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The Jan 6th is an easy way I find to not take someone or something written seriously.
Trump did Jan 6th
The Left did the BLM riots
If you vote for the left, you’re voting for political terrorism
Which I mean, to me is true, but I’m not making points about it. It’s absurdist. I’ll only say it in response.
"The Left" cannot run for president. There are numerous distinctions between Trump's post-election schemes and the summer 2020 riots, but Trump's close personal involvement is a rather glaring one.
Unfortunately, the candidate on the other side was a vocal and enthusiastic supporter of the 2020 riots, even to the point of offering material aid to the rioters. And the summer riots were far more personally threatening to me than what happened at the Capitol building on January 6th, 2021
Harris and Biden both condemned rioters. Donald Trump vocally supported rioters as long as they happened to be wearing police uniforms and attacking protestors.
Walz allowed the rioting in Minnesota and Harris raised money for legal fees of rioters.
And Trump condemned rioters and asked his supporters to peacefully protest. Nobody cares for him, and nobody cares what Harris may have said, they know she supported hers just the same as Trump supported.
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Harris tweeted support for funds to pay rioters’ bail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/03/kamala-harris-tweeted-support-bail-fund-money-didnt-just-assist-protestors/
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"The Left" seemingly can. Who's really in charge of the Biden administration? Whenever I bring up this point, a common rejoinder is that I'm electing his team as well as him. There's an endless train of whataboutisms: nothing is particularly heinous or egregious.
No. "Joe Biden and his team of advisors" is equivalent to "Donald Trump and his team of advisors". The equivalent of "The Left" is "The Right" - a group which includes white supremacist terrorists, corrupt police unions, etc...
Expecting someone to completely abdicate political participation because someone directionally aligned did something disqualifying is unreasonable. Expecting someone to display basic civic virtue by not support a particular candidate that did something disqualifying is entirely reasonable.
Everyone I knew personally at the time who would identify as being on "the Left" spoke of the protests in nothing less than rapturous terms and would loudly claim to be confused about how anyone could see it as anything other than a second civil rights movement. This includes the sorts of people who volunteer for mainstream dem candidates' campagins. Which were also the people who used cringe Marxist lingo constantly. Which were also the people who complained about how there were so many white people around, or performatively wince whenever they see an American flag. And also the people who were the most tedious about COVID and demanded the same tediousness from those around them, unless it was to protest racism.
The rank-and-file are where the party gets it's staffers from, and they're where regular people get the most personal contact with political parties and form their opinions of them.
I could make a similar rant about where on the doll the Trump supporters touched me, and I'm sure there are many who's hatred of Trump is based on obnoxious personal interactions with his fans rather than Orange Man Bad propaganda.
How the supporters of a political party conduct themselves is de-facto an element of that party's platform and persona.
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