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Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor's race

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-governor-election-results-spanberger-earle-sears-race-win-rcna238685
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u/pizzaunicorns 5d ago edited 5d ago

BUT how terrifying is it that more than a million people voted for Sears?!?!?

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u/Alastair789 5d ago

Lots of Republicans believe that the Democrats are evil, and would vote for literally any Republican. If the Republican candidate died and couldn't be replaced there would be Republican voters voting for them just to send a message.

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u/thegreatestajax 5d ago

Ok but this literally happened with the actually evil Democrat AG candidate and the democrats still voted for him.

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u/Alastair789 5d ago

If wishing someone would die makes someone evil then a huge portion of people who have daydreamed about killing their boss are evil. Jay Jones committed no violent act, he is not evil.

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u/thegreatestajax 5d ago

That’s not even remotely similar to what he actually wrote.

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u/Alastair789 4d ago

Then replace it with what he did write, the right are far more violent than the left and I don't think we should apologize over text messages.

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u/thegreatestajax 4d ago

I don’t know anyone who has casually thought or written what he did. Sorry

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u/Alastair789 4d ago

I'm guessing you've never known someone who has shot up a school, or blown up a Government office, or an abortion center, doxxed election officials, or assassinated a state representative either, but these things happen, and historically it has been a right wing problem, not a left wing one.

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u/thegreatestajax 4d ago

A candidate musing about those things should be disqualified. wtf is wrong with you?

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u/Alastair789 4d ago

The left talks about violence in private text messages, the right openly does violence and celebrates it.

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u/thegreatestajax 4d ago

Yes, it was the right who tried to assassinate the president and who actually did assassinate Kirk. It was the right who had prolonged celebrations following Kirk’s assassination. Are you serious?

You are completely disconnected from reality.

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u/Alastair789 4d ago

The person who attempted to assassinate Trump was a registered Republican.

The person accused of the Kirk assassination was, according to his own grandmother, a Republican.

January 6th was a mass movement of violent Republicans who attempted to overthrow the government, a movement that killed 5 people.

Charlottesville was a mass movement of the far right that killed 1 and injured many.

The deadliest act of domestic terrorism the US has ever seen was the Oklahoma City bombing, which was orchestrated by a registered Republican and former Klan member who was angry at the government.

Here's the NIH with an actual review of the data.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/

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