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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on May 14, 2024, 11:40:31 AM
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EarlG (21,997 posts)
DU is mentioned in a Reuters article today
Trump blasts his trial judges. Then his fans call for violence
In a review of commenters’ posts on three pro-Trump websites, including the former president’s own Truth Social platform, Reuters documented more than 150 posts since March 1 that called for physical violence against the judges handling three of his highest-profile cases – two state judges in Manhattan and one in Georgia overseeing a criminal case in which Trump is accused of illegally seeking to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
Those posts were part of a larger pool of hundreds identified by Reuters that used hostile, menacing and, in some cases, racist or sexualized language to attack the judges, but stopped short of explicitly calling for violence against them.
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A Reuters examination of websites catering to the left revealed dozens of hostile comments attacking the competence and credibility of conservative jurists. The targets include U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who has issued a number of rulings favorable to the former president in his ongoing federal prosecution in Florida for misappropriating classified documents after leaving office. On Democratic Underground, a liberal site, posters have attacked Cannon as “corrupt” and suggested she be tried for espionage.
But a review of comments on those sites did not reveal the sort of violent language that Trump supporters use in their online posts, including suggestions that judges be beaten or killed.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-threats-courts/
I know we're not always perfect, but I'm glad we have standards here, and I appreciate you all for doing your best to stick to them.
https://democraticunderground.com/100218947608
You have standards? Spare me with that BS.
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I frequent 3 conservative discussion sites (Hi, FamousGrouse!). I have seen zero calls for physical violence against any of those three judges. OTOH, I've seen a lot of DU-anger expressed toward Judge Cannon (e.g. "hostile, menacing and, in some cases, racist or sexualized language"). I would be unsurprised if there are DU-posts that cross into calling for violence against her. So I'd like to see what pro-Trump websites Reuters checked, including links to some of the "150 posts since March 1".
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I know we're not always perfect, but I'm glad we have standards here,
Your standards are hate and plenty of it, so don’t go patting yourself on the back. Maybe no one has suggested violence at this time but I’m sure if you go back when they overturn Roe v. Wade and some other topics you’d find plenty of it.
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You have standards? Spare me with that BS.
Yeah, they have standards. Double standards, moving standards and - as el Rushbo might have put it - the bigoted standards of low expectations.
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2naSalit (86,978 posts)
4. Says something about...
The divide in values and morality between a political party and a cultish faction. DU is the one place where I feel like there's a sense of fairness and a lack of violence among comments and have access to a wide range of information.
Are free-basing Fentanyl or some shit? You idiots CONSTANTLY call for violence and the death of your political enemies. When you're not doing it directly, you're showing support for the jackoffs like Antifa to do it.
GFYS
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2naSalit (86,978 posts)
4. Says something about...
The divide in values and morality :rotf: between a political party and a cultish faction. DU is the one place where I feel like there's a sense of fairness :rotf: and a lack of violence :rotf: among comments and have access to a wide range of information :rotf:.
:rotf: "Morality" should never be associated with the Dem Party, and infrequently with politicians in general.
:rotf: "Fairness"? DU is Party-Line only. Were I to dare to post facts inconvenient to or contradiction Dem Party Line, I'd be insta-banned. DU is a lockstep echo chamber.
:rotf: I'm pretty sure that if I were a DU-member and did a few moderately skilled searches I'd find all kinds of expressions of hatred and violent wishes toward pols and normal people DU-folk hate.
:rotf: In the real world of DU, members who dare to post factual news stories from non-Prog-approved sources get crapped on. The term "Reich-Wing source" is a DU creation applied to sources that aren't lockstep Dem Party line compliant.
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DU is mentioned in a Reuters article today
And in several memos at the FBI, homeland, security and the Secret Service!
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I would suggest the DUmmies go look in the University "protests" "mirror".