[alt text: a text-and-image tweet by @NotHoodlum on Twitter. The tweet shows a picture of U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. The text of the tweet says: “Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.”]

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    2 days ago

    I’d like to think this would be taken as a wake up call but I believe she’s too fucking dumb to even entertain the notion that she has been a shit-heel Nazi Pedo sympathizer this whole time. Fuck her and the stupid magic daddy wizard she prays to.

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      2 days ago

      I’m beginning to think that Greene is smarter than we take her for. I think she knows what she has done but just doesn’t care. She’s pivoting to remain in power

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        Is that really it? Lol they turn on each other quickly. I hope they keep going. Destroy themselves from within would be a nice way to end 2025

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        She’s not supporting Palestinians, she’s opposing Jewdom. She’s an ACTUAL antisemite who equates Israel with all Jews and vice versa, not a decent person who opposes genocide.

        The reason why that’s important even if her resulting actions are the same is that she’s NOT our ally and the moment we forget it, we lend unearned credence to the ridiculous “anti zionism equals antisemitism” lie that the apologists love so much.

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          For anyone who doesn’t know, she legitimately said that jewish space lasers were the cause of wildfires in California. She is an out-and-out “The jews are secretly running the entire world from the shadows” antisemite.

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    2 days ago

    Political violence is and always has been an issue in the US. Framing this as a partisan issue is disingenuous and unhelpful. I say this as a friendly northern neighbour. I’m worried about you friends

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        1 day ago

        What am I missing here? Not only is the tweet a easily fact checkable lie (Marjorie Taylor Greene had security before these recent threats against her) but saying that there isn’t political violence on both sides completely ignores the fact that trump was literally shot last year.

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          21 hours ago

          The guy that “shot” him in 2024 was a Republican. Not sure how that makes this a “both sides” thing.

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            19 hours ago

            This sounds like no true Scotsman logic. But irregardless, there are examples of folks who were associated with the Democratic Party conducting political violence, for instance Ryan Wesley Routh. I’m not arguing that there is the same level of political violence of both sides but framing political violence as a partisan issue is not helpful.

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              18 hours ago

              Dude. No.

              The idiot that committed the political violence that you tried to hold up as a “BoTh SidEs” was on the same side as the idiot he tried to kill.

              90+% of the political violence in this country has been committed by the same party.

              Whatever you think you’re trying to do is only helping the fascist idiots.

              ETA: also, “No true Scotsman” is a MASSIVE stretch for this. Again, statistically violence is almost entirely owned by the Republican party. You’re 100% trying to “both-sides” this.

              Actually, second edit: The fact that you completely shifted you goalposts after I pointed out that it wasn’t the left that tried to assassinate Trump tells me everything I need to know about you. That was your whole point - and it’s completely false.

              • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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                18 hours ago

                That’s still a no true Scotsman argument. But sure, let’s pretend that the trump shooter was a hardcore republican, it doesn’t change the fact that political violence is still being perpetrated against individuals on both sides.

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                  18 hours ago

                  Informing you that a right wing idiot tried to assassinate an ultra-right wing idiot isn’t a “no true scotsman” argument. You keep pointing to right-wing violence as evidence of left-wing violence.