politics

Holy shit, people are still trying that lie? We've known that's a lie for a while:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362083228_A_comparison_of_political_violence_by_left-wing_right-wing_and_Islamist_extremists_in_the_United_States_and_the_world

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/extremism-right-wing-deaths/

Right-wing extremists were just as likely to commit violent acts as those motivated by Islamic extremism, the researchers found. Left-wing extremists were a distant third.

Word.

He is projecting

There should be consequences to blatant lies from the media and our politicians.

I can't find anything in the article that suggests a reporter called out his lies to his face.

We need some real journalists covering these ghouls, not stenographers.

Yes, but that's not going to change the minds of the people he was talking to.

As usual, the lie gets halfway around the world, before the truth has got its boots on.

If the Left perpetrated violence the way the Right says we do, we'd have executed most of their leaders by now.

I'm anti-violence, fwiw. It's one of the reasons I believe we're gonna lose in the longterm. We have fucking morality and ethics to contend with and they just lie and cheat openly and shamelessly.

Abortions are political violence according to the right.

The people listening to him don't give two shits about the truth.

Uh, January 6th? I'm pretty sure the sum total of political violence on that day swamps everything else for years.

Even if heritage was correct and left-wing terrorism was more common, it wouldn't change the fact that left-wing terrorism is often way more moral than right-wing terrorism.

Targetting ultra-wealthy, alt-right or similar organizations in assassinations/kidnappings/robberies is infinitely better than committing ethnically-driven murders and mass shootings.

Um, of course it's wrong. The DHS (correctly) identified the right wing domestic terrorist threat wayyyyy back under Bush.

Naturally, the radical right wing freaked right out over this revelation.

This is the “bloodless revolution” psycho.

If sick burns and pointing out logical fallacies are political violence, he's absolutely right, GOP gets brutalized daily.

They keep lying, and maybe we should make it come true if they want a dictatorship.

I want the left to have the hit the most fascists with milkshakes award.

MAGA is their name. Projection is their game.

Ah yes the extremely violent left which is failing because its always trying to play by the rules and be politically correct while the right does whatever they want.

AP is doing the Heritage Foundation's work with this article.

The unhinged fascists don't need to be right. They don't need to be taken at face value. They don't need anything but publicity, and AP is giving it to them.

Disinformation is a powerful tool, that's all this is. He knows better.

Right-wing extremists were just as likely to commit violent acts as those motivated by Islamic extremism, the researchers found. Left-wing extremists were a distant third.

I can't speak for every leftist, but I don't think anything can really be accomplished through individual, random acts of violence. Then again, I don't really think very much of anything can be accomplished through any means, really. I've come to see hope as futile and change as impossible. But, I do think acts of violence are especially futile. Plus, I don't really want to hurt anyone, even people I don't like very much.

Common misconception. He was actually saying most political violence is committed by people politically to his left, which I think is undoubtedly true.

I fuckin wish

Every time they say it, they add to the 'evidence' of it being true. This is the purpose of the Heritage foundation, who wrote Project 2025.

Remember that word for political violence?

Terrorism.