Re: OT: This is Not America

On 21/09/2024 2:42 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:03:18 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:
 

On a sunny day (Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:31:24 +0200) it happened Gerhard
Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote in <vciqac$d3jb$1@solani.org>:
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Am 19.09.24 um 23:17 schrieb Cursitor Doom:

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Yes, clearly if you're going to label Trump as the 'greatest threat to
democracy ever' it encourages every Left-wing nut-case to become a hero
(in their own mind) by popping a slug into that threat. All the violent
rhetoric is coming from the Left.

While Trump and Vance are promising to peacefully deport huge numbers of immigrants, and claiming that those immigrants are killing and eating people's pets (which doesn't seem to have actually happened).

It's not conservatives who are calling for those with opposing views to be imprisoned or executed.

Nor the Democrats either. With Putin around, no Democrat is going to describe Trump as the greatest threat to democracy ever. Trump's lying claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is a pretty explicit threat to democracy, but while he did get a couple of people killed by pushing this idea, it was a pretty ineffectual gesture.
Putin's intervention (via Facebook) in the 2016 election may have produced Trump's very narrow winning margin, which would have been a more effective intervention in the democratic process.
Cursitor Doom does share  Trump's habit of inventing stories to demonise those he regards as his political opponents.
Neither Cursitor Doom nor Trump feels any need to make those stories remotely plausible.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney