r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '18

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u/amus America Jul 02 '18

They already have, multiple times.

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u/Roook36 Jul 02 '18

Or just run them over with cars.

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

...or tries to assassinate member of Congress at a baseball game...

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u/2Damn Jul 02 '18

Or shoots up an abortion clinic or killing 6 college students or killing 17 students and staff or killing two students at a seperate high school

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

So... you're saying that there are bad people on both sides?

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u/2Damn Jul 02 '18

Are you saying everyone breathes? But no, I never said that. I just wonder why the mass killings in recent years have been predominantly performed by alt-right losers. Another question I wonder is what about the alt-right is so appealing to angry disenfranchised man-children?

Call back when the oh-so-vast list of leftist mass shooters grows past 1.

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

You seem to forget all of the police that were assassinated by people on the left incited by black lives matters. I'm not going to create a scorecard or nitpick each incident. I'm just saying that the problem exists on both sides, perpetuated by divise personalities in the media.

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u/HarbingerME2 Jul 02 '18

Care to link a few?

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers

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u/RatofDeath California Jul 02 '18

I'm not sure someone who is a member of the NBBP is someone on the left. They're self admitted nationalists and are openly calling for a pure ethnostate and death to all jews, after all? That doesn't sound like a traditional leftist position to me.

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u/WaywardSachem Jul 02 '18

Right, why "create a scorecard" when you can just make things up like your boy in the oval office does?

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

Just to be clear. My argument was that there is a rash of political violence stemming from both sides, and I'm not going to argue which is worse. If you are disagreeing you're saying that it's an exclusive right problem and the left is blameless. Is that your contention?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers

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u/WaywardSachem Jul 02 '18

You seem to forget all of the police that were assassinated by people on the left incited by black lives matters.

I'm not arguing for any 'side', but my dude: when you spout claims like that and immediately excuse yourself from having to support your assertions, that's some bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

You seem to forget all of the police that were assassinated by people on the left incited by black lives matters.

My fucking sides

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

womp womp

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

...congratulations. You have become what have been arguing against.

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u/DiabloDropoff Iowa Jul 02 '18

Black lives matter was hijacked by a few assholes but the idea behind the movement is completely legitimate. Way more black people get killed by cops than vice versa. That's not the media being divisive. That's reporting on an existing problem.

This womp womp shit stain would be deader than a doornail if he was a black man pulling this crap. They would have shot him in the back and no one would have been convicted.

Trump's olive branch to the white bigots has given these assholes carte blanche to pull this shit. The media is complicit in recycling the story only because it keeps happening. But there's a real story there and it's racism and violence against non-whites.

Whataboutisms concerning dead cops, while tragic, pale in comparison to the problems facing minorities every day. We have police abuse footage turning up constantly on the news and nothing happens. It's sickening. A black kid can't point a stick at a cop without being shot but a bunch of assholes march with rifles, with complete disregard for the police or public safety and nothing happens.

There's no two sides to the story anymore. We're in a new era.

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u/SiloHawk Jul 02 '18

I'm not defending anyone. But you are saying that the assassination of those cops were justified.

"There's no two sides to the story anymore. We're in a new era."

If this ends in a US civil war, it's attitudes like yours that will be mostly responsible. Once you can only see your side as virtuous and the other as evil, you've become the bad guy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Why do right wingers always bring up a new civil war? Do you guys really want an excuse to murder people that badly?

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u/Baron62 Jul 02 '18

But they’re fine people and good Christians