myrmepropagandistJun 19, 2024

Remember during the 2016 political season there were some early (prescient and correct) concerns about violent rhetoric from the right due to the "tone" that Trump was using?

But media wanting to be balanced jumped on any story that showed that the left too had become "more violent" -- so, when someone spray painted a GOP campaign office in a little town down south (and media made it a NATIONAL story) all these liberal people sent the GOP donations?

I think about that a lot for some reason.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistJun 19, 2024

At the time I was screaming "no don't send them money! no!"

But I was assured that the moral victory was the more important victory.

The election victory is the important victory... and things like that made it take way way way too long to notice the huge asymmetry in the violence. I think most people see it now... but whew.

Show threadAurora Ditto
@futurebird what is the moral victory?
Jun 19, 2024 at 9:40pmWeb
Show threadmyrmepropagandistJun 19, 2024

@fdor

I think it's something like "violence is bad m'kay" but to be honest I don't really know.