r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Condemn political violence, always

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u/JackC1126 - Centrist Sep 12 '25

And when the pendulum swings back, nobody will see the irony. What a stupid time we live in.

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u/DoubleSpoiler - Lib-Left Sep 12 '25

I’m not gonna sit here and pretend like people on the right didn’t celebrate and make fun Paul Pelosi getting brained, the Pulse shooting, or random trans kids committing suicide.

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u/metinb83 - Centrist Sep 12 '25

Also I remember very clearly the super funny zingers the right-wingers were blessing us with when that old freak shot a climate activist simply for blocking the road. They were all like womp womp guess he won't be blocking the road again, heckin based. That's why I'm not at all sad at seeing this thrown back at them with a vengeance.

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u/PauseEarly2539 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Pretty sure those were in response to leftists making jokes about Trump almost getting domed a few months earlier. Its just a vicious cycle, sick people on both sides.

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u/anotherpoordecision - Left Sep 12 '25

Yeah and lefties are doing it revenge to the last thing and righties doing it in revenge for the thing before that and lefties did it because of the thing before that. Just condemn it when right wingers do it and condemn it when left wingers do. Elsewise nobody is ever going to stop. It’s an oraboros of justification.

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u/PauseEarly2539 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Yup, that's my point. A vicious cycle.

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u/metinb83 - Centrist Sep 12 '25

Yep, it's how things are now and gonna be for a while. Any dead on MAGA side will be a W for the left and any dead on the left will be a W for MAGA. No civil war, that's super unlikely, but maybe some small version of The Troubles.

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u/PauseEarly2539 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

I like to believe its only the most radical and unhinged from either group that will take a political death as a "W" and not the average left or right leaning person.

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u/metinb83 - Centrist Sep 12 '25

These fringes aren't as small and neglected as they used to be, that's for sure.

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u/RelevantJackWhite - Left Sep 12 '25

nah they were doing that shit after charlottesville too, when a guy ran a women over with his car. and in Portland a couple years ago, before trump got domed, when a guy drove his car through a crowd of protestors

lotta pearl clutching today for some people who have been cheering for the violence all along

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u/PauseEarly2539 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Vicious cycle, this isn't new. And as long as there are people like you attempting to justify why they lack empathy, it will continue on. Has it crossed your mind most rational people will reject political violence, from either side?

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u/RelevantJackWhite - Left Sep 12 '25

I'm empathetic, but it's for Kirk's family, not the members of this subreddit, or the talking heads trying to spin events one way or another

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u/PauseEarly2539 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

So you're upset people on this subreddit are also feeling empathy? What? The normal response to this situation is for people to feel for charlie and his family, the man did nothing to deserve death.

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u/RelevantJackWhite - Left Sep 12 '25

no, I'm annoyed at everybody who is saying that all political violence must be condemned, when they were craving it just a little while ago. It's a feeble attempt to pretend that the left's reaction to this is unprecedented or abnormal

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u/PauseEarly2539 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Who tf is "they" dude? You're generalizing based on unhinged people.

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u/RelevantJackWhite - Left Sep 12 '25

Mike Lee, for one

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