• BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I mean, “both sides” are intentionally being riled up and driven to violent and dangerous rhetoric by one side so yeah. I hate Trump and Repubs but it’s insane the vile shit you see people say. On both sides.

    Now where the sides are completely different is that 999/100 on the lefter side aren’t going to go commit violent hateful acts. On the other side it’s a lot worse ratio.

    Should note that it’s just social media. In real life it’s just conservatives being insane vs sensible people

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        9 days ago

        Generally comments on Facebook. I was seeing vitriolic death shit around the Charlie Kirk stuff but extended. Everyone in the comments telling each other to die and threatening. It was gross. Driven by bots it gets everyone worked up. Since the ICE “crackdown” though it seems to be just racists vs sensible people, and I’m glad for that.

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          I did see a lot of people who were glad or even gleeful he wasn’t spouting his vitriol and died in a way he explicitly approved of, but I’m not on facebook so I didn’t see people making threats at each other. That being said, I know that people both to the right and left of Kirk hated him, so it’s very possible all the hate being spewed was from the right. Seeing as how since the ICE surge isn’t getting the same level of vitriol, I think it’s safe to say that most of those weren’t people that weren’t “left” in any sense of the imagination, or just bots.