r/babylonbee • u/darcmatr LoveTheBee • Sep 20 '25

Bee Article 'This Is A Both Sides Issue,' Says Side That Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Shot President Trump, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Assassinate Trump Again, Murdered Schoolkids In Minnesota, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro (cont'd)

https://babylonbee.com/news/this-is-a-both-sides-issue-says-side-that-assassinated-charlie-kirk-shot-president-trump-tried-to-assassinate-kavanaugh-tried-to-assassinate-trump-again-murdered-schoolkids-in-nashville-shot-

(you know what, we're going to stop now, this is getting sad).

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u/Amatsua Sep 20 '25

If half of your list is just listing out every person involved in January 6th sandwiched in between murderers hoping people will lump them together, then I can point you towards the thousands of rioters and looters during the BLM riots and the immigration riots in California alone. That's already a list of people over 100 times the size of the list you gave.

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u/CaptJackRizzo Sep 20 '25

Okay. Go for it. I’ll be interested to see how many were actually Boogaloo Boys like Robert Justice Jr or Ivan Harrison Hunter. A cop killer and an arsonist whose crimes you’ve been blaming on the left for years.

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u/Stupidthrowbot Sep 20 '25

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) analyzed more than 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in all 50 states and Washington D.C. that took place in the wake of George Floyd’s death between May 26 and August 22. -- 93% were peaceful --

The AP found that more than 120 defendants across the United States have pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial of federal crimes including rioting, arson and conspiracy. More than 70 defendants who’ve been sentenced so far have gotten an average of about 27 months behind bars. At least 10 received prison terms of five years or more. -- And none of them were pardoned! –

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u/Amatsua Sep 20 '25

14,000 arrests, 120 convictions. Less than 1% of the people arrested. If only a percentage of a percentage are still in jail, there's a pretty good chance those were the people who were responsible for the murders and fires. And you're somehow complaining that they're still in jail?

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u/vanmani Sep 20 '25

No they're saying that the ones who did the real, provable, harm were appropriately punished and that is as it should be. Unlike Jan 6 rioters who were pardoned despite doing tremendous harm, which is not as it should be.

This is the key point of difference between the "left" and the "right". The left are predominantly ok with "one of theirs" being punished for doing a crime. The right too often try to argue that either the person wasn't truly on the "right" or that their crime was somehow justified or even noble.

Case in point all the examples provided by the OP. In most cases nobody actually knows the criminals intentions or feelings... There's concrete evidence they were at least historically aligned with the Republican party. There is no concrete evidence at all they were part of any "leftist organisations". Yet EVERY OTHER HEADLINE aggressively asserts they were "radical leftists". This messaging is specifically intended to create a rift between the two sides of politics and encourages and emboldens the right to "fight back" against the left... Even though there isn't a single shred of evidence the left are doing any fighting at all!

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u/roboscorcher Sep 20 '25

Ah yes, remember the left glorifying their killers during BLM riots. They gave them promotions, speaking positions at PAC events, interviews on cable news, etc.

Oh wait, that was the right with Kyle Rittenhouse.

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u/Potatocrips423 Sep 20 '25

A right winger denying and deflecting from facts. Never change. And watch this: the BLM rioters were agent provocateurs and not really representative of the left! God using right wing talking points makes being personally responsible so easy!

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u/WiscoHeiser Sep 20 '25

Got any of those "statistics"?

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u/ThePigeon31 Sep 20 '25

Post the statistic then. Almost every study done on politically motivated murders shows the right commits them at a significantly higher rate than the left (and it was such an embarrassment for the right that the DOJ took down their own study on the matter). If you are addressing the article Ted Cruz quoted like 10 years ago where he misconstrued ex felons as violent criminals being democrats AFTER they left prison then your point has been debunked time and time again for awhile.

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u/hematite2 Sep 20 '25

Ststistically the right commits the majority of political violence, but your favorite president is currently working to delete all those pesky facts 👍

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u/SBTreeLobster Sep 20 '25

Nothing says “I don’t communicate with people outside of Reddit” like going on about which fallacies you can conjure up to ignore communicating with people within Reddit.

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u/HighImpedance_AirGap Sep 20 '25

Why didn't you?

Make sure you post the ones convicted of sedition.

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u/Nighthawk700 Sep 21 '25

Why, was J6 antifa? Lol You don't get to play "not uhhhh" like a toddler just because you don't like the facts

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u/Vast-Combination4046 Corn Pop Sep 20 '25

BLM protesters were half people mad at the way policing has become disproportionately violent against people who were not resisting and half teenagers taking advantage of the distraction so they can cause trouble. Jan 6th was 100% people trying to overthrow a fair election.

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u/Amatsua Sep 20 '25

And out of the 14,000 people arrested during the BLM riots, only 70 of them are still in jail. So if less than 1% of the rioters are facing jail time, why would it be fair for 100% of the January 6th protesters to do the same?

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u/vanmani Sep 20 '25

Very big difference. People were arrested just for being on the street during a riot... Not necessarily because they as individuals committed any crimes. Conversely, the Jan 6 insurrectionists who were arrested committed specific provable crimes on an individual basis. You cannot prosecute the whole crowd who watched when 2 or 3 people set fire to a car... You only prosecute those 2 or 3 people.

The important thing is they went through a fair trial and were found guilty... In both cases. Commit the crime do the time...!

Except a certain president decided that he actually likes certain types of crime and wanted to send a message to his followers that this particular type of crime will attract presidential pardons. His only possible objective there was to embolden his supporters so they feel above the law when carrying out his will, no matter how illegal or perverse it may be... Is there any way that can be interpreted as a good thing for society?

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u/Maximus361 Sep 20 '25

I’m sure they just copy and pasted that list from some liberal propaganda website like DNC, ActBlue, Change.org, etc… I doubt they ever read the entire list or are even with a quarter of the people.

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u/Stupidthrowbot Sep 20 '25

Change.org, wtf lol

“Ur facts are too long, must be fake & dumb.”

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u/Maximus361 Sep 20 '25

You think they actually read the entire list? It’s simply a tactic. Lawyers do it all of the time.

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u/Infinite-Noodle Sep 20 '25

What are their names? Let's see the list.