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no theyre just afraid of the wrong folks is the problem they SHOULD be afraid.tho; that's required for a functioning democracy

Profiles of young US voters show a low level of trust in government and a high level of ignorance about government function. I've seen profiles showing their attraction to chaos, clowning, mockery. Don't know the solution, but we have to show them why it matters.

tone deaf drivel

MAGA is a fascism movement.

*Shoots self in foot five times* Now that someone tragically shot me in the foot five times, please donate to my GoFundMe for a foot transplant

Romney said lots of GOP Congresspersons and Senators voted against Jan 6 impeachment because of threats to themselves and family by MAGA thugs. From 2024 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Why should politicians have a monopoly on political violence? Because choking people with pollution or starving them with the stroke of a pen is very real violence

Elected officials have lots of people living in fear, but those people are poor and don't count.

First mention of 1/6 was in the seventeenth paragraph. Interesting choice.

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“No shit”—Mike Pence

With a functioning set of laws and DOJ him shrugging about threats against her kids and saying she deserves it would be evidence of prosecutable stochastic terrorism. Of course, that wouldn't apply to Trump, but that's the sign of the brokenness.

I think it was Rick Perlstein who formulated that the modern Republican party has both a parliamentary wing and a paramilitary wing. So, yeah, good times.

Fucking boo hoo

Why is Margie Sporkfoot in this photo? She was gleefully part of the people calling for this until it impacted her, so ZFG for that harpy.

The prospect of Presidential Pardons gives Trump a way to tee-up violence by remote control. Trump's J6 Pardons told his followers that it is open season on his enemies. Presidential Immunity + Pardon Power = Dictatorship Thanks, John Roberts!

Crybullies definitely are the problem. Thanks for pointing this out. Wait, that’s not what they’re saying? Shocking. /s

Including Green who was gleefully on the side of political violence until trump decided she needed to be a target is some bullshit bothsidesing. Also Kirk literally funded the Jan 6 terrorist attack and was killed by a right winger. There is no political violence it is ALL right wing violence.

btwn politicians' eager participation in disinfo leading to violent coup & them experiencing the direct results of those actions. That seems... insane

the answer to all of your questions is: The New York Times platforms and defends Fascists and Avowed Nazis

Had exactly the same thought

oh INTERESTING look at that. I'm glad about them fixing Hortman's name at least.

It also included Trump’s “assassination attempts”

Underrated by who?

What functioning democracy?

This Administration and the Evangelicals supporting them are at war with you. All of you. They will destroy secularism and claim your lives in service to their false religious faith. THAT is where the violence begins, and ends. With those chtisto-fascists...

I guess we'll just have to wonder why this is happening since the article didn't really touch on that little detail. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Oh no, the leopards They are eating my face after I spent a decade plus helping them eat the faces of others This is so unexpected

The threats against Republicans are most often from Republicans who are pissed the person did not kiss Trump's ring or were not far enough right.

The NYT both sides political violence. From Kirk, who didn’t hold elected office and sponsored a field trip to overthrow our government. To Van Orden who is whining people are pissed he’s an un-American piece of shit and sitting member of Congress. Trump is the one who lit this match.

Appreciate gifted articl

what a joke no society in history has ever been failed by an institution more completely than the american people have been failed by the sycophantic stenography drones of our collaborationist court media none of this insanity would be happening without their complicity

2016 called it wants its headline back

I would have written this story differently, but "ho-hum" is confirmation of the problem.

Don’t shill for right wing fucks and it won’t be an issue. Pretty fucking easy.

It only matters to the mainstream press when they can spin it to make the GOP look endangered. Hence the mostly meh reaction when actual Minnesota Democrats were gunned down by a Trumper. Hell they helped spread lies and conspiracy theories. So fuck off with the pearl clutching @nytimes.com

Didn't MTG's team intimidate a primary opponent?

WhO cOuLd Be ReSpOnSiBlE??! Look in the mirror der stormer

Threats from who, though??

We may need more courageous legislators. And we need to pay them a lot more

Ok

Oh bullshit, cops and ICE getting PAID by those shitbags to stalk and harass citizens

I think it also explains, in part, why the media has been hesitant about describing rightwing bullshittery more explicitly and the their addiction to both-siderism.

Gee whiz, mister. If only it weren't perfectly legal to storm the Capitol with explicitly-ordered aims of killing congressmen to overturn the election results on January 6th, 2021. Too bad was entirely appropriate and okay to do. Ah well.

Thank you for the link.

Yeah, the NYT "both sides"ing political violence is definitely a threat to a functioning democracy. Well spotted.

The New York Times, besides omitting Melissa Hortman’s name but obliquely referring to her as a legislator, hasn’t yet posted the OP article on Bluesky. In the 2020 campaign, the NYT considered Biden’s age 11 times more important than Project 2025.  Trump is the oldest man ever inaugurated.

