Comment on Taylor Lorenz Says 'We Want These Executives Dead' Hours After Health Insurance CEO Murdered
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Okay?
I don’t see a problem here. Right wing personalities encourage harming and killing LGBTQ+ people and liberals, far-right people bomb abortion clinics and kill doctors, but now it’s suddenly bad to say that oh, yeah, some people deserve a good killin’?
Seems like crocodile tears to me.
The funny thing about this response is I bet you’ll continue to criticize the right for doing this after greenlighting the left to do this since the right does this
(Side note: it’s fair to acknowledge that both Taylor Lorenz and abortion clinic bombers are extremists in their own respective political wings)
She was speaking, not killing. So why would you compare her to a bomber? How peculiar.
But even then, the actual quote, not the edited blurb that showed up first, was essentially a statement of inevitability. I would imagine that she, like many of us, feel bad for the kids who lost a parent, just as we feel bad for all of the mass killer’s victims.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I haven’t seen nearly as many right-wing people praising/encouraging obvious murder at I have here and on Bluesky. If something horrible happened to Nancy Pelosi, you sure wouldn’t see me posing with a model of her decapitated head - [unlike a certain comedian.](hollywoodreporter.com/…/kathy-griffin-holds-a-fak…
Even granting what you say, is putting out veiled death threats under one’s real name really the kind of thing leftist figures should be doing in the wake of an election where Trump was nearly killed twice and the US decided that the left is too extreme for them?
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Er. No. That’s not what happened. When you look at vote totals from 2020, you can see that Biden got 81M votes to Trump’s 74M. Looking at vote totals from 2024, Harris got 74M votes–the same as Trump in 2020–and Trump eked out a slightly improved performance at 77m. This isn’t a ‘mandate’; this is fewer people showing up to the polls. If the same number of people had voted in 2024 as voted in 2020, it’s probable that Trump would have lost again. That isn’t people saying the left is “too extreme”, that’s apathy.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Given the levels of alarm that were being raised by the media and politicians across the aisle, I doubt people were too apathic to vote. It’s hard to feel like that when every person on your screens tells you that Trump is a fascist threat to democracy. It’s more likely that so many people sat out because they didn’t like the direction that both parties were taking. Less “I don’t care,” more “I can’t support either side.”
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Could it be that some people found the left to be too extreme but they weren’t ready to vote for a Republican yet?
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
To be fair, like most left wing echo chambers like Reddit, you’re probably more likely to see extreme content there than amongst most people on the left.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You are, but redditors are so strong a stereotype that you have just about every other site gunning against them. Even other redditors hate redditors.