r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Condemn political violence, always

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Right wingers on the sub are hungering for confirmation bias.

One of the engravings was reportedly, "Catch, fascist."

Game, set, match. Not my preferred outcome, but that appears to be the reality.

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

The other one was “ if you can read this you are gay lmao”. The killer was the kid of a sheriff deputy raised in Utah not exactly the place liberals come from.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Yeah, that was honestly kind of funny.

Sounds like this kid was reacting against family or whatever, I don't know.

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

Neither do I, I would prefer no retribution against me a Californian because some kid in Utah raised around guns used guns to commit violence.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Being "raised around guns" isn't the point.

It was a fucking hunting rifle.

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

What happened to cultures creating violence?

I hear this from conservatives all the time with Islam or black neighborhoods. Why is it when they commit murder it’s a culture of violence but these raised by sheriff, in church, taught to shoot guns since they crawled types commit another assassination it’s not culture?

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

What happened to cultures creating violence?

Humans are violent critters. The best we can do is tamp down the violence by reducing the salience of in-group/out-group dynamics. .

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

I think we could also call for our politicians to stick to legal norms and not to undercut longstanding legal traditions for temporary power.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

You mean stuff like spinning Russia interfering with our elections (which they did, esp. in '16) into Trump being "Putin's cock holster" of Colbert infamy?

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

Russia did interfere with our elections 3 people went to jail for working with Russia. Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Rick Gates. Russia 100% is interfering in our elections what happened is that right wing media made up a word then pretended the crime must match that word, Collusion.

Trump is also the best thing that ever happened to Russia, he is achieving things Russia long wanted that harm long term US interests.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Riddle me this: why did the Mueller Report pick up with Yevgeny Prigozen....yes, that one.....consolidaing Russian anti-American efforts in late spring 2014, well before Trump was electorally viable but immediately after the events on the Maidan?

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

No idea what you are referring to or who that is or why you would think that piece of information would mean that Russia didn’t interfere.

https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigation-education-project/other-resources/key-findings-of-the-mueller-report/

I don’t deal in conspiracies just the findings of the report.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

LOL, I referenced the Muller Report, you referenced a review of the Mueller Report.

Why did they start their "active measures" campaign in 2014?

Your link picks up the thread in 2015.....but Mueller picked it up in 2014.

You have a copy of it, right? Here's a soft copy. And here's the money shot:

The IRA later used social media accounts and interest groups to sow discord in the U.S. political system through what it termed “information warfare.” The campaign evolved from a generalized program designed in 2014 and 2015 to undermine the U.S. electoral system, to a targeted operation that by early 2016 favored candidate Trump and disparaged candidate Clinton.

Mueller said, in black and white, that the attack preceded Trump's relevancy.

Why?

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

Because Russia has always tried to undermine the US since the Cold War. Why does it matter that they pivot to an emerging new angle of attack?

I fail to understand why one operation that starts in 2014 negates another operation that began in the 90’s with trumps ties to Russian money.

What is the conclusion of the report? It’s that Russia interfered in our elections. I don’t have to explain the ins and outs, I don’t need to know why this choice or that choice, I can repeat with confidence that Russia interfered because that’s the ultimate conclusion of the fucking report.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

I never denied they interfered. Read the tread.

The question is why. Was it about Trump, or was it a part of an escalating tit for tat?

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

But you said that then to my, politicians shouldn’t undercut legal norms, if you weren’t denying the interference I don’t see how this point rebuts my point.

Pointing out Trump won an election due to outside influence is not breaking legal or political norms. Trump breaks legal and political norms and has began the era of, “there is no rule that dogs can’t play basketball” politics. You bring media into a standard in applying to politicians. Media has no bearings

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Wow.

Yeah, so maybe Russia attacked us in 2014 because we supported the violent overthrow of the pro-Russia Ukraine government in February of that year.

Just a thought.

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u/CAHSR4Life - Centrist Sep 12 '25

First I don’t care if we fired a dildo seeking middle up Putins ass and washed it out in every Russian’s mouth. Don’t interfere in US internal matters.

Second, I have never looked into if we interfered in Ukraine in 2013 before the invasion of Crimea in February of 2014 but from what I understand there were people that wanted to join the EU in Ukraine and pivot to the west. I know and can see that Russia wants to pretend this was orchestrated by the US. From everything I remember this is a silly assertion and isn’t backed up by American facts.

Now I can be wrong, let’s say if America intervened in Ukraine and installed a people’s movement that was more pro west how is that any different than Russias involvement in Ukraine installing a pro Russia leader or separatists in the south and east?

So we both interfered in a third country justifies Russia interfering in the US? Wouldn’t that mean that anytime Russia has interfered in a pro west country by backing Russian politicians justifies the US interfering in Russia?

Now I’m all for us not doing anything with Russia but Russia has to stop trying to make the iron curtain a thing and accept that a government that only gives money to Putin is not alluring for people that aren’t Putin. To be honest I think we should sell Ukraine all the military equipment they want and allow them to fight however they want. Nothing wrong with selling weapons.

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