A PRRI survey out Wednesday shows that nearly a quarter of Americans support political violence heading into the 2024 presidential election, as an overwhelming majority believe democracy is at risk.

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          Your point is that even when there is massive evidence of rising white nationalist right wing violence, you feel the need to equivocate to ensure that everyone is as scared of left wingers as right wingers (despite the evidence showing the right wing engages in undeniably much more violence), because you are a centrist who thinks everyone should be as lame as you are.

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            Well I am lame but I don’t think everyone should be the same as me. I don’t think everyone should be as scared of left-wingers as much as right-wingers. My point is that the willingness to accept political violence is rising across the political spectrum. There are a lot of people who are frustrated and angry and the future is an unknown.

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            My point is that the willingness to use violence is increasing across the board. Republicans are the majority but independents and liberals are more willing to accept political violence and there’s no telling how that might end

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              If political violence has been rising across the board, why use an article from five years ago? According to your premise, shouldn’t there be a more recent incident?

              Of course nothing is 100%, but ascribing equal weight between 1% and 99% is a false equivalence.

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                  You are just asking questions, we get it.

                  A more productive conversation starter is you telling them what you think a fascist is and asking if they feel the same.

                  A overview of fascism is here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

                  Fascism and pro Nazi sentiment was very high going into ww2 in the US but government and popular media campaigns forced it underground. It was still out there, though, and is experiencing a ressurgence.

                  Some people find this concerning.

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                    The word fascist gets used so much I like to try to get an idea where someone stands. For example what’s the difference between a fascist and an ultranationalist? Is there one? There are economic components to some fascist countries but not others. Italian fascists stressed creating a fundamentally new society. Other fascist countries didn’t stress that (Franco for example). Does a party have to have single party rule? Fascist Italy and Germany had as a cornerstone territorial expansion. Is that necessary to be authentically fascist?

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              The left loves violence and has almost exclusively perpetuated for the last 5 years. The only reason why the retards on this forum are crying about the right is because the media and all forums are left sided.

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                I’d have to see some data to support the claim that the left “almost exclusively perpetuated [violence] for the last 5 years”

                None of that rings true to me.

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                Yes, that’s why trying to get Congress members to support a ceasefire in Gaza has consisted of sitins and trying to get them to vote for a far right speaker of the house consisted of death threats. Shut the fuck up.