During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona spoke about his recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and warned a return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office would be devastating to cities like his.Speaking with co-hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend and Mi...
  • pyre@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 months ago

    hey, just because one side

    • keeps threatening with violence,
    • keeps brandishing weapons as a threat of violence,
    • actually commits violence,
    • fantasizes and talks about secession,
    • is proud of previous attempts of secession and the civil war they lost,
    • actually tried to violently overthrow the government and hang the vice president,
    • supports and celebrates state violence,
    • advocates for more state violence against minorities,

    … doesn’t mean that all of a sudden you can say they want to commit violence, you monster!

    • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      3 months ago

      That’s obviously not what I was saying and not how I was saying it, and you know it.

      Perhaps if you weren’t so locked and loaded to attack anything not tightly fit into your bubble you’d react with reasonable questions and discussion as a response instead of trying to play gotcha nonsense.

      When their entire account persona I was replying to is based around countering MAGA violence with more implied violence while not providing alternative solutions or even ideas, they’re just acting as another side of the same coin of the asshole MAGAs that we rail against.

      Remain calm, the MAGA gravy seals are not as worthy of the panic inducing threat category you fear they are in.