist who was "deep into communist ideology" from a young age. So, there's that.[/quote]

You will believe anything you read, however ridiculous as long as it suits your ideology. Blame it on the left, accusing the media of straw-manning and ignoring all actual arguments. This is cowardly and pathetic.

He was a white supremacist and a right-wing ethnic-nationalist who was a fan of Tucker Carlsson. He's a slightly more far-gone member of team Budjack.

@Budwick lmao yeah and whatever media you learned that shit from is so reliable.

He was one of yours. Just like Antoine Bisonnette, Dylan Roof, Brandon Tarrant, Robert Bowers, I can go on.

All of them were watching the same media you do, sharing the same memes, and talking about how white pepople are under attack by minorities.

The Buffalo shooting was some crazy kid not the government.

@Burnley123 did you not read the manifesto?