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RGB@lemmy.today 1 month agoI’m saying overall. If you want to convince someone of something you need to actually try and do it. What I meant is help explain to people in words they might understand better why it would have been more beneficial to elect one over the other. Also the level of aggression in political ads this election period was too much. Everyone was just running a smear and fear mongering campaign against each other and that really does not help us as a society.
Even if my opinion is wrong on this. The fact that the candidate was elected through the democratic process, should dissuade rioting. That kind of show of force should be reserved for situations where someone rose to power by illegitimate means. Now if down the line Trump does something terrible (other than speaking like a moron) I’d be fully on board with more hostile measures. Protesting is okay. Rioting is going too far.
My personal stance, however popular or not it may be, is to avoid unnecessary violence.
Why do I have to convince anyone? I’m not American.
They heard a bunch of batshit insane things and went
That sounds sensible
Nothing a Democrat could have done would have stopped them voting for fucking insanity. They could have literally done anything else, but chose to vote for that thing.
The rioting has already started with the Trump supporters, so I don’t know why you’re trying to tell Democrats to not riot. They weren’t going to anyway.
hotelbravo722@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Then what is necessary violence? When does the rhetoric of an candidate of a major party come to the point when you can call it fascist?
Calling a politician who
a fucking fascist isn’t being too extreme. Its calling a spade a spade and a duck a duck.