Do you think the attacks on politicians are partially due to the media?

@cycleman Stay up there. Your country is degenerating which makes your opinion of us even more worthless

@fanuc2013 Please provide the quotes from Maddow, Lemon, and the others calling for violence or saying things that their fans acted on the way Jones' fans did.

Waters made one statement about "confronting" conservatives, and some guy yelled at Mitch McConnell while he was having dinner in a restaurant. You're like the guy whose friend tells you he has cancer, and your response is that you know how he feels because you have a hangnail. Right wing violence and contempt for our democratic processes is far greater and more extensive than a few left wingers making ambiguous statements that make you uncomfortable.

@cycleman And no hatred comes from CNN, MSNBC ABC, NBC, CBS , THE VIEW ect ? They're the mainstream media

@Rizzle420 LOL...and at the bottom of the gene pool, there you are!

@BizSuitStacy not enough to win an election tho it seems....ahahahahaha...also your point is incorrect and stupid

@Rizzle420 wow...it only took you 3 months to come up with that incoherent response. Seems you're making real progress.

@OggggO you really are a well spoken dude and i like your discord.

@OggggO Very wise words!

@DiegoWolfe All that will do is inconvenience me unless there's a national boycott where my participation will actually make a difference. That being said, I've stopped using Facebook, not for political reasons but because the site went into the toilet over the past few years and no longer works the way I want it to. Twitter has always been a garbage site and with Musk in charge it will either get worse or become irrelevant. I haven't had cable TV for years, so I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox, or any of the other mainstream media sites. I guess if enough people feel that way, eventually those sources will disappear and be replaced by even more impregnable echo chambers.

I wish there was a social media site where I could keep up with what people I've known throughout my life are doing, and have conversations with them the way Facebook was ten years ago. Unfortunately, no site like that exists and never will again.

@LeopoldBloom so what you are actually saying is you want a echo chamber of your own then

@DiegoWolfe No, I want a social media site where I can keep up with what the people I've met throughout my life are doing. It has nothing to do with politics. Many of the people who I attended high school with are conservatives. The way Facebook is now is an echo chamber, as it prioritizes posts from people I engage with, who tend to be liberal. The more I engage with them, the more I see, and it's just a self-perpetuating feedback loop.

What I want are uncurated chronologically ordered posts the way Facebook was ten years ago. The problem is that even if Facebook changed back to that, the people are gone, and they aren't going to join any new site. So what I want is impossible to have.

@justanothername I rest my case! Another source of inflammation and division! It's ok to disagree, but disagree with respect! Name calling and insults are for little kids on the playground!

@fanuc2013 oooh I’m sooo sorry dud I just piss off a Republican when I called Trump a jerk off in chief?

That’s so unfortunate BWAHAHAHA

@fanuc2013 when the person or persons I'm disagreeing with are people that are worthy of any kind of respect then I will do so but Donald Trump and anybody who believes in him do not deserve that consideration... they deserve no more respect than a murderer or rapist...yes, i do mean that... he and his followers degrade our civilization and put it in danger

@FloorGenAdm All of them were attacked on 1/6.

@LeopoldBloom 🤔

@FloorGenAdm How do you distinguish between a "somebody" politician and a "somebody-nobody" politician?

@pdockal So if someone attacks Trump, you’ll say he deserved it?

@fanuc2013 unfortunately others just want to continue having turmoil and are so immature and juvinile that they can't see it

@someonefromsomewhere1 if you have a question, ask it on a post in your page

@pdockal Honestly your responses should be more connected. You have been here since day one. You probably babbled on EP

@pdockal
Ruined your last chance.
Bye babe. 😘

@lovelywarpedlemon And what will eliminate these problems?

@LeopoldBloom well they have to do something for certain people at times dont they for votes. Stop being naive

@Torsten If the Republicans win a House majority, we'll see plenty of performance art for that very reason. They won't be able to pass any legislation, so they are planning to impeach Biden at least five times and will form committees to "investigate" things like high gas prices and the Afghanistan withdrawal. We can also expect crap like proposing a total nationwide ban on abortion, laws against blasphemy, outlawing Critical Race Theory, and making it illegal for teachers to mention slavery, Native Americans, or acknowledge that LGBT people exist. This is just for the benefit of the base as all of that will just die in the Senate.

@Slade Ba dum, tissss!

@Slade
Considering how the left has been endorsing, promoting, instigating, and committing violence then getting away with it carte blanche, this incident is but a tiny reflection of what they encourage themselves and so a fine example of poetic justice - the 'I told you so' version.