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El Paso: Beto O'Rourke blames 'racist' Trump for inflaming hatred

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/04/trump-is-a-racist-beto-orourke-links-presidents-rhetoric-to-el-paso-shooting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

Well that's too bad. Trump is here to stay so you better find something to do until election time. Get a life.

Calling people racists and nazis for no reason might also encourage violence.

Clearly it's not "no reason" if they fly off the handle and start killing people left and right.

Originally posted by ares834
Clearly it's not "no reason" if they fly off the handle and start killing people left and right.

I don't mean the killers. I mean the rhetoric against Trumpers in general. People have been attacked just for wearing a MAGA hat.

Maybe people should stop tossing around words like racist, nazi, and fascist so easily.

Edit thing is f*cking up for me, so I'll add: Trump himself was also sent poison in the mail.

Now is the individual who did it solely responsible for that? Could we argue he was influenced by the rhetoric against Trump?

I personally wouldn't say that, but I would say we can't just hold one side responsible for their rhetoric and not the other. We had rhetoric about how republicans were gonna get tons of people killed cuz of what they'd do with healthcare and then some leftist shot at republicans at a baseball field.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
El Paso: Beto O'Rourke blames 'racist' Trump for inflaming hatred

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/04/trump-is-a-racist-beto-orourke-links-presidents-rhetoric-to-el-paso-shooting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

I already knew Beto was a moron. Thanks for posting this so I could massage my confirmation bias with more facts.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
El Paso: Beto O'Rourke blames 'racist' Trump for inflaming hatred

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/04/trump-is-a-racist-beto-orourke-links-presidents-rhetoric-to-el-paso-shooting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

It's generally accepted that people in positions of power and influence need to watch what they say more carefully than people who are not, as words can have consequences.

Except for Trump of course, he's just the POTUS.

That will never just apply to the POTUS though, it will either apply to all those in power or none. There is no third option

Learn. To. Read.

So you got nothing, gotcha

Trump: How do we stop these people getting into the country

Trump supporter: shoot them

Trump: smirks* only in the panhandle can you get away with that comment.

yMCkzCJHfcU

I'm sure that helps the situation.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Trump: How do we stop these people getting into the country

Trump supporter: shoot them

Trump: smirks* only in the panhandle can you get away with that comment.

yMCkzCJHfcU

I'm sure that helps the situation.

It doesn't, neither side seems to help these situations.

Awful.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Trump: How do we stop these people getting into the country

Trump supporter: shoot them

Trump: smirks* only in the panhandle can you get away with that comment.

yMCkzCJHfcU

I'm sure that helps the situation.

Trump/Trumpers and their "jokes". What a card.

Originally posted by Robtard
It's generally accepted that people in positions of power and influence need to watch what they say more carefully than people who are not, as words can have consequences. Agreed. It starts with our parents and siblings, then teachers, friends, entertainment and sports celebrities. I don't see the president as an exception.

Originally posted by Mindship
Agreed. It starts with our parents and siblings, then teachers, friends, entertainment and sports celebrities. I don't see the president as an exception.

Bingo

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Trump: How do we stop these people getting into the country

Trump supporter: shoot them

Trump: smirks* only in the panhandle can you get away with that comment.

yMCkzCJHfcU

I'm sure that helps the situation.

He shook his head no and gave that look of disappointment. It's the same thing a dad does when his son tells his new wife to "calm down."

"You done f*cked up. You shouldn't have said that."

Originally posted by Mindship
Agreed. It starts with our parents and siblings, then teachers, friends, entertainment and sports celebrities. I don't see the president as an exception.

Sometimes people act like he is, sometimes they act like his rhetoric is the only rhetoric that matters. That isn't the case.

Beto's a phukin idiot.

Trump 2020 baby!

Capitalism > Socialism ... all day, every day!

Phuk these identity politics driven, ethnic pandering, lying democrats running for destroyer of America.

Oic

Originally posted by dadudemon
He shook his head no and gave that look of disappointment. It's the same thing a dad does when his son tells his new wife to "calm down."

"You done f*cked up. You shouldn't have said that."

But secretly thinks it's funny and the kid is right. That one?

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
But secretly thinks it's funny and the kid is right. That one?

You think Trump wants to murder illegals who come here?

Originally posted by Surtur
Sometimes people act like he is, sometimes they act like his rhetoric is the only rhetoric that matters. That isn't the case. His rhetoric is not the only one that matters, agreed. The shooters are still making choices: the planning, the traveling, then pulling the trigger. That's not Trump 'making them' do that. But IMO neither is it realistic to think his words (which he's responsible for) aren't having an influence.

Generally speaking: by one's choices, one may open the door to trouble. But Trouble still has to choose to walk through.

Originally posted by Mindship
His rhetoric is not the only one that matters, agreed. The shooters are still making choices: the planning, the traveling, then pulling the trigger. That's not Trump 'making them' do that. But IMO neither is it realistic to think his words (which he's responsible for) aren't having an influence.

Generally speaking: by one's choices, one may open the door to trouble. But Trouble still has to choose to walk through.

I guess my point is when Trump gets sent poison in the mail(this happened) or antifa members try to storm an ICE center after dems have repeatedly invoked concentration camps and nazis we don't hear the same lectures about rhetoric from the media and the democrats.

Originally posted by Surtur
I guess my point is when Trump gets sent poison in the mail(this happened) or antifa members try to storm an ICE center after dems have repeatedly invoked concentration camps and nazis we don't hear the same lectures about rhetoric from the media and the democrats. I can't entirely disagree with this. But I think this is because the media is ruled by profit, everything else is secondary, with Trump being top attraction.

Originally posted by Mindship
His rhetoric is not the only one that matters, agreed. The shooters are still making choices: the planning, the traveling, then pulling the trigger. That's not Trump 'making them' do that. But IMO neither is it realistic to think his words (which he's responsible for) aren't having an influence.

Generally speaking: by one's choices, one may open the door to trouble. But Trouble still has to choose to walk through.

^Yep

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Won't respond to inner-city violence.

^ Is thread stalking again

lol it's not stalking if you're the only one bumping the threads. Do better

Originally posted by Robtard
^Yep

What do you make of this valid point:

Originally posted by Surtur
I guess my point is when Trump gets sent poison in the mail(this happened) or antifa members try to storm an ICE center after dems have repeatedly invoked concentration camps and nazis we don't hear the same lectures about rhetoric from the media and the democrats.