Note that the extremist right wings are the ones who have actually killed people.

Here is the ambient tone set by texts sent from "txt.gop2026": "You're making a huge mistake continuing to ignore us like this. We're asking one last time. Verify your voter profile ASAP> . . ."

"you deserve it" - trump knows what he's doing. if anyone ever thought calling his attacks on people "stochastic terrorism" were hyperbole - it's exactly what he's doing, on purpose.

Sure, if the standard is "enforcing criminal law is violent," every government is violent, regardless of whether you think marijuana should be illegal. But have you seen how violent societies that don't have criminal law are?

Wait, which people?

Do you think mortgage foreclosure is violence?

We don't have a functioning democracy to threaten. Bunch of people who've spent the last 3 years committing genocide upset their actions have real consequences

Cry me a fucking river of corrupt genocidal politician tears.

Cool. A whole lot more real people are being kidnapped, raped, and killed everyday though republican political violence.

The true victims when US politicians murder children overseas, attack other countries, suck up to a genocidal cunt, sign thank you letter to masked murdering cunt mob, is, really, the politicians 😂 I'd like to know if they're getting murdered at a higher rate than other jobs

I see you’ve done shoddy work. Congratulations.

The NYT is such an evil institution that has encouraged this, and they wont even say Melissa Hortman's name.

Guy in hot dog suit dot jpeg situation

Perhaps there is a problem that none of these people can be recalled

Why is there a picture of a guy in a hot dog suit?

The undertow of fascism.

Ya know, I see a lot of instances presently and historically of people using violence to intimidate officials and the populace to enact an extremist ideological project. I just used 140 characters to write that all out. It would be great if we had a word for the NYT to use for that!

NYTimes framing, at least via the headline, of this a a societal shift rather than the effects of a fascist party’s intentional tactics is complicity.

Gift article but it wants my SSN, mother’s maiden name, place of birth, shoe size and Fidelity account numbers. (Couldn’t read it).

Hmmm, who could we look at as a possible reason for why this is getting so bad? 🤔

Meanwhile the rest of us public servants get threats all the time for a decade now; if it’s really Super Serious we might be lucky enough for a policeman to sit around the corner.

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exact same face angle and lighting as what? walz’s suit looks completely normal where it occludes the curtain. these are just sharply lit high contrast photographs.

it's obvious even in cameos. the exact same lighting angle on the face (and the same complexion) despite one person being behind an empty wall with no decoration. another person in front of curtains slightly open directly behind them, and another person with the windows entirely open. the hands.

and mentioning Kirk under the banner of public officials, but not even mentioning Hortman's name until paragraphs down is egregious.

He also gets intimidated by 5-foot tall Code Pink women, and then claims his old Seal injuries were acting up. #SmallDick #WI03 www.wisn.com/article/wisc...

Probably should put him in charge of military resources

Seriously fuck this guy

the GOP IS the Violence in the USA /FULL STOP

Hey, do you have any recent examples of politicians who were killed by gunmen because of their ideology? Recent ones? In, say, Minnesota?

Thanks for the link. I was annoyed (as usual) by the NYT’s both-sides-ism refusing to state the clear link between the TrumpMAGA far right and the huge increase in threats. Most of these politicians, both GOP & Dem, were threatened by people who didn’t like their anti-TrumpMAGA votes.

But look at all these death threats from democrats!!

This is a deeper issue. Who perpetuates most political violence? That answer is why America has never cared.

this article viewed in reader mode (while signed out) is particularly grim:

NYT helped all of this happen, bud.

Try being a "beautiful" woman if you think maggot threats are frightening Grow up, you're public fugures And you get what you deserve

Too bad the story takes the same old "both sides' line.

Lincoln was shot Kennedy was shot Ford was almost shot Reagan was shot In a country with a HISTORY of political violence they can either do something about gun control mental health bigotry, sexism and bullshit in politics or they can shut the entire fuck up. I'll care when they care.

Mafia tactics employed by a mobster who’s owned by the brutal dictator of a Mafia State.

It’s going to keep getting worse as long as those in charge encourage the violence & reward the attackers.

the nyt bent over backward to make this a both sides thing but reading the whole thing you can’t escape the common fact—this is purely a right wing phenomenon. starting w the anecdote of the jan 6er congressman is truly ironic.

Not even a mention of the primary stigmergic vector giving rise to the vast majority of these threats.

Federalists 9 & 10: "The Union as a Safeguard against Domestic Faction & Insurrection" cover the topic of political violence to antiquity which leads us then to our 1A: "Peaceably Assemble & Petition.. for Redress" b/c there are those who would gladly see our Const enforced & those who would not

A lot of the threats would stop immediately if we put Donald Trump in prison

oh so now that it’s impacting elected officials it’s worth reporting cool cool cool