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People who want to start businesses to help impoverished people in Africa, fight desperately thorough democratic means to eliminate hunger in the United States, and was described by multiple people as "expressing frustration with what he saw as unjust suffering" is MAGA?This is about the MN shooter, a MAGA terrorist who targeted democratic officials for assassination.
Trump took many actions to incite behavior like this. It’s a known phenomenon, we even have a name for it: stochastic terrorism.
You're going to need to try harder to bait that hook..So yes you voted for Obama. You're a Liberal.
Well they say they are Conservative, so is it a conversion, like converting from Christian to Jewish? Or is it more like Conservatives who voted for Trump converted to stupid?If they voted for the very liberal Obama, they are liberal.
I understand the insanity defense holds in less than a quarter percent of felony cases.
I would think in something this high profile, the arguments will have to be pretty iron clad for people to buy it at all.
Ah. And honestly... I would not want to see this person get off that way.The Insanity defense requires the defense to prove that the accused didn't know they were doing wrong at the time of the crime.
If the accused fled the scene and actively avoided apprehension then it pretty much removes the insanity defense since it shows they knew they broke the law.
The Insanity defense requires the defense to prove that the accused didn't know they were doing wrong at the time of the crime.
If the accused fled the scene and actively avoided apprehension then it pretty much removes the insanity defense since it shows they knew they broke the law.
Esp. when they show up in a police uniform.
That's ****ed up.Spraypaint a Tesla and our government will call you a terrorist. Murder Democratic elected officials, crickets.
But I'm sure they'll still try.I suppose that would depend on if they actually believed they were a police officer. But yeah, intentional concealment torpedoes the insanity defense.
But I'm sure they'll still try.
Sometimes people are just evil.I'm sure. The defense will do what it can, and the insanity defense seems obvious when the accused is actually crazy.
There's is some rather through research pertaining to this discussion.This particular story is absolutely about a right wing dude who apparently decided F Democracy, and started murdering he believed were his "enemies". He may be surprised to learn that the Lord had a few things to say both about murder and vengeance.
And the next time a left wing dude decides to gun down a Jewish couple, or set a holocaust survivor on fire, or kill a health insurance executive, should right wing posters on this board use that to claim that the violence comes exclusively from the left, then they deserve to be reminded of this guy. If they want to claim that left wing media or political leaders are responsible the next time a Bernie bro decides to shoot up a Republican softball practice or set fire to a Jewish politicians' house with the family inside, then they deserve to be asked how much culpability right wing media has for this guy.
Because only the sides can ultimately police their extremes in a way that will lead to deescalation... but they can't do that if they insist their extremes don't exist, or aren't a problem.
Nobody is using such a false equivalency... you're just unwilling to accept the fact that right wing extremists are about on par with Muslim extremists when it comes to acts of violence in the U.S.. Left wing extremists are much less likely... that doesn't mean all Republicans are bad.Right thread. If one is complaining about a bad source, I can play that game too. Anybody that commits murder is bad.
That doesn’t mean we can use a false equivalency that all Republicans are bad.
C'mon. Both sides have a faction who are bad for America.Nobody is using such a false equivalency... you're just unwilling to accept the fact that right wing extremists are about on par with Muslim extremists when it comes to acts of violence in the U.S.. Left wing extremists are much less likely... that doesn't mean all Republicans are bad.
The right wing has become more radicalized... look at right wing media
Of course! But research shows right-wing extremism is far more violently prevalent than left-wing extremism... by a considerable amount.C'mon. Both sides have a faction who are bad for America.
Of course! But research shows right-wing extremism is far more violently prevalent than left-wing extremism... by a considerable amount.
The research says otherwise, and the BLM summer was captured in their analysis. See post #442 to review the research.The BLM riots show otherwise. Hell, they took over a part of a city and renamed it Chaz.
The research says otherwise, and the BLM summer was captured in their analysis. See post #442 to review the research.
Here is the exert you failed to quote:First the study admits it’s lacking in data. It makes comparisons worldwide rather than just the U.S. and it doesn’t seem to go into actual accounts…
In other words, the list data problem serves to make Muslim extremism more prevalent.Study said:It is important to acknowledge several limitations of our data. First, both databases suffer from the missing data problems that are a common feature of open-source studies of political extremism (54, 55). Important information may simply be unavailable in print and electronic open-source media. In addition, it is likely that the cases with the least missing data are those most prominently covered by news agencies. The question is how this problem could affect the conclusions of our research. One implication could be that both PIRUS and GTD are more likely to include cases that are more rather than less serious in terms of fatalities. Given our focus on differences in the use of violence across ideological categories, this characteristic would be most threatening to our results if the media treated newsworthiness differently across ideological categories. Given the attention generated by Islamist
terrorism in recent years (56), we think the most likely possibility here is that our data are skewed by a tendency for the media to be more vigilant in reporting Islamist attacks compared to rightwing or left-wing attacks. Given that more-violent attacks are likely to have drawn attention regardless, it is possible that additional scrutiny for Islamist attacks would bias the results downward and make these cases appear overall less violent.
It flies in the face of your pre-conceived notion of extremism and is therefore irrelevant. This is how MAGA operates.but rather one side is more to likely to this or that. A very weird way of doing it. Rather than a hard outcome of the incidents that have occurred.
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