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2019/08/01
A 29-year-old Trump supporter was charged with assault Thursday night for stepping out of his red truck and beating up a 61-year-old protester in downtown Cincinnati outside a Trump rally.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm ... ar-old-man

2019/02/12
A screaming Trump supporter in a red Make America Great Again hat attacked a BBC cameraman during the president’s Monday night rally in El Paso.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-sup ... n-at-rally

2019/07/22
A 24-year-old man who has been charged with shooting to death a reputed New York mob boss earlier this year thought he was under the influence of QAnon, pro-Trump Internet postings about the president supposedly battling a cabal of liberal elites, his lawyer wrote in a recent submission to New York state court.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/74424416 ... n-delusion

2019/07/23
The “MAGA Bomber” who mailed explosives to President Donald Trump’s critics turned violent on a steady diet of Fox News, Trump tweets, and Facebook, his lawyers claim.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-bomb ... calization

2019/08/03
The suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday was widely identified on the internet as a young white man whose social media activity showed support and sympathy for the president’s apparent white nationalist agenda.
https://newsone.com/3883517/el-paso-sho ... k-crusius/

2019/08/08
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4 ... ource=dmfb
The defense attorney for Curt Brockway, the 39-year-old Montana Army veteran who choke-slammed a child for not removing his hat for the national anthem, is now saying that his client was simply following the president’s orders.

2019/10/22
Proud Boys sentenced to four years for attacking Antifa in New York
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu ... ifa-902310

"I love President Trump. I think he's doing a great job,” Turan said. “It’s sad to get beat up for wearing this hat. This is America."

everything wrote:In the same story, Trump claimed AIDS and childhood cancer will be cured soon.

oragami_itto wrote:I'm sorry that's off topic, please start your own thread.

oragami_itto wrote:Well he's gotta make some kind of outrageous promises for the suckers.

Remember last time it was that he was gonna lock up Hillary and that the Mexicans were gonna pay for the wall.

Kinda wore the rubber off of those, and moonbase is already taken so "We're curing AIDS and cancer", for which research he cut funding.

Trick wrote:

oragami_itto wrote:Well he's gotta make some kind of outrageous promises for the suckers.

Remember last time it was that he was gonna lock up Hillary and that the Mexicans were gonna pay for the wall.

Kinda wore the rubber off of those, and moonbase is already taken so "We're curing AIDS and cancer", for which research he cut funding.

That Hillary thing might come true with that Epstein stuff going on now ? It’s a crazy world

oragami_itto wrote:

So by the same token what I'm seeing is behaviors and ideas that can drag minds in the other direction. Starting from a place of compassion and unity perhaps and winding up hating people and wishing harm on them, even wishing to be the perpetrator of that harm. It's a addictive, slippery slope that represents the worst in us. And yes, I'm taking about people on your wing of the political Looney bird, etc. I'm even talking about you particularly, sometimes. I've definitely had the thought that six judiciously applied bullets could make the world a much better place, sure.

BruceP wrote:

oragami_itto wrote:

So by the same token what I'm seeing is behaviors and ideas that can drag minds in the other direction. Starting from a place of compassion and unity perhaps and winding up hating people and wishing harm on them, even wishing to be the perpetrator of that harm. It's a addictive, slippery slope that represents the worst in us. And yes, I'm taking about people on your wing of the political Looney bird, etc. I'm even talking about you particularly, sometimes. I've definitely had the thought that six judiciously applied bullets could make the world a much better place, sure.

Maybe the "right wing nutjobs" also think that judicious violence "could make the world a much better place". Who's right in that thinking? And more importantly, who's...left? All that'd be left are a bunch of violent nutjobs.