This is harshing my mellow

[Cosmic Wonder]

www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208373493/political-violence-democracy-2024-presidential-election-extremism

Mike

[Dub]

Currently one-third of Republicans support violence as a means to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats, the survey found. More specifically, Republicans who have favorable views of Trump were found to be "nearly three times as likely as Republicans who have unfavorable views of Trump" to support political violence.

[theevan]

*digging in my closet for my arsenal of weaponry to aid me in the cause*

*oops, coming up with nothing*

[majorminor]

Eh. Everything metal in Louisiana just rusts away anyhow.

[millring]

Oct 25, 2023 8:42:50 GMT -5 Dub said:

Currently one-third of Republicans support violence as a means to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats, the survey found. More specifically, Republicans who have favorable views of Trump were found to be "nearly three times as likely as Republicans who have unfavorable views of Trump" to support political violence.

I call nonsense. Probably poor definitions and leading questions if there was in fact a poll at all.. Democrats (and NPR) at the very least justified and often cheered Black Lives Matter riots (and still do). Ditto Palestinians. I don't know any similar Republican positive responses to rioting -- including the January 6 nonsense.

[John B]

If you're picking a date in July, please make it the 4th or the 14th. And there are plenty of sitting House members on the R side who think nothing happened on January 6th, 2021.

[millring]

Oct 25, 2023 17:55:20 GMT -5 John B said:

If you're picking a date in July, please make it the 4th or the 14th. And there are plenty of sitting House members on the R side who think nothing happened on January 6th, 2021.

I wish I could claim that my phone autofilled the J to July instead of January, but I'm at my computer.

And nobody thinks nothing happened on January 6th. They just don't interpret it the same way and they don't justify the violence. At least, nobody I've ever heard. The same press that stood in front of burning cityscapes describing "mostly peaceful protests" is the very same press that publicly prosecuted the January 6th riots.