In ‘mirror world’, Trump is martyr and Biden is autocrat, as calls for violence erupt on internet after ex-president’s conviction

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713638

““If we jail Trump, get rid of Maga, end the electoral college, ban voter ID, censor free speech, we’ll save democracy,” says one meme in a QAnon channel on Telegram that depicts Biden in a Nazi uniform with a Hitler mustache”

Apparently they at least understand their opponent’s view .

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    1 month ago

    And if it always has been, than why were the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, all violence free? Why was there heated debate between the two sides, but not violence? What’s changed now?

    This is the most straight white comment ever. Most of those decades still had lynchings. And why are you ignoring the '60s while looking back at our history? Seems like you don’t want to look at that decade specifically. The reality is that conservatives have been murdering liberals for as long as this country has been around. Even people as conservative as West Virginia coal diggers were massacred by conservatives using police and the pinkertons for being just liberal enough to believe in getting paid fairly.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      It takes some extreme cognitive dissonance to look at the 80’s and 90’s and declare them “violence free”.

      We’re at a 50-year low for violent crime right now. Politically-motivated violence is surging though. And what side of the aisle is committing the most politically-motivated violence? It’s the right. Every time, without exception, the right is the side pushing violence.