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RockRaven

(15,003 posts)
4. Soooo...... How far back does his social media nuttery go? I'm guessing many years.
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 10:32 PM
Oct 2022

That's a very long con.

Tumbulu

(6,292 posts)
10. Rush Limbaugh in the mid '80's
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 12:10 AM
Oct 2022

started it and only us few liberals in rural areas seemed to ring the alarm bells about the destruction of civil discourse and the perennial calls for violence.

Non stop attacks on Nancy Pelosi, Hilary Clinton and any Democratic figure making general appeals to the public.

The hate radio scene is still very alive and well, and there would have been no audience for Fox News had something been done to tamp this violence inducing media down.

There is a poster on DU who points out that many of the stations that broadcast Limbaugh were public Universities who certainly could have and should have imposed some limitations on hate speech and the incitement of violence from their campuses.

I have never understood why the calls for killing people just were ignored.

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iemanja

(53,072 posts)
8. Everything the right does is a false flag
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 11:37 PM
Oct 2022

Maybe if they tried to be human for a change, they wouldn't have to engage in these absurd excuses.

Mariana

(14,861 posts)
11. This is why they'll never actually put on a civil war.
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 03:26 AM
Oct 2022

Every time one of them tries to get it going, the rest of them screech "false flag!1!!" and do nothing.

Emile

(22,925 posts)
12. Heard yesterday on Fox, if democrats were not weak on crime this would have never happened.
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 05:35 AM
Oct 2022

Garland's failure to arrest Trump has emboldened these right-wing lunatics because they think we are weak on enforcing crime.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,870 posts)
13. Us lefties aren't weak on crime. It's just that
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 05:44 AM
Oct 2022

Trump and his awful buddies set loose the flying monkeys and the crime rate skyrocketed. The police can't keep up.

We are having a terrible time here with organized thievery. These gangs are stealing evrything not locked down.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,870 posts)
15. Is there a name for people who are politically wacko?
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 09:27 AM
Oct 2022

It's odd because a lot of them appear perfectly normal on the surface. Most of them live ordinary daytime lives.

If you go into a store here you would never know who was rightwing except for the odd individual who flaunts it.

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