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[alt text: a text-and-image tweet by @NotHoodlum on Twitter. The tweet shows a picture of U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. The text of the tweet says: "Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She's been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security."]
I’d like to think this would be taken as a wake up call but I believe she’s too fucking dumb to even entertain the notion that she has been a shit-heel Nazi Pedo sympathizer this whole time. Fuck her and the stupid magic daddy wizard she prays to.
I’m beginning to think that Greene is smarter than we take her for. I think she knows what she has done but just doesn’t care. She’s pivoting to remain in power
I'm inclined to think so too. Then again in 2015-16 I also thought Trumpspeak is intentionally like that to appeal to a certain less educated and elderly demographic.
Karma, uh, finds a way.
Stupid sexy goldblum
We, of the radical left.
50 years old and finally had her first woman moment 😞 they grow up so fast
Why is the right hating her?
Because she wants to expose pedophiles in office. How dare she?
Is that really it? Lol they turn on each other quickly. I hope they keep going. Destroy themselves from within would be a nice way to end 2025
Probably for supporting Palestinians.
She's not supporting Palestinians, she's opposing Jewdom. She's an ACTUAL antisemite who equates Israel with all Jews and vice versa, not a decent person who opposes genocide.
The reason why that's important even if her resulting actions are the same is that she's NOT our ally and the moment we forget it, we lend unearned credence to the ridiculous "anti zionism equals antisemitism" lie that the apologists love so much.
For anyone who doesn't know, she legitimately said that jewish space lasers were the cause of wildfires in California. She is an out-and-out "The jews are secretly running the entire world from the shadows" antisemite.
Be cause she dared challenge Der orangefarbene Anführer.
So much for the violent left...
Political violence is and always has been an issue in the US. Framing this as a partisan issue is disingenuous and unhelpful. I say this as a friendly northern neighbour. I'm worried about you friends
lol. lmao, even
What am I missing here? Not only is the tweet a easily fact checkable lie (Marjorie Taylor Greene had security before these recent threats against her) but saying that there isn't political violence on both sides completely ignores the fact that trump was literally shot last year.
The guy that "shot" him in 2024 was a Republican. Not sure how that makes this a "both sides" thing.
This sounds like no true Scotsman logic. But irregardless, there are examples of folks who were associated with the Democratic Party conducting political violence, for instance Ryan Wesley Routh. I'm not arguing that there is the same level of political violence of both sides but framing political violence as a partisan issue is not helpful.
Dude. No.
The idiot that committed the political violence that you tried to hold up as a "BoTh SidEs" was on the same side as the idiot he tried to kill.
90+% of the political violence in this country has been committed by the same party.
Whatever you think you're trying to do is only helping the fascist idiots.
ETA: also, "No true Scotsman" is a MASSIVE stretch for this. Again, statistically violence is almost entirely owned by the Republican party. You're 100% trying to "both-sides" this.
That's still a no true Scotsman argument. But sure, let's pretend that the trump shooter was a hardcore republican, it doesn't change the fact that political violence is still being perpetrated against individuals on both sides.
Informing you that a right wing idiot tried to assassinate an ultra-right wing idiot isn't a "no true scotsman" argument. You keep pointing to right-wing violence as evidence of left-wing violence.
That's a straw man argument. I am saying
political violence is still being perpetrated against individuals on both sides.
I'm arguing that this is a both sides issue from an attacked individuals perspective. Most political violence is the result of extremism and a lack of mental heath services. Framing the recent uptick as right or left won't solve the core issue.
Who is pushing the extremism and discouragement of community support for good mental health?
The core issue isn't what you seem to think it is.
Hmm is it that or is it israel? They offed their boy charlie when he went against them
Development on this: she has announced that she is resigning from Congress.