Mastodawn

WTF are you doing, politico? A „u-turn“?
Did the democrats condone political violence before and have only now changed their mind?
People keep blaming right-wing #media for the „division“, but I sometimes think the mainstream #press is equally responsible.
#trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/dems-trump-rally-shooting-00167985

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Florian Egermann Jul 14, 2024

… they changed it.

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McWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉Jul 14, 2024

@fleg It is times as these you will immediately notice which outlets have failed their readers.

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el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦Jul 14, 2024

@fleg I thought politico was right-wing media 😳

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Florian Egermann Jul 14, 2024

@elCelio Depends on the perspective I guess, but it does not seem like a Fox-style propaganda operation

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Ariaflame Jul 14, 2024

@fleg We can think political violence is bad and *still* criticise Trump, after all, he's the one who encouraged most of it.

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Atreides Jul 14, 2024

@fleg Isn't a democracy obliged to eliminate elements that want to destroy democracy? You can argue that this is not allowed, but the person who cuts the legs of the democracy chair is eliminating democracy. So political murders are part of it. #democracy #USelections2024 #JFK #RobbertKennedy both democrats

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Florian Egermann Jul 14, 2024

@osiris_0x7A4 You lost me at „eliminate elements“. Fighting for democracy includes using non violent speech

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Atreides Jul 14, 2024

@fleg Of course that is the ideal but democracy will lose because the other side doesn’t condemns violence (remember 6 of januari) Democracy is no pacifist. What will happen when #Trump dismantle every democratic item. Will you stand by and watch, do nothing? I hope not.

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