For true stories that are so ridiculous, that you could have sworn it was an !theonion worthy story.
This person would 1000% call MLK a left wing fascist, fuck this guy
Christ, what an asshole.
leftwing fascism
hmmm, so does he mean "leftwing rightwingers"?
So... is he desperately dishonest or insane?
Because none of that hysterical gibberish made even the slightest bit of sense.
I dunno, he said he wasn’t sure it was a thing and the headline decided he said it was.
Yes - he framed his statement with one of the stock phrases that people use when they want to be able to say something, then later, if necessary, claim that that's not really what they said
I don't think a news source has a responsibility to include that bit of transparent rhetorical trickery in a headline.
“I’m not a bigot, but…”
Yep.
The goal is to be able to say something while evading responsibility for having said it.
Make nazis afraid again
lemmy user (clueless): Gosh, could you imagine if the other guy wins and starts calling for arrests of people opposing the genocide?
Senior democrat who has never read the Constitution and thinks he's in the Duma.
“You come to our town hall meeting, it’s one thing to try to get attention. They got their attention. But literally, they wouldn’t stop screaming insults at me. They wouldn’t … even let me answer the very questions they were raising.
“I got two words into it and they started screaming at me again. So this is a different thing than your standard protest. In my view, the solution to it is if they are committing a crime – which by the way, shutting down a freeway, shutting down an airport, intimidating people, there’s a crime – [they] ought to be arrested.”
Protesting at public figures’ homes should also be subject to arrest, Smith said.
“The point of it is intimidation. And I think it is harassment. It’s a crime, and I think [they should] be arrested for it.
It sounds like what he is complaining about is protestors not being civil, not letting him speak at his own event and going to his house. I don't know if that's a fair complaint given the circumstances, but a little different than the headline implication that he's broadly accusing people objecting to Israel's actions of being fascists.
When every answer starts with blaming Hamas for the IDF continuing a genocide you're going to get shouted down.
The point of a Town Hall is to see what your constituents want. I think they made it very clear.
The part about letting him speak might be reasonable. Let the man speak and see if he'll say something helpful.
Everything else... well, boo-hoo, being harassed at your home certainly beats having your children murdered by drone attacks.
inb4 "But Trump.."
Dems will let 10 billion people die with their tax money instead of holding Biden accountable.
The US only has one viable choose at the ballot box: supporr the genocide.
The US is not a democracy if it inkybhas one party
"...a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."
Democrats are the party of genocide and mass murder.
Isn't it funny how when both sides are actually the same, suddenly it's only Democrats?
they are the ones currently commiting the crimes.
Democrats are not sitting in their office ordering aid trucks to be blown up. They're neoliberals funneling public funds to private businesses because that's what neoliberals do.
I'm all for dismantling the military industrial complex and prying greedy neoliberals out of positions of power but voting Republican (or not voting at all) just isn't going to achieve that.
