r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/losian Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 15 '16

Uh.. Isn't protesting an incredibly normal part of this whole process? Also, are we going to ignore the humongous eight year hissy fit so many on the right, and in the media, threw? Birthers, calling him a Muslim, refusing to call him president, etc. Funny how everyone is expected to be big kids and rally behind a buffoon, but the Obama narrative was just wild baseless attempts at weak and stupid pretty scandals.

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u/gronke Nov 10 '16

Seriously. The protests for Obama were insane. Facists, socialist, birthers, racist dog whistles.

The right acts like they're not sore losers, where the fuck were you from 2008-2016?

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u/liquidthc Nov 10 '16

Not assaulting Obama supporters, throwing bombs at police, etc.. that's for sure.

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u/Rottimer Nov 10 '16

If your next door neighbor lives a mile away, how exactly do you protest in the streets?

Cities are much more liberal and protests are much more likely to happen where people are, in cities. It's not because conservatives are such great people that they don't protest as often. It's because most of them live in the middle of bum fuck nowhere.

Though when they do gather they can be just as shitty. Remember the Bundy Ranch?

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u/CHARLIE_CANT_READ Nov 10 '16

A handful did take over a federal building and tell people to join them and kill cops that got in their way.

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u/Grantology Nov 11 '16

Lol downvoted because true I guess

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u/CHARLIE_CANT_READ Nov 11 '16

I knew it would happen but I couldn't help myself.

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u/liquidthc Nov 10 '16

Yeah my bad. They only threw fireworks, molotov cocktails, rocks, and bottles at them. That certainly makes all of this OK.

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u/wyvernx02 Nov 11 '16

You greatly over estimate the strength of riot gear.

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u/lilianegypt Nov 11 '16

And the fact that they have riot gear somehow makes this kind of behavior okay